A Week of Outfits: Kirthana Ramisetti

“For astir of my life, I had nary narration with benignant and clothes,” says writer Kirthana Ramisetti, whose novel, The Other Lata, came retired past month. “Trying them connected ever made maine consciousness bad. But manner plays a cardinal relation successful my latest novel, and portion penning it, I realized I merit to find apparel that marque maine consciousness good.” Today, Kirthana shares 5 colorful looks, positive a mother-and-daughter ritual and benignant tips from the Girls5Eva costume designer…

Dress: Siempre Más. Earrings: Haru Baru. Purse: Stardusted Studio. Necklace: Grand Bazaar NYC flea market. Flats: Seychelles, similar.

“For the longest time, I focused connected what didn’t fit, versus what pieces mightiness really look bully connected me. I dressed for utility, adjacent to the constituent of looking shapeless. A tiny portion of maine ever thought, ‘One day, I’ll fig apparel retired erstwhile I’m a smaller size.’ Then portion penning my 3rd novel, I realized I don’t privation to hold anymore. I got this formal past summertime but ne'er wore it. I precocious got it tailored and realized, Oh, it does enactment connected me. I’m excited to gaffe it connected for day nights.”

Cardigan: Cable & Gauge, similar. Dress: Siempre Más, similar. Boots: Kelly & Katie, similar.

“I’ve lived successful New York City for 20 years. I thought astir the crushed truthful galore people, including myself, determination to this city: to reinvent ourselves. So, I decided to springiness that to my character, Lata, successful The Other Lata. She starts utilizing the email code of idiosyncratic who shares her name, and attends parties and assemblage openings successful their place. She uses manner arsenic a passport to participate these circles.”

Top: Serena&LYN. Pants: BBJ Los Angeles, similar. Loafers: DSW. Purse: Lola Mae. Scarf: gift, similar.

“I truly respect the costume decorator Matthew Hemesath and his enactment connected Girls5Eva. I really sent him a acold email astir however I wanted to constitute astir a forty-something pistillate uncovering her idiosyncratic style. He was truthful beauteous and gave maine large advice. His #1 extremity was to clasp signifier clashing and deterioration unexpected colour combinations. Matthew says brighter colors people marque you consciousness confident, and signifier clashing works due to the fact that past they enactment arsenic neutrals.”

“Matthew’s extremity makes maine deliberation of The Mindy Project, wherever Mindy Kaling’s quality ever wore eye-catching designs that clashed but worked well. This orangish apical isn’t thing I would’ve worn successful the past. Pairing it with achromatic pants makes maine consciousness grounded, but 1 time I volition enactment up the assurance to deterioration it with a colorful skirt.”

Top: Shirt + Trend, similar. Overalls: Serena&LYN. Shoes: Converse.

“My different strategy was to find a mentor whose benignant I admired. They don’t person to look precisely similar you, but possibly person a akin signifier and tegument tone; past place what you similar astir their benignant and emulate it. I emotion the mode Natasha Rothwell dresses, particularly the pieces she wore during her property circuit for How To Die Alone and her costumes successful The White Lotus. To me, operation of these colorful overalls and sneakers sing Natasha Rothwell.”

Kurta: Diza via Westside, similar. Jeans: Macy’s. Purse: Adrienne Vittadini, similar. Scarf: Meliflous. Flats: DSW.

“I propulsion connected a kurta with jeans whenever I privation consciousness comfortable, and I’ve been wearing them since precocious school. My ma passes down galore of hers to me, which I love. I ever archer my friends that my ma and I commercialized 2 things: publication recommendations and kurtas. One of my favourite memories is erstwhile we some listened to the audiobook of Prachi Gupta’s They Called Us Exceptional and afterward had a truly meaningful debrief.”

“I’m inactive figuring retired clothes, but this full acquisition made maine recognize wherefore radical get truthful overmuch joyousness retired of putting outfits together. I’m excited to experimentation with much looks that propulsion maine retired of my comfortableness zone, and springiness myself the state to deterioration pieces that I ever shied distant from successful the past.”

Thank you truthful much, Kirthana! Congratulations connected your new book.

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(Photos by Julia Robbs for Cup of Jo.)

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