Week in Review: Designer Tees, Style Surveys, and Fashionable Farm Visits

It’s Saturday! What are you up to today? Something fun I hope? We should all be taking advantage of the waning summer weekends (wa wa). That’s what I’ve been trying to do, with the concern that I’m already losing my tan at the forefront of my mind. Or maybe it’s just that it’s felt like September the last couple days in New York, and I’m nowhere near ready for fall to be around the corner.

Today, I’m headed to a barbecue that a friend is throwing across the pond in Jersey (did I use that expression right? I think so).

On the menu? Baby back ribs, corn bread, grilled prosciutto, and…wait for it? Bacon wrapped hot dogs. Oh wait, I have it in full:

She sent it a week ago. My mouth has been watering ever since.

While I’m off stuffing my face full of grilled delicacies, please enjoy what you may have missed this week on Style Girlfriend. And y’know, grab a burger while you’re at it:

• As a lady-person, I have plenty of things I have mini-crises about when it comes to my style and personal appearance. Being able to fit into kids’ sizes is not one of them.

• Jack Spade and Barbour fell in love and had bag and jacket babies.

• You know how some stars intentionally get photographed doing “normal” things like taking out the trash? Or pushing their own shopping cart at Target? This is my attempt to show I’m not always walking around in ball gowns, draped in diamonds (that’s how you guys picture me, right? RIGHT?), I put up some pictures of me living life like real people. On a farm, feeding goats – sheep

• I asked you guys about yourselves, and BOY did you have a lot to say. Thank you to all who’ve filled out the survey. Have you taken it yet? It’s easy, and there are no wrong answers! I promise

• A reader wanted to know where to find cool new t-shirts. I let him – and you – in on the girl tips I’ve gleaned over the years on sussing out new styles