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Almost out of breath after a drawn out season of crazy can-it-get-any-hotter days and sticky humid nights. Time to trade the wet towels and flip-flops for the rush of reading lists and back-to-school shopping, hopping, and always running late for work. Time to sing that bittersweet campfire song of a goodbye to the endless days. Hello, sharpened pencils. Welcome back, wool. Salutations, pumpkin spiced lattes. We’ve missed you too. But before we let go, let’s take a moment to catch our breath, take in the last of summer, and store those sunny memories away for when the Polar Vortex arrives. No sooner than our tan lines fade, we’ll dream in chlorine blue and neon yellow on those chilly nights that are just waiting for wood smoke. If summer is a contest, we’re champions of the tide. If summer is a game, we’re packing the pieces to put it back in the box. If summer is a marathon, fall is its finish line.
Chalk art byWhitney Barnard, The Scribble Studio
“Finish each day and be done with it.You have done what you could.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nikki Hardin Creative Director Caitilin McPhillips caitilin.mcphillips@skirt.com Market Manager Kate Cooper Metts kate.metts@skirt.com
ISSUE
Contributing Editors Jenny Maxwell jennymaxwell@mindspring.com
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Gracie Shepherd gracie.shepherd@gmail.com
C.S. Lewis
Sales Director
Lisa Dorn lisa.dorn@skirt.com
Features
Sales Executives
How To Survive Failure in
Doressa Hawes doressa.hawes@skirt.com
the Workplace and End Up
Lisa Taylor lisa.taylor@morris.com
Making More MONEY Laura Luckert .....................................8
Maidi McMurtrie Thompson maidi.thompson@morris.com Mary Porter Vann mary.vann@morris.com
In Every Issue
Circulation
Letter from the Editor......................4
Photography
He’s So Original................................24
Advertising
Skirt of the Month............................28
Jessica Seigler jessica.seigler@morris.com Sara Caldwell Molly Harrell
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We Salute...........................................24 Independence is on our minds, and not just because the 4th of July is this month. This July issue, our “F-Word” issue, is the 20th July issue since skirt! launched in 1994. We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished; even more so of what you have acMeet.....................................................25 complished. Every July, we’re heartened that we have so many male feminists reaching out to us to be included in our pages—see our “I’m a Feminist Because” profiles for the best of the best this month. We love reading the essays we get Typewriter..........................................30 every month from women who are doing amazing things all over the world. We love the ones who lean in and the ones who don’t; the champions for women’s rights and the ones who live their lives as role models for the next generations— women who are reading skirt! now who weren’t born when the magazine was founded. Most of all, we love the community our little magazine has created.You know these women as well as we do—you are these women. We thank you for being vocal, independent, assertive, outraged, and tireless. Just when it seems like we haven’t come very far since women were granted the constitutional right to vote in Chalkboard Artist: 1920, we get an essay or a letter or a woman nominated Whitney Barnard, is Head for a profile that gets our attention and restores our Honcho & Illustrator of faith in the power of many voices becoming one. And The Scribble Studio. After attending the Creative if we have to ask just one thing from our readers this Circus in Atlanta, Whitney month, it is this: Don’t stop talking. Keep the converopening a studio to create sations about equal rights going. Politics aren’t perfect, handcrafted artwork and but we can’t fix anything with silence.Your voices matchalkboard writing. TheScribbleStudio.org. ter and we want to hear them loud and clear.
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COLOR EMBRACE IT. LIKE FRANK SINATRA SAYS, “ORANGE IS THE HAPPIEST COLOR.”
CONSIDER ADDING COCONUT OIL TO YOUR ROUTINE. IT’S LIGHT, CLEARS ACNE, AND MAKES GREAT POPCORN.
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Q: The oldest continuously operating shoe company in the United States that is still making boots in the U.S. today? A: The Frye Company, established in 1863 during America’s Civil War (both Union and Confederate
The classic Cavalry boot was first crafted by Frye in the late 1930s as a riding boot and remains popular today, on horseback or not. The new version has rubberized soles and come in many shades, perfect for hoofing it around town.
soldiers wore Frye boots), still Frye's Harness boots are rooted in tradition and draw influence from the classic engineer-style work boot. We love their motorcycle chic look with skirts and dresses; the more you wear them, the better they look.
produces some styles right here in the United States. There are many imitators, but The Frye Company is the real thing. Somewhere between cowgirl and combat, the Harness and Campus styles are two of several that are still made in the USA today.
I'm a boots girl. I always wear boots. They only look better when they get dirty. Sky Ferreira
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I dreamed I packed my skirt, took a deep slow breath and headed for glory at the finish line.
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I’ll relax when I finish…
wondering if my 28% phone battery will make it through the day. being late to yoga class. (again) taking 3 (hundred) deep breaths. working 9-5, 8-6. walking my 10,000 steps. worrying about what’s next. figure out whose dog is barking. doing what I dreamed I would.
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