issue #40: how to dress like a brooklyn mom

I happen to live directly across the street from an elementary school in Brooklyn, and I didn’t realize how much I missed the school year energy all summer. Perhaps it’s because I’m now a mom myself, but there is nothing more adorable than a line of children entering school in the morning, hugging their caretakers, giant backpacks swallowing them whole, following by excited laughter on the playground at lunch. Sights and sounds that can truly warm your heart, if you let it.

But it’s not just the screams of tiny children that I’ve noticed in these first couple months of school, it’s their parents as well. Each morning I am treated to a parade of stylish women dropping their little joys off at school, and on weekends, I mingle with those same stylish parents at the playgrounds and in the parks. We roam the Fort Greene Farmer’s Market on Saturday mornings, should to shoulder, we sip our lattes while our kids dance around to Hop Along Andrew in the park, and we roll or strollers past eac…