Barbie made me do it

Event dressing to wear your clothes in new ways & shake the “blahs”

Lately I’ve been thinking about what my friend Emily calls “event dressing”—getting dressed for a specific event, whether it’s Barbie, Beyoncé, or Burning Man.

I’m fascinated by event dressing because it brings out people’s creativity by giving them permission to wear something out of the ordinary. What’s this permission? It’s the event’s theme, whet…