Zara has never been more popular than now! Not only is it trending on social media, but someone is always wearing Zara clothing on any given day at the SoP HQ. We love how affordable the brand makes keeping up with the latest trends and the pieces are sooo cute + easy to style with items you already have in your own closet. However, with so much inventory and drops weekly, the site can sometimes be tricky to navigate.

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I have a college professor that would hate me if she read this.

One of the things she earnestly tried to drive into our heads that semester was how bad fast fashion was for the fashion industry. She was so passionate about this idea that we spent the first couple of weeks of the course reading Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion. 

Fast fashion: contemporary term used to describe retailers that gather trends from major design houses, produce those designs in half the time (usually with lesser quality fabric), and sell the products for a fraction of the original sale price.

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New Orleans is a city unlike any other. Actually, its more than just a city. Its a sensory experience that takes ahold of your soul and unleashes your inner culinary expert while forcing you to release all inhibitions.

Between the ancestral recipes you can find in any eatery, the soulful melody on every street corner, and the eclectic, vibrant buildings that have century old roots every moment in the city is a Creole-Cajun fairy tale.

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While our Carolina Gamecocks where giving up another W to Kentucky in one of the most embarrassing games in recent memory, I spent this past weekend with my Mom in the crisp mountain air of Asheville, NC! (This has quickly turned into one of those “let’s just beat Clemson” seasons)

We began our trip at Sunny Point Cafe, and in true October fashion, I ordered the Pumpkin Challah French toast topped with an apple compote. 

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