Your Unemployed Daughter

Canadian expat Andrea Lane spills her fashion secrets to YUD Fashion Director Lindsey Hunter Lopez. All eyes are on Andrea during a dinner at New York’s Fig & Olive.

LHL: What’s your favorite part of your outfit?
AL: I love that my green top is slouchy … slouchy items give you more versatility in what you can pair with them (i.e. leggings, skirt, jeans). You can also play around with what you wear underneath since they are fairly open at the sides. I normally wear an American Apparel bodysuit under shirts and dresses like these but Urban Outfitters has a great lace bodysuit that would make the outfit stand out.

LHL: Where do you shop when you’re trying to be thrifty?
AL: I loathe and love Forever 21. I am always surprised by some of the things that come out of that store. But it’s great for basic slouchy tanks, and I find a lot of cuffs there. The good jewelry sells quickly and isn’t often restocked, so go often and no one will know it’s from Forever 21!

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Derek Ivie, the legend behind TGMTU, shows YUD Fashion Director Lindsey Hunter Lopez the upside of dressing down (in a down market) at a midtown lunch near his former place of employment. While the suits strut the street in hot, wooly cocoons, Derek breezes around NYC looking casual cool.

LHL: Derek, what is the key to your unemployment wardrobe?

DI: Comfortable underwear. I spend most of my day rolling around in bed thinking about what I am going to do with my life. I don’t want anything too tight, otherwise things will get hurt in the rolling process. Cotton boxer briefs from the GAP really seem to fit the bill for me.

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When this jobless lady celebrated her birthday in style at Water Taxi Beach, Long Island City, YUD Fashion Director Lindsey Hunter Lopez was there to ask the important questions.

Karen Berg loves her cuffed white cargo shorts. “Look, they’re too big!” she points out. “Comfy.” (There’s plenty of time to work out when you don’t have a job.) A flowy black tank completes her carefree ensemble. She has shoes somewhere in the sand, but she doesn’t need them at this beach bar.

While I interrogate her about her choices, this former health editor sips her favorite accessory, a vodka soda, and shows off a vibrant red manicure.

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We all know what YUD wears when she’s—how shall we say?—got no place employmenty to go. But what about the rest of us 361,000? And further afield from that, in other cities and states and countries, what are the unemployed donning before they head out into the big, bad world each day … or, no judgments, when they make no departure from their tender abodes at all?

Lindsey Hunter Lopez: EMPLOYED

Thank heavens we are now in the occasionally manicured hands of YUD’s new Fashion Director, Lindsey Hunter Lopez, who will be offering us weekly glimpses at the faces—and fashions—of the recession with her Unemployment Lookbook.

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