Best (in) Western...

+ a GIVEAWAY and a tiny purse hack.

Hiii!

First things first! I’m doing a giveaway with Julia Wheeler at The Seaesta Surf Zine!! Here are the details:

We’re giving away $100 to Shopbop, a copy of our favorite book of the summer, Goop glycolic peel pads, and Summer Fridays sunscreen all in a cute Seaesta Beach tote!

To enter:

• Become a free subscriber to both of our newsletters, Julia Wheeler and Krissy Walsh

• Like and comment on our latest letters!

• Re-stack this giveaway from notes!

• Follow us on Instagram! @thisisstyewise and @theseastasurfedit

Easy! We’ll choose one lucky winner next Sunday! Good luck!

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Ok…

Cue the song “She’s Gone country”, because that’s what is happening over here. I haven’t had a country phase since Strawberry Wine and Shameless topped the charts, but through work, my husband got tickets to the Wildlands Festival in Big Sky last weekend so we made a quick trip to Montana! I’d never been before and the TL,DR is I loved it. We stayed at the Wilson Hotel which wasn’t fancy, but nice, new and ideally situated. We checked out Yellowstone, saw Old Faithful and the Grand Prismatic and hiked by day …and by night we saw Riley Green, Carrie Underwood, Leann Rimes and Kaitlin Butts. They were all so good! We especially loved Kaitlin Butts, she was so funny and entertaining and… Riley Green (insert fire emoji).

We had a small window to check out shops and I’d recommend Cowboy Coffee, Bluebird boutique, Montana Supply and the LMNT tasting room (so chic and I got addicted to their pink lemonade drink).

The women-run company, Crossbow had a booth at the festival and I was obsessed with their hats, jewelry and fringe suede vests.

I definitely overpacked because I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to wear to the shows. It helped that a year ago I bought a pair of Tecovas. They are so comfortable and classic and although I don’t wear them that often, when I do want them, I’m so glad they’re there! Plus, I’ll have them forever. (Not sponsored, but I’d take a pair in brown! wink wink.)

I also had to buy a couple of hats while I was there, as one does! And you know how sometimes you stress about what to wear to an event and in the end, it didn’t really matter, people are in just jeans and sneakers and whatever? This was NOT the case. The outfits at this festival were top notch.

Day 1! Stetson hat, old navy tank, Citizen shorts, vintage Ralph button up, borrowed belt, Tecovas

Day 2! Crossbow hat, COS tee, J crew shorts, Tecovas

Naturally my algorithm is feeding me all things western and I’m eating it up… give me all of the bolo ties, feathers and fringe. This round-up has everything from Khaite to HM to Boot Barn, which is my favorite way to shop.

Mother jeans (someone had these on and they were SO cool), bolo, brown boots, hat, black boots, fringe vest, denim dress, scarf, lace dress (a girl there had this exact dress and it was giving sexy cowgirl for sure), belt, ring, bandanna dress

fringe sheer top (obsessed), boots, denim skirt, suede jacket, western snap top, fringe top, hat, belt, bandanna, bolo, dress

Ok also! I don’t have a good small bag, so I got the idea to add a scarf to my little Goyard pouch and a make a wristlet! I can confirm, this fit my phone, ID, a Rhode lip liner and two altoids. The essentials.

Ok, off to find more country concerts to go to! Have a great week!

Krissy