When you go through a breakup, friends and family tend to focus on the positive. “There’s all that time you get to yourself!” some will say, or “Now you can really do you!” And that’s true! Sans a significant other, there are plenty of minutes to dedicate to yourself like never before. You can spend your weekends running marathons and doing tricep dips off every 90-degree angle in pursuit of an on-point #revengebody. Maybe you’ll learn how to cold-press wheatgrass; maybe you’ll grow your own wheatgrass and then you’ll learn how to press it! Or maybe you’ll read Surviving Saturn’s Return—again.
Really, being single is a blessing. You’re free to do what you want and whenever you choose. The world is your oyster! But what if you’re kind of tired of oysters? Sure, sometimes there are pings of loneliness, those needling reminders of your being solo, like the grabby young couple who want to let the whole subway car know that they are very much in love with each other at 8:45 a.m. during rush hour, or how everyone keeps talking about “cuffing season.” Being single is great, you know that—but like a wheatgrass shot (also great!), it can be a little hard to swallow.
So what to do during those heart-panging moments when the whole world seems like they are in love—and you are alone? Indulge yourself in supple, luxurious fabrics and decadently rich colors. Think clothes as candy, without the SoulCycle-requiring guilt-trip sweatfest afterward. Throw on a velvet topper over a silk pajama set and keep it luxe on a solo Netflix date; run some errands in shower slides and a candy-striped top as you go about your day. And if you do go out? Wear a leather minidress to meet up with friends. After all, you’re single—you never know who you’re going to meet.
