~hpa0027 on Flickr.

Lawyer Rachel, about a week after moving to NY, taking a headshot for the White & Case law firm facebook. Note shortness of skirt. My businesswear fashion sense had been wholly informed by Amanda Woodward on Melrose Place. I was 25 and still had the sunkissed streaks I’d put in right after graduating law school that had been further lightened by a month in Europe. September 1998. Oh Lordy this kid had no idea. Still doesn’t, actually.