With a smile that was made
for the camera, and shimmers with electric cheerfulness, Chelsea Finn, 20, lets
her lustrous strawberry-blonde hair cascade over her shoulders and onto her orange-red
60’s retro, sleek fitting top. The shirt, warm and fun, with its white
horizontal lines looping around in sets of four, contrasts sharply with navy
blue shorts that fit snuggly without being licentious. Finn polishes off her
modeling worthy, self-crafted ensemble, with white Aldo shoes, that add
vibrancy without getting in the way. Her creation can be found in Finn’s blog
entitled Organized Mess from a post
entitled “Indian Summer”, dated October 7, of this year.
Having been born in Detroit, moved to Virginia at two,
over to West Virginia at five, down to North Carolina at eight, then up to
York, Pa, by 12, Finn had already saw more of the United States then many do in
a life time prior to enrolling in middle school. “I was a Marine brat,” Finn explained,
“It wasn’t awkward [the multiple childhood moves] because my father was a
Marine, we lived on Marine bases where everyone moved frequently.”
However, the move to York, Pa, at 12 would prove to be a
divergence from the other moves. The move to York was not to another military
base. The Finn’s bought a house to settle in.
“It was kind of hard being the ‘new girl,’ who spoke with
a southern accent, at an age when kids can be mean,” Finn recounted her early
days in York.
Multiply that with Finn’s burgeoning interests in things
like fashion and photography which, “there was no one in York to talk to
about,” and Finn’s teen-age years might have been riddled with woes of
alienation and confusion. However, that wasn’t to be the case. Instead the
imaginative and resourceful Marine’s daughter, started her own fashion blog,
which is still going strong today, with a bountiful 796 followers.
From Organized
Mess, Finn stated, “I wanted to express something that nobody else in my
small town seemed interested in.” The blog became that and much more.
“I realized a little bit later that I wanted
to document my life,” Finn declares in Organized
Mess, and that is precisely what she has been doing for the past five years
on the blog. From, altruistic New Year’s resolutions, to Valentine’s Day shared
with high school sweet-heart Derek Shearstone, to a fashion tribute to Taylor
Swift, Finn documents all of it. And much like the world and all its
inhabitants are perpetually in motion, evolving, moving, changing… So too is
Chelsea Finn. So too, is Organized Mess.
By Michael Casteel
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