black, white and blue all over.
Dress Banana Republic 2008
Coat Vera Wang 2008
Boot Merrell 2008
Earrings High Gear 2003
Ring High Gear 2008
Dress
I got this dress when I was in Las Vegas last year. As with all black dresses there is detail you can't photograph well. It has a fitted long skirt with a waist with little pleats in it. I felt terrible Audrey Hepburn in it. If I remember correctly I paid $40 for it but it was a $120 dress. This coat I also think I paid $40 for but it was originally $80. I don't like to spend that much on a what I think of as "novelty" piece of clothing but I fell in mad love with it. I put it on a started dancing around. My inlaws were there and encouraged me to get it. It actually had blue on the black flowers. I have gotten more use out of it then I originally thought. There is a couple wears to wear it since it has an attached belt and flip up or down collar.
Some previous wearings.
Do you have any "novelty" items of clothing you wish you could get more use out of or thought you might when you got it?
That satin dress in the above picture with Dave is one of those items. I thought I could wear it all the time but it really looks too fancy in most situations the shine and sleeveless just make it harder to wear on a everyday basis. I paid a lot for it too (Lot for me it was $120) I also have this little capelet thing I bought at Forever 21 I was convinced would go with everything and I haven't yet found anything that looks good with it. I also have this Antropologie sweater I find impossible to wear. It is short and peplum which I find hard to style beyond the pencil skirt, everything else just makes me look short and squat in it. And it wasn't cheap!
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I have a couple of items like that, including a cropped sleeve swing jacket that just screws up the silhouette of whatever I'm trying to wear it with. It flummoxes me....
i love that anthro sweater! maybe dress it down with a pair of jeans? thinking back, i think most of the denim ive seen on you is trouser-cut (which i love) but do you have more fitted jeans? it might work with some skinnies...
I have several clothing pieces that I thought were a good idea. Sometimes it's not until after I see myself photographed in them..other times I get home and think WTF...
The earrings I am wearing today are like that. I adore them but they are so...MUCH, that I dont wear them very often. My outfit has to be really PLAIN to wear them and I can't wear a necklace and both of those things are hard for me.
I reviewed a nail polish maybe kind of a little bit today and I naturally thought of you. <3
My favorite piece of clothing EVER is a sweater I bought in Tasmania. It's really romantic and girly, and goes with approximately one skirt that I own. That is all. Drives me BATSO.
I bought this midnight blue jersey sheath dress last fall thinking that I had a bazillion ways to style it, but it's got a slouchy, faux-turtle neck roll down collar (that I obviously can't explain) that I can't seem to get to work with anything! About all I've done with it is belt it and wear it plain, but I want to be able to pair it with oversized button downs and blazers. It just doesn't work. Frustrating!
I have a lot of things I bought that I don't get as much use out of as I thought I would. But then, I get a lot of use out of things I thought I wouldn't. So I guess it evens out.
The only novelty item I can think of is this black satin-y corset top I got at H&M on clearance for $5 - I actually wear that style top a lot going out, but this one manages to hide in the bottom of my drawer and I forget about it.