Category: style

The Tyranny of Pants

MaxMara Ragni coat; Free People peasant floral dress; Marc by Marc Jacobs Magazine bag
Dress, Free People (via consignment); cardigan, Joe Fresh; scarf, Aldo; boots, Josef Seibel; coat, MaxMara; bag, MbMJ (swap)

Break free, my friends! This winter, do not submit to the tyranny of pants, weather be damned!

[Or, you know, submit and all, if you like pants. Or have to wait for the bus. I’d feel really terrible if you ended up with pneumonia or something.]

Where was I? Oh, yes. I was telling you about how much I hate pants.

MaxMara Ragni coat; Free People peasant floral dress; Marc by Marc Jacobs Magazine bag
look, ma – no pants!

I’ve never been a fan of pants (as long-time BCRL readers well know), but the extra 20 pounds I haven’t managed to budge since my daughter was born have made me really dislike pants. And, conversely, really love dresses. So easy. So comfortable. Who needs pants?

MaxMara Ragni coat; Free People peasant floral dress; Marc by Marc Jacobs Magazine bag
layers and layers and layers …

Now, if you want to get technical, you could say that I’m actually wearing pants here. I mean, some people consider leggings to be pants. I don’t, but some days I feel like I’m in the minority with that. What’s the consensus?

MaxMara Ragni coat; Free People peasant floral dress; Marc by Marc Jacobs Magazine bag
but, hey, no pants!

Snow Day

Marc Jacobs purple floral dress; Marc Jacobs Kirsten bag; MaxMara Ragni coat
Dress, MbMJ (thrifted); scarf, Aldo; boots, Winners; coat, MaxMara; bag. Marc Jacobs (via eBay)

Snow days in Edmonton are about as ubiquitous as grains of sand on the beach, so I don’t take them all that seriously until much later in the game. Like when they dump 2 feet of snow on my driveway. A few inches … eh. Time to wear a dress.

I was especially excited about this particular dress, so I was going to wear it regardless, snow day or no snow day. First of all, it’s hella cute. Check it:

Marc Jacobs purple floral dress; Marc Jacobs Kirsten bag; MaxMara Ragni coat
belt, J. Crew Factory; tights, Target

Secondly, it cost me $6 at Value Village. Did I mention it’s a Marc by Marc Jacobs dress? It has a retro-boho vibe that works perfectly with my MJ Kirsten bag. It’s almost as if they were designed by the same person … OK, that was my really lame attempt at fashion humour. Don’t worry, I’m not quitting my day job any time soon.

Marc Jacobs purple floral dress; Marc Jacobs Kirsten bag; MaxMara Ragni coat
brrrrrr …

Especially since I also fail at taking fashun bloggery photos. For the record, this wasn’t an attempt to be cute; my husband had just remarked that my nose would put Rudolph’s to shame, and I was feeling a little, um, self-conscious. Oh well, it all goes with the snow day territory.

Marc Jacobs purple floral dress; Marc Jacobs Kirsten bag; MaxMara Ragni coat
frolicking on the driveway, fashun blogger style, ain’t what it used to be …

Bruised Blueberry

J. Crew Minnie byzantine blue pants; J. Crew Everly blue pumps
Pants & shoes, J. Crew (via consignment); sweater, J. Crew Factory; cardigan, Max Studio; necklace, Banana Republic; bag, Marc Jacobs (swap)

I feel like this outfit straddled the line between Willy Wonka-ville ridiculous and pretty cool, and it was the black cardigan that played the biggest role in keeping it in that precarious balance. Sometimes, you just need a little bit of black to keep an outfit grounded.

J. Crew Minnie byzantine blue pants; J. Crew Everly blue pumps
black and blue overload

I have been wearing black and blue a lot lately, and I think it’s starting to affect me subliminally. Or maybe I’m just suffering early winter dysphoria. In any case, this turned out to be a happy blue outfit – mostly because I got a kick out of it’s almost-ridiculousness.

J. Crew Minnie byzantine blue pants; J. Crew Everly blue pumps
and the pigeon-toe …