Category: style

After the Heatwave

Joe Fresh ombre tee shirt
jacket, Point Zero; top, Joe Fresh; jeans, Rachel Roy; shoes, Old Navy; bag, MbMJ

Rain. Rain. All the rain.

Yeah, I might look like I’m, all, “so much fun, tee hee!”, but that’s only because my husband probably cracked a joke 10 seconds before snap, snap, snapping my photo. (He likes to take approximately a bazillion photos each time, just so I’ll have a bazillion minus two photos to delete off my phone. Weirdo.) Inside, I am crying, because it’s raining and it all feels too much like fall already.

Joe Fresh ombre tee shirt
I haaaaaate fall

I don’t wear a lot of brown usually, but I liked the relaxed vibe of this jacket (windbreaker?) so I got it without giving much thought about how it would work with the rest of my wardrobe. It seems to go with blue, though, and since blue makes up a good chunk of my closet, it should works out just fine.

Joe Fresh ombre tee shirt
Do NOT talk about pumpkin anything to me

Hope we can say the same about this weather.

Blue, Grey, And Yellow

J. Crew embroidered peasant blouse; Gap palm leaf clutch
Jeans, Kenneth Cole Reaction; top & shoes, J. Crew Factory; clutch, Gap

This outfit is all about 2 of my fave purchases of the month: that Gap clutch, and my J. Crew factory top. So what if they don’t really go together? My love is the glue that holds it all together.

Bwahahahaha.

Ok, I’m back. I felt very summery in this outfit, even though my shoe choice kinda dampens the vibe. I even dug out my ancient hoop earrings (Banana Republic circa last decade), which always scream “summer” to me for some reason. Here’s a closer look at my other joolz:

Tiffany heart mini bead bracelet; J. Crew yellow rhinestone bracelet
Bracelets, J. Crew & Tiffany

Yellow is kind of an underrated accent colour, no? But I really dig it with blue. And grey. I assure you that, weirdly lit photos aside, my jeans are actually grey, not light blue.

J. Crew embroidered peasant blouse; Gap palm leaf clutch
Cool as a (blue?!) cucumber

Those Shorts, Again

Joe Fresh shorts; Old Navy khaki vest
Shorts, Joe Fresh; tee, vest & shoes, Old Navy; bag, MbMJ (via consignment)

So, blog photos. Funny things. I have two people who take my OOTD photos. The first one is my mom. She doesn’t get the whole fashun blogger thing, like, at all so her photography is the ultimate in parental indulgence. The second one is my husband. Although he’s a fairly supportive fashun blogger husband (he does all the IT-related stuff for me, generally without grumbling), he positively delights in mocking the photo-taking aspect. Specifically, my posing. So our “shoots” (does it count as a shoot if it involves an iPhone and two screaming kids in the background? I digress) usually start all normal-like …

… and then start rapidly going off the rails …

Joe Fresh shorts, Old Navy khaki vest
Don’t smile (with teeth), don’t smile (with teeth), don’t smile … dammit!

reeeeeally off the rails …

Joe Fresh shorts, Old Navy khaki vest
Left: I have no idea; right: I have no idea

He loves to narrate every single one of my poses, and I can’t even be mad because he. totally. gets. it. right. One more inch to the right, aaand tilt the chin half an inch, aaand freeze!

Joe Fresh shorts, Old Navy khaki vest
The snort laugh phase

That is me, by the way, trying to pull myself together and failing.

Joe Fresh shorts, Old Navy khaki vest
OK, I’m ready to take a photo now … wait, what do you mean we have to go?

Almost there. Oh, look, time’s up.

P.S. Did you notice mah nail polish? Matchy!

Nail polish from Joe Fresh (but don't buy it because the formula sucks)
Nail polish from Joe Fresh (but don’t buy it because the formula sucks)