But, then you take another look at the skirt, and the humming dies down as you realize that this outfit really isn't that patriotic after all. Almost, but not quite.
After a wet, cold, rainy & sometimes snowy patch, I think Spring may finally be here. In fact, I'm so optimistic about it, that I brought out my ankles:
As everyone knows, optimistic ankle baring is one of the first true signs of Spring.
I chose to bare my ankles with these bright blue pants:
I love these pants. I bought them on a whim, because they were blue. I was uncertain of how versatile they'd be, but I want to wear them with everything. Do they go with everything? Maybe, maybe not. But I want to wear them with everything.
And they certainly go with this dark floral blouse:
I am. Or, rather, I would be if it hadn't snowed yesterday and dropped below freezing last night. I mean, it was so cold this morning that I was forced back into tights:
But, I can't complain too much because I paired those tights with my new orange skirt:
So, the other day I ordered a floral blouse from Nordstrom Rack. Soon after, I was in Sephora, which out here is housed in a JC Penney, and I spotted what looked like the same floral print.
And it was the same print, just on a different scale and in skirt form. So, of course, I immediately purchased said skirt and promptly wore both pieces together:
See? Same print, different scale:
Also, studded boots.
Because I figure that if you happen to find two items in the same print but a different scale, you're practically obligated to wear them together:
Blouse: Wayf via Nordstrom Rack Skirt: JC Penney
Turtleneck: Gap Tights: SPANX Boots: Ash (similar save, splurge)
Right? Right.
Now, unfortunately, I can't find either the top or the skirt online, but I've picked some coordinating pieces below that I think would be pretty great together.
On Monday, it was 91 degrees here in PA. In two days, it dropped 30 degrees and we're now in the high 50s, low 60s. I don't mind though. One, the heat is NOT a dry heat; in fact, it is a sweaty, gross heat that makes me sad. And two, it gives me the opportunity to pull out some late spring layers:
The layer I'm most excited about is this cream moto:
I got a great deal on it because I bought it super late in the season, but that also meant that it was basically too late in the season to wear it much. So, when the temperatures dropped, I knew I had to take the opportunity to break it out.
Happily, it worked out quite nicely with my not-quite-a-maxi dress and my suede boots:
Unhappily, I think it'll be the last time it makes it onto the blog for awhile; I believe we're supposed to be back up to 80 by this weekend. Hot, sweaty 80. Yuck.
I'm dressed like a child today. A giant child with mutinous thighs, but a child all the same:
Tee: Gap Jeans: Old Navy Boots: Nine West
I think it might be the red pants. There is something, in my mind, inherently childlike about brightly colored pants. Or, perhaps I just feel like a child because I'm pretty sure I would have rocked the hell out of this look as a child.
I don't think pairing my bright red jeans with a star print tee helped matters much either:
And I had to pair it with these earrings because when else are you going to wear star earrings if not with your star tee and your kinder pants?
But the pants. Did I have to wear these pants? Well, no, I guess not. But, school started this week and I think the abundance of small children in their bright pants influenced this look. Yes, that it. It's the children's fault.
So, Emma, from Behind the Leopard Glasses is having the best month-long challenge and link party ever. It's all about prints and patterns! The idea is to wear a different pattern every day (you can see the challenge calendar on her site). I missed the first couple of days due to lack of appropriate patterns and general laziness, but today, today I'm participating.
The featured pattern for today is chevron. As it turns out, I don't have a lot of chevron in my closet, but I was determined to participate in this fun challenge and after a bit of scrounging around I found this top:
It's technically lace, but it has a few lines of chevron running through there.
In addition to being lace, the top is also sleeveless so, because our mornings are a bit chillier now, I paired it with my olive cardigan:
At first I wasn't sure about the combination of coral, olive and navy, but I figured that coral and navy look good together and olive is basically a neutral so it'd be fine.
See? That color combination totes makes sense.
Also, I realize that in all of the above pictures, my left earring is turned around so it looks like I'm just wearing gold earrings. I'm not. I'm actually wearing even more color:
Are any of those colors in my outfit? Of course not! But I wore the earrings anyway. Because they go.
So, there you have it. Chevron lace, a possibly weird color combination and non-matching, but totally-going earrings:
All part of an outfit that's so wrong, it's right.
