I am a BIG fan of purple and green. Enough so that I had green hair for several months, and would frequently complement it with a purple sweater or jacket.
January 17th’s outfit was a more muted version of this color palette:
Maybe I should have gone for Poison Ivy, instead of the Joker. I’ve got the skin and the hair going for me, right?
- Green dress: {UPDATE LATER, NO CLUE}
- Eggplant leggings: From Target
- Skinny belt: Wet Seal
- Boots: {UPDATE LATER, NO CLUE}
Okay dudes and ladies, I said I’d be back, and I’m back. Not with photos yet, but definitely armed with a plan.
I’ve been going through the photos taken since January 14, and…well, there are a LOT of photos! As of this moment, there are 46 days between then and now. There were 2 or 3 “pants days” used in there (though I’ve yet to use a “pants day” for pants-wearing; they’ve all been “ugh I don’t feel like putting on clothes and leaving the house” days so far), so there aren’t 46 photos. I’m currently in the process of figuring out which outfit corresponds to which date, since the date-recorder on my digital camera decided it’s suddenly sometime last year, and not necessarily a predictable, linear sort of sometime.
SO! The plan is to finish putting the photos in order and polishing them up, and then post 10 outfits per week for the next…4 or 5 weeks. I’m aware that I’m not going to have time to do a big whack of blog-writin’ every day, but I think I can squeeze in 10 outfits per week, even if I end up doing them all on the weekend. After that, I’ll be caught up, and can go back to one post per day.
I’m going to ask you a favor. Please, please grump at me if I don’t stick to this plan. I know, I have eleventy-three billion things to do, and the whole blog thing just doesn’t seem to top my list of priorities. But it would be really awesome if one thing in my life could go the way I plan for it to, in all the hectic mess that is my day-to-day lack of routine. So help me out with that, if you’d be so kind. If I fall behind, give me a good swift kick in the ass. Don’t think of it so much as “violence”; it’s really more “shepherding”.
Damn, I’ve got a lot to catch up on. I am currently getting all my photos off my camera, which will be followed by the normal contrast-sharpness-color adjustment, en masse. The finished products should start showing up on my blog tomorrow, along with a plan/schedule for the next little bit, until I get caught up.
Here is my outfit for January 14:
- Boyfriend jacket: Norma Kamali for Wal-Mart
- Drape-neck top: from Target
- Skirt: (come back and edit later), tailored by me
- Shoes: from Target
I love that Norma Kamali boyfriend jacket. I know, I know, it’s a cheaper quality than I would get with REAL designer clothes. But the cut is really cute, and it’s a trendy piece, so it doesn’t need to last forever anyway, right?
Next: more catching up! I promise, I’ve got photos for every day I wore an outfit. It’s my goal to be completely up-to-date by the end of…next week, if not this week.
God help me, I just used a quote from the Mummy as my title—yes, THAT one. 1999, Brendan Fraser…oh, the shame.
But that quote has been lodged in the back of my head for the past decade or so, and when I put on this outfit, it rattled loose. Here’s the outfit for January 13th:
I’ve got to find somewhere else to take photos in this house.
- White turtleneck: (I’ll come back and edit this later)
- Black sleeveless sweater dress: (ditto)
- Polka dot leggings: xhilaration
- Boots: from Target
So! I’ve been REALLY busy lately (hence the lack of brand names for sweater and dress), but this should be the first of a flood of outfit posts. I’ve still been taking pictures every day, even though I haven’t found the time to blog about it.
Onward!
My outfit for January 12th was put together with warmth and comfort in mind.
Another photo by my lovely boyfriend, Zack. Please ignore my awkward pose; we only had enough battery charge in the camera for one photo. Normally it takes several photos for me to get a flattering pose down.
- Gray ruffled sweater dress: From Target
- Purple camisole: Jockey
- Off-white sweater-knit tights: Steve Madden
- Necklace: Simply Willow (an Etsy shop): http://www.etsy.com/shop/simplywillow
- Boots: From Target
I am so damn tired. Sorry, folks, I’ll do my catchin’ up tomorrow.
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been sick recently. January 11th was my first day back out among humanity—and out of my p.j.’s. This was what I wore:
Yup, another one of the comfy plaid nightie things. But I BELIEVE it’s a dress, so it is!
- Plaid “dress”: xhilaration
- Thigh-high socks: I think from Wal-Mart
- Black tights: I’m going to stop mentioning these, because I never know where they’re from. I have a million pairs of them, and none have labels.
- Ass-kickin’ boots: Bongo
I really like this outfit. I can work the tomboy look AND not be wearing pants. Maybe the huge socks were a miss—stripes and plaid, anyone?—but I thought it was a fun outfit, and by damn I was WARM. It was 23 degrees outside that day, at its warmest point.
So, tomorrow I will do my best to play catch-up on blog posts. I have two interviews, though, so catching up may get bumped to Saturday. Regardless, I haven’t forgotten about needing to relate my “no-pants lifestyle” experiences.
Here’s my outfit from January 6th. This is one of my favorite outfits so far, I think.
I’ve gotta work on that grumpy face, though.
- Blue sweater:
- Black skirt: Red by Marc Ecko
- Argyle tights: Joe Boxer
- Boots: From Target
- Choker: From me! I made that. I’ll do a close-up next time I wear it.
The tights and the skirt are two of my favorite wardrobe pieces. I think I might need to wear a more neutral top in order for the tights to really act as the focal point of the outfit. Or they might just need some better lighting…I’m still working on the whole photography aspect of this blog thing.
The skirt, on the other hand, just fits me really well. I’ve got hips that are MUCH bigger than my waist—like 14 inches bigger. That’s over half my waist measurement. I’m pretty sure this skirt was intended to be an update to the 50’s balloon skirt, where it would kind of poof out around the hips below the waistband, due to the nifty little pleats that I will photograph in better light on a different date. On my figure, however, it doesn’t really do this. What it does is fit both my waist and my hips without needing the magic of Spandex, and that is always a victory for me.
It’s not really that I have a huge butt—I just have these really wide child-bearin’ hips. Thanks, Eastern European ancestors. You gave me a figure that I’m reasonably fond of…until I’ve gotta buy clothes for it.
Tomorrow: back on schedule! I’m going to call January 7-10 “pants days”, even though I didn’t wear anything other than pajama pants due to extreme ickiness. That puts me down to 27 days this year where I can wear pants. At the beginning of the year, 30 days of pants sounded like so little; now I don’t know if I’m going to use all of them. I’m really enjoying this project, and the whole “no-pants lifestyle”.
More on that on our next episode…same bat time, same bat channel.
Sorry I haven’t posted for the past several days…I’ve been sick. Like not-leaving-the-house sick. Hence, there have been no outfits, unless you count a bathrobe and some slippers as an “outfit”. However, there are a couple of days from before I decided to start hacking up a lung that I still haven’t posted. So, without further ado, here’s my outfit from January 5th:
Before you ask, no, I don’t know why my foot looks that huge.
- Sweater: From Wal-Mart.
- Denim skirt: Bubblegum
- Green tights and purple socks: both from Target
- Boots: Also from Target, I believe…and I’m not moving far enough to check.
I always get compliments on this sweater. I have one like it in green, and people tell me how nice I look in that one, too. Then they ask, “Where’d you get it?” And I have to answer honestly, because at some point early in my adult life, I grew this weird thing called a “conscience”.
I know that practically everybody shops at Wal-Mart. I know these sweaters are flattering on me. But I still feel a little guilty admitting where they came from, partially because I know Wal-Mart is shady business as far as human rights are concerned…and partially because somewhere in the back of my head, my inner middle-school kid is still expecting some bitchy 8th-grader to pop out from behind a corner to make fun of the gawky kid with the glasses and cheap clothes.
Even though I’m coming up on 24, the demons of 12 still creep up on me, sometimes. It’s a bit scary, how much baggage you can carry without really noticing.
Sorry, I wasn’t expecting to write anything serious when I logged on here. Tomorrow, I’ll be back with January 6th’s outfit, and my normal fencing-foil-edged wit!
I had an interview yesterday at a staffing company (that’s what they call temp agencies now, apparently). This is what I wore:
Excuse the crazy pose, I was feeling sickly.
- Raspberry button-front: Converse One Star. I have about five of these…explanation below.
- Gray skirt: Old Navy.
- Tights: Could be from anywhere, they’re just black tights.
- Boots: Target.
I freakin’ LOVE this shirt. You probably can’t tell from the photo, but that ribbed jersey fabric that they use for wife-beater tanks runs along the sides and under the arms of the shirt. Do you know what that means? That means that it stretches to fit your boobs. A button-front! That fits both waist and bust! Without any princess seams that make ironing hell!
<Ahem!> Sorry about that, I get excited sometimes. But if you’ve got issues with finding tops that fit both your boobs and your waist, I highly recommend this shirt. Get thyself to Target and get one! They might even still have some of last season’s colors on clearance.
That’s all I’ve got, folks. I’m gonna go lay down and try to hold the pieces of my head together now.
Tomorrow: A long skirt!
