Posts tagged ‘personal style’
A Week in Review
{ Last weekend in the Hamptons }
It’s finally starting to feel like summer! Instead of jumping from 50° to 80° in a matter of 24 hours, things have been pretty consistent. Me likey. I’ll be spending most of this weekend outdoors at the Googamooga Festival (I have a love/hate relationship with that name), so hopefully I’ll work up a good tan. Are any of you going? If so, make sure to say hello!
As for this week, it totally flew by! I didn’t have a single night or day off and for the first time in awhile I actually enjoyed it! We all know how much I love an evening with my couch, but this week’s evening activities were a perfect combination of work events and fun with friends.
Have a good weekend!
{ Another look behind the scenes at my Revlon shoot }
{ Things I never leave home without }
{ Straw fedoras lined up and ready for summer }
{ Swirly cobblestones on the Upper East Side }
Running Out the Door
I’m without a doubt a morning person. I’m usually up and at ‘em by 7:30am, showered, cup of coffee in hand, brain juices flowing. But it’s these morning brain juices that always make me lose track of time and inevitably end up rushing out the door leaving important things behind like my cellphone (that was yesterday). The other morning however, I had a little extra time on my hands and thought I’d snap a few photos of what I look like first thing in the morning. I don’t do the whole blow drying thing, so I’m almost always leaving my apartment with wet hair, though in the winter I have had pieces of my hair turn into icicles so maybe I should rethink that.
What are you like in the morning? Groggy? Mean? Shining like the sun? Tell.
{ Club Monaco blazer, H&M sweater, J.Crew dress, Chloe bag, VPL x LD Tuttle boots }
Daddy Long Legs
As much as I love a high-waisted skirt, the whole high-waisted pants thing has never really felt “right” for me. For starters, all I can ever think about is that scene in Dazed and Confused when the girls have to zip each others pants up with pliers (for those of you who don’t know this movie, well, I’m sorry). And the other factor in my high-waisted pants debacle is that they can sometimes make me feel too, for lack of a better word, womanly. Hubba hubba.
Having said all that, this marvelous pair of extra high-waisted, extra long, extra red Alice & Olivia pants are a whole other can of hot pepper high-waisted worms. They’re almost too long for me (I have to wear at least 5 inch heels with them), they’re almost too high for me (they fasten well above my belly button), and they’re almost too red for me (I wore them on New Years and was heckled “thats a lot of red…” it is, creepy heckler, it is). But despite all that too much crap, they happen to be one of my most beloved pairs of pantalónes in my closet. Along with being the closest thing to pajamas in fabric, they make my legs look like they’re a mile long which, let’s face it, is never a bad thing. Unless you’re actually a Daddy Long Legged spider in which case, I am going to squish you. Too da loo.
{ Elizabeth & James blazer, Esprit tube top (too old for words), Alice & Olivia pants, Topshop heels, Emily Cho bag c/o Bib & Tuck }
// photos by Emily Malan (duh!)
Favorites Shmavorites
{ All Wrapped Up }
I recently had a reader ask me what outfit is my favorite on my blog. I had no idea how to respond, so I did what any good cartoon character would do and scratched my head for quite some time. I came to the bald spot conclusion, that I really don’t have a favorite – kind of like cheese; they all taste good to me, though some are better than others depending on the day.
So much of this blog is about being honest about what I’m wearing — I really try not to put together outfits for the sake of them going on here (though there have been a few times where I’ve done s0). But since you asked, dear reader, here are a few of my current favorites (with links to their respective posts) on this rainy Wednesday. Or you could overlook this whole post and realize that it’s been raining in NYC for 23209204983230 days, leaving outdoor photo shoots pretty much out of the question.
But I actually would really like to know – what are some of your favorites? Peep them all on my outfits page!
{ Black Swan }
{ Orange Soda }
{ Flat Attack }
{ Birthday Dress }
Super Moon Fiesta
Though last week’s rain stayed far away, this weekend was completely gray and overcast, preventing any sunkissed outdoor fiestas and super moon gazing from happening. As someone with a bit of an obsession with the moon (and fiestas), you can only imagine my disappointment (huge thank you to some of my readers for sending me photos of the super moon from where you are!); so I compensated for the lack of sunshine and giant moon glow by throwing together a midday fancy shmancy outfit with a sparkly clutch that reflects everything. Who needs a super moon when you’ve got dozens of mini moons on your bag?
And while the fun outfit was definitely a pick-me-up, it wasn’t long before I was back in jeans and a t-shirt for some quesadilla eating and margarita drinking — both of which played a crucial part in making up for the solar system’s NYC absence.
{ Sine dress c/o, Angel Jackson clutch, Michael Kors heels, Erica Weiner earrings, Banana Republic & CatBird rings }
