That's Hot...

...but that's because it's like 80 gazillion* degrees outside and still I've commenced the layering.

It's fall, y'all!  It's boooooot season.

So chances are that - regardless of the balmy Florida temps - I'll be any day now trading out the open toes for my favorite footwear of the whole year long.



            Details...










*Yes, it's only 80-something.  And I love 80-something. 
But "80-something" just wouldn't have gone with this ensemble.

An Exact Copy

I so dig this dress.

Not just because it cost me $1,

Or because it's one of the least complicated wardrobe events I've had all year,

But mainly because it looks exactly like a dress that I'd pinned just the day before I found it.

Okay.  So maybe it's not exactly like it but it is awfully close ... okay, close enough to make me happy ... to a dress featured by my favorite fashion blogger.*

And so it made sense to deliberately copy her poses too.

  Obviously, I'm even better at this when I'm doing it on purpose.

And I've never come closer, I think, than right here:

 

 

It's nearly an exact copy!

Right?  Right? 

 

 

 

*Kendi's at KendiEveryDay.com

 

HI-LOng Time Coming

I bought this skirt more than a year ago and, believe it or not, before the black polka-dot skirt thing and before the high-low thing too.  (At least before EVERYbody was doing it!)

The second I saw it, I knew that when the time was right, I would wear it backwards.  (I bought it at the end of a season.)

But as the right time was obviously approaching, and then here, and then passing me by, it was all too clear that Just Backwards wasn't going to cut it.

So I cut it first and then I wore it backwards!

All but the shoes came from the Bargain Box.

 

Labor Day...

As I was figuring this out the night before, my family told me I was funny-looking ~ which is fine.  It usually means I'm at least headed in the direction I want.

I'm...

too preppy for my skirt,

too preppy for my skirt,

so preppy that...

well, you get the idea.

You'd think I'd be pointing out my mixed prints - my animal and floral prints, specifically - since I've been trying for six months to get the nerve to do it!

But alas!  I must recognize my sweet thrift shop friends here who, on spotting me with that skirt in hand, proclaimed that I would not wear it.  I believe there was something about the skirt's genre' not quite aligning with my style aesthetic. 

So to y'all I express my thanks now.  I may never have left the house this way had I not sensed some sort of challenge!

As long as I'm thanking people, I should mention my sweet husband who, every time he's asked to take these ridiculous photos, though one of his eyebrows is twitching and his exhalations are just slightly more audible, he does this for me.

And the explanation for that is over at Synchro-Intimacy.

Pinned At Last!

After all these months and months of pinning wardrobe inspirations, I finally interpreted one!


I must plan strategically and well in advance of Sunday morning or I will go to church in jeans - which is okay, of course.  I would just rather be dressing "on purpose" for church.

photo source: spiritedroute.blogspot
via pinterest

So, on this particular morning, as I was about to don my previously arranged attire, I remembered the pin and the skirt - the $1 skirt that was in my truck in the "I'm never going to wear this so return it to the thrift shop" bag - and lickety-split, I was not so much dressed as I was pinned!


P.S. I don't copy poses on purpose.  If you've seen previous posts, you know that posing is a skill I lack and if I ever "match" a reference pose, it's a total fluke!

Here's an example.
And here.

My Cinderella Dress

You're darn tootin', I huge-ified these pictures.

I'm quite proud to have re-fashioned this little ditty

from a much plainer and ill-fitting version.

The dress and the shirt had been in my closet for more than their fair amount of time.

I tried to place the dress in a better home

while we were preparing for the fashion show but

it was very oddly cut and was clearly going to fit

only the person for whom it was made...

...so I made myself that person!

And went to a wedding with my very own Prince Charming!

To note - the dress and the shirt (and the sweater) were each $1.
The thread was a gift from a friend.