Me-Made May 19 and 20

For Day 19, I went pretty simple. This was another day when I had to get by with just me-made jewelry, mostly because it was cold and raining and I really wanted to wear some warm clothing. This implies that I need to do some more sewing this weekend!


Details:
Jeans: Seven, thrifted.
Jewelry: me-made
Top: Banana Republic, thrifted.
Shoes: thrifted.


I've been finding it interesting to see how thrifting has allowed me to have some more "grown-up" brands in my closet... For example, I tend to really like things now from stores like Banana Republic and Ann Taylor. Back when I was doing my clothing shopping at the malls, I would only buy clothing from those stores on rare super-sale occasions, generally turning to Forever21 and Wet Seal instead (sometimes Express as well). At the dollar-a-pound I shop at now, I run into a fair amount of Banana Republic/Ann Taylor/various other more tailored/polished/adult-seeming brands...so my closet has gradually shifted. Anybody else experience this with thrift-store shopping?

Day 20: polka dots!


So there's a bit of a reason for this outfit... one of my favorite style bloggers, The Glamourai, (actually, she was one of the first style blogs I started following...) had a week of wearing multiple polka-dotted items, and encouraged others to try it as well and send her pictures. Thus, the dotted skirt paired with the tiny dots on the blouse collar and cuffs. (and I wore my trench coat with the pink/brown polka dot trim, but that was completely unintentional, I swear!)


Details:
Dotted skirt: Liz Claiborne, thrifted and refashioned.
White skirt: Forever21.
Black top with built in collar: Voice, thrifted.
Shoes: Steve Madden, thrifted.
Belt and bag: thrifted.

Anybody else glad it's almost the weekend?

An attempt at mixing patterns...

Today's outfit was centered around the polka-dot top and leopard-print belt combination. I'd been wanting to try this for a while, and finally got up the nerve to wear the belt out in public. (One might notice that I don't wear leopard/animal prints often.) I just wore it to the lab and rehearsal, though.



I have to figure out a good way of taking pictures so it's not the end of the day and dark (though I'm still at the lab) and requiring me to either find a place I can put the camera on a timer or convince coworker friends to take a couple of snapshots. At home, all of the appropriate height surfaces I could leave a camera on are in front of messy shelves or other things that don't make good photo backdrops. Maybe I should get a cheap tripod at some point? I can't wait until it's spring and I could take some of these outside without freezing to death!



I've been wearing this necklace a lot lately. It's one of the handful of things that have so far come out of my getting a bunch of old jewelry on Ebay and trying to reconstruct pieces into new jewelry creations.