Conversation #115: Outfit overload

I'm not sure these will be inspiring to anyone, but I have some outfit pictures from the last few weeks on my phone so I decided to dump them here. Aren't the phone photos in my work bathroom super inspiring?!

Casual Friday a few weeks ago, breakdown:

Striped Boy Tee, Lands' End Canvas, $2

Bootcut Jeans, Gap, $20

Leather Belt, American Eagle Outfitters, $10 (?)

Leather & Canvas Heels, Lands' End Canvas, $30

Necklace, Target, $3

Outfit breakdown:

Red/White Striped shirt, Lands' End Canvas, $12

Ponte Pants, Lands' End, $14

Leopard Calfhair flats, BP via ebay, $30

Faux gold chain necklace, JCPenney, $12

One of my favorite recent outfits, I had a downtown meeting so I wanted to get gussied for downtown Dallas

Outfit breakdown:

Cardigan, New York and Co, $18

Silk and lace tank, J. Crew via ebay, $13

Black crepe pants, Talbots, $30

Black leather booties, JCPenney, $24

Necklace, Coldwater Creek, $7 (?, can't remember for sure)

Another Rangers work outfit

Outfit Breakdown:

Striped cowl neck top, Gap, $12

Trouser Jeans, LL Bean, $19

Leather Ankle Boots, Talbots, $18

An outfit inspired from Fab Finds Under $50, Grey and Camel

Outfit breakdown:

Cardigan, Gap Outlet, $10.50

Camel flannel dress, J. Crew via J.Crew Aficionada blog, $40 (I had searched for this a while)

Grey leather belt, J. Jill, $5

Grey suede heels, Shoe Carnival, $29 (?)

Necklace, local store, $4 (I get more compliments on this necklace than any other piece of jewelry I own)

Looking back at these photos, I realize that I think I'm getting better at putting together outfits. However, I still feel like my hair just looks a mess everyday. I try so many different ways of styling it, but it always looks frizzy and full of fly-aways in photos. Any tips out there? Early in the year, maybe January and February, it was so dry here that I had a good run of awesome hairdays (although my skin was dying a slow parched death). I hope that dry air hits again this season. Until then, what do you do to fight frizz?

Comments

Stori said…

Ok, you are always SO cute! And what really impresses me is that you spend so little on your wardrobe... can you do a post on shopping tips? How often do you shop, where do you shop, do you have rules where you will only buy something if it is under X amount of dollars, ect... I would love to know how to get such a CUTE wardrobe so inexpensively.

October 29, 2011 at 11:32 AM

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