https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:15:55 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1299491 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:20:14 +0000 keruchina 1299491@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Great revelation!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1299114 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 00:39:09 +0000 Anonymous 1299114@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Very wise. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1299005 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 22:25:45 +0000 cheryl 1299005@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wonderful revelation especially considering you have a wonderful wardrobe already </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298904 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 20:01:40 +0000 cciele 1298904@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Definitely a great realization, Anna! Thanks for sharing -- it's made me think about what I'm doing with my purchases too </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298903 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 20:00:39 +0000 Jen W 1298903@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>An invaluable revelation! Glad you shared it here so we could all enjoy the wisdom and vicariously partake in wine, oysters, and friends. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298875 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:38:21 +0000 shedev 1298875@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Very wise. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298780 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 18:08:15 +0000 Transcona Shannon 1298780@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Brilliant realization! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298683 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 16:39:51 +0000 lyn* 1298683@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow - that's like Mo math right there :p </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298681 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 16:38:42 +0000 Ingunn 1298681@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like your decision a lot. Money spent with friends are almost always good investments. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298527 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:53:29 +0000 carambola 1298527@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wise words. Those shoes are awesome, but so are the ones already&nbsp;in your collection. Your thoughts about the comparative value of soul filling experiences make perfect sense. Thanks for the reminder. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298524 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:51:30 +0000 rachylou 1298524@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>So true. They may be worth $426, but one may not get $426 worth of value out of them. Very profound. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298517 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:43:39 +0000 jackiec 1298517@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Great analysis, Anna. I need to do this more often. The rest of your summer sounds amazing, BTW. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298514 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:40:01 +0000 EveningMood 1298514@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is great Anna, your words really gave me pause. Sales season here, and I am trying to squeeze little stops at the stores&nbsp;between my engagements when I should focus on the wonderful fact that I am about to&nbsp;go on vacation with my family. I have clothes. I have shoes (though not nearly as awesome as yours!), off to live </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298463 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:09:30 +0000 Anonymous 1298463@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Those are wonderful shoes, especially in the gray. But I think that's a really smart decision. Also think&nbsp;oysters and wine outside with friends is quite possibly&nbsp;better than <i>any</i> pair of shoes that could ever&nbsp;exist. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298454 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:55:13 +0000 Thistle 1298454@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Fabulous math. Summers in Seattle are short and cool, and it sounds like you already have a full plate.</p> <p>Your shoe collection is spectacular, and wine and oysters by the water is divine. Truly perfect math. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298444 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:44:04 +0000 viva 1298444@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think you're doing the right math. You are coming out on the winning side here!</p> <p>plus, it's not like you're losing out fashionwise -- you most definitely have some extraordinary footwear on hand for those two occasions. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298374 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 08:35:39 +0000 unfrumped 1298374@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I know exactly what you mean! I work a lot of weekends, too, and then sometimes just want to stay home, or have specific occasions ( a wedding this weekend, too). So to use that " splitting wears" expression, I have to keep reminding myself that I can't make proper use of a large number of non- work seasonal items or outfits, though I need the right ones for the things I do. </p> <p>I think you still go for top fashion items, and ones you love, but you're right to think of what is about the right number of items or size of capsules for your activities. After all, we need the $$ for the tickets, wine, oysters, airfare to have places to go and things to do in those outfits, and not just packed closets. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298325 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 05:56:37 +0000 Firecracker (Sharan) 1298325@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Those are some very cool shoes, and I'm with Caro--the gray would be my choice (no surprise there, I'm sure). You are so right about the limited time to wear them, though. I've thought of this kind of thing lately, as in, how many times could I really wear said item, and is it worth the price, given how much I'd get to wear it? Your revelation is wise, Anna. Thanks for sharing it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298298 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 05:02:26 +0000 abc 1298298@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I wish I could be more rational like your revelation above. &nbsp;I get so caught up in the want, want, want, buy, buy, buy cycle...sigh.. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298296 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 04:51:12 +0000 Jenava 1298296@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>So good.&nbsp; An excellent lesson.&nbsp; Thanks for the reminder.&nbsp; (-:&nbsp; I've been jonesing for a new pair of sandals.&nbsp; I've whittled my collection down and focused on closed-toe shoes that I'm finding myself wishing I had a pair I could throw on, like a metallic pair or something.&nbsp; But our season is so short!&nbsp; And truthfully I have sooo many pairs of sandals as it is... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298293 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 04:45:55 +0000 Missey 1298293@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>WOW!&nbsp; Now that is a revelation...isn't it crazy how hard they are to come by sometimes?&nbsp; Cheers and enjoy your oysters! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298271 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 04:16:35 +0000 Caro in Oz 1298271@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I hear you &amp; you are right; but I still want the grey ones </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298264 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 04:06:21 +0000 rabbit 1298264@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Very wise. &nbsp;I remember getting the idea from 'Your Money or Your Life' stuck in my head that money equals your life energy and time&nbsp;spent to earn it. &nbsp; </p> <p>So does what you are spending it on provide the maximum happiness/benefit for the life energy you are allocating to it? &nbsp;Sometimes it does, sometimes not.</p> <p>Sometimes there is something else you can allocate it toward that provides greater joy, greater memories. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298263 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 04:06:00 +0000 Mo 1298263@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>YES! &nbsp;Yes to the wine and oysters with friends and getting out there and hiking and filling your soul, not sole&nbsp;;) &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-reality#post-1298260 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 03:58:20 +0000 annagybe 1298260@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Remember these shoes?</p> <p>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.saksfifthavenue.com/main/ProductDetail.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374306418049&amp;PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524446590852&amp;R=441973626451&amp;P_name=Ann+Demeulemeester&amp;N=4294912052+306418049&amp;bmUID=ksr05kX">http://www.saksfifthavenue.com.....38;PRODUCT</a></p> <p>Well they're now over 60% off. But then I started thinking. I have about two more months of summer here in Seattle. Two of those weekends I'm on call. One weekend I'm going to home to see my father while we have family from Australia. &nbsp;Tonight my social activity was hanging out on a boat on Lake Union. I will have hiking to fit in. And a wedding. &nbsp;Maybe a special opera concert. Plus my Dad lent me his DSLR, so I want to get out and play with that.&nbsp;So what I get something like two wears out of them this season. And then I thought about how much wine and oysters I could get at Elliott's (waving to Diana). With friends, multiple times, on their glorious patio on the pier. Which is far more valuable and soul filling&nbsp;than another pair of shoes for the shoecase.<br />This was a huge and important realization to me. </p>