https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 20 May 2026 07:18:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner/page/2#post-790713 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:13:15 +0000 rae 790713@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm so late to the party and not even reading the comments like a good girl, but I vote for 2 and 9! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner/page/2#post-790701 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:59:20 +0000 krishnidoux 790701@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Suz, I think you need a versatile, funky but classic short sleeves jacket in your wardrobe for such funky out-there events, which are part of your life. The idea is to wear long sleeves under it in winter, and have a choice, belt or no belt. </p> <p>I imagine a little number like pic 5 here with a long sleeves print cotton tee (stripes, or one digitally retouched flower print, or black and grey...) your black skinny jeans and lace-up black booties, or heels. Or swap the long sleeves tee for a black turtle-neck. </p> <p>Another great source of inspiration: check out Tina'a Arena many to-die-for outfits during "jam sessions" in this video: <a href="http://vimeo.com/29963465" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/29963465</a></p> <p>A few examples: </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner/page/2#post-790699 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:58:00 +0000 Jules 790699@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I know you're not trying to blend in, rather, hit your own style not, but I strongly feel boots (taller better but booties are fine) are way more Kensington than pumps!<br /> Honestly, I'm envious that you had so many good-to-great options. I also don't see the proportion issue with #5. You're a seriously hot tamale and I would put you at way younger than your age (which I think was mentioned somewhere on the forum a while back - I limited my googling!), yet always dressed beautifully &amp; appropriately for ANY age, really. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner/page/2#post-790682 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:44:28 +0000 Suz 790682@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you, everyone. I really appreciate your thoughts. I am having an unfab day and feel lousy about my shape and all these options feel wrong. I hate my legs in booties, still. But temps are cold today and I would freeze in the pumps. I brought my DV smog booties and my Josef Siebels and will have to pick between those. I wish I liked the sparkly tank better. I am worried that ill need to fuss with it to keep the length proportionate. </p> <p>Ah well. Not a big problem in the scheme of things I guess. I brought the n<br /> makings of 2 and 3/4 with me, plus the pants. So I have options still. Thanks again. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner/page/2#post-790659 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:24:32 +0000 Carole 790659@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, look at all these great outfits! I like 3-4 best (and you have given me a fresh idea about wearing a blouse or shirt under my sequin tank, love that). I love 6, also, but seems more dressy and formal. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner/page/2#post-790651 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:08:09 +0000 ManidipaM 790651@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Suz, that's seriously a lot of arresting options. It's so much that I'm literally nitpicking to pick (like eliminating the lace blouse because I want the back view to be better still on you...though there's absolutely nothing wrong with it!).</p> <p>I liked #2 best --- stunning, the moment I opened it --- but I can understand the reservations over wearing a skirt in the cold. That's why I am passing #3-4 as well, and preferring #5 --- but then I can't see the proportion issue others see there; it looks great to me and your legs look lovely and long. </p> <p>I do have a soft spot for #6, as you might imagine --- that colour on you! --- but after thinking about the venue(s), I am more inclined to back #5.</p> <p>I know this hasn't been easy, with no clear winners. But that's down to the fact that we're all nitpicking to do our best by you from a plethora of great options. Please go in all confidence that none of these looks let you down. At all. Not a smidge. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner/page/2#post-790623 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:40:05 +0000 Angie 790623@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like #3 and #4 best - but with the animal print pumps. </p> <p>I like #2 next. Both those looks are 11 out of 10! </p> <p>But ALL the outfits are amazing, Suz. Well done! </p> <p>Have not read the comments. Which outfit are you going with? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner/page/2#post-790622 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:39:36 +0000 bella 790622@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love 2, 3/4 and 10. If I saw you in any of these outfits at your reading, I would think laid back, quirky, fun in a very stylish way. Hope this helps. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner/page/2#post-790590 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:42:38 +0000 texstyle 790590@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I didn't read any other answers first so...<br /> Nearly all of these look great but to be picky, I don't love the lacy overlaw with and white blouse and black skirt (seems a little "uniform" like to me). </p> <p>From what you described I like #1, #5 or the last outfit best. I feel like the black pencil skirt is a bit more "professional" so I lean away from those outfits for this event. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner/page/2#post-790563 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:36:27 +0000 Suz 790563@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Kat, we posted at the same time. You are absolutely right. Psyhic comfort is of the utmost importance at these events, no matter how short or small the reading....it is much more important than for any other kind of event (for me). If I am wearing something that I *feel* is great, then I'm confident and easy and it goes smoothly. If I'm wearing clothes that are fussy, don't feel like me, seem totally wrong for the venue, etc. then I am uncomfortable. </p> <p>One thing that does NOT bother me is dressing differently than the other participants (when it is a group). I don't care a bit about that. It's to do with my own feeling of having hit the right style note for myself. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner/page/2#post-790562 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:33:48 +0000 Suz 790562@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks again, everyone. I have taken all your thoughts to heart and rest assured I value them. </p> <p>This has really been interesting for me. The fact that there is no clear winner confirms my own sense of confusion at what I was looking at in the mirror. Lots of "okays" but nothing that says "YAY!!!!" </p> <p>And maybe that's to be expected; this is in its own way a really difficult situation to dress for. Weather, two different evening events in one, plus it has to go in a small carry on size suitcase with all my other stuff....yeah. </p> <p>Well, I have an hour more to consider this and then I must pack and leave. Still undecided. In the end I may choose something completely different. Maybe I will just tuck my jeans into some tall boots. Which would be great for the rain, but not so great for the dinner out. </p> <p>If I had a leather moto, I'd be in business....too bad the one from Zara didn't work. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner/page/2#post-790560 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:31:40 +0000 Kat 790560@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like #2, #4, and #10 for your event. You will look lovely regardless, you ALWAYS do? I do think the layering insight will be helpful going forward, of course.</p> <p>Is there any outfit you can wear that you can envision yourself "forgetting" once you are at the venue, reading, and off to dinner? Somehow, I suspect your psychic comfort level will be of paramount importance and once you are dressed in something in which can forget what you are wearing you will shine! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner/page/2#post-790524 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:49:24 +0000 Ingunn 790524@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>A lot of interesting options, Suz! I think the sequined top/navy shirt works very well - not too formal, and not too casual either. Pants or skirt with this is equally good to my eye. I also like the lace/white shirt combination - and I don't think leopard pumps with it is funny at all! The bottom line is: People are there to hear you read, and to be with you in good company. Of course you want to look good for the occasion(s), and rest assured - you really do. You already have a lot of appropriate outfits here, and I'm sure everybody will find you at least as stylish and well put together as we do. No need to go shopping, just "stay calm and dress on". </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner/page/2#post-790514 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:55:29 +0000 krishnidoux 790514@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Suz, I'm so sorry for your Siebels... mine don't do that! And I wore them last year continuously for 2 months in rainy BC.</p> <p>I like 3-4 the best for the event you describe. The sequin adds fun sparkle, just in line with an evening event. Arm candy there brings it just at another level. </p> <p>5 is good too but the sequin debardeur looks too long there. It falls lower, elongating the torso. Maybe with a belt? </p> <p>1 is too casual.</p> <p>2 is too scholar.</p> <p>6 is awesome, but too formal.</p> <p>7-12 is also stunning, but too much day presentation. My faves in there are 10-11. </p> <p>13 is also very cool and worth considering. Hhhmm... it appeals to me because it is so fashion forward yet naughty, in a Coeur-de-pirate kind of way. All you need now is an arm tattoo! (Joking). You look ravishing: every element here work together to create the look, from the pearls to the rolled sleeves and collar turned up to the booties. </p> <p>But considering it's winter and that Christmas is approaching, I would go for the sequin outfit. Just because pic 13 seems so perfect, putting a winter coat over it would kill the look. This requires a cropped jacket. And since you'll be in and out, you should really plan your outerwear as well. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner/page/2#post-790491 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:55:32 +0000 Kristin SF 790491@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love, love #2, looks classy yet edgy. Good luck and have fun!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner/page/2#post-790482 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:13:10 +0000 Beth Ann 790482@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Suz: 3/4 is my favorite for the event, but I love #2 as well. Either way you'll shine. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner/page/2#post-790460 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:16:40 +0000 Freckles 790460@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love 1 and 6 with no particular preference as both look amazing on you. Personally I don't think very similar to normal is out for an early evening reading but I am not the author giving the reading... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner#post-790454 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:12:22 +0000 Isis 790454@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Would wearing the demin shirt under the fuschia jacket casualize it? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner#post-790453 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:10:12 +0000 Suz 790453@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You know what the problem is? The problem is, I am so *off* layering this, that, and the other. It just feels contrived and not right. I know part of that is because the pieces were never meant to go together. Some people can put stuff together that was never meant to go together and it looks fab!! SUPER fab. But I just feel like a hot mess. I feel better when I keep it as simple as possible. </p> <p>This is good information for me, no? Maybe I can't do much with it at the moment, but it is helpful. </p> <p>I think that is why I felt better in 2 and 6. But I don't think 6 is at all right for the venue.</p> <p>ETA I also felt fine in #1 (except a bit too body con) but more for a party at home vs. being out. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner#post-790449 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:06:54 +0000 Suz 790449@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>AJ, you are a genius. Believe it or not, I actually tried this, too. Just didn't take a pic! I quite liked it, too. Trouble is, it's seasonally confused IRL because the skirt is SOOOO lightweight. But I think it would be fun for an in-the-house event maybe. If I could find a really warm slip! </p> <p>Nice idea to try the lace under the fuchsia blazer. I don't think it would show however, with the way it is cut, so that would sort of defeat the purpose of it. </p> <p>I'm going to try that with the belt and see what I think (over the tunic). And I might go with a skirt anyway - tomorrow is supposed to be relatively warm (45 degrees...but of course that is the high so it will be colder at night.) </p> <p>Thank you SO much for weighing in. Your ideas were superb! I can't believe how well you remember things. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner#post-790441 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:57:40 +0000 AJ 790441@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh thanks so much for trying on all these outfits and posting pics! I'm sorry that you are not excited by any of these options. You truely look beautiful in all of them. </p> <p>It sounds like you would rather wear pants. How about adding the black belt to #5 to hike the length of the sequin tunic up a bit? </p> <p>Luv that lace topper, but with the skirt, it reads a bit Oktoberfest. : P<br /> What would the lace topper and matching cami look like under the fuschia blazer instead of the navy silk shirt?</p> <p>I LUV that "compost" skirt! See my remix paperdoll version below. (Scarf is optional, but pin is not.) : ) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner#post-790440 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:57:27 +0000 Deborah 790440@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Suz so as not to be swayed, I haven't read other comments yet. I say hands down #2. This looks well put together and I feel it is very reflective of your style. My second choice would be #3/4/5. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner#post-790430 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:41:48 +0000 Lisa 790430@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I vote for 1, 2 and 6. These are all good lucks so it's really just personal preference at this point. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner#post-790420 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:12:50 +0000 unfrumped 790420@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I would want to look like you look in 4 or some version. I'm not as good at knowing what you should look like for a style direction. I just think it's very flattering. you look enlivened, comfortable but put together,sort of elegant- hip. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner#post-790402 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:54:32 +0000 RunnerChick 790402@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Suz, I like 3/4 the best. You look smashing in all of them, but I think the sequined top and skirt just feel perfectly festive but not OTT. I also like #5. Did you decide? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner#post-790399 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:51:27 +0000 Suz 790399@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Chocolate would be grand, JR!! </p> <p>And please know my daughter joking about the leaf bag...or compost. Or half joking, anyway. I really don't mind her honest critiques...or anybody else's for that matter. It's all fun and often I'm just trying things out...it's okay if they don't work. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner#post-790396 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:46:32 +0000 JR 790396@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>#2, #6, and #1. More or less in that order. I'm not a fan of the button-downs under a lace or sequined top. It feels like a jarring contrast to me more than an artful juxtaposition.</p> <p>What a horrible thing for your daughter to say about that lovely skirt. Kids! But I admit I don't like that blouse with it.</p> <p>I like 2 the best, first because it looks good on you (but then, so did a lot of the others) and because you look artsy, a little RATE, and festive all at the same time, which really seems to suit your description of the venue and event.</p> <p>And that is all I have to say about that. Do you want a choc o late? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner#post-790395 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:40:43 +0000 Suz 790395@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yeah....then again, I might not wear those boots. Boy, who would have thought a ten minute reading could lead to such angst. My husband is laughing his head off at me. </p> <p>Actually, I'm laughing my head off, too. I know that it will be fine, whatever I wear. </p> <p>Truth is, I don't get many evenings out in the big city so I want to wear something I feel great in. And I don't feel 100% great in any of these, sad to say. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner#post-790391 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:38:22 +0000 Jules 790391@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You read fast I edited my post because I decided the skirt isn't conservative worn with those boots and tights. Where are you going after? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-me-pick-my-outfit-reading-and-dinner#post-790390 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:37:43 +0000 Suz 790390@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Jules...you are a great sleuth! </p> <p>You're right about the skirt and the venue...also, I might be cold in the skirt, another consideration since I am going to be taking the streetcar later....but then again, the restaurant I'm going to will be fancier than the reading venue and I need to look okay for both settings. OY VEY.......maybe I should do a quick change in the no doubt grotty bathroom? </p>