https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:59:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me/page/2#post-1206237 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 01:27:51 +0000 Sarah A 1206237@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hmm, well I have been considering this and have come and gone from the thread several times and must choose to go with *benched* ... I can make a case for any of the above offerings!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me/page/2#post-1206229 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 01:17:06 +0000 Transcona Shannon 1206229@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow! We have votes for all three!</p> <p>Deborah - you're so cute! I knew you were gonna go with the vest:)</p> <p>Angie - you make an excellent point about the vest being for high summer. And at this rate, that won't likely be until July/august.</p> <p>I've also thought about the yellow blazer and as much as I love the style I know that my current yellow blazer didn't get as much wear as I wanted as I found the color limiting with my wardrobe. I also find Zara to be long on petite me.</p> <p>So this takes me to the Boden blazer...gorgeous! And Inge's positive comments about how pleased she is with hers is a definite plus. But that also makes me wonder if the style works on beautiful tall Inge, will it work on five foot me? I can definitely see the style and colors working for me though. And then I look for a white vest closer to summer.</p> <p>Still thinking.. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me/page/2#post-1206201 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:41:52 +0000 Anonymous 1206201@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Blazer!! I want it also </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me/page/2#post-1206200 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:39:59 +0000 Angie 1206200@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Stripe jacket.&nbsp;</p> <p>Vest is high Summer.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me/page/2#post-1206174 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:15:56 +0000 Aida 1206174@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hm I vote yellow blazer to add to your spring jacket capsule, and also the white vest to add to your summer topper capsule 0:} A thought though, would you be happier with a white vest that was closer either to proper moto styling OR to proper sleeveless blazer styling? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me/page/2#post-1206082 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:22:15 +0000 Aziraphale 1206082@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>White moto vest, because it is RAD. The other two things are merely nice. </p> <p>(Well, I have a poison eye for puff sleeves, but I'm aware of that being an&nbsp;irrational aversion --&nbsp;and on your figure, I admit&nbsp;it would be flattering). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me/page/2#post-1206080 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:18:20 +0000 Deborah 1206080@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Shannon I don't need to even consider... it would be the vest for me, for you!&nbsp; I have a few sleeveless jackets/vests and I find they are just the perfect '3rd peice'.&nbsp; I will often get dressed, look in the mirror, think "this needs 'something' and pop on a vest and that's the outfit pulled together to perfection.&nbsp; I think the vest will be a fabulous addition to your wardrobe.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me/page/2#post-1205971 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:10:02 +0000 Mia 1205971@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Vest if I were you. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205962 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:52:49 +0000 Neel 1205962@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Vest ... But its hard to style as you have rightly guessed. Proportions are hard to work with IMO. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205961 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:51:49 +0000 gryffin 1205961@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Shannon - all ver pretty.&nbsp; You wear vests to well and they are all season pieces.&nbsp; You seem to gave a pretty broad jacket collection going and I've love to see the vest over the new EF dress!!&nbsp; Just me!!&nbsp; I think it would just add that little extra uumph!!&nbsp; But that's my bias.&nbsp; Now go forth and buy something gorgeous, gorgeous!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205959 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:47:45 +0000 Vicki 1205959@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laughing at Angie's tutelage; she's given you some homework, Shannon. &nbsp;:) </p> <p>I was going to vote for the Boden striped blazer, because I love it and think it would would well for you and then I saw your photos, so I'm going to change my vote to the vest.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205957 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:46:13 +0000 rachylou 1205957@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>If you have a white leather moto jacket, I think that's kinda too similar... On the other hand now that I know you have both yellow and striped blazers (sorry, got a memory like a sieve), the vest would be different.</p> <p>On the third hand, I find the two new blazers very different from the existing ones (still a girl after all! hehe). </p> <p>I'm going to stick with the yellow blazer with puff shoulder sleeves. I like its sharpness and the way it adds the merest dash of frilliness back into your wardrobe. Just shakes things up a bit.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205953 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:37:37 +0000 Transcona Shannon 1205953@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rabbit - isn't it annoying when you take time to post a reply and then by the time you hit "submit", all the questions you asked have been answered???</p> <p>Rachy - what? no bumblee look for you??? I actually don't have a white moto. I do have a white leather jacket though. Still too similar?</p> <p>Peri - another yellow hater I see! It's a strong color, that's for sure.</p> <p>Still thinking...and very much enjoying the discussion </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205874 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:28:01 +0000 Peri 1205874@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Okay, until I saw your pictures I was all over the striped jacket. I could so see you that, so many different ways. Now looking at the pictures...maybe that is because I do see you in it? Not the same, but pretty similar. </p> <p>And I can't vote yellow because I just don't like yellow! It looks great on you, but on principle I never vote yellow.</p> <p>So...white vest. Just because it gives you more variety from what you already own. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205873 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:28:01 +0000 rachylou 1205873@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The yellow, if you promise not to wear it with a black pencil skirt. </p> <p>This is my reasoning: The stripes are ever so slightly narrow, ever so slightly timid - even though they are also "loud," producing a lot of visual vibration... which may not be the hottest thing for work.</p> <p>The vest, at the risk of sounding like a t.v. sitcom husband - don't you have something like that already? Lol. If you have a white moto, I don't see that the vest shape would provide much of a draw inside your closet. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205868 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:17:51 +0000 rabbit 1205868@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't yet have a handle on all your wardrobe options, but from what I've seen, #1 could work well and be very versatile assuming you don't have another sleeveless white vest. &nbsp;It could add edge and modernity to a lot of outfits assuming the fit and fall worked well in practice. </p> <p>For number 2, have you tried a yellow that color close to your face? &nbsp;As in a scarf or something? &nbsp;That's my only pause, I think our flattering colors overlap a bit and I'm not sure I can pull off yellow on my top half. &nbsp;I think the shape of the jacket could be good though.</p> <p>For number 3, very nice jacket, but don't you already have a black/white striped one? &nbsp;Or is this a replacement if that one finds a new home? &nbsp;Or am I just confused? &nbsp;:) </p> <p></p> <p>ETA: Hmm... when I posted this there was only one comment in the thread (computer weirdness), so ignore, I think my questions have all been answered by other comments :).</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205863 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:08:41 +0000 Liz A. 1205863@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I prefer the striped blazer that you already have from a looks perspective.&nbsp; The yellow Zara is more 2014 than the one you have.&nbsp; And the white vest is a whole different animal.&nbsp; Perhaps try yellow and white and go from there. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205853 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:58:59 +0000 Transcona Shannon 1205853@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love you all! This is soooooo much fun seeing what you would choose and why.</p> <p>Of course on petite, high waisted me, there is the fit issue to consider. The yellow Zara blazer is not petite and I know the two blouses I had ordered from them several months ago had to be sent back because they were just too long in the body for me. </p> <p>And the moto vest - well, if the waist isn't in the right spot for me the style may not work. Although unzipped that may not be an issue and that is most likely the way I would wear it.</p> <p>The Boden jacket is a cropped, boxier jacket. But cropped on others may be closer to a regular length on me.</p> <p>Hmmm.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205828 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:34:02 +0000 catgirl 1205828@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'd get the vest, because you have a similar item with both jackets.&nbsp; And because I'm biased and want to see the vest on you. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205812 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:20:07 +0000 Thistle 1205812@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I really like the yellow jacket. Now, please understand, I just don't care for vests, so I struck that one off immediately.</p> <p>While I like the striped Boden blazer, I feel like the one you have is very similar and not as much of a&nbsp;style upgrade as the Zara. Zara quality.&nbsp; . . .well, that is always debateable. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205808 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:17:05 +0000 JAileen 1205808@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The striped jacket. Why? Because I'm having a visceral reaction to it, I think! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205806 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:15:34 +0000 Astrid 1205806@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Okay, now I'm voting the striped blazer, again. I'm all for quality upgrades and I think the Boden blazer is great quality. Probably better than the Zara blazer, at least if the Zara quality is the same as here... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205804 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:12:56 +0000 AviaMariah 1205804@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I vote the yellow blazer. &nbsp;Just because the color looks good on you and and it is such a bright, fun, summery color. &nbsp;The puffed sleeves is also a style that will look good on you. &nbsp;But that may just be my bias because I really want that yellow blazer but am pretty sure the color will look horrid on me. &nbsp;My second choice for you would be the vest. &nbsp;I love me a striped jacket but it just seems like they are every where right now which takes some of the fun out of it for me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205800 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:09:59 +0000 Transcona Shannon 1205800@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Excellent points Elizabeth - if I were to go with either the yellow blazer or the striped blazer, they would replace the item I currently have. I'd consider it an "upgrade" and the older version would be sent off to the thrift store.</p> <p>Celia - you made a very strong argument in favor of the yellow blazer. I also wonder about the layering of the vest a bit for the work environment. Trickier to "get it right", you know? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205798 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:05:27 +0000 Elizabeth P 1205798@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>If you already have a yellow with piping, do you really need another yellow?&nbsp; They may be very different, but I know there is a limit to how frequently I'd want to be wearing such a colour.&nbsp; </p> <p>And if the striped is a replacement for the one you have, then you can get it guilt free.&nbsp; If it's not... do you need two?&nbsp; Again, not the same, but similar enough that you might not double the wear with two, you might just wear them less frequently.&nbsp; Not as good an investment, imho.&nbsp; </p> <p>Which leaves the vest.&nbsp; :)</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205791 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:57:57 +0000 Suz 1205791@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have no answer, I am merely drooling at your spring blazer capsule!&nbsp;</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205782 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:44:20 +0000 Transcona Shannon 1205782@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Astrid - my striped blazer is similar to the Boden one but is not well made and doesn't have the fab details of the Boden with the pockets. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205774 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:39:06 +0000 Astrid 1205774@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Is the black and white striped knit too similar to the striped Boden blazer? I can't remember. Looking at this list I vote for the vest. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205769 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:35:54 +0000 Transcona Shannon 1205769@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ha ha Angie - you've BUSTED me with the unfair comparison Of course you are correct - they all provide something different.</p> <p>My spring/summer blazer capsule includes:</p> <p>- White (the exact same blazer as my black suit blazer)<br />- Black<br />- INC navy lace moto<br />- J Crew pink tweed Chanel-esque<br />- Black and white strip knit<br />- Navy Lanai<br />- Blue/grey floral CM moto<br />- Yellow with white piping Gap Academy blazer<br />- Pastel blazer from pastel blue suit</p> <p>I have other blazers (good grief...I have several don't I?) but they are too hot for warmer weather. In fact, that is an issue I have with the yellow Gap blazer. It is quite thick and very warm.&nbsp; However, since I have not worked in my new office location during the summer yet I have no idea what the A/C will be like.</p> <p>If (and it is still a big IF) I choose one of the three items above, it obviously would be great to work with as many things in my wardrobe as possible from pencil skirts, dresses, trousers, and jeans.</p> <p>Alright ladies - maybe this will give you more information.</p> <p></p> <p>ETA: pics of my current striped blazer and yellow blazer included for comparison sake. My blazer capsule does not include my white denim, blue denim and denim with leather sleeved jackets. Or my leather jackets either. Hmmm.....do you think I have an unnatural jacket addiction - lol?</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/if-you-were-me#post-1205762 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:30:23 +0000 rae 1205762@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You have lots of jackets, so I vote vest! </p>