https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818 Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:42:40 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818#post-22135 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:02:09 +0000 shell 22135@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>just wanted to chime in that you look lovely as usual. i love the teal scarf and the green shirt dress the most. your color combos are always fabulous </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818#post-22124 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:14:56 +0000 Tanya 22124@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you very much Naf &#38; Becs!</p> <p>Becs, good luck with your grad school. Here are the answers to your questions:</p> <p>1. I do not carry books to school anymore, I haven't been for the past couple of years, although I did in the first 3 or so years of grad school. I am long done with classes and have past my doctoral qualification exams, so for the last 3 years it has pretty much been research/lab work for me all the time. Anyway, even then I carried them in my tote, I personally seriously dislike backpacks. I like my totes big, so that I can stuff a lot of things in there: a bottle of water, books if needed, basic necessities, dance shoes, gym clothes etc. My current philosophy on the bag is big, cute and inexpensive, since they go through a lot of abuse, get thrown on dirty floors and so on. I find them usually at discount places such as Filene's basement, TJ Maxx, Marshalls, or chain stores like Express and ATL. I do plan to start getting nice ones once I graduate and get a real job though.</p> <p>2. I do a lot of online shopping, I guess I buy around 70% of my stuff online. I am typically at the lab at least 12 hours everyday other then Saturday, and a lot of my experiments have waiting periods ranging anywhere between half an hour to couple of hours. In the first half of the day I try to read scientific literature and such during those waiting periods, but then in the second half my brain is usually fried so I browse all of sorts of clothing sites. I look for interesting new arrivals, or stuff that go on sale, or whatever. I go to real stores once or rarely twice a month ( usually on Saturday) and either look for specific things I already saw online to try on, or try to go to stores such as H&#38;M that do not show things online. I try on tons of things, so I can buy them later online when they go on sale or I have a coupon, and also to get a feel of my size in particular brand or whether it generally fits me or not. I usually ship stuff to my lab, so I try it on immediately in the ladies room and if it doesn't work it gets shipped immediately back without me actually having to drag it home, although I do that sometimes if I am not sure to take photos and get opinions from YLF members.</p> <p>Phew, I was starting to write my own " War and Piece" I hope this gives you some ideas, and please do not hesitate to ask if you have more questions. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818#post-22123 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:18:31 +0000 becs 22123@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Tanya,</p> <p>I love all the looks this week and these are exactly the type of outfits I am trying to put together for grad school every day. I just started school on Monday and am starting to wear some of my new outfits that I purchased this summer (with YLF inspiration and your tips!). </p> <p>I do have 2 questions for you though...</p> <p>1. Do you use your totes for school/ carrying books and where do you get them? They are so cute! (you are still in grad school right?) I ask because I want to stop carrying a back pack and start carrying something cuter for school.</p> <p>2. You have all these amazing outfits, but when do you find the time to shop when you are busy with school? I often find it hard to fit in shopping time because of homework and lots of studying. Any tips on that one?</p> <p>Thanks and again great looks this week!!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818#post-21865 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:45:10 +0000 naf 21865@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Tanya, your pics are always inspiring to me. You have a great eye for color and texture, do you paint by any chance?</p> <p>All the outfits are amazing and have surprisingly delightful elements. My favorite is the green military dress outfit, something I would totally wear and might just have to copy. I also have the teal BR top and I would never imagine cream with it, but it looks beautiful on you </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818#post-21843 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:39:21 +0000 Lena 21843@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This makes total sense, Tanya. I'm also becoming a big fan of yellow accessories. Both useful and cheerful! </p> <p>I'm also on the lookout for a grey bag. I think it may even quench my attraction to teal because I find both of these colors very calming and nice to look at. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818#post-21823 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:55:08 +0000 Tanya 21823@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you very much Nicole and Lenna! I am still blushing.</p> <p>Lenna, funny that you ask about the blue bag. I currently do not have any, but I do have a teal one on my shopping list for the fall ( as well as purple one). Now I probably would not wear it with more than one other blue/teal item - max 2 of items in the same color per outfit as Angie says. I am planning to have majority of my colors for fall be in teals/purples/greys ( of course with some cream,black and so on). I would wear a teal bag with the outfit that had purple and grey and vice versa. I also find yellow to be a nice unexpected accent color for both of these, so I'd wear my yellow bag with an outfit that has both teal and purple in it. For example, I have a purple velvet blazer that I plan to wear over this BR teal top later in the fall, with dark jeans and grey shoes, and I will be wearing my yellow patent tote with that. I hope this makes some sense to you. Of course, I could be completely color blind in which case you should completely ignore everything I have just written here </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818#post-21816 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:42:52 +0000 Lena 21816@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It's so hard to pick a favorite, I like them all! I especially like the colors in Saturday (floral blouse). I'm also living vicariously through your shirt dress outfits (Monday and Sunday) You look terrific!</p> <p>Tanya, I noticed we wear similar color palettes. Do you own any blue/teal/green bags? And if you do, do you find them useful? There's a teal/turquoise bag I'm attracted to, and I'm wondering whether it would compete and clash with all the blues and greens I have in my wardrobe. For now I'm sticking with white and yellow and red. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818#post-21796 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:12:45 +0000 Nicole 21796@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love the soft yellow cardi...I like the colors you chose to layer under it, and the multiple layers .... sweet.</p> <p>I also liked the shirt dress outfit...</p> <p>I actually loved all your outfits...you always look so perfectly put together! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818#post-21793 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:05:23 +0000 Dani 21793@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Tanya, you look super, as always. I loved the color combination of the purple and grey on Wednesday. I liked the shirt dress over your white jeans too. Looks great. I like the new photo location too, much easier to see details of your outfits </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818#post-21792 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:04:00 +0000 Tanya 21792@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you all so much! You are so sweet to me.</p> <p>Angie, your words are making me blush. Thank you so much!</p> <p>Sihaya, I am really getting into necklaces. I have quite a fe on my fall shopping lists.</p> <p>Shiny, feel free to steal any ides you want, I have certainly stolen a few from you in the past. Yes, I feel exactly as you are describing. With this weather I find myself gravitating towards fall colors/transition items. I am still trying to get more wear out of my summery stuff, but the weather is not cooperating. I wish we had few more weeks of warmer summer weather. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818#post-21773 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:06:26 +0000 shiny 21773@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>P.s.... my gut reaction when I first looked at your week-in-review was: "This is exactly how you stylishly move into fall...even when it's still technically summer out." Angie recently blogged about this. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818#post-21772 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:04:37 +0000 shiny 21772@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Pretty pretty pretty... and I am in agreement over the floral ruffle blouse. Awesome! I imagine it will work into the fall. </p> <p>The teal BR blouse! I may have to steal your ideas... and I really love the purple cardi - gorgeous color. Love the long necklace too! (Can't remember which outfit that was - I got sidetracked right as I started this response and had to write out a grocery list and reboot laundry). </p> <p>Are you finding you're moving more and more into fall colors even though it's finally sunny here? Me too - I want to wear a few summer items I haven't had enough use out of, yet it's starting to feel more and more like fall here, isn't it? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818#post-21765 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:44:11 +0000 Sihaya 21765@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Awesome Tanya - more inspiration. I love how you match up your necklaces and the variety of styles, lengths, and colors. I love the blue ruffle blouse too as well as the shirt dress on you. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818#post-21741 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:55:56 +0000 Angie 21741@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Woohoo! More stylish Tanya. You look fab, fab, fab, fab, fabby! It’s such a pleasure for me to view *thank you*</p> <p>Saturday, Monday and Sunday’s outfits are my favourites. You look sensational in the floral ruffle blouse! Picture perfect darling. A splendid variety of outfits for the week. Looking good EVERY day is harder than looking good a few days a week. You look beautiful everyday so you get a special weekly score of 10! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818#post-21740 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:45:57 +0000 Tanya 21740@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks Maya! I am glad that the photos are clearer.</p> <p>The black Express skinnies are two years old, so they have no model name that I know of. AT pearls- the length can be regulated, and I actually did wear them shorter - choker length. I took them off when I got home and them put them back on later for the photo, and just clasped them randomly </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818#post-21737 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:39:47 +0000 Maya 21737@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Another successful week for you Tanya. Everything looks great, but Saturday was my favorite. I love the top, and the pictures are a lot clearer. </p> <p>I love the black Express skinnies. Are they the Mia skinnies or another fit? I was thinking of getting those to tuck into boots.</p> <p>Have you tried wearing the AT pearls a little bit shorter? Like choker length? I like them best that way. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/tanya-week-of-818#post-21731 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:15:29 +0000 Tanya 21731@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Here are my outfits for this week. There was no theme this time. I finally managed to find a better spot in the apartment for mirror photos, which you can hopefully see in the Saturday &#38; Sunday photos.</p> <p><a href="http://s300.photobucket.com/albums/nn19/dancing_starr/Week_of_August%2018/" rel="nofollow">http://s300.photobucket.com/al.....gust%2018/</a> </p>