https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 21 May 2026 22:55:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-776027 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:11:50 +0000 CocoLion 776027@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Fantastic, classic, timeless, tasteful look! I think it is a way to honor Angie by copy-catting her looks. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-776009 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 05:51:13 +0000 Anonymous 776009@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>*waving at Beth Ann*</p> <p>Amiable, this is a great copycat outfit, and I know for a fact that Angie is flattered that you would want to copy her. No worries there! The blouse looks great on you. It must be *your* shade of white. The shoes peeking out are just perfect, and the earrings are plenty of accessory. </p> <p>I'm so intrigued by the Clothing Exchange. I've never heard of a church having a regularly scheduled event like that. I organized a swap for our church once, but we didn't have a special room where we could hang the clothes on racks to have a free boutique. But this sounds like they are collected in boxes or bags and then but out, rummage-sale style? Very cool!</p> <p>Most of my clothes come from Goodwill or Savers. I have learned so much on the forum and even though the selection is the same, and my small budget is the same my eye is trained on how to chose things that are more current, or even old clothes that are coming back into style, lol! Keep up your good work! Hang around Angie and these gals and your whole family will be fashion plates. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-775987 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 05:03:24 +0000 Beth Ann 775987@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is terrific! Love the shoes --- you'll find that they're very versatile. Also, since you thrift, you might check out Transconna's Shannon's recent thrifting post, along with Clearly Claire's scissor and dye happy reworkings of second hand items. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-775885 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:53:56 +0000 Aida 775885@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Agree with everyone else, this is definitely a keeper (both top and look!). I don't think the pants necessarily need belt loops, the waist detail is interesting enough to my eye. Though I do get that belts are very "in" right now :} </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-775828 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:00:54 +0000 JR 775828@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yup, the look is a keeper. It looks great as is, and an extra little touch would make it even better. :o)</p> <p>It's a very nice silhouette on you, and you wear black and white well. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-775784 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:17:49 +0000 amiable 775784@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The shoes are Clothing Exchange finds too, fwiw, from last summer. I love those things - there's lots of junk to sift through sometimes, but thanks to you all, I'm starting to develop a discerning eye. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-775777 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:59:58 +0000 rachylou 775777@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ohmigosh. The eyelet shirt was a fantastic find. Great copycat look! I can't believe you have the shoes!</p> <p>I know what you mean about white, but it's true there are many different whites and you look good in this white. I do think, for this outfit, it's important to have the earrings you're wearing - or in Angie's case, the black frames she wears.</p> <p>If you added belt loops and the belt too, that would put the dot on the sentence for sure. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-775753 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:38:33 +0000 Kiwichik 775753@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think this is the best look I have seen you post and copying Angie is definitely ok. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-775436 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:27:47 +0000 amiable 775436@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Okay, it's established that this outfit is a keeper! Thanks for the lovin on it - the lack of warmth (color wise) to it is out of my comfort zone, so I'm glad to know that it works.</p> <p>Here's my next question: Does the white work at all with my coloring? I feel like it almost might, since it's very very white (wonder how long that will last....). I've always thought I looked positively awful in white, but in the pics, I don't feel like I look really ill or anything. Can I get away with it? (maybe with some make up?) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-775427 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:19:47 +0000 Suz 775427@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Definitely one of your best outfits yet! The shoes are so fab! You did a great job with this. And no, it is not bad manners to copy Angie. We all do it all the time! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-775410 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:11:01 +0000 Jules 775410@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Those pants are really nice on you and totally worthy of belt loops. You did great with this outfit and a belt will be perfection. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-775364 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:18:19 +0000 amiable 775364@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It totally hadn't occurred to me to add belt loops. Of course! What a perfect solution. Then to find (or make) the perfect belt </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-775356 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:10:19 +0000 missvee 775356@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I LOVE this on you - it's one of your best looks so far. I think it's the shoes that really make it special. I would try a belt and if you like the look, you can always add some belt loops out of a strip of black cloth folded and stitched. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-775292 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:38:20 +0000 Sonia 775292@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I see what you mean, I failed to see the buttons at the front. My eyesight is getting so bad, need to make the effort to buy some glasses..<br /> But anyway, if come to think that maybe if you add on colour with more bangles, and differnt colours, say you got blue earrings? choose orange tones, the opposite color to blue and create more of a contrast there.. orange, light silrver, turquoise/teal and white bangles.. but not too many! only 2 more (max.) ...<br /> You got bangles that have those colours all together? or with other tones.. but keep it matching with b&amp;w (your shoes) and the blue in your earrings and existing bangle.</p> <p>Try to keep it together with the b&amp;w contrast in your shoes - and balance contrast at bottom and top part of your outfit?<br /> See how that looks.. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-775282 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:31:26 +0000 amiable 775282@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you for your kindness!</p> <p>The trousers don't have belt loops, so I figured wearing a belt would look weird - do you think it would work even without belt loops? I'll have to give it a try! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-775278 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:25:33 +0000 Raisin 775278@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Great job! You look beautiful! Your shoes are super fab! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-775277 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:24:16 +0000 Sonia 775277@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Great copy cat challenge!<br /> You look so smart.<br /> Maybe add a belt? Angie's focal point is her belt, that little touch that makes the rest of the outfit look so put together.<br /> Those earrings are just the right and your minimal accessories make this outfit great. :D<br /> Now that I look at it, a simple one colour belt would do it.. white or black, not to remove focus from the detail of your shirt and jewels but to make the trouser's motone look unify the textures in a demure manner.<br /> You look fab though! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-blogger-week-thursday-black-and-white-kr#post-775275 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:22:48 +0000 amiable 775275@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Full disclosure: I get almost all my clothes at "Clothing Exchange". Local churches have drop boxes for people to drop clothes they no longer want, and periodically hold open-to-the-public times for people to come get anything they choose from what was donated. At these events, they literally beg people to take more and more, so that they have less to dispose of at the end of the day (they donate their leftovers to the city Mission). We go regularly, and while most of what we find is off-season, it keeps our family of seven dressed year round.</p> <p>This week, at such an event, I came across this white eyelet shirt. I rarely wear white, because I think it makes me look mostly dead. But this one is a really bright white, which somehow seems like a redeeming factor. It reminded me of Angie's white eyelet shirt, so I decided to copycat one of her looks.</p> <p>Is copycat-ing an Angie look on Angie's forum bad manners? If so, let me know, and I'll remove the post!</p> <p>To copy her, I paired it with my black wide-leg trousers (not lengthened). It doesn't have belt loops, so I accessorized with a bangle and big earrings. Does it work? Should I keep the shirt? If I do keep it, I'll take in the waist some, so it tucks in nicer, and I don' t have to do the 'Audrey crossover'. I should probably also take the time to put on make-up if I'm going to wear white, but I didn't for these photos. </p>