https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 06 May 2026 04:37:05 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175741 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:56:47 +0000 Beth 175741@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sweet story! What's better than looking great with a minimum of effort?! Love the dress and sandals:) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175639 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:15:55 +0000 Laura 175639@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is what YLF is all about! Love what Tara said ... carpooling our way to fab fashion together. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175515 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:08:38 +0000 yublocka 175515@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I loved reading your story. Isn't it great to have some no-fuss outfits that you feel good in too? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175316 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:13:51 +0000 Katiepea 175316@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Refugee - it seems to me you have found your (style) home at last! ;-)</p> <p>I'm so super excited for you - may your summer continue to be an effortless, stylish one! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175307 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:57:35 +0000 Tanya 175307@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What a great story! Love the dress and the shoes. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175295 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:26:54 +0000 anne 175295@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That is a lovely dress and a lovely story. I can relate a bit too to the feeling of now knowing what to grab in a rush.<br /> Well done! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175269 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:51:52 +0000 Frances 175269@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Refugee, I only had a few minutes to check in on YLF at midday today from my mobile, and I happened to read your post. I can't tell you how much it cheered me up on a really awful day! I didn't see your links to the dress and sandals then, but now that I'm home and can see them, they make me even happier because they're so pretty. What a great style evolution story! To go from a shapeless t-shirt &amp; your teenage son's shorts to tossing on a pretty dress like that without even thinking about it. Amazing! Thanks for sharing this story and bringing a smile to my day. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175136 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:01:13 +0000 Sveta 175136@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thees was the feeling I can relate completely. I also feel that for the first time in AGES (if not ever) I have girl-friends I can discuss style and fashion with (even if they are all virtual :-))<br /> Such a nice image of everybody in that car - LOL. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175127 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:28:49 +0000 Theresa 175127@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Woohoo!! Isn't it a fabulous feeling to know that some simple little things can make such a huge difference!</p> <p>I bet you were smiling all day long :)</p> <p>Oh and that dress is just gorgeous!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175113 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:19:35 +0000 Sparky 175113@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Clap clap clap ~ applauding your great aha moment! Your post made me laugh, and it also summed up a lot of what I feel about YLF. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175103 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:04:03 +0000 Angie 175103@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>No wonder you felt fabulous! Gorgeous dress and sandals! Well done :0) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175101 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:59:32 +0000 marianna 175101@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wonderful. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175088 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:35:22 +0000 Refugee 175088@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Such fun, you guys are just the best. I have a feeling if you had all actually been in the car with me I never would have gotten to work today. No I have a picture of us descending on a local department store and taking over the place. Picking outfits for each other, giving opinions, getting help from each other. That would be the ultimate field trip.<br /> Angie here is what I wore<br /> This dress<br /> <a href="http://www5.jcpenney.com/jcp/X6.aspx?GrpTyp=SIZ&#038;ItemID=180e08c&#038;deptid=70656&#038;dep=WOMEN&#038;catid=71644&#038;pcat=WOMEN&#038;cat=Dresses&#038;SO=0&#038;pcatid=70656&#038;Ne=29+3+23+1023+1031+5+585+596+8+18+904+949+833&#038;N=4294953662+4294965351&#038;cattyp=RLE&#038;Nao=0&#038;PSO=0&#038;CmCatId=70656" rel="nofollow">http://www5.jcpenney.com/jcp/X.....atId=70656</a>|71644<br /> With these sandals<br /> <a href="http://www.kohls.com/kohlsStore/landingpages/candies_new/shoes/juniors/PRD~580716/Candies+Padova+Thong+Sandals.jsp" rel="nofollow">http://www.kohls.com/kohlsStor.....andals.jsp</a><br /> Some fat little gold hoop earrings, my wedding ring and a little gold and silver knot ring. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175051 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:17:52 +0000 Christie 175051@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yippee! Your post is so sweet and encouraging. You've made major changes in your dress.</p> <p>I also consider the advice here similar to that of girlfriends or sisters (which I don't have). I do have friends, but we just don't shop or discuss fashion together. Some don't care about it, some do and of those who do ... we just don't make the time to shop together for various reasons (probably due to differences in budgets! LOL). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175050 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:12:58 +0000 tarzy 175050@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yay! And congrats! We're all carpooling together to fab fashion! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175044 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:55:29 +0000 Vani 175044@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Doesn't it feel great? My proud YLF moment was when DH said to me a few weeks ago "these days you look good no matter how little time you have to throw on something" The image of everyone in the car with you gave me the giggles and goosebumps. A girl can wish </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175043 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:53:01 +0000 JennyK (NC) 175043@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you for sharing that with us! What a wonderful evolution. And to me, the really wonderful thing about it is that it wasn't extra effort to look nice. Once you get some basics down pat it doesn't have to be a big deal to feel put-together even with a last minute grab-and-go outfit. Yay!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175030 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:16:38 +0000 Lori 175030@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Am I the only sap that got teary-eyed from this post. What a great feeling! Yes, we all deserve to look and feel fab every day! </p> <p>I love that this forum is all about women supporting women, even in the smallest ways, we are empowering one another to make ourselves a priority in our own lives. We do count -- husbands, significant others, and kids are all very important, but so are we!!!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-175009 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:19:41 +0000 AJ 175009@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Woo-hoo!! That is a great epiphany and I'm so glad you shared it with us! </p> <p>I luv that image of all of us crammed into your car with you. There definitely would have been joyous giggles and way too much talking at once! : ) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-174993 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:44:01 +0000 Louise 174993@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>*happy clapping* It is truly a wonderful experience, mine was when I stopped thinking I've got a wardrobe full of clothes and nothing to wear x </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-174986 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:06:10 +0000 Debbie 174986@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love your aha moment. Love the proper mortification saying. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-174984 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:03:33 +0000 Angie 174984@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's wonderful! How nice of you to share your moment and credit YLF. What were you wearing? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-174978 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:52:17 +0000 Queen Mum 174978@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>happy dance here! doesn't it feel great to feel fab... even on little effort? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-174976 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:50:21 +0000 Michelle 174976@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This post is awesome, but not quite as great as your experience this morning!! So glad you had one of those moments we all love, and I bet you looked great! Enjoy your stylish vibe all day long! And you are to be congratulated for conquering those weather conditions, which really do sound nightmarish. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-174975 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:49:38 +0000 Scarlet 174975@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Excellent work, Refugee! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-174973 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:48:28 +0000 taylor 174973@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What a wonderful moment.!!!<br /> I love "proper mortification"...that is great!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-174956 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:16:23 +0000 Lisa 174956@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Now that was a fab experience! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-aha-moment#post-174955 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:14:37 +0000 Refugee 174955@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The weather here has been awful. Our current weather pattern is thunderstorms every night ending in the morning. Then everything clears off and the sun comes out. The temperature jumps up into the upper 80s and lower 90s. And because the ground is absolutely saturated it becomes ghastly humid by lunch time. Rainforest humid. So the weather is my first consideration when facing my closet in the morning.<br /> I was running a bit behind this morning so I quickly grabbed one of my day dresses, a pair of strappy sandals, popped in a pair of earrings, put on my rings and was out the door.<br /> Just as I was getting in my car, it hit me. An amazing thing had just happened. The weather is awful, I was in a hurry, I didn’t really even think about what I was putting on, and I LOOKED NICE. Maybe not fancy or killer but, defintely nice. You have no idea how huge this is for me.<br /> If this had been last summer with the same scenario, I would have been sporting a very different look. Even though I work in an office for a large corporation, the dress code is basically ‘you can’t come to work naked.’ And I abided by the dress code. I would have been wearing a shapeless t-shirt, flip-flops, and boys shorts (as in shorts that once belonged to one of my teenaged sons). And, yes, I just felt your collective shudder. According to my mother, what you are feeling right now is called proper mortification.<br /> So in my car on my way to work I thought of you, my YLF girlfriends. I got to have this because of you. Every post, every comment, every photo is helping me on my fashion journey. Thanks so much for helping me learn that I deserve to be on the road of feelingfabeveryday.<br /> So I enjoyed my drive to work with a picture in my head of all of us crammed into my little car celebrating this victory. Thanks again everyone. You rock! </p>