https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:23:02 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-69540 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:16:42 +0000 yublocka 69540@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Kari you've done a lovely job! I adore the red shoes paired with the shorts!!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-69533 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:37:51 +0000 HannahC 69533@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Kari, you look awesome! The first outfit is my favorite, though both are absolutely delicious! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-69515 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:25:30 +0000 Kari 69515@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Jean and April, thank you, you are too sweet! </p> <p>April, your necklace sounds awesome, and I hope we will get to see you in it. I shied away from necklaces like this for a while because I thought my upper body would make them look all caddywampus, but finally decided that I would try them anyway. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-69395 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:38:59 +0000 April 69395@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Kari -- your first outfit is inspiring me to wear a long, jangly, big-loop chain necklace that I couldn't resist but seldom wear. Your photo showed me how fab such a piece can be! You look great in both outfits and you did your challenge proud! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-69280 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:11:22 +0000 greenglove 69280@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Great job Kari!! I love that teal color on you with the white jacket and the red shoes in the first outfit are spectacular!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-69206 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:16:19 +0000 Kari 69206@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you all very much!</p> <p>Hanna, you seriously made me blush. That is a huge incentive to wear my other pair today. Truth be told, I never wore walking shorts (or clamdiggers either) until the middle of last summer. I'm never 100% sure what to pair with walking shorts, but I kind of treat them the way I do my non-skinny dress pants in terms of tops that I pair with them.</p> <p>Niva, yay, so glad that this met your challenge! You really encouraged me to try something different, and I'm particularly noticing that maybe I *should* keep an eye out for voluminous tops next year. They are less foolproof than the structured tops I usually look for, but it is a different silhouette. I really appreciate the push to try something new and fun! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-69197 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:10:46 +0000 kimlee 69197@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Kari, you look great! Both outfits are fantastic!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-69192 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:20:31 +0000 Vani 69192@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Kari, WOW! LOVE the first outfit. The top looks fabulous on you and the bow detail is so cute. Love the walk shorts too. The silhouette is so fab esp with the bright red shoes!! The second outfit is just as fab, the green ruffle top, the jacket and the plaid shorts, absolute winning combination Oh, and the ear rings count as pattern too, so yay we meet the 3 pattern criterion too. I say you knocked this one right out of the park Kari!!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-69184 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:54:42 +0000 Kristen 69184@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, LOVE both looks! The plaid shorts fit wonderfully, and I love how you mixed them up with the black top and the green ruffles and jacket. Two completely different looks, and both work! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-69175 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:16:41 +0000 hanna 69175@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>beauuuutiful! you look HOT! seriously, i'm bookmarking these pictures for an immediate how-to on walking shorts. the green is absolutely divine on you. and i like the mixed patterns too - and they usually scare me! now i HAVE to try this! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-69152 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:32:20 +0000 Kari 69152@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm very glad that they worked! I just remembered that the first outfit is actually something that I wore last summer when it was really hot, but not with brightly colored shoes. Cricket, you're right - the plaid shorts are much more versatile than I ever would have thought. I think they are probably my most-used Target purchase, actually.</p> <p>Bella, Cricket, Ana, and Angie, thanks much for your feedback! (Ana, I have a thing for red shoes too - they just make me smile.)</p> <p>Niva, hope that this meets your challenge approval! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-69130 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:12:27 +0000 Angie 69130@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>And I'm giving you a KILLER rating for both. You did really well and why am I not surprised :0)</p> <p>The first outfit is my favourite. I just LOVE the top with checked shorts and the unexpected addition of the lady like modern shoe. So fab. Well done, Kari! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-69094 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:25:15 +0000 Ana 69094@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like both outfits in different ways. The green color of the top in the second outfit is so beautiful on you. The red shoes in the first outfit are great! I have a soft spot for red shoes. I definitely think you met the challenge. Great! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-69093 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:11:31 +0000 Christie 69093@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like both equally. The black top fits you really well! The walking shorts seem really versatile for mixing patterns. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-69066 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:28:07 +0000 bella 69066@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Both are really cute outfits but I like the second one better! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-69061 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:13:32 +0000 Kari 69061@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Niva, here's my attempt to meet your challenge. Sorry, I had to cheat a little - I wish I had a great banded top handy so I could just throw volume right out there! I'm realizing now how little voluminous pieces I have at all.</p> <p>So first I tried the volume/unstructured top + pattern + bright challenge: <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iFHBqlIPD1E/SiSFGp6ot4I/AAAAAAAAA6w/dGJXD4S8oLk/s1600-h/IMG_+771c.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iFHB....._+771c.jpg</a></p> <p>But I ended up wearing a sort-of three pattern combination to work.<br /> <a href="http://inkariswardrobe.blogspot.com/2009/06/ylf-challenge-pattern-mixing-or.html" rel="nofollow">http://inkariswardrobe.blogspo.....ng-or.html</a></p> <p>Does this work for you? If not, let me know and I will keep playing! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-68942 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:34:15 +0000 Vani 68942@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Kari, do let me know if any of the options seem unreasonable. I will reign in some expert help to come up with more </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-68865 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:34:18 +0000 hanna 68865@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>good luck kari! here is your list:</p> <p>1. rosebudrmm<br /> 2. april<br /> 3. shiny<br /> 4. ana<br /> 5. planetamy<br /> 6. inge<br /> 7. happylife<br /> 8. lwc</p> <p>the number generator is at <a href="http://www.random.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.random.org</a>. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-68852 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:11:37 +0000 Kari 68852@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh my, Niva, this *is* a challenge! I really appreciate the advanced notice and multiple options. This certainly stretches me, but I hope I'll be able to make one of the choices work. I'll see what I can pull together tomorrow - also accounting for the fact that Seattle is going to be unusually hot, and I'll have to cover up in my chilly office even more than usual!</p> <p>If I can't make the unstructured/voluminous top work (since I hardly own any tops that are close to voluminous), I will opt for one of the pattern mixing challenges. You're right, it's time to break out of my one-pattern-at-a-time comfort zone.</p> <p>Thanks for giving me a push to try something new and fun! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ylf-challenge-chain-niva-challenges-kari-to#post-68810 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:40:02 +0000 Vani 68810@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, to challenge Kari! I mean Kari's tried it all, and always looks fab. Scarves, belts, colors, leggings, skinnies, dresses, skirts, gladiators...phew, you name it, Kari's tried it.</p> <p>It was hard to think this one up, but Kari's amazingly organized blog helped immensely. </p> <p>So Kari here goes:</p> <p>Option 1:<br /> As you noted in your blog, there are very few outfits where you have sported volume on top or unstructured tops as such. How about you show us an outfit<br /> with either of the two along with one pattern and one bright?</p> <p>Option 2:<br /> I loved the result of your pattern mixing experiment with the Mexx dress. How about we stretch this a little further and try three patterns?</p> <p>Option 3:<br /> Two patterns and two textures?</p> <p>Please let me know if this works for you I know we're on a break on the weekend, but since it is Sunday night, I thought I'd put this out there for you. </p>