WIW: 3 Outfits - YouLookFab Forum

Here are three outfits I wore over the past week.

#1 for groceries and errands on a rainy day. Striped tee, black jeans, burgundy pleather jacket, black booties. The "magic hat" is excellent for keeping rain off of my glasses. Accessorized with a reusable shopping tote, but I also carried a black clutch, not shown.

#2 for work-at-home and a post office run. This black and white abstract polka dot skirt has been in and out of my holding zone since last summer. I love the weight of it, the shape, and the length, it goes with a lot of my wardrobe, and I often get compliments on it, but it somehow just doesn't feel "right" to me. Could be the heavy polyester knit fabric. Could be the pattern. I can't seem to wrap my head around what's wrong, so I keep pulling it out and trying again.

#3 New eShakti dress that I posted a better photo of when I bought it a few days ago. Team Wear here! This one was taken in the "wild" at the high school where I'm volunteering. Wore for a coffee shop meeting this morning and library work this afternoon. And for my kiddo's birthday! He turns 15 today!

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Dar

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Great looks! I love the dress, very flattering on you. Happy Birthday to your son!

Ginger

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That is one excellent rainy-day-errand outfit. Those boots will never not be amazing to me. Of course I love the dress still! (I'm in a want-all-the-shirtdresses mood and they're out of anything but navy and olive. :p )

I like the shirt/skirt outfit, too, but I know what you mean about problematic pieces. Is it maybe the length? It's shorter than the dress skirt. Or the pattern. It's a pretty dense dot, which skews the whole outfit into "bold pattern piece" without having the color interest that you like so much. Black with small/widely space dots might have a different effect.

Joy

These all look creative and show lots of personality. I especially like the pattern of the tote in #1 to pull everything together. The skirt in #2 looks like it would be breezy for summer. The plaid dress ...well, I have a weakness for anything plaid. That one looks like "your" colors.

Anonymous

I like them all, but #2 is my favorite. I like the mix if dots on the bottom and graphic on the top.
I'm wondering if it's the pattern that's the problem as dots seem quite on the preppy side of things, and does require some thought as to how to boho it up a bit. Anyway, I'd say it's a really successful outfit.

Aida

#1 and #3 are super! Go Magic Hat The skirt in #2 doesn't quite jive with Bookish Boho (to me it's both the print and the scale of the print). That said, I could see dotty shorts working. It looks like it fits nicely though, so if you added items that were more strongly "Bookish" or "Boho" then I think you could incorporate it more seamlessly. So, for example, with the leather jacket in #1 and the tall boots in #3. Or with a striped black/white tee and oxfords.

Firecracker (Sharan)

You look so cool in all of these. I love your style. My favorite is #1--I like the dark lipstick you're wearing with it, too. It gives a little extra polish to your chic, nonchalant look.

Oh, and I think I need a magic hat. I have a few coats without hoods now, and I find myself at a loss for keeping the rain off my glasses! I don't always want to mess with an umbrella, though I'm getting a little better about that.

Momo

You have great style! All the outfits are really great. 1 is my fav though

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I vote Killer x3.

Cerinda

Smashing. That has to be the best shopping bag ever!

Jaime

The hat outfit blew me away! Love the dress with boots too!

Brooklyn

Love no 1 and 3. I am not really drawn to dot patterns - they seem a bit too girlie/whimsical for my style. Is that the issue with you? Love the floral tote in No 1 (Yeah, I am girlie enough to love floral). It caught my eye straight away. And I like the formula you have got going of wearing a striped tee with your burgundy jacket. Simple but chic. I have a striped tee I bought last year that I have never worn. I always reach for something else. Not sure why. You have inspired me to try it with my plum coloured jacket. I think I probably would have just paired it with a black jacket. My bad.

L'Abeille

Have you tried wearing the skirt in #2 with the striped top in #1? That would be my take, although I might use a blazer or scarf to mask some of the stripes if it seemed too much. Does that skew too preppy /classic?

Meredith

Looks great! I love #1. I miss the feeling of a rainy day in your neck of the woods. They were so rare that they were like gifts. I was always completely unproductive at work when it rained because I was dreaming abound curling up with coffee and a book.

Jenn

Brooklyn and Ginger, I think you both hit on reasons why this skirt isn't working. Both "bold pattern piece" and "girlie" resonated as things that feel stylistically wrong for me. Every time I wear this skirt, it makes me sad and nostalgic for a black linen a-line skirt I used to own. Someday, I'll find another one. And Brooklyn, I hear you on somehow being okay with the floral but not the dots. The difference between pretty and girlish, perhaps?

Joy, I have a weakness for plaid, too! I feel like it's a go-anywhere, do-anything pattern - punk, preppy, vintage. It does it all.

smittie - I really like the combination of a graphic tee with a patterned bottom too, and I'm going to keep experimenting with it, because there has to be a way to make it feel really "me." Plus, I have way too many graphic tees to just let them languish in a drawer.

Thank you, Angie! I have realized recently that, given my lifestyle, I really only need to dress to go out 3-4 days a week, and the other days I just need comfortable, sturdy, not-too-precious clothing for house cleaning and studio work. Three killer outfits a week is my new gold standard!

Firecracker - Thank you for noticing the lipstick! I am trying to be more bold with my lip color, because I really do love the way it looks. On the hat and rain: I took it with me for a quick Seattle trip in December and commented about it keeping the rain off my glasses to my husband. He just gave me a look and said, "Well, yeah, that's the point of hat brims." It had honestly never occurred to me before that a hat brim might be functional and it rains so seldom here in Colorado, I'd never noticed before!

Meredith - So true about rainy days feeling like a gift here. My son was disappointed that I picked him up from school that day, because he was excited about the prospect of walking home in the drizzle!

L'Abeille and Aida - I will try those combinations before giving up on the skirt.

Also, thank you to Cerinda, shevia, Dar, and Momo!

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