WIW Thurs. + new items in process of styling...

Hi! Me AGAIN! What can I say? I'm on a mission from god to stylify myself. And I'm on a budget. And my closet still feels a little drafty and cavernous. I now have about 56 clothing items, because a few old higher necked Ts simultaneously had to leave. I'm also up to about 26 pairs of shoes because shoes'n' clothes go together like pimps'n'prostitutes and I already had a well established shoe habit. Plus, as of this post I have officially developed a taste for bags. I finally get it. They are like an adorably oversized SHOE designed to hold ones financial bits, eyeglasses and lipgloss. And what's not to like about that? Thank you Angie, for the handbag article. I now know I need a structured bag. Previously I would have thought unstructured hobo: but that's unfortunately too much like my personality! Me and my endemic hobo nature need a nice structured bag to whip us into shape. So I bought a smaller, more structured bag. Love it!

Photo 1, WIW today:
Black ATLoft layering T.
Black cashmere LandsEnd cardi.
Khaki bootcut slacks, newly thrifted.
Black patent Dansko clogs, also newly thrifted.
Mixed link and rhinestone ATLoft chain.
New handbag... details in subsequent photos...

Gallery of all my newest clothes with purchase details.

Please let me know what you guys think. L

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15 years ago

MsMary

Veteran

ZOMG you are FAB!!! I am ALL OVER all of it! Love all the pieces, SO WITH YOU on the handbag thing, LOVE the thrifting and discounting, and it's all just too fab for words.

Now I have to go sit down and fan myself...

Debbie

Love that handbag!! Everything else too! But as a fellow bag lady the bag is wonderful!

Ornella

(website)

What a fab round of outfits.
You are so funny - I don't think I'll look at bags or shoes with the same eyes again after the comment that bags are "like an oversized SHOE ".

lyn*

;0! My favorites are #4 and #8! The camel coat in #4 looks so warm, stylish and elegant! And the skirt in #8 has such a fun pattern - and my fashion magazines are all telling me that these types of tribal patterns are totally in!

Marley

Oh my Goodness - are you ever a FAST learner! You just look so beautiful in all of these outfits - and I am so impressed with you thrifting skills! I need to take lessons from you, I think. I just get overwhelmed whenever I walk into a thrift store and usually just turn right back around and walk out! (But then, this thread is about you NOT me, right?) Ok - so back to you - I think my favorites are 2, 5, 7 & 8 - so feminine - and you have definitely got the neck "thing" figured out. Also, love your shoes in all of these! AND - welcome to the handbag club - believe me, you've opened yourself up to a brand new world! Thanks for posting!

Aida

Crap.. that bag-to-oversized-shoe analogy makes way too much sense to me and I now have an overwhelming urge to seriously increase my bag collection!

I'm with Marley, my dear you are a QUICK study! You've gotten some really great pieces here. I like the chambray tunic, skinny cargos, all shoes, and all bags best! Those bell bottoms look nice and flowy, I want to see them with the hem just barely sweeping the floor

Queen Mum

I love everything! I say you get an A+ for your latest shopping adventures!

thimblelina

Thank you so much ladies... Having a real bummer of a day here. (our single income comes from my husbands job as an NPS historian... waiting for the shutdown verdict and seething at the rhetoric that no back wages will be paid... need I say more?) You have all individually been so kind, so warm, so patient and so very very helpful these past weeks.

Aida: you are like a sharpshooter on all things PPL... Do you think you could make your instinct into a little iPhone app for that? I'd buy!

Wait till you see today's outfit. I'm fully pi$$Ed off and taking no prisoners... Later ladies. Thank you again.

crwilson

Wow - I am so impressed with all of your outfits, but I especially like the skinny cargo outfit. I am even more impressed that you found all (or at least most) of it thrifting.

I'm not sure I have the patience to learn how to write something that runs on Apples I must say that PPL is an obsession of mine (even before coming to YLF), probably from being short and making my #1 goal in dressing-effects be to lengthen my legs.

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