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YLF Challenge Chain: Lisa Challenges K

Lisa

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It was great fun reviewing your posts and congratulations on your engagement and upcoming wedding. Feel free to pick one, two or all of the challenges below. I hope you have fun and uncover some new gems for your style and preferences while stretching the use of your wardrobe along the way.

Part One-Going Healthy

Challenge-Wedding planning can be very stressful and working out is a good way to burn off stress. Please create an outfit that you use for running/walking, while wearing your fitbit.

Bonus-Remix one piece of your workout outfit, into a running around for weekend errands outfit.

Reflection-What would you need to change with your workout capsule, so that the pieces remix into a weekend/errand running capsule (less prints, more prints, different colors, etc)?

Part Two-Rehearsal Dinner Remix

Challenge-Now that you have your rehearsal dinner dress, it's time to make this piece earn it's place in your closet. Please remix the dress for work.

Bonus-Let's make this dress work overtime, and remix it for weekends.

Reflection-Do you typically re-purpose your special occasion dresses? If not, why not? If yes, for what use (work, weekends, vacation, all of the above?)

Part Three-Grey Cardigan Workhorse

Challenge-In one of your threads you mentioned struggling to style your grey cardigan, which you hoped would be a workhorse. I also noticed that you typically pair cardigans with skirts and dresses. Please style your cardigan into an outfit combination that pairs it with a color you have not done before, and it must include trousers or jeans.

Bonus-I notice your cardigans are typically worn as a topper (ie over another top), are you comfortable creating an outfit with the cardigan buttoned up, so it is the top all by itself?

Reflection-Do you still prefer a cardigan as a topper over skirts and dresses best?

Part Four-Signature Red

Your red sneakers, red loafers and red trousers are such happy pieces and look like a lovely signature color for you. Thinking of Angie's post about casual ensembles with sneakers, please remix your red sneakers into 3 casual looks.

Bonus-I notice your outfit posts have the red pieces paired with blue. Remix the red trousers with a neutral color that is not blue (black, white, brown, tan, beige, navy, etc). Now remix it with a color that is not a neutral.

Reflection-Do you still prefer red and blue paired together best?

Overall Reflection

After completing this challenge, did you find any new outfit combinations that you think you will wear?

This thread is part of the series: YLF Challenge Chain (Spring 2014)
http://youlookfab.com/welookfa.....here-we-go

Previous challenge:SarahTheWhite challenges Lisa

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Latest reply was from Alassë

Joy

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Oh, Lisa, that is a great challenge and nicely personalized for K. I look forward to her outfits.

Kristin L

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Wow. What a great challenge! Thank Lisa. I should be able to post what I've come up with tomorrow afternoon.

deb

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This is a very good challenge, Lisa.

Ledonna N.

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I cannot wait to see the creative outfits.

froggiebecky

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Great challenge! As another red lover, I can't wait to see how it's remixed with oner colours.

Suz

(website)

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Fabulous challenge, Lisa!!! Love this.

shedev

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Nice challenge.

Alassë

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What a great, comprehensive challenge, Lisa!

Kristin L

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Thanks again for the great
challenge Lisa! Since I like pushing
myself, I’m going to try each part. So, without further ado, Part 1.

Part One-Going Healthy

I would call this one of my normal
exercise outfits during the summer. I just recently broke down and bought a
couple of pairs of shorts and they have been awesome. And as a fun side note, I wear my fitbit everyday.

Pic 1: Top – Adidas, shorts – Old
Navy, shoes –Ascics.

Remix – I could myself see wearing
this outfit to run to the grocery store. To be perfectly honest, I’m not sure
how often I would wear something like this. It feels a little too sporty for
me. I think I’ll keep working on this one to see if I can come up with another
interpretation of it. I’m not too sure what I would need to make this work in a
weekend or errand running capsule. Maybe if I added more yoga-esque tops, that
may make it a bit less sporty and more my speed.

Pic 2: Top – Adidas, shorts – Old
Navy, sandals - Chacos

Part Two-Rehearsal Dinner
Remix

While I’m going to wait and wear this dress out for the first
time at the rehearsal dinner (I don’t want to risk ruining it before then),
I’ve already been wondering how I’ll incorporate this into my work wardrobe. I
can see this as more of spring/summer dress because it’s fairly lightweight.
For now, I’m pairing if with a ¾ sleeve because I’m always cold in my office.

Pic 3: Cardigan – J. Crew Outlet, Dress – Modlcoth, Pumps –
Clarks

Remix – I haven’t been as great with repurposing special
occasion clothes in the past because I was always worried about messing it up
and then needing it again. I’m working on not saving my nice clothes for “just
in case” scenarios. I could see wearing this to a girls evening or to a nice
dinner. I feel like the flats help make it a little less formal.

Pic 4: Cardigan – J. Crew, Dress – Modcloth, Flats - Clarks

Part Three-Grey Cardigan
Workhorse

Ack! Pair it with pants!

Ok, for this, I’m thinking more of
an early-mid fall outfit that would be either a casual Friday or a nicer
weekend outfit. I remember when I was trying to figure out why the gray
cardigan wasn’t working, Angie pointed out that the outfit I liked with it with
had a dark, saturated top. So, thinking about it like that, I went for a darker
top and who doesn’t like a bit of foil? I think I have a latent Magpie gene.

Pic 5: Cardigan – J. Crew Outlet,
Top – Banana Republic Outlet, Jeans - Gap

This is the one remix that really
isn’t for me. I’m not comfortable wearing a cardigan buttoned up because I feel
like it brings too much attention to my belly (I know it’s all in my head, but
my confidence isn’t there yet). Once I get my confidence up, I’ll give this one
a shot.

I think I still prefer my cardigans
with skirts and dresses best, but that’s more because I wear dresses and skirts
to work normally. Once the weather starts cooling off, I’ll start pulling out
my cardigans to wear with my pants. I’m also going to work on pairing more of
my outfits with jackets once the wear cools down.

Part Four-Signature Red

When I started putting this part of the challenge together, I
blended the challenge along with the bonus in my mind. So, instead of four
outfits, I’m trying to use pic 7 for the bonus. I think I fall back to wearing
red and blue together because blue is a neutral to me. I’m not a very loud
dresser, so if I’m wearing my red shoes (or pants), I want those to be the star
of the show. And most of my pants are jeans. I love Angie's outfits, but I didn't feel like her outfits were working for me today. But I'm sure they'll work tomorrow. I also felt like the pic 6 has a sportier vibe, but I think the skirt makes it work for me.

Pic 6: Top – Gap, Skirt – Tommy Hilfiger

Pic 7: Top – Elizabeth and Clarke, Jeans - Gap

Pic 8: Top – Ann Taylor Loft (I promise the stripes are
black), Pants – Old Navy

I didn’t realize that I paired my red with blue so much. I’ve
been trying to rely less on black and I guess I’ve transferred everything I did
with black to blue.

Overall Reflection

I really like the Signature Red outfits and the Gray Cardigan
Workhorse outfit. I really feel like this challenge has made me think about why
I chose the colors and pieces that I wear. Thanks again Lisa and April!

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Lisa

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Excellent job on the challenge K!

#1-I adore your running sneakers. I think they would work very well with a t and jeans for the grocery store. And we are fitbit buddies, I also have one and I was shocked at how little I moved throughout the day when I first started to wear it.

#2-The rehearsal dinner dress looks lovely with both color cardigans for work. If you have a denim jacket it may also work to dress down the look for weekends with a flat sandal too.

#3-You have a lovely figure and the short cardigan and jeans show it off nicely! And the flats make this a very 'parisian' look to my eye. And I really like the grey and red paired together.

#4-The red sneakers are a great item and they are super fun with the skirt. I also like them with the jeans, but the skirt is my favorite look here, because it's more unexpected and goes oh so well. I bet they would be fun paired with your grey cardigan.

Thanks for tackling this challenge. I hope it was fun and I look forward to more WIWs of your's with your signature red.

Suz

(website)

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Oooh! I'm with Lisa - those running sneakers are super fab. They could certainly go to the grocery store with jeans. (I am a Fitbit wearer, also, BTW. Walk FTW!)

The rehearsal party dress is going to be such fun to wear. I do think flats dress it down some. Love Lisa's suggestion for a denim jacket with it, also.

Love the red sneakers so much and all the striped outfits! You look terrific -- no need for figure worries, for sure!

Love the sneakers especially with the skirt.

Dee

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Wow, great job with the challenge K!

Your rehearsal dress outfits (either one) are my favorite. Such a fun print! Flats definitely dress it down as would a denim jacket as Lisa suggested.

The grey cardigan also works really well here and would work well with any dark or jeweled tone top. I love grey and for years I had a similar cardigan that was my singular neutral and a major workhorse.

Also, loved your pants looks throughout!

Angie

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Fabulous. You nailed the challenge.

Kristin L

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Thank you everyone! For the first challenge, I was trying to push myself a little further than just keeping my shoes the same. But I'm glad to know that running shoes look great.

April

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K, I'm officially proclaiming you the hardest-working challenge-fulfiller we've had yet! That was a monumental challenge and I'm so impressed that you took on every part.

Lisa, epic on both ends of your link in the chain!

So K, it's now your turn to challenge the next person, and your challenge will be going to #24, which is NDMom. Whenever you're ready, you know what to do...

Best of luck to everyone!

amiable

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Great job K! Way to go on the challenge - and those red sneakers are to die for!

Alassë

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Great job, and wow, does that dress pop with the purple cardigan!