I really liked this when I put it on this morning, but now I’m not so sure. Either way, it’s Friday and soon I’ll be at happy hour. Cheers!

Happy Halloween! I dressed up for the occasion—just not in a costume. See where I got the inspiration and how I took this look out of the office tomorrow. In the meantime, hope you are doing something fun to celebrate!

casual friday, and new outfit no. 3

My office doesn’t really do casual Fridays, but if we did, and if my place of work was down with silly sweaters, this is what I would wear:

Betcha thought that dinosaur sweatshirt would never see the light of day, huh?

For night…I would not change a thing. Or, you know, put on some sweatpants to go with that sweatshirt.

Happy weekending! (Sweatpants wearing or otherwise)

new outfit dos

I don’t know if you know how much I love color blocking, but I love it. I’ll demonstrate.

For day, I paired my blouse with a pencil skirt, and added some more color with my necklace and shoes. Office ready? I think so.


For night, I clashed in a great way. Again, don’t listen to those rules that say you can’t wear red with pink, or pink with pink, or pink with orange, or what have you. Clashing can be cool. So, I switched the pencil skirt for something a little hotter and changed my bag for another with even more color. We’ve had a few unseasonably warm days, but if it’s to cool for bare legs where you are, just add some tights to this look and you’re good to go to any party the night takes you.

Have fun! Add color!

new outfit uno

Real life day and night, birthday dinner style:

This is what I really wore to work.

And this is what I really wore to a friend’s birthday dinner:

Pretty similar, just switched work pants for jeans and lost the blazer—it was warm outside! Am I the only one who wears dresses as shirts sometimes? Today, it was a shirt. Tomorrow, who knows. I also used my gray clutch, but forgot to put it in the picture, oops.

dots

I would like to thank Marc Jacobs for making polka dots cool again.

You’ve seen my blazer, here’s a skirt

Polka dots at work people. Let’s do this.

Any other patterns you thought you had to leave in your childhood? Bring them to work by making sure your shapes are classic.