School begins in a week, which means my luxurious lifestyle as a graduate student will once again resume. With the beginning of classes means a few things:
1. "Back to School" shopping! (Which always exists, whether I'm in school or not)
2. The need to acquire parts for a "professional" wardrobe for interviewing/internship purposes.
3. Buying Basics
Part One: "Back to School" shopping
means developing and refining my wardrobe so it is versatile, stylish, comfortable, and well put together. And since I haven't bought any shoes since my May trip out to Moab, Utah, I'm feeling the desire to splurge a bit.
Here are a few of my "Back to School" pieces I look forward to buying:
The Canon Powershot SD1000. I have a beautiful, wonderful Digital Rebel, but find that it's bulk can be inconvenient, particularly when carrying around a bag of textbooks. So I'm looking in to a smaller, more compact camera, that will still provide me with high quality images. With this, I won't feel so damned with missed photo opportunities! (And as an amateur photographer, there have been too many of those.)
This one is more of a make, but I'm really curious to start wearing bloomers with certain outfits. With this seasons trapeze dresses, I think a neutral pair of bloomers (like nude or grey), much like is popular in EGL/Lolita styles, would be great. In the warmer months, I'd love to pair them with these flesh-colored flats by Irregular Choice. In the cooler autumn and winter months, they'd be cute with textured, chunky tights, booties, and a yummy, warm sweater dress. Best of all, the pairings would be super comfortable! I wonder how many odd looks I'd get for an outfit like this, gauging on the reaction of a male friend.
One of my signature pieces, women's blouses. Always short-sleeved, with a fitted waist, but never average. I've picked up one this season from Target's Libertine collection (striped, with a bow at the neck), and anticipate picking up the silk one (provided it doesn't sell out as the grey one has!). I love that I can wear these with jeans and a belt for a casual look, or pair them with skirts, heels, tights, and more. They're incredibly versatile, and help me in creating a professional wardrobe (post coming soon!).
The shoes!
Fluevog's Sienna Bootie
Jeffrey Campbell's Betty 2
John Fluevog's Jade (in peacock, which has sold out on his website. Which means, sadly, paying a lot more through Zappos... *sigh*)
Steve Madden's Loubiton knock-off, the Chap
If I could just go buy more for the hell of it, these three pairs of Betsey Johnson's would also come home with me: James, Jeannie, & Aggie.
My shoe wishlist goes on for days. How I'm going to narrow it down to a few pairs to buy is a bit baffling.Labels: changing of the season, F/W Fashion, oh-my-god-shoes
3 Comments:
I like the outfit idea with the bloomers, you've managed to make them "workable" as it were for everyday wear, athough I'm sure they would still raise some eyebrows! I have been planning to make some for a long time but never gotten around to it, although I even downloaded a pattern to knit some. I did see a really cute pair on Etsy (although I warn you, finding bloomers for adults on that site takes a long time!) in material printed with turquoise stars, but alas, they wouldn't go with my predominantly purple wardrobe.
August 19, 2007 10:58 PM
Lady Julianne, thank you for your kind words of inspiration! It means a lot that you think I've managed to work them in to a wearable outfit. As for thinkign turquoise stars won't go with your purple wardrobe, I say pish posh! I think turquoise would be the perfect accent color for purple.
xoxo
August 20, 2007 11:53 AM
oh i love how bloomers look and i would wear them too if my legs weren't as fat as tree trunks. ugh.
anyway check out the ricoh gx digital as well, while you're at it. my friend has one and it takes amazing pictures.
i'm going back to school too! (eep) but i've been so busy since i got to new york, i haven't had time to go shopping, although my mail box is brimming with new info on sample sales and patricia field. help!!
August 22, 2007 1:57 PM
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