not bad but not great May 15, 2008

Have you ever found yourself saying that about a outfit? Maybe it’s something that you have on or that you previously wore.  This has happened to me the past two days.  The past two days I have not been satisifed with my outfits. Let’s begin with Tuesday’s outfit I wore a black skirt with very subtle green pinstripes- Its one of my favorite skirts and I got it a while ago from BR with this skirt I wore a green shirt from FCUK and black fishnets and black heels.  Now I’ve worn this combination before but for some reason I just wasn’t satisfied with it on Tuesday.  Not to mention  we had an offsite meeting at work and we had to go to Sherman Oaks where we were met with about 200 of our other coworers and I couldn’t help but thinking I wish I had on something else- not a good spot to be in. I wish I had on my Monday outfit – burgundy shirt, black pants, black heels- it looks really cute on me

So this brings us to Wed. I was rushing this morning! Also being that I promised not to wear certain pants that I am so over this leaves me with one pair or work pants my black slacks.  Being that I wore them Mon.  I was not wearing them today.  So I decided to wear a fairly new skirt I got from HM with a old black shirt in the front it’s all black and on the back it has a colorful.  The shirt is actually cute I’ve just had it forever.  I wore this outfit with my black heels.  Now this outfit was not bad but it was not great. It felt okay to me.  I’ve made promises to myself not to go out with such mediocracy but how do you get passed it.  Especially when you vowed not to wear other stuff  you have just for the sake of wearing it.  The problem with deciding only to wear your best stuff is that you end up wearing the same things over and over again.  Which after a while gets pretty annoying.  Then I also find myself in the dilemma of should I or shouldn’t I wear some of my really cute dresses on the bus and to work. Hmmmm… yet if I don’t rotate these items into play Im stuck in the same cycle of clothes. Having a not bad but not great outfit is so not ok.  So I must find a solution to this dilemma!

As I reread my writings a couple of things stood out 1. I wear my black heels a lot and I am so happy I have them they look great with anything so everyone must have a black pair of heels. 2. I noticed that a lot of things I said I wore I’ve had for a super long time! Maybe its time to let them go or definetely add to them..

I wish I had a definete answer to this but at the time I don’t I now it takes time to build up your wardrobe and love everything you have. So I have to keep working on my closet!

worth the wait May 13, 2008

So I’ve been having my heart set on some grey skinny jeans.  Up until recently I have been looking for the right pair.  About a week ago I went to the Alicia Keys concert and I had decided I wanted to wear grey skinny jeans.  Now one of my favorite stores got in some new jeans she had yellow, purple, white and black. I told her I really had my heart set on some grey jeans. She said she would be getting some in, in a couple of days.  So that was music to my ears. At this time I had a couple of weeks before the concert so I wasn’t worried.  I tried on the jeans in yellow, and they fit really good.  I call them the unforgiving jeans. 

 I left the store expecting in a couple of days to have my grey jeans a couple of days turned in to a week and then the next thing I new it was the weekend before the concert and she still didn’t have the grey jeans she did however have a great shirt that would go great with the grey jeans. I of course bought the shirt initially I felt that could be my outfit for the concert but how could it be my outfit without actually having the complete outfit.  She said the jeans would come probably Mon at the latest Tuesday I was really bombed because the concert was Monday and there was no way I could go the whole weekend without knowing what I was going to wear.  So I decided on another outfit. It ended up that those jeans did not come in the store until this past Friday. Almost a whole week after the concert and about 2 weeks after they were suppose to come. 

She said so many of her customers had been calling and waiting for those jeans. So of course she had put me a pair oh hold.  I went over right after work she handed me my pair of grey skinny jeans-she said you have to come out and show us how they look.  I said okay.  Can you say HOT! Those grey jeans are so HOT! I love them I wore them Saturday cause I couldn’t wait.  Though they didn’t make there debut for the concert it was okay because they were so worth the wait.

Its said that everyone needs to have a color pair of jeans. One of the colors that seems to be popular is purple believe it or not.  However, I think I’ve fallen for the grey maybe you will too!

 

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I love my… May 2, 2008

So I never leave the house in the morning with out my oliver peoples glasses.  I really love them they are like brown with some pink in them and what I also love is that the inside of them is lighter so the color compliments my skin tone. I remember when I first got them a couple of years ago I was so nervous about them because they were so big! Bigger than any glasses I’ve had.  I thought my hair had to be out when I wear them but now I wear them when my hair is out, in a ponytail, in a scarf whatever it doesn’t matter I rock my glasses.  I remember when I  was still getting use to them and I was going to Europe I had some Gucci glasses Id been wearing but they had this gold nose piece that kept coming off.  But I ad just got them fixed before my trip. So I didnt pack my OP’s.So when I stopped in NY before heading to Europe  I remember telling my friend that I didnt bring them and I was asking her if she thought I should of  and she was like what dude you gotta take your OP’s thats such a European look so she came to my rescue and overnighted me them they came right on time before I left.  I have to tell you that was the best thing ever cause I only took those two glasses with me and I had got my Gucci ones fixed for about the 3rd time. But would you believe that the lil’ piece came off again I remember I was in Paris shopping and I went into this shoe store I caught a glance of my self in the mirror and I noticed the piece fell off I was so psst  because those glasses were not cheap to keep on losing a piece.  Anyway of course I had to bench those glasses after that.  Fortunately I had my OP’s and the remainder of my European trip I was rocking those. I guess thats when we truly bonded- so thnx to my friend who overnighted my OP’s.

So yesterday Im on the bus and this guy is trying to talk to me and of course I have on my big glasses you can kinda see my eyes but my glasses are big so they do take up a lot of my face -lol! Anyway, he was  like you have a pretty smile I was like thanks… anyway a lil’ later he asked me if I could take off my big hollywood glasses so he could see my eyes. He’s like my grandma says you  can tell a lot by a person through there eyes. So first of all I’m thinking hmm why should I take off my glasses! But I found myself replying I love my big glasses! and that I do- don’t ask me why but I did raise them for a hot second so he could see my eyes and hes like oh yeah your pretty- Im thinking fool I could’ve told you that with the glasses on- lol! However its true you never really know whats behind a big pair of glasses that take up a lot of your face.  But big glasses are to me a must have! I love my big glasses and I want to get another pair!

tucked May 2, 2008

I have a couple of shirts that I like to wear tucked in.  Yet, at the same time when you tuck in a shirt you don’t want it to be all in, you want a lil’ out.  How do you gage how much you leave in and out?  Sometimes I’ll tuck my shirts in and then I will pull it out but sometimes it would feel like to much of my shirt was out- and that it made me look bulky. Then I remembered I was at one of my favorite stores a while go and she had on a really cute white shirt and I was asking her if she had it in the store but she was all out.  I said it looks really good on you and I told her I like the way you have it tucked.  She said you know what I do I tuck it all the way in, then she raises her arms up  straight in the air and then just enough of the shirt comes out.  So I know this sounds funny but it really works – I have been doing this and I always feel just the right amount of my shirt comes out.  So the next time you wear a shirt and you wanna tuck it in. Tuck it all the way in- then raise your arms to the sky and you’ll see that just the right amount will give so you are comfortable- and of course you always can adjust it still but I find this step a lot easier than tucking it all the way in and then pulling the right amount out.

Here is something else I’ve been wondering what do we think of guys who tuck there shirts in I’m not talking about dress shirts you wear with suits I mean like casual shirts. Is there a time when I guy should tuck that shirt in or leave it out???