Category Archives: Fashion

i kind of love everything about this outfit. the skirt is new, so that’s fun. and the deep blue just makes me happy. and obviously i’ve already admitted to my infatuation with the tied shirt trend. and those nude pumps always make me feel fabulous.

confessions of a white girl: the pumps aren’t technically the shoe color “nude.” nope, they are actually the shoe color “bone,” because my extreme whiteness was too much for “nude.” had to tone it down to “bone” to get that streamlined leg look.

but i think people would get weirded out if i referred to them as my “bone pumps.” although come to think of it, my ” nude pumps” isn’t much better. so what do i call them???

oh, the fashion conundrums.

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tied shirt: forever 21

tank top: old navy

skirt: target

shoes: payless

it’s cyber monday, and i gave into the madness. except it’s not really madness, it’s actually brilliance!

see, i love clothes, and i LOVE great deals…

but i kind of hate waking up early, especially to do battle with crazy people and stand in line for hours. (ie…i’m not a black friday kind of girl. i mean, i still went shopping on black friday, but i went at like 2pm. i’m so not hardcore.)

anyways, back to the brilliance of cyber monday: i just shopped on my lunch break at work. i didn’t have to wake up early. i didn’t have to battle any psycho shoppers. AND i got some fantabulous deals.

here’s the skinny…ASOS.com was already having a 25% off sale.

but then i scooped up an extra 20% off code (HAPPYBLACKFRIDAY) from cup of jo!

cha-ching!

my original total was $117.26. admittedly still a great deal for so many pretty things.

but then cyber monday came along and made my day even more awesome…and the grand total came out to 93.81!! for ALLL the things below!!

and bonus…ASOS offers free returns/exchanges…so it’s like a win-win-win situation. or something.

oh, and one more thing. i kind of love that all of the items i bought could be worn together. (well, you know, one pair of tights at a time, but you get my drift.) makes me feel like the money was even more worth it. 93 buckaroos for a complete outfit?

yep, sure, i’ll take it!

cyber monday…you’ve got yourself a new fan.

ASOS SONITA T-bar Shoes

ASOS Button Through Dress with Pintucks

ASOS Leopard Print Skinny Belt

ASOS 80 Denier Tobacco Tights

ASOS 80 Denier Winter White Opaque Tights

ASOS Carved Rose & Flower Ring 

so, i wore this outfit to work. yep, hot pink tights to my corporate 9-5. hey, a girl’s gotta do something to spice up the everyday mundane, right??

and, funny thing…the day after i wore this outfit and snapped these pics, my friend clara (who doesn’t work with me and hadn’t seen this outfit) messaged me that she almost bought hot pink tights but had no idea how to style them “without looking like punky brewster.” that’s a legit problem right there!

so, here’s how you do it. or shall i say, here’s how i did it.

i had purchased the tights over the summer (best time to get a good deal) and i was dying to wear them…but like clara, i was a little unsure of how to rock the pink without looking too cray-cray for work. so, i decided if i was going to have a leg party going on (the redheaded stepchild of the arm party perhaps?), i should probably go for neutral and professional with the rest of the outfit. so, white and gray are pretty neutrals and look sweet with pink, and a blazer makes any outfit more “professional.” (or so i tell myself…although lauren conrad does a great job rocking the casual blazer, so maybe we i need to stereotyping blazers. blazers have feelings too.)

to sum up (hehe pun intended):

neutrals + blazer + hot pink tights = cure for the common clothes

now that i’ve figured out a good little equation for working bright tights into my 9-5 wardrobe, i want more colors! i do have a kickin’ teal color and a yellow pair already, but i.want.MORE!

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jacket: LOFT via Sandy’s Savvy Chic Resale Boutique

dress: Target

tights: Old Navy

shoes: Zappos.com

so, fridays at my full-time job are casual day, which generally means jeans. i am not a huge fan of jeans, but i usually wear them on friday anyway. i have yet to find any other kind of casual pants that fit me quite right, and i wear skirts pretty much every other day of the week…so yeah. i give in to the jeans on fridays. but, since jeans are just jeans, i have to put my own little wendy spin on them by rolling the cuffs. which really just began because i am short and jeans are long and i’m too lazy to get them tailored. but then i decided i kind of love it, so the cuffed jeans are here to stay.

uhhh, yeah. that’s all i’ve got to say at the moment. what?? wendy is lacking for words?? that never happens. except right now. because i’m tired. and probably going to go to bed early-ish tonight, which means i should stop writing nonsense on here. but the real world is on tv, and i’m sucked into this episode already. doh.

so what else could i tell you while i sit here and rot my brain? um, i ate burrito brother’s for the first time tonight. which if you live in gainesville, you know it’s ridiculous that i have lived here the majority of my life and never eaten there. but now i have, and it was awesome, and i’m hooked.

man, i’ve got nothing of interest to say tonight. so lame-o. sorry guys.

just look at that pretty cardigan and pretend you didn’t waste your time reading this hot mess of a post.

night night. 

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cardigan: target

shirt:target

belt and ring: forever 21

jeans: white house | black market

ugh. i had this whole post all typed out and lovely, and wordpress decided to freak out and lose the whole thing. thanks, thanks for that, wordpress. and bonus…i couldn’t get it to refresh til this morning, so by that time i forgot everything i had written.

all i remember is that i was going to tell you that a guy at work told me i looked like candy when i was wearing this outfit. compliment? sure why not.

other than that, i pretty much blathered on about how this skirt was too short for work without tights and then i added tights and voila…magically work appropriate.

oh, and i think i said this outfit made me feel awesome, which always makes my day more awesomer, and in fact, i had a very successful meeting on the day i wore this outfit. so yeah. dress for success, people.

that may or may not have recapped what i wrote last night in a slightly less eloquent and certainly less witty way. sorry, guys. that’s all i got. shake your fists at wordpress for me.

kthanksbye.

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shirt: forever 21

skirt: target via sandy’s savvy chic resale boutique

tights: nine west via ross

wedges: urban outfitters