Showing posts with label stripes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stripes. Show all posts

Monday, March 19, 2012

Seasonally challenged


Spring, is that you?
Yes, I'm going though something (what?) but I think it's fair to blame most of it on the weather, yeah? The sun is my mood ring in the sky. She tells me what to feel, but she's clearing going through some crazy mid-30s thing, too. Mood swinging right along with me. Dude, so not helping.

Winter, at least in these parts, was flaccid. If not for two well-timed trips out of the city, my Cougar boots would have seen zero action this season. And that's really no fun at all. I see no practical use for celibacy. I'm not a skier, normally. Nor have I laced skates in recent memory. But suddenly, I wanted these things in my life. Badly. Because i couldn't have them, natch. You want my attention: play hard to get. (No don't.)


(Trading up my cougars for these puppies. But I don't deserve it yet //Keds for Madewell)

Spring just isn't quite so delicious unless it comes on the heels of 3 months of suffering bus-stop waits and near-frostbite due to ill-chosen footwear. This is why I love Canada, usually. Renewal and reward happen naturally four times a year (without asymmetric haircuts or accent walls).

So, YEAH I feel a little ripped off. A bit undeserving of spring. Anticlimax. And you know how I hate straight lines - I thrive on ups and downs and up-up-UPS! Stagnancy is my hell. And well, fall bled into "winter" and suddenly became spring-ish without doing much work at all. Meh.

OK, I'm not really complaining. I see an opportunity for melodrama, I take it. C'mon, you know me by now. In reality, it's having positive effects. It's gorge out this week and even though it doesn't smell like spring or involve any melting whatsoever, it's nice. My soul is getting a little colour. A few extra minutes of vitamin-D absorption and I suddenly feel a renewed sense of motivation and positive energy? Lawd, I'm SO easy.

Honest? I'm in the mood for spring. And love! And change! And bikes! And drinking in the park! And really, whatever it may bring in these globally-warmed times. 

I need this. I'm trading up my drab winter blues for happier spring hues - cobalt  and azure and periwinke, oh MY! Peppered with polka-dots and shots of orangey-red, how can I NOT feel uplifted? Kay, so I'm not allowed to shop right now, but it doesn't hurt to fill up dot-com shopping carts and hover a shaky hand over my credit card before I close the browser, right?

Enjoy some well-seasoned picks for spring (that you'll probably never actually see me wearing). Help a sister out, will ya?


Bling. Mendoza Earrings $635 // House of Harlow 1960 Antler Ring $98

Let's picnic then make out in the sand. 
J Crew Factory stripe pocket shirt // Baggu tote $35

Head scarves. I'll be such a babe in these. Also I may just start a hot-chick bike gang with this girl, because she's on the scarf program too. 
(Elle France / Karen Walker)

Oh hi boys, just goin' to the farmers market.
Pantora chevron dress on ETSY - SOLD while writing this post (frownsy face!) // Baggu tote


 Jenfashion circle skirt on ETSY $69
Yes, 3rd Baggu bag in this post. But don't you just love these?! There suuuper cheap, too. $35 // Faryl Robin Pump $79

Kathryn Amberleigh T-Strap Pump $139 // Stripe/floral scarf $30


(I feel better already.)



Tuesday, January 11, 2011

dots + stripes + sunshine


Little Orphan Fashion. That's me. Not allowed to spend a dime on clothes these days on account of being depressingly broke. But a girl can dream, right?

Maybe he reads
Maybe she sews
Maybe she's made me a closet of clothes

- Little Orphan Annie

But, well, I'm pretty sure that I was not adopted. And there is likely no Daddy Warbucks in my future.

I do, however, have a pretty good lead on a job for which I will hopefully be interviewing this week (met with the recruiter yesterday!). Soooo, if all goes well, new job = new work wardrobe. Obviously. Things are looking up.

In the meantime, in an effort to quash winter blues and get away from all of the grey in my life, I did a little online "shopping". 

I noticed, the other day, that I seem to be subconsciously stocking my closet with bold stripes and dots. I guess I hadn't meant to, but there's quite the theme happening. Lucky for me, they're EVERYWHERE for spring. Just received my J Crew catalog (stop sending them! it's snail mail torture!) and I am coveting many lovely things. While browsing, I also seemed quite taken with anything sunny - bright oranges and creamy yellows - I guess I'm rebelling against winter. I love fluffy-snowfall winters, but I dislike slushy-grey-dirty-snow winters and Toronto seems to get the latter far more often.

My would-be (should-be) Spring wardrobe, inspired by dots and stripes and sun!


 Alice + Olivia via polyvore.com

 Chlo? tulip skirt

 Dafna Dafna wellies

 Ravishing Mad denim via internationalplayground.com



 BCBC Max Azria one-pocket top




 Barney's New York umbrella

Matiko wedges

[ All images c/o polyvore.com except where noted. ]