Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Fixed Boots and a Found Dress

03/23/11

Since it continues to be cold and gross here, I can get away with wearing another short (for me) dress since I can still wear tights.  I have no idea what I'm going to do once it's warm enough for me to wear bare legs again - I don't quite have the confidence to wear shorter lengths then.  Maybe I'll get over it.

03/23/11

I just dug through old posts, and it seems it's been a full month since these boots have seen the light of day!  The last time I wore them, I broke a heel!  I wish I had a cool story about how it happened, but it was while I was standing around socializing with my co-workers.  And nearly falling over mid-conversation because your heel has snapped is totally not embarrassing.  Fortunately there's a good cobbler nearby, so they're good as new.  They fixed them within a couple of days, but it took me a while to pick them up, and I just haven't been inspired to boot up.

03/23/11

This dress is another of many rarely-worn purchases from last winter that's just been hanging around the back of my closet.  I usually wear this with a wide black belt to break the print up a little, but I wasn't feeling it today.

03/22/11

Dress & Tights: Target
Cardigan: Loft
Necklace: New York & Company
Boots: Eddie Bauer

24 comments:

  1. I love that dress! So, I have your dresses...I need to play around with styling them a bit. But, say I style successfully -- do you want me to try to send you something else? I still think it'd be fun to do a swap and I've got a couple of knit dresses that are probably pretty flexible.

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  2. Another amazing dress! The print is marvelous, and the green adds a dash of spring.
    It's still cold here, too.

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  3. I keep meaning to reply to you about that - sure, if you have flexible knits, we can try. I definitely want to do a dress swap!

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  4. Cool. I'll send something out this weekend. Something red!

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  5. This is a great spring time outfit for a shitty Chi-town day. And I'm glad you got your boots fixed. Hopefully, they'll fair better than my last pair :)

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  6. Oooh, this dress is fantastic. And I love it with the green. Also, the mini FR's new harness is bright blue. I think I'm unconsciously trying to make him a little Jude.

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  7. Ooh, red? I'll find a way to squeeze myself into that!

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  8. Aw, so mini-FR is doing a Jude copy cat? He'd be so flattered!

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  9. I think I just need to be more careful about leaning back on my heels, which I tend to do a lot in these boots.

    Random question, do you live in the Chicago area too?

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  10. It's getting even colder here - we have snow in the forecast tonight, and it'll get back into the 20's tomorrow. Yuck!

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  11. Ooooh, the print on that dress is fantastic!

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  12. I think that dress is very cool, and would be amazing in the summer, so i vote to get over that fear!

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  13. I really like that dress, so I vote for wearing it in the summer.

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  14. It's not too bad when I'm standing up, but it feels obscenely short when I'm sitting down!

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  15. Love the pattern on the dress. You are finding the best pieces in your closet!
    Also, yeay for fixin' the boot!

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  16. that dress is awesome!! i love the bold black lines on it. and i totally know what you mean about the benefit of tights in the winter. i thought it was warm enough to go bare-legged w/ a little dress last week, took one look in the mirror, and was like WOAH time to put those babies back on, haha.

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  17. I can't even imagine what kind of stuff I'll find when I really start cleaning to get ready to move!

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  18. Ha! I totally have that day once the warm weather is here to stay too. Several times. Seriously, what will we do without tights?

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  19. lol. That heel breaking story is fabulous!

    Also fabulous? This dress. I love a good, graphic print and this looks amazing.

    Gracey

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  20. ah that's the best thing about tights, you can wear slightly shorter dresses!

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  21. I LOVE the pattern on that dress. It's so cool. I think it's a dress that you can wear with or without a belt. I love it without the belt here and the green accents are perfect.

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  22. uhm... that dress is GORGEOUS! and i think you would look fantabulous bare-legged (not to sound creepy) but i can imagine you rocking that dress with some kitten heels!

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  23. That's not too creepy ;) I've been working on my legs all winter, so bare legs and short skirts may not be as terrifying as I think.

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  24. I really, really like this dress!

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