Opaque

 Another day, and some more thoughts about tights.  I think I say this every time I post about this dress, but I love this dress.  It's simple, it's easy, it has polka dots!  But it is also incredibly short.  To be anywhere near office appropriate, it has to be worn with opaque tights.  If I did not wear dark colored or opaque tights with this dress it would be way to much thigh for the office.  Yes, even paired with flats. This is one of the things I begrudgingly like about tights - they can make skirts and dresses that would otherwise be too short to wear to the office suddenly office appropriate. So today I went for my wine colored tights.  I also added one of my mother's vintage necklaces (that my father made way back in the 70s) to have fun with the neckline and play around with my different accessory options with this dress.

Dress - Express Tights - The Gap Shoes - Manolo's via Maribel  Necklace - Hand Made vintage aand borrowed

About Tights and Me

In my office I am known for my bright tight collection.  The funny thing is for most of my life I refused to wear tights.  Luckily I was born and raised in Northern California so this was not such a problem.  To this day I hate how tights ride down, bunch up, or get twisted.  Honestly I would much rather not wear them than wear them.  Having said this, I luckily joined the work force when funky brightly colored tights came into fashion.  So even though I have come to accept the fact of tights in my life and most days I don't mind wearing them anymore.  I do like the extra component that give many of my outfits for the most part, but I stand by my earlier statement that I wish I didn't have to wear them.  The awesome red pair that I wore today were a birthday gift from one of my besties.  Although they are a bold red, I still dare to wear them to the office from time to time.  Today I paired them with some of my favorite neutrals and a scarf that I borrowed from my mother!

Tights - Gifted Dress - Target  Sweater - The Gap Shoes - Manolo Blahnik via Maribel Scarf - Borrowed from my Marm

Blue and Batik

 On Monday I wanted to play with the volume of one of my favorite cashmere sweaters so I paired it with a high waisted full skirt of my mothers.  I really liked how pronounced my waist was in this outfit and how the volume of the skirt and sweater played off of each other.  

 Sweater - J. Crew via Maribel Skirt - BR borrowed from my mother Tights - The Gap  Shoes - Manolo Blaohniks via Maribel

 This morning nothing went right.  I didn't like any of my clothes, I ran late, I couldn't find my keys, I spilled my coffee . . . Luckily, even though this outfit wasn't what I was planning, I did really like it.  I find this batik shirt kind of hard to wear because of its shape and volume but I love its color and pattern.  I should definitely wear it more often.

Shirt - The Gap  Sweater - Gifted August Silk via Nordstrom's Rack Pants - J. Crew Shoes - Nine West

Work Days

Although I usually favor skirts and dresses at the office, sometimes I do love a good pair of work pants.  This slouchy work pants are some of my favorites.  I love their length and shape, although I do have trouble finding tops that are the right volume for them.  Because the pants are rather voluminous, I always try to balance out the tops.  On Tuesday to avoid being too boring with my black, white, and blue outfit, I broke out one of my favorite scarves.  I love this zebra scarf.  It was a gift several years ago and it has been worn many a time since.

sweater and pants - The Gap  Shirt - BR Shoes - J. Crew Scarf - Gifted

 I had a different dress in mind today for this sweater and tights, but when I put it on, it was too dark.  Then I looked over and saw my black and white dress and knew it would look great with the combo.  I love the way the wine colored tights look with the oatmeal colored cardigan (remember last week how I said I wear it a lot, I really do!), and the black and white dress.  I like how the tights and dress really accented the silk dress, hopefully without any of it being too over the top.

Dress - BR via Maribel Cardigan - The Gap Tights - Hue via Anthro  Shoes - Manolo Blahnik via Maribel

Black and Blue

 I am still trying to get back into my day to day life after my awesome two week vacation.  Its still hard to get used to getting up and going back to work, but I do love the excuse to dress up and wear my fun office clothes.  I love this silk print top because its really comfortable and easy to wear but still interesting and fun for the office. 

Top - BR via Maribel Skirt - BR Tights - Anne Klein Shoes - Manolo Blahnik via Maribel Cardigan - Nordstrom, gifted

Unprepared

This was not the outfit I had planned for today!  I still had polka dots on the mind, but I woke up this morning and realized the tights I wanted to wear were dirty and therefore had to come up with something else.  This dress is always a good back up!  It's a stand alone piece.  But today I wanted to see if I could wear it differently then I have previously during the life of this blog!  So I broke out a scarf that I received from my brother and future sister in law for Christmaskah!  This killed two birds with one stone.  I got to wear the awesome scarf and I covered up the neckline that makes this dress so distinctive and change the emphasis of the outfit.

 I love this dress but I don't think these pictures are great.  I took them while running out the door this morning!  Then during a crazy day at work I started to feel sick, by the time I made it home my temperature was over 101!  Sadly this means I crawled into bed rather then taking pictures of this scarf!  Its by a company called bev shots and this one is Tequila!  How awesome is that!  I'll definitely wear it again and get some better pictures so you can see how cool it is!

Dress: Express, $13 (no joke)  Scarf: Bev Shots, gift from my future sister in law  Tights: BR, $5  Shoes: Manolo Blahnik via Maribel, $100 (worth it for the perfect black flats).

Borrowed and Blue

 This week I started doing the Bar Method for the trial month which means I am super sore and have therefore given up on my heels for the week.  Its been a fun challenge to plan my clothes around flats, and today I went for my teal tights and Manolo flats.  But obviously since I needed to wear more then that I topped those two with my ruffle hemmed BR dress and a borrowed printed cardigan that I borrowed from my marm.  I really like how the tights and sweater compliment each other.  It doesn't hurt that the whole outfit was really comfortable.

Dress: BR, $55  Shoes: Manolo Blahnik via Maribel, $100 Belt: borrowed from my marm  Sweater: Boden, borrowed from my marm  Tights: from Spain years ago

Coincidence

Today my clothes matched Miss Fiona!  I didn't realize that until I went to take these pictures and she was hanging around.  Today everybody in my office was complaining about how cold the office was and I couldn't figure out why I felt fine . . . and then I realized I was wearing wool pants!  The fact that I was wearing a long sleeved shirt and a shell over it probably didn't hurt either, but the pants were perfect.  I was warm all day even though fall has arrived in the Bay Area.  The pants are a new purchase from Maribel (must stop even going in there), and although they ended up being worn with fairly conservative tops, they were perfect for the office today!

Pants: BR via Maribel, $25  Long Sleeved Shirt: Old Navy, $3  Shell: BR, $16  Shoes: Manolo Blahnik via Maribel, $100  Cat: warm like wool pants!

Newbies Good and Bad

The Good Newbie: My flats!  These are the perfect little black flats.  I found them at Maribel and they are Manolos!  It was love at first sight.  They are super soft leather and perfectly basic.  Sometimes you really need the basics.

The Bad Newbie: I was all excited about these tights, and then I got runs down each thigh during the course of the day.  They are new J. Crew tights that I thought would last forever like my BR ones.  I was SO wrong.  They are wear once tights and lucky somebody in your office had nail polish to stop the runs at work tights!  Very annoyed!  Especially since I really like the color and did nothing that would have caused the run other then wear them!

Overall Fiona and I really did like the outfit!

 Shoes: Manolo Blahniks via Maribel, $100  Dress: J. Crew via Maribel, $35  Cardigan: Maribel, gift from my mother  Tights: J. Crew, $10 (not worth it!)