Warm Weather Days

 Its been a hectic couple of days for me!  Lots of fun plans with friends and not so fun but totally necessary long hours in the office.  So when Monday rolled around I borrowed this blue dress from my mother to wear at the office.  Comfortable but still fun for a hectic day at the office.

 Dress - borrowed from my Mother Shoes - Charlotte Ronson via Jeremy's

 Its been really warm in the Bay Area recently which has been a nice excuse to break out my fun warm weather dresses.  Although I must admit I was freezing in the office today and I hadn't even brought a scarf because its so warm.  I sometimes willfully block out that I will be in the office a llllll day!

 Dress - J. Crew via Maribel Shoes - Marc Jacobs via Maribel Cardigan - Gifted Halogen Sunnies - Mosely Tribes Lyndels

Office Patterns

More work days and more patterns for me.  On Tuesday I paired a flirty top with some of my more conservative work trousers to balance out my look for the office.  I love this top not only for its pattern but also fantastic shape.  Peplums are  super popular this season and I can see why.  They give you a great waist and hide any potential muffin tops.

Shirt - Maribel Pants - The Gap Shoes - Sam Edelman via Jeremy's

 Today I forgot to take my blog pictures so I raced to the ladies room at work with my faithful blackberry. I love this wrap dress for its shape and pattern.  To give it a kick of color instead of a bright cardigan, I paired it with my bright red flats.

Dress - H&M hand me down Cardigan - The Gap Shoes - Marc Jacobs via Maribel

Confetti

Today I broke out my confetti top for the office.  Since this shirt has such a great waist, thought it would look great with a pencil skirt.  I paired the shirt with brightly colored shoes and a cardigan to pick up the various colors in the shirt.  I really like how the shirt looks with a pencil skirt.  Office appropriate, but far from boring.

Even Fiona wanted in on the photo shoot!

Shirt: Ric Rac via Maribel, $18  Skirt: Banana Republic, $25  Shoes: Marc Jacobs via Maribel, $100 Cardigan: August Silk, gifted many years ago

Red Shoes Tuesday!

Today I broke out some of my favorite pieces and went office-funky to work today. I wore my gray sweater over my lace print dress to tone the dress down a bit. But I couldn't stand the lack of color so I paired it with my read shoes. I really liked how the sweater and dress fit together today. The sweater had a particularly nice shape over the dress and it made the lace print dress much more office appropriate. As my genius cousin said: Red shoes can make any outfit. Wise words indeed.
























Dress: Rodarte for Target, $35
Sweater: The Gap, borrowed from my marm
Shoes: Marc Jacobs via Maribel, $100 (WORTH IT)


Tomorrow I am off to the Mountains with some friends. I will not be posting but I will be taking pictures for a crazy long post at the end of the weekend! Have a great rest of your week all!

Leggy Monday!

Today it was back to work for me, but not so much for my alarm clock. I had forgotten to set it this morning, but luckily Miss Fiona woke up my Marm asking for breakfast. My marm then woke me up, I threw on my clothes, and actually made it to work on time. All that being said, I don't think anybody could tell how haphazardly I threw on my clothes. I only wore this dress because I bought it this weekend off the $1o rack at Maribel and had been trying to think of how I was going to wear it. Then this morning I figured I would continue along with my colorless challenge and wear it with my gray cardigan. I ended up loosening up on my challenge and wearing red shoes with my otherwise colorless clothing. It was only once I was out of the house that I realized I was wearing a dress and shoes from Maribel. I had to wear this dress with flats because it is quite short. I think it is saved by its high neckline and capped sleeves. I always try to make sure that I don't dress too skimpily when at work. Nobody wants to be the sexy secretary type in their office.






















Dress: BR via Maribel, $10 (Score!!!)
Cardigan: The Gap, $15
Shoes: Marc Jacobs via Maribel, $100

Thanks Again to my Genius Cousin for helping out with my tomato photo shoot adventures!!!!

Walking and Working

Some mornings my mother and I walk down to wear I pick up the casual carpool into SF and treat ourselves to delicious co-op baked goods before I head to work. On these days I have to wear work appropriate clothes, but also shoes that I can walk a mile in, part of the way on an unpaved track. Sometimes I bring a change of shoes, but mostly I plan my outfits around wearing flats so I don't have to carry around more stuff. Today I planned my outfit around wearing my red Marc Jacobs flats with my skinny black cords. To emphasize my red shoes even more, I rolled over my pants to make them cropped. I paired my red shoes and black pants with my yellow sweater over a black tank. To add a little more flair to my colorful but pretty basic outfit, I borrowed one of my mother's vintage necklaces that my father made. It added some much needed zest to my colorful but pretty conservative outfit.




















Shoes: Marc Jacobs, via Maribel, $100
Pants: J. Crew, $40
Tank: The Gap, $5
Sweater: The Gap, $35
Necklace: Made by father, borrowed from my mother

Inadvertently Matching Wednesday!

Princess Fiona was sitting outside my room this morning just waiting to be schnuggled. Naturally I had to pick her up and give her a squeeze, but it was only when I picked her up that I realized that my dress and cardigan perfectly matched the lovely Miss Fiona. It was a total accident, but hey, you can't argue with two perfect outfits. I recently bought this dress at Maribel. I really like how the neutral color and detailing on the front play off of each other. Its a bit short for work, so I left its shift shape alone and paired it with my red flats. The irony of this outfit is I always planned to wear it with my flats, but the sweater and the cat were what really made this outfit out of the ordinary. Too bad I couldn't bring Fiona to work with me!





Dress: J. Crew via Maribel, $35
Cardigan: August Silk, gift from my parents (years ago)
Shoes: Marc Jacobs via Maribel, $100 (worth it)
Kitty: Princess Fiona the Schnuggler













In this picture I told Fiona to look up, and she actually did!!!! Too bad what you get to see is her white chin and not her green eyes! Still I was pretty impressed!

My Embellished Friday!

Happy Friday all! It was a nice low key Friday for me and I dressed accordingly. As much as I enjoy my skirts and heels during the week, I also enjoy my jeans on Fridays.









Today I wore my mother's embellished jacket over my tuxedo tank top. I really liked how the two embellished pieces fit together.











To give my neutral, albeit embellished, outfit I decided to wear my red shoes to give my outfit a pop of color.



Jacket: Anthropologie, $30
Tuxedo Tank: Banana Republic, $16
Jeans: The Gap $22
Shoes: Marc Jacobs via Maribel, $100
Sunnies: Mosely Tribes, gift from my brother!


Happy Friday Fun Time All!

What Goes Up, Must Come Down!

After a spell of beautiful days where the weather was in the 70s, it cooled down a bit again today. Although the weather was still really nice, it was definitely a day that needed a cardigan.














Today I decided to wear my black cords because I had dinner plans after work and even when its nice and warm during the day, evenings are always chilly and I wanted to be prepared.










I paired my black skinny cords with my blue print silk top. Because of the volume of this top it has to be belted or tucked in. Today I belted it with a skinny belt. I waffled a lot this morning on whether the belt should be skinny or thick. Finally I went with the skinny, although in the future I'll try the larger one and see the effect.










To keep warm in the office and out I wore a cream cardigan that my marm gave me last Christmas but I had yet to wear.

I finished off my outfit with my Marc Jacobs mouse flats. Since the rest of my outfit was pretty toned down, I figured the flats would give it some nice whimsy!



Shirt: Banana Republic via Maribel, $22
Cardigan: Talbots, gift from my Marm
Belt: Marc by Marc Jacobs, $20
Pants: J. Crew, $40
Shoes: Marc Jacobs via Kris, $100 (gift from my Grammy)


Kitty: Miss Fiona!

Happy End of the Week All!

Giants Thursday!

Today is the opening day of baseball season! I'm sure from the title of my post you can tell I'm excited. This year all of San Francisco is lucky enough to be home to reigning World Series Champions.

This matters in terms of my outfit today because the top I wore today is the top I wore every time the Giants played during the world series last fall. I bought it at the Anthropologie in the Forum Shop's in Las Vegas right before the start of the World Series last year. I wore it to work that Wednesday, and because
the Giants won game 1, I wore it whenever
they played afterwards.

Its a good thing that I love the pattern and cut
of the top, or else I would have grown quite
sick of it. I really like the colors and therefore
how many things I can wear it with.


Today I did something I usually try not to do: I wore the skirt I wore on Monday with the shoes I wore yesterday. I wore the skirt again because it was almost 80 degrees in San Francisco today and this skirt is such a good warm weather skirt. And, I forgot to mention on Monday, but as you can see in the pictures today, it has pockets!



I wore my red Marc Jacobs flats again because
wearing them yesterday reminded me that I do
not wear them enough, and since they are suede
they cannot be worn when it rainy. Plus I liked
how they picked up the red in my top.

In order to cover up while in the office as well as support the Giants, I wore my Orange cardigan. This cardigan is actually a long cardigan with no buttons in the front, but it didn't look right with the volume of the skirt, so I tied in front so it would look right. I love this cardigan because it is wool and therefore warm, but not too bulky or too hot.

Shirt: Anthropologie, $20
Skirt: Banana Republic, My Marmee's closet
Cardigan: Eileen Fisher, $40
Shoes: Marc Jacobs via Maribel, $100

Special thanks to Miss NUT for being my photographer today!

Baseball is the summer sport, so hopefully summer is coming soon my PEP!
Happy Giants Thursday!

Warming Up Wednesday!

After two weeks of rain, it is finally sunny in San Francisco. And not only sunny, but in the 70s! Here in the Bay Area, we call that perfect. Even more perfect, I got to spend my lunch hour drinking coffee and hanging out with my bestie Stormy Normy. This picture was taken in front of City Hall in San Francisco.

I love this dress! I found it on the sale rack at Banana Republic on a shopping expedition with my friend NUT for only $20. It is a silk dress and I like that it can be dressed up or down. I also really like the subtle lace print and the fact that it is black and brown so it can be worn with a cardigan that is black or brown (when it is being worn as day wear).


Usually I think of it as more of a cocktail evening dress, but today I gave it a work twist. (I have to give credit where credit is due, somebody else on my floor at work wore it one day and I thought I should try that!)

I tried to tone down its cocktail dress vibe with a brown (cashmere) cardigan from J. Crew and flats. I think this dress is definitely too short to be worn with heels in a work setting. Because of the conservative colors of the dress and cardigan I decided to rock some of my favorite flats: my red Marc Jacobs flats that I got at Maribel 4 years ago. Also, I could resist wearing my green belt though. A black one just wasn't the same.





Dress: Banana Republic, $20
Cardigan: J. Crew via Maribel, $40 (its Cashmere)
Belt: Jeremy's, $20
Flats: Marc Jacobs via Maribel, $100


Special thanks to Stormy Normy for taking pictures so you can see both my head and my shoes!