New shirts in the shop!

Check out my Etsy shop to see the new items added today! These shibori silk shirts are perfect for sticky summer weather, and the neons work perfectly with this year's summer trends!

Want to see how I styled them? Click the caption links to see more!

Aqua and lime

Midnight blue

Neon yellow

Red and peach

I almost didn't make that last red and peach one, but it turned out to be my favorite!

I don't want to grow up...

I picked up the new Jcrew catalog this weekend, and I only want to wear the kids' clothes!



Pretty color schemes, comfy-looking clothes! I think I can knit the sweater dress.



I hope my future daughter is this cute. In the meantime, I really want to wear casual sequins and star-print dresses. You can't see it in the pic, but she's wearing the outfit with desert boots (which I have, naturally)!



Once again, future baby and style icon. I've been wanting that overnight duffle bag for awhile (monogrammed, of course).



The outfit on the left is the only women's version I was really into, and I love that there's a child's version that's almost the same except for the colors. I'll do a combo of the two with my navy coat and some neon arm warmers!

Jcrew Fall 2011

Can you guess the song for each lyric/caption?

THE HITS



Ever since I watched that one episode of Gossip Girl, I've been obsessed with brightly colored bottoms, especially the pink shorts Blair wears at W Magazine.



I love the combination of blues/greens in the first pic. The cobalt necklace with the light/sky blue sweater and the dark, muted teal trench. I also love the rich camel with the light blue in the second pic, although I'm wondering how good the outfit will look when the coat's off and you're left with the blue/gray chambray and the bright/light blue pants.



Fuschia looks good with anything! As if I had to say it. And I love the robin's egg blue pumps with the orange outfit!



The ladylike rock and roll details on these sort of push them over the edge! Leather sleeves on a sweater is something I've been wanting to knit/sew for awhile. I'm not sure about those stripey leggings though. What happens when you take off the smock?



I love the 70s career girl/news reporter look! I'm actually already knitting something like that gray sweater.

THE MISSES



Especially if the britches are as big and ill-fitting as these are. Pairing heels with oversized cargo pants doesn't necessarily make them chic! The color combo on the right is gorgeous, and it's ruined by the diaper the model looks like she's wearing under those awful high-waisted, pleated, tapered pants.



This poor girl on the right never gets to look good! If models look like this in these outfits, what are we normal people going to look like? Our first-grade teachers, that's who. Hi Mrs. Kinley (my favorite elementary school teacher)! Or I guess more specifically, we're going to look like that other fifth-grade teacher we were so relieved we never had because we heard she was so mean and then one day she had gastric bypass surgery and she went from whale size to tee-niny, but with all these folds of skin everywhere. Hi! I won't say her name because that's mean.

See the rest here!

Spring is coming...

Which means it's time to SHOP. Did you know that Leifsdottir makes shoes?

1. OOH, PRETTY



This isn't my favorite colorway of this shoe but the shot is gorgeous! Wildflowers! Clear plastic box! I can see them growing from the dirt, taking nutrients from the icky crappy stuff around and creating something beautiful. So inspirational, haha.



This shot I'm not so sure about. The whole series began with this one and was sort of dawn, morning, noon, afternoon, dusk, night. This one is dawn so I guess that's sort of a mist or something covering part of the moss, but it seems more swampy than romantic to me. Anyway I still love the shoe.

More to love:



Ilona heels. This is the colorway I love of the first shoe. It's so spring! I love black and white (with pops of color) for my clothes, but for some reason I really dislike most black and white shoes. I'm always in search of the perfect neutral heels though. I'm not sure why, since I almost never wear heels, but it's a quest of mine. In my dreams, I find the perfect ones and wear them every day, in a total change of look and lifestyle.



Lotta flats. I actually just bought a very similar shoe on sale for $25 at my local Naturalizer. Can I just say they have the absolute worst inventory system ever?

2. UM, EW



I actually do kind of like this shoe in theory, but in practice I'm not sure how it would work. I have a hard enough time walking around in flats and not tripping; do we really need to take away the part of the heel that supports me? Also, I love feathers, beads, snakeskin and cage shoes, but I'm not sure how much I love them together. They'd be amazing with just the right outfit, but I don't know if I own anything other than plain black that I could wear these with. Will they go with today's nautical Parisian look? Actually... maybe. Ok I love them, I take it back.

Next, Jcrew Spring 2011.

1. OOH, PRETTY



Love the monochrome tidily messy bagginess. Don't love the way her feet disappear.



I might knit this sweater! (I might already be knitting this sweater. I have a lot of unfinished ones on the needles.)



I am so going to experiment with stitch patterns so I can knit this! Also love the Uniqlo version.



Again, loving the monochrome and the way it goes from light to dark, top to bottom. Also, I've decided that shorts are going to be my new thing, year-round.



I LOVE these shorts. Or I did, until I saw somewhere else that they're Jcrew Collection and made of a very beautiful silk and are $400. The sweater I love too, but I think I can just get one and then put in the studs by myself.



Again with the monochrome! Love it! Not so much the shoes, but I love the neatly sloppy look of a sweatshirt over a button up (or button down, depending on what region you grew up in).

2. UM, EW.



I do not know what happened here. Suddenly monochrome seems like the worst idea ever, second only to the time I thought, "Sure, I can do a cartwheel." If you want to make sporty look cute, you should put a baseball cap on a girl with hair, and without strong sporty shoulders. I think this girl would look way better in something more feminine, whether strong or flirty. And I know socks with heels are the thing, but socks with expensive sandals is still socks with sandals.



I feel like I'm looking at an optical illusion where this girl's torso and arms have been made 20% bigger and her legs are still the same. How did they manage to make them look so short? Aren't those heels? Don't they know that the rule of the black ankle boot/bootie with the pale untight-ed leg is to show more leg, not less? (or way less, like a couple inches of ankle, tops)

More cute spring stuff coming up!