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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

OOTD: Purple and White

July 31st, 2013:

The Outfit: Today I kept things pretty casual. Simple colored jeans paired with a peplum tube top type shirt. I layered my new M necklace that I am OBSESSED with along with a colorful statement necklace. My topknot and brown flats complete the look.

Where it's from:

Jeans: J Crew

Top: Aerie

Shoes: Steve Madden

Bag: Michael Kors

Necklaces: Dry Goods

Bracelets: Henri Bendel, Alex and Ani, and Dry Goods

Rubber bracelet: Office Max

Okay, so I know I'm going to get judged hardcore... BUT in regardless, I went to Office Depot to go look at the One Direction line they have that is against bullying. As I was walking towards the back of the store they had this huge poster of the boys! So naturally I had to take pictures in front of it. The one above is me gushing over my favorite Niall Horan (I hate to pick favorites but if I had to Niall would be my favorite)

One Direction display at Office Depot. They had everything organized by each member so you could pick your favorite. Also, they all had a different message they represented.

These are the One Direction purchases I have made recently. They bracelet and notebooks are from Office Max but the pens are from Target. I was also super excited because purple is my favorite color and that was Niall's color! I think it's meant to be if you ask me.......

Also something exciting, I posted a picture of my recent Benefit purchases and Benefit favorited my tweet! Pretty cool stuff if you ask me.

Today I also went to JCPenny. I haven't been in there well basically never but my mom wanted to look for sheets. What else is new right? But, I have to say I was really impressed with their new home department. We went to a relatively new JCPenny but it was super nice and even had a Sephora in it! So, if you have an apartment defiantly look there for cute decorations.

Instagram posts:

Might I add I got my college laptop! This is my first blogpost on it YAY! I will post pictures and the experience tomorrow!

Thursday, July 4, 2013

OOTD and A Day in Chicago

July 3rd, 2013:
So, I decided in addition to my outfit of the days I kind of want to share what I did on a certain day. Well, if it is actually interesting. But, this is interesting I promise.

A few of my friends and I decided to head down into Chicago to go the Chicago Institute of Art Museum. My friend is a member there so she was able to get us in for free which was great. The main reason we decided to go was because they had a huge fashion art exhibit. We weren't aloud to take pictures a lot of people got yelled at by security (including us the whole rest of the museum you could take pictures might I add!) so I wasn't able to capture the beauty of everything. However, the paintings, prints, and old magazines were amazing. It was inspiring to see how artists connected fashion into their paintings. Also it was really cool how the museum found the exact dress or a dress similar to a painting and they displayed them right next to each other.

These extremely old dresses had such amazing details and craftsmanship. Something that was shocking also was how tiny the waists were for the mannequins! The corsets they must have had to worn were pretty intense.

The fashion "plates"they called them were also quite interesting. Basically they were old fashion ads that were in very old magazines. But these magazines were bounded and looked a lot like books which was completely different from how ours are today.

Overall, I highly recommend the exhibit to any fashion lover if you are in Chicago. It was a great experience and definitely made me for sure realize how much I really do love and appreciate fashion.

My outfit: It was a rather cold and very rainy day in Chicago so I kept it really casual and I had to wear shoes that were easy to walk in. So I compromised for my favorite colored jeans that are a bright coral or orange color. My denim shirt is my go-to item basically anytime of the year. They truly go with anything and everything. As usual I topped it off with a small statement necklace and a bun to keep my hair from look well to be honest ratchet.

Were it's from:

Jeans: Free People (got them on sale for $17 at Dry Goods what a deal!)

Sperry Top Siders: From Nordstrom (they were limited edition)

Denim Shirt: Lucky Brand Jeans

Necklace: J Crew (I got it at the outlet but I saw it at the store still)

Bun Maker: Urban Outfitters

Purse: Marc by Marc Jacobs

Sunnies: Dry Goods

The picture on the left is how wet my jeans and Sperry's were after we had to walk back to the train station. Let's just say it was pouring in Chicago. But, luckily we still got to pick up some Garret's Popcorn. If you want my personal order I got a medium Chicago mix and a small Buttery.

The picture on the right is just the booklet that guided us throw the exhibit.