the ‘so last year’ outfit i wore to ‘that’ meeting

i kind of don’t even want to post pictures of the outfit i wore to ‘that’ meeting i referred to in my first blog post…why?–it’s so last year…but the fact remains, i wore it to the business investment meeting….so what compelled me since it was ‘so last year’?…

well, i needed something that looked a little more conservative than i normally roll, but the desire to look  hip and fashionable takes hold of me everyday…the person i was meeting with was a former men’s clothing designer, so i wanted to be cool enough to grace his presence, but did not want to look like the ‘mom’ from the ‘burbs, or be dressed ‘too young’ and not be taken seriously…so the pressure to pick ‘just the right’ ensemble was on, and my fashion constipation set in…

my lack of creative movement was further compounded by the fact that i was in the midst of the semi-annual wardrobe change–this time  swapping out the spring/summer clothes for the fall/winter clothes–how the heck am i supposed to marry a fall outfit with September fall days reaching into the high 80s?…

so there i stood in my walk-in closet and stared–seemingly losing my pulse as the seconds passed–at my hanging clothes…(just a quick tangent…i wanted to relay to you that my walk-in closet is not as glamorous as it seems–i still have to share it with my husband…to me an envious closet situation would be not having to endure steaming odors from a removed pair of my husband’s ferragamo shoes after one of his 12 hour workdays…in fact, i think my closet should be more appropriately referred to as an ‘air-circulation prison’)…and stared at my hanging clothes…

sincerely, yet utterly unproductive, i hoped that the right outfit would just assemble itself without any creative exertion on my behalf…(the situation was truly reminiscent of  how my husband stands in front of an opened refrigerator for a vacuous amount of time, hoping something will appeal to his really-not-hungry stomach…)

ok folks, now you know my dark secret–fashion does not come naturally to me…now take my ineptness and add my inability to spend more than $49.99 on any individual fashion item, and you are correct to assume i have some issues…

the only way i got myself to get dressed that morning and to meeting on time, was to cave and wear something ‘so last year’–something that i was familiar with…something that had at one point in time made me feel like ‘the bomb”..and that outfit was my my flutter top and wide legged jean– can anyone say rachel zoe, you know, her tent-like amorphous shilhouette?…

after that day, i realized it should not have been that difficult to get dressed in the morning, right?… it is time for me to get back to practicing fashion a little more…hey, it’s easy for me to become complacent when i don’t really have any place or occasion to get dressed for, with the exception of the hours between 3-6 pm when i pick up my girls from school and take them to their after school activities…so practice for me means to cracking open my Lucky magazines and trying to recreate what i see on those pages…

(just wait until i post a blog about trying to figure out what to wear to my 20th high school reunion…i can hear my whining now…)

anyway, here’s the outfit i wore to the meeting…past season, wide-legged white jeans with tan stitching–Charlotte Russe, on clearance for around $9…brown flutter top–Forever 21, for under $20…brown tube top–some cheap, poor quality  store next to Target, for $4.99…my 2008 ‘it’ criss-cross, patent leather, sling-back brown shoes from winter for $29.99…..my faux olive and brown snake skin purse from Forever 21 for under $30…

grand total for this outfit is $94…

since this outfit is ‘so last year’ most likely i will recycle the shoes, the purse, jeans and the tube top for other outfits this season…i haven’t found any other good combination for the generic-looking, brown flutter top (for me a remorse buy, but we all have a few of those in our closets right?)…

my whole outfit…obviously photography is new to me…i truly have a new appreciation for the pictures i see in fashion magazines…

last winter’s ‘it’ shoe…i still love these…

this purse is too cool because it is both brown and green at the same time…

this poncho is from about 3 years ago…although it is so simple, i still find it to be quite stylish

ok, i am going to work on my lighting a little more…putting together montages of my future ensembles is going to be fun..it’s like art with the variety of textures–in this case, fuzzy poncho, smooth patent leather shoes, light and airy flutter blouse, and solid denim…