Tag: Stripes

Maximizing Style

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I’m grouping up with seven other bloggers across the decades to showcase that you can’t put an age on style. This quarter’s theme for the Magnificent 8, as we call ourselves, is Maximizing Style—aka, maxi skirts and maxi dresses. I used to wear a lot of maxi pieces in middle and high school, but I haven’t reached for them in years. I completely forgot I had this striped number and was so excited to break it out again this week! Continue reading “Maximizing Style”

The Long and Short of It

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I’m obsessed with today’s spring outfit! I’m a little late posting this month, but yesterday marked another Thrifty Six collaboration with five of my blogging friends to showcase our secondhand style. May’s theme was The Long and Short of It. As my dad will happily tell you, I’m famously bad at knowing euphemisms… so I wasn’t exactly sure what this saying meant at first. According to Merriam-Webster, the phrase is “used when making a statement that is brief and that tells someone only the most important parts of something.” So basically the same thing as “long story short,” I think. Continue reading “The Long and Short of It”

London Calling

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I finally photographed this outfit! Or, let me rephrase, I finally like the photos for this outfit… took me several tries and lots of background hunting to find something I can live with it. Anyway, how cute is this fit?? I wore it to work last week and wanted to show off the other pair of UIN shoes that the brand sent me—just wait until you see the pattern up close. Continue reading “London Calling”