Thrift Style Thursday: Animal Print

I can't believe it is Thursday already.  The first part of this week really seemed to drag by and now all of a sudden it's almost the weekend! I went fairly subtle with this week's theme.  When thrifting, I found it hard to find animal print that doesn't look like it belongs to an 70's pimp! ;-)  It sure is fun to look at all of the options though.  I did find an awesome pair of dark denim with a subtle leopard print, but unfortunately they were too small.  So here is my animal print outfit.  The shoes were thrifted.

Check out how all the other lovely ladies styled their animal prints!

The Two Cent Chick

Being Zhenya

Confessions of a Refashionista

Sandpaper Kisses

Buttons and Birdcages

Alligator Toe
Sincerely Miss J

Sistas From Cali

Snippets With Alex
Spoolish
Bethie The Boo
Rachel's Lookbook
Muddy Flowers

Have a great rest of the week and as always, thanks for reading!

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Thrift Style Thursday: Cocktail Dress

Happy Thrift Style Thursday!  This week's theme is the cocktail dress.  I love dressing up and I think a good party dress is one of the most fun things to wear on a night out.

I had the opportunity to help my sister-in-law and her family move a few weeks ago and while she was unpacking her clothes, she decided to purge items she no longer wears.  This dress was one of a couple cute items that I snatched up from her.  I love shopping my friends' closets - they all have great style. :)

Since I almost always have to have some color with what I wear, I added a pink clutch, blue earrings and polka dot shoes.  These shoes are one of my favorite pairs and I recently gave them new life by getting the soles and heels fixed at a shoe hospital.  I highly recommend doing that for nice shoes that may appear to be nearing the end of their life.  I've had these for probably about 6 years now, and I expect to have them for at least another 6 with the new heel bottoms and soles.

Please be sure to check out all the other pretty ladies in their cocktail dresses!

The Two Cent Chick

Being Zhenya

Snippets With Alex

Confessions of a Refashionista

Sandpaper Kisses

Buttons and Birdcages

Alligator Toe

Sistas From Cali

Spoolish
Sincerely Miss J

What I'm Wearing
Dress ~ Given to me by my awesome sister-in-law
Necklace ~ Park Lane
Earrings ~ Limited
Shoes  ~ Steve Madden
Clutch ~ WHBM

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What To Do When You Have Nothing To Wear ~ Part II

This is Part II of What To Do When You Have Nothing To Wear.  Click here to read Part I.

As promised in Part I, I am going to show a couple of outfit examples that I put together using inspiration from Pinterest.  

The first is a literal interpretation of the outfit.  Here is my inspiration and my version.  The pics are a little dark, but you can see that I'm pretty much wearing the same thing.  There is nothing wrong with exactly copying an outfit you see.  It is a good way to see for yourself how everything looks together. :)

Source: Putting Me Together via Pinterest

The second example is a very loose interpretation of my inspiration photo.  I really liked the pairing of pink with navy, but I don't have a skirt that color.  I do have a top that is very similar in color though!  So I put together an outfit using that shirt and a navy cardigan.

Source: Long Story Short Blog via Pinterest

What I'm Wearing

Outfit 1

Top ~ WHBM

Cardigan ~ Limited (similar)

Jeans ~ Limited

Scarf ~ Limited (another option here)

Boots ~ Natural Selections (similar)

Purse ~ Chanel (similar)

Earrings ~ Limited (another option here for only $8!)

Outfit 2

Top ~ Limited (similar)

Cardigan ~ Banana Republic (similar)

Jeans ~ WHBM

Booties ~ BCBG (similar here and here)

Necklace ~ ILY Couture

Clutch ~ Steve Madden (old)

Chambray + Sequins

This is a milestone post ~ it's the first one in which I am wearing heels!  I got the somewhat good news on Friday at PT that I could wear heels for very short periods of time, and I think he agreed to that only because it's like the 5th time I've asked, haha.  So while I still can't wear heels on a daily basis, I can at least use them to accessorize my outfit posts. :)  I should be able to wear heels more consistently in about 2 months.

As I've mentioned before, I love a good sparkly piece of clothing, especially skirts!  I also love to wear them more often than just for special occasions.  One way to get away with that is to dress it down a bit (of course you can also wear it in all of its sparkly glory even if it's not a special occasion ~ there is nothing wrong with that!).  For this post, I've opted to dress it down with a chambray jacket.  This is a nicer version of your typical jean jacket so it's dressy enough to look great with the skirt.

What I'm Wearing

Dotted Shirt ~ Express (old), similar

Chambray Jacket ~ The Limited (old), similar

Sparkly Skirt ~ The Limited (old), another option here and full length version here

Shoes ~ Steve Madden (old)

Clutch ~ Henri Bendel (old), same style in white
Necklace ~ Express (old), similar here and here
Earrings ~ Express (old), similar
Bracelets ~ Banana Republic and The Limited (old), similar option