...because apparently we here in Boston have near-90 degree temperatures on deck through the end of the week. Sigh. And I was so looking forward to sweaterdresses and cigarette pants and shoes with closed toes. Oh well, I can wait. I dare say I am up to the challenge of putting together a few more days' worth of fashionable summer outfits.
I'm really tired of the babydoll look. As in, want to kill it and bury it forever tired, and I am saying this as one of a relatively small proportion of the population who is tall and thin enough to pull off the babydoll look. So: belts. Belts are a lifesaver for the excessively voluminous and the woefully undefined. They're some of the most frequently worn items in my wardrobe and I firmly believe every girl ought to have a handful at her disposal to pull almost any look from boring to bodacious.
Today, I took a cream linen shift dress from Old Navy that has a tendency to just sort of hang, and belted it with an old, old D-ring belt - the belt is designed to be worn at the hip, but by tucking the tail around and down, it holds in place just as it should. I debated on the shoe. The dress is short to begin with and rendered ever shorter by gathering it at the waist, but my favorite flat brown sandals wrap around the ankle and I don't always love my legs enough to do that to them. So I went for a chunky high-heeled brown sandal. I have a major predilection for chunky high-heeled brown sandals, which is a bit odd considering my style is generally much more streamlined. Somewhere deep inside me lives a bohemian just dying to get out, I guess. Anyway, the shoes, despite their height (a cool 5 inches...I just measured), are very I'm-not-trying-to-be-sexy, so the fact that I am trailing about a yard of leg right now, and at work no less, isn't such a big deal.
Dress - Old Navy
Belt - too old to be sure, which means probably some JCPenney store brand
Shoes - Michael by Michael Kors
Glasses - Prada (I'm-borderline-blind-glasses, not fashion-glasses)
All jewelry from Nomad, Cambridge
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