Showing posts with label consignment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consignment. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

What I Wore Wednesday - Roaring Twenties

A friend of mine recently celebrated her 29th birthday - in honor of the occasion, she threw a Last of the Roaring 20s party. Almost everyone who attended showed up in 20s-themed apparel... which was amazing. I didn't really have anything in my closet which could have qualified for 20s, so I went shopping. I ended up finding a Project Alabama dress at a consignment shop with the original tags still attached. I'm not going to tell you how much I paid for it, or how much it originally cost.... but I will tell you that the difference was enough to be worth it! It is a silk/velvet burnout material which looks almost like goldleaf... it had pleats and beading and draped in just the right way to look vintage. Add in a cloche-style hat (from Lord & Taylor), strands of pearls, tights, gold shoes and red lipstick, and I could have joined the cast of Chicago!

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Hairdo was inspired by this pin

The thing I love most about this dress is its versatility - I can totally wear it again, and fortunately it can be used in any season depending on how I style it! I think the best part about this dress, though, is that it's completely unique and I'm unlikely to bump into anyone else who has this dress. I love consignment shopping!

Have you added any great consignment pieces to your closet recently? How do you intend to remix them?

Monday, July 29, 2013

What I Wore Wednesday - Wedding Attire

Since I took a fairly long hiatus from blogging, I never got around to posting one of my favorite outfits from this spring. I had the pleasure of attending a beautiful wedding on May 18th at the Hellenic Center in Ipswich, MA. In the months leading up to the event, I bought several dresses. I'm SO not that kind of girl, but it's like I kept forgetting that I already had a dress... so now I have all of these dresses I need excuses to wear to justify buying them in the first place! (Ahem... Michael, this means you need to take me out on some dates!)

Anywho, I ended up in a Lela Rose for Target dress in a beautiful watercolor print - I found it on an errands trip, and had absolutely no intention of buying a dress that day, but I couldn't leave this beauty at the store. I styled it up with a Lilly Pulitzer swing coat I found at a consignment shop the morning of the wedding, a pair of pink patent pumps by Bandolino (from Macy's, of course!), a rando pink belt from the depths of my closet, and some gorgeous lia sophia earrings. I wouldn't officially say that the Ray Bans were a part of the outfit, but they stayed on most of the day because the ceremony was outdoors.

These photos are a funky mashup of Instagram, shots I took, and shots taken by men who have no clue how important it is to include feet in a full body shot. This is what happens when you give up control and leave the tripod at home... bad idea.

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Honestly, I love this outfit so much, I would even wear it again for a date or girls' classy night out. What do you think?

Have you had any outfit "wins" lately? Tell me about it!