First, sorry I haven’t blogged in a while. I was busy enjoying the holidays with loved ones.
For today’s post, I’ve decided to go a little bit out of my comfort zone. Selfies aren’t really my thing… except for on Snapchat. 🙂 Anyway, I’ve been thinking lately about how styles and trends change over time and where people draw their inspiration from. I’m not very creative and I definitely wouldn’t describe myself as a fashionista, but I am pretty great at copying other people.
A lot of my outfit ideas come from Pinterest. I feel like this is cliche… but hey! Aren’t ideas and copying what Pinterest is for?!
Another source of inspiration that I unexpectedly stumbled upon one day is Karla Reed’s instagram (karlareed). She posts a lot of outfits that she wears, along with some personal things of course. Someone I follow on insta liked one of her pics and I happened to see it and think it was cute. Naturally, I proceeded to creep through her pictures and decided she was worth the follow! She also has an additional insta account, chicthrifty, where she sells a lot of awesome things that she finds at thrift stores. Turns out, there is a whole little community of instagram stores! I have yet to buy anything from any of them, but they have some pretty awesome deals.
As a twenty-something who hasn’t been in the working world very long, I’m definitely not “rollin’ in the dough.” Most of my clothing and accessory purchases are from the sale section. The thought of buying something full price pretty much makes my stomach turn. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good name brand piece, but I just try to stay away from the name brand prices. (The exception is if it’s from a store like Forever 21 or TJ Maxx.) I wish I had time to thrift more, but it never seems to work out and when I do get around to it, I never find anything great. I guess I’ll leave that to Karla.
My other trick to dressing cute on a budget, is wearing older pieces. Everyone has those clothes that get pushed to the back of your closet and you just don’t seem to wear them as often anymore, if ever. With the help of Pinterest as some inspiration, you can learn how to style those pieces differently, which will give you so many more outfit options!
All this leads me to what I wore this week. As my first “What I wore” post, I’ve decided to share what I wore to work. I love dressing up for work, but sometimes it can have its fair share of challenges, for example, when the wind chill is in the single digits. Luckily, it wasn’t that cold this week! The dress code at my office is business casual. To me, this is challenging because people have very different ideas of what business casual is. I work at a non-profit, so our business casual is a little more casual than say, if you work at a bank or law firm.
Finally, here are the selfies! Ignore the mess behind me that is my bedroom.
Disclaimer: I tried to remember where I got all of the pieces, but sometimes that can be a little challenging. The links are to the specific piece if it is still available, or something similar, or just the store in general if I couldn’t find something similar.