Like butter

It's "Back to School" day for Everybody, Everywear (here's what I actually wore on the first day of school, one week ago.) But, I'll participate today anyway, despite it not being the first day of school! I tend to dress a bit more "grown-up" on the first day of school. I meet a lot of parents who are dropping off immunization forms and medications for the year so I want to look professional. I also meet a lot of our new high school students and don't want to look like a high schooler myself... Soooo, here ya go - first day of school outfit, round two!

Dress - thrifted vintage (no tags)

Belt - thrifted Express

Wedges - Unisa

Whenever I wear this dress I picture Mike Myers, dressed as Linda Richman, saying "It's like butter." Because it is.

Go check out everyone else's Back to School looks!

Oh, and BTW, the randomly selected winner of the $40 gift certificate to my etsy from the Vintage Road Trip, was Sarah P! I emailed her yesterday and she already picked out her items! But for the rest of you, thanks for entering and go ahead and take 15% off everything in the shop for all of September with the coupon code "IMALOSERBABY" Woo!

Oopsy-Daisy

Well today is Monochromatic Day on Everybody, Everywear... I've totally forgot to do the last few months (summer = braindead Christine). Luckily, I'm basically wearing a monochromatic outfit today anyway! Whoop! The bed ruffle dress to the rescue!

Jean jacket - thrifted Gap kids, overbleached by me

Dress - thrifted vinate (no tags)

Sandals - thrifted Isaac Mizrahi for Target

Ok, so there aren't daisies on the dress, so I guess this post should be called Oopsy-Roses.

Hearts and crap

These pants were very long flare legged corduroys when I found them at a $5 bag sale (so they cost less than $1). I decided to turn them into cropped skinnies and they turned out perfect, if I do say so myself.

Glasses - thrifted vintage, lenses replaced
Cardigan - thrifted vintage  Marella Knits

Tank - little boys Fruit of the Loom

Corduroy pants - thrifted Banana Republic, altered by me

Shoes - Bakers

Yes, it's Valentine's Day. I'm not usually into all the hearts and flowers and crap, (though I do love my two vintage Waechtersbach heart mugs that hang out on my desk at work:)

One is for water and one is full of writing implements... and a fork because you never know when an eating emergency will occur. Regardless, I'm actually excited for Valentine's this year. Nate and I are making fondue and just hanging out. He doesn't love the mushy hearts thing either (though I am making him a rather ridiculous Valentine which I will show you tomorrow.) So, Happy Hearts and Crap Day everyone!

My pants are brighter than your pants

It's colored pants day on Everybody, Everywear so I busted out my bright red-orange ones and resisted the urge to pair them with all neutrals like I did last time I wore them. There are quite bold on their own, but today I decided to just run with it and pair them with my favorite red cardigan.

Cardigan - thrifted vintage Marella Knits

Tank - little boys Fruit of the Loom

Pants - thrifted J. Crew

Shoes - Nicole (hand-me-downs from a friend)

I think colored pants are really fun to wear and feel like I need to pick up a few pairs of colored skinny jeans as well... like kelly green ones! I'll keep my eye out for some. I really only have a few pairs of colored pants (well, assuming we're not calling black, camel, brown, blue jeans, grey, etc as colors...)

Some colorful pants of the past:

Go check all the other colorful pants!

A Very Special Episode

Today is Everybody, Everywear: The Thrift Edition. A special collaboration with Yen from My edit (who, let's face it, is The Thrift Queen.) Wahoo! Thrifting! This is also my area of expertise, if I do say so myself. Give me a thrift store, $15, and 15 minutes and I will come out with a whole outfit. Guaranteed. So today's outfit is entirely thrifted:

Blouse - thrifted Banana Republic

Skirt - thrifted vintage (no brand tag)

Sandals - thrifted vintage Candie's

I would say 99% of my outfits contain at least one thrifted element, so it was hard to narrow this down from over three years of documenting my outfits... But here they are, some favorite, favorite thrifted finds (click on the photo to go to my flickr if you want the rest of the outfit details):

Awesome pink striped swan sweater...  about a million belts, that I occasionally throw on by the handful

This coat and this dress are adorbs, especially together... day-glo nightie I rarely wear but love

Prolly the only overalls I will ever wear... a very Hansel and Gretel dress (and motorcycle boots!)

Tiger print oversized pajama t-shirt with tiger head... and this blouse that goes with EVERYTHING!

Handmade dress that was apparently made just for me, decades ago... this skirt that goes with EVERYTHING and hello? The boots!

Mysterious sailor shirt from France... dress made for sipping lemonade on the porch

Authentic Vietnam War protest Army shirt... Horse. Head. Cardigan.

The cutest, easiest vintage summer dress... a ton of little boys blazers and my Marni cropped pants

Vintage yellow plaid pants, OMG... wool pleated rainbow skirt (and that awesome belt too)

Insane dress that comes in handy for B&W affairs... these 1950s glasses frames (got the lenses swapped out), shirt, pants, belt, shoes, etc. It's all thrifted.

Brightest pleated skirt in existence (and those sandals!)... Zee best coat ever!

Um, seriously there are a million more... things I wear everyday (like shoes, plain skirts and shirts, my million bangles), statement items, designer items, vintage items, SO MUCH GOOD STUFF.  Plus, home stuff too! So go get your hiney to the thrift store! And if you're too lazy or grossed out by it or live in an area where thrifting is difficult or expensive, then go hit up my etsy and "nail my leftovers."

Lellow.

Yesterday was the first day of summer school! I'm an EA (Educational Assistant) for the World Cultures class, which is for kids who are going to be in first or second grade this year. They are super adorable and nothing makes you feel better than when six year olds fight over who gets to sit next to you on the alphabet carpet during circle time. Ahhh.. Today's outfit:

Glasses - thrifted vintage (lenses replaced)

Shirt - thrifted (little boys Cherokee)

Skirt - Betsy Johnson

Shoes - thrifted vintage Candie's

The new old glasses that I finally brought to the cute local optical place to get the lenses replaced:

Since it's Yellow day for Everybody, Everywear here's some more yellow! (Click on the photo to go to my flickr page if you want the outfit details!)