awesome shirt

This is just about my favourite shirt ever right now. It flatters the arms, and though it is loose, I don't feel like it makes me look fat. It's like a very soft t-shirt with pretty sleeves. Old Navy has been pumping out a lot of those loose, billowy kinds of shirts of dresses right now, and everyone knows it's hard as hell to find a way to make them look good on someone whose body isn't somewhat stick like. I think that this is one of their few go-to items right now, though. They come in ten colours, though I couldn't find my size in all the colours I wanted. Right now I have a black and white one, but I really want a navy one.

They were $17.50, now $10.00 on sale. Click the picture to go to the shirt's location on the Old Navy website.

american apparel

So I have just recently discovered the clothing brand American Apparel. Well, not so much discovered - I have seen adds for it all over the place and Alexi Wasser particularly loves the brand, and I suppose you could say that her blog is where I first actually had some kind of cemented contact with it. I have to say that I love the basicness of it, and how nineties the style seems to be, but just as modern as well. It really promotes the idea of the mix&match and can go with a lot of other things as well. I think most pieces are blenders, things that can filter into your closet and work well with lots of things, and you can get more than your money's worth for them if you treat them right.

My favourite thing that I really really want is probably this skirt/dress thing. I would probably just wear it as a skirt, or maybe underneath a sweater or vest and sometimes with leggings. It reminds me a lot of the skirt that Rachel Greene from Friends used to wear in the first season. It comes in an array of colours and they more than one style for it, and idk it's just the best thing they have. However, I also want the one in cardinal, the unisex Oxford long sleeve button up shirt in oxford blue, the sheer rib loose sleeveless dress, in nearly any colour, and their thigh highs are great, if not completely unrealistic when it comes to me and my inability to wear anything that I have to pull up every five minutes ...

shoes i am squeeing about

Free People is one of my favourite brands of clothing, and I might even venture to say my favourite over all. Enchantingly hobo in style, you can mix and match nearly anything they sell, and many of their pieces are made specifically to be layered. Their clothes are reminiscent of when little girls are five and their parents let them dress themselves. Finally we seek our parents approval, looking like a gap ad gone wrong with purple and teal striped leggings, a brown plaid skirt, and last Christmas's starched white blouse. Only, FP is more stylish and much more intentional. Pictures of lovelies I find may make their way into this blog, but right now I think I will just feature a round of boots that I have had on my 'you wish' list for a while now, with a few newer ones thrown in : )

The Hamilton Tall Buckle Wedge boot is along the same lines as a lot of the styles we are seeing today. They look very steam punk to me. I like the heel and how it's shaped, and I like how it looks from the front. The Beford Ankle boot is so cute - very much like those worn by women in the sixteenth century. I'd think they'd be a good match to a renaissance festival costume too, though : P They come in brown and grey, but I find I prefer the brown myself. The Linus Riding, We The Free Tomboy Scout, and Clermont boots are beautiful too. They're calf heights, with varying stresses on leather. I think that leather is important when it comes to boots, and how realistic it looks as well. I don't think I've ever seen a boot I liked that wasn't made of leather.

Louboutin cuts a great shoe. I haven't really ever been huge on footwear - I mean, I like shoes, but when I shop for some it is not with the intent of getting a really great piece. I always shop for something that can go with a lot of things that are all ready in my wardrobe. It is the same for everything I buy. I always work it in.

Thanks to a friend of mine, though, I have been re-introduced to the world of fashionable footwear, and this time around I like it a lot more. The newer cuts that are coming out, with the chunkier look and then thin heel, and then the turn of the century booties, are absolutely spectacular. At first, I looked at them like O.o what? Because I thought they looked ridiculous. But now, I am absolutely in love. I don't have any that are really like them, save for one pair my sister just recently gave me. They're similar, but not the same. I guess it is still difficult for me to purchase something that won't blend easily with things I all ready have.

I think that my favourite Louboutin I have seen so far has to be the three strap mary janes, shown here. They're gorgeous. Their straps would hold them steady to my feet, and the colour is beautiful. I think I like them because they would blend into my wardrobe well, but at the same time they're a definite statement. Just spectacular : )