short pants!

Spring done sprung up here, folks - it hit 75 over the weekend and I got my first (minor) sunburn. Woo-hoo! I hauled my box of summer clothes down from the attic on Friday and rediscovered...my cropped pants.

Ok, so I am never quite sure about these pants. They were a pair of GAP dress pants that shrank in the wash to that dorky length that barely brushes the tops of your feet. So I got brave and hemmed them myself, an act of creativity of which I was extraordinarily proud. However, sometimes cropped dress pants read a little less fabulous and a little more, well, soccer mom. Today I tried to sass them up with a sparkley top, bright red shoes, and big hoop earrings, but I still worried. What do you all think?

Cardigan: hand-me-down from C
Top: Target
Pants: GAP, cropped by me
Shoes: BR, gift from mom
Earings: thrifted

electric blue

Above: Gabby and I in a face-off.

So, as you may or may not have noticed about me, I pretty much wear the same pieces of clothing over and over again. Maybe it's a comfort thing, or maybe I just need some new clothes. Either way, this black sparkly cardigan has been enjoying a lot of play lately. I just really, really like it (the material is really stiff, and it has this fantastic sucky-inny quality that makes me feel as though I'm wearing Spanx on my arms), and at the risk of looking like a disco ball, I decided to pair it with another black sparkly item i have (clearly, this is how i play out my dolly parton/bedazzler fantasies).

Because I do not promote wearing an entirely black outfit (I've done it, of course, but save it for funerals! Life's too short), I added a punch of electric blue. This skirt comes in handy when I don't know what else to wear, because it makes it look like I totally knew what I was doing. Plus, it's just fun.

I did get a number of compliments on the outfit yesterday at work, and I'm not sure if it's because I rarely wear skirts, or if it's because that's how people masked their dismay at my being so...shiny. I'll just take the compliments as compliments and leave it at that. :)

P.S. these shoes are new from a Target clearance rack. I think they are precious with their tiny little wedgey heels.

Black shirt: Express (so, so long ago)
Black sweater: Old Navy
Blue skirt: some surplus-type store in Dover
Charcoal tights: Lane Bryant
Shoes: Target

late post!

Sorry that the post is a day late; I didn't get back home early enough to take pictures AND post. So, now you get a double surprise! I also figured out a way to make pictures less scattered and more unified!

Before I talk about my clothes, let me just say that yesterday was a bit weird. I went to trivia at a bar in Rochester (which I was an hour and a half early for) thinking I would be helping to run it (you know, training and all), but as soon as I was going to start some other girl walks in, is introduced as Cory, and she does the trivia, and I just sit at the bar and play by myself (which was boring, since this is what happened last week and all the questions were the same). The guy who runs it thought this would be a good way to familiarize myself with the game. So, it was dull, just sitting there alone, answering questions I already knew the answers to. I shouldn't complain too much, as I won a Miller Light Pilsner glass, but really? Did I have to travel nearly two hours just for that?

Anyway, before I left for Rochester I decided to look bar-ready but still cutesy, so I slapped on my sparkly converse sneakers and a sparkly headband (I felt the sparkles lightened the red/black combo which can be a bit severe). At the bar my hair was in a low ponytail with the headband, and I have to say, I think I looked pretty cute.

black lace-trimmed undershirt: Van Heusen (via Van Heusen Outlet)
red cardigan: Torrid
jeans: Old Navy
shoes: Converse via Target
bracelet: Lia Sophia (via party)
headband: found under the sink...origins unknown