a little hard, a little soft

source: lookbook

white is right

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French Navy

In honor of Camera Obscura's show tomorrow night, here are some of my favorite "Sailor" or "Nautical" outfits. I love how stripes and nautical clothes are everywhere, from high end to low end stores (check out your local F21 and Barney's and see what I'm talking about). Not only is it super cute for summer, but if you are a stripe fiend like myself, it's a good time to load up on basics. Here, some of my favorite looks from lookbook from a few months back....which means these ladies were ahead of the game!

white people

I'm totally la-la-loving the idea of the ombre color thing that is going on in hair fashion (or has been, for a few months now), but I have yet to see a person of color (or with a bit of color, at least) rock it. White people, you are so lucky. You get to wear EVERYTHING when it comes to beauty! It's a little harder for us brown babies, since we aren't as good of a canvas for certain colors. I've been thinking of trying this shit out, with blue or green, but am a bit apprehensive.

Does anyone have pics of someone other than a white person pulling this off? I would like to see what it looks like. And no, I'm not hating on you, white babies, so don't send me hate emails. I'm just saying.

Everything I can't have

Every time I go shopping, it is the most disheartening event of my week. Everything I want to wear makes me look absolutely ridiculous due to the 24 pounds that I have put on (yep, and it's only gonna go up). I can't wear fur, or anything that resembles fur and leopard print only seems to come in items that don't fit me anymore.

I'm still going to try to find tops with cute shoulders (as seen in a few here) and I'm still going to try to do something with my hair. In the meantime, I will gaze at these beauties and wait till Julian is born. I've been meaning to post these for a while, so they're pretty old.

I love the combo of black sheer with the shoulder details.

More shoulder detail. This is really the only look I can go for right now, but it's still pretty hard to find a top that actually goes over my belly.

Big sweaters! This is only something I know I can wear. But finding that right that both hides and accentuates my pregnancy just right is pretty hard to find.

Not that I would ever cut my hair like this, but I love love this girls hair.




And her hair too. I used to have it shaved on the side, but after growing it out for almost two years, I don't know if I'm willing to go shaved again. It just took so effin long to get it this length!
A little crunchy, I know, but it looks so warm and comfy. Two things that are at the top of my wardrobe priority right now.

Harpers Bazaar Russia/October 2009

Forward March

I saw a spread in Foam a few months ago, with a cute sweater with shoulder embellishments and I thought "Yes!". I wasn't able to find the picture online, but this  spread in vogue reminds me of it. 

knockout

what the hell will I wear???

Yep. I'm pregnant. I found out about two weeks ago. I had been "sick" for about a week and seriously thought I might be dying due to a chorizo burrito gone rouge. But after everyone and their mother told me that, No, I wasn't dying from food poisoning, but due to baby belly, I decided to prove them wrong and go to the doctor for a blood test.

HA! No burrito, but a baby. Now, I come home everyday after only being able to work a few hours, ready to pass out and puke up what very little I was able to eat. However, not only do I have to worry about how the hell I'm going to survive the morning sickness (which, PS is not just in the morning) and all the other great shit I'm now going to have to deal with, but I'm also going to need a whole new wardrobe.  I wish I could say that I'll be wearing nothing but flowing dresses, but with me just being barely pregnant, I'm also going to need a winter wardrobe. Here are some of my ideas about what selective buying I'm going to have to do, and yes, I went to these two lovely ladies for inspiration (what, were you expecting pictures of Angelina or JLo??)