recap: 2013

are you ready for this?  it's an ENTIRE YEAR of tiny outfit circles!

january: a month of (mostly) pants

february: a month of red pops

march: a little bit more red


april: a month of wearing slightly more patterns


may: a month for weddings


june: a month of (cold) honeymoon outfit photos and some neturals for work


july: a month of summer dresses


august: a month of stripes, dresses, and light layers


september: a month of neutrals and some phillip lim for target acquisitions


october: a month of turning twenty-nine and jumping on the neutrals train


november: a month of black pants/tights (and the beginning of my thirty/thirty project)


december: a month of being cold and wearing jackets

dotty, camo print, and the last place sweater

[wearing]
pants: gap (similar)
sweater: joie
coat: zara (similar)
boots: loeffler randall (similar)
bag: phillip lim for target

[three things]
1. slushy puddle conditions definitely call for rainboots.

2. this sweater got moved to the back of my closet and i kinda forgot about it.  it's my third favorite rust-colored joie piece (after this dress and this silk blouse) and the color has been phased out, so it's going to hold onto it's last place spot for awhile.

3. i'm going through a dark nail polish phase that started when i bought a fresh bottle of OPI's "lincoln park after dark".  it's the perfect super dark purple color.

dotty, winter baseball, and fancy sweatpants

[wearing]
baseball cap: j.crew (exactly)
coat: old navy (exactly and it's on crazy sale right now)
shirt: club monaco (similar)
pants: wayf (similar)
not snow boots: forever21 (similar)
necklace: stella&dot
bag: phillip lim for target

[three things]
1. christmas hat!  this guy has saturday morning coffee run written all over it.

2. my christmas vacation is pretty much nonexistent this year since apparently construction doesn't stop just because i want to spend the day watching love actually in my pajamas again.  at least my monster project is finally ending, so i'll be working on some new projects next year!

3. this is not a very warm coat, but it is the perfect fun coat for above-freezing days.

a dash of sequins

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i have yet to bust out the sequins this year, but i was looking through my own archives to get some ideas for how i've dressed them down in the past.  i also have a black sequined dress (similar to this one) that i thrifted in vegas back in september that definitely needs to make an appearance!

sequins with slouchy

sequins with winter layers

sequins and red

almost sequins (it's actually just shiny beads) and a patterned cardigan

sequins for the weekend

dotty, double stripes, and day thirty!

[wearing]
jacket: zara
shirt: thrifted
pants: j.crew factory
flats: old navy (exactly)
bag: phillip lim for target

[three things]
1. i'm usually about a week behind on outfit posting, but these photos managed to slip under the radar for weeks!  look, there's leaves on the ground!  and no giant slushy/icy deathtraps!  alleys just aren't what they used to be...

2. dude.  this thirty is done-zo!

3. things are (as expected for this time of year) a bit hectic.  and my project schedules have all conspired to keep me from taking any sort of lazy-a-thon vacation.  #grinchwhostolechristmas  anyway, it's looking like i'll be taking a holiday break from this here blogerson to make this all work.  so, see ya later, alligator.  

dotty, gray'd, and day twenty-nine

[wearing]
jacket: theory (similar)
dress: rachel rachel roy
tights: simply vera (exactly)
heels: merona (exactly)
clutch: h&m

[three things]
1. i realized a little bit too late into this thirty/thirty/thirty remixing game that i included a ton of black and dark neutrals.  i set out to put together one outfit that had no black pieces, but these dark gray tights ended up looking pretty darn dark.  oh well.  i spent the day happily gray'd out.

2. i thought these would just be summer heels when i bought them, but i've come around to the idea of dark tights with lighter shoes.

3. yup, there's a wee bit of pattern mixing in play today.  this scarf is lighter than a lot of my other ones, but still has a good amount of volume when its tied.

dotty, mixing brown and black, and day twenty-eight

[wearing]
coat: vince (exactly)
dress: suzi chin (exactly)
scarf: ebay
boots: forever21 (exactly)
bag: phillip lim for target

[three things]
1. i've been wearing a lot of black lately, but this brown coat is by far my favorite semi-warm coat.  and so a leopard-print scarf was exactly what i needed to bring the two together.

2. yay for fridays!

3. i've been contemplating getting a new purse and am leaning towards some sort of foldover clutch.  any ideas out there?