Date: January 13, 2012
Jeans: AG Jeans (via Anthropologie)
Sweater: L.L. Bean
Jacket: Danier
Scarf: American Eagle
Boots: Aldo
I love my new jeans. Also mixing prints. By which I mean accidentally mixing prints because I was sort of obsessed with this scarf at this point.
Date: December 26, 2011
Dress: Anthropologie
Sweater: American Eagle
Belt: Urban Outfitters
Tights: Joe Fresh
Flats: Steve Madden
You can still be sparkly after Christmas, right?
Date: October 9, 2011
Sweater: Anthropologie
Jeans: Gap
Boots: Steve Madden
Picked up this lovely turtleneck on sale at Anthropologie while buying my mother her birthday present. Have to say - I’m in a very serious turtleneck space this fall.
Date: July 7, 2011
Skirt: Anthropologie
Blouse: Club Monaco
Shoes: Aldo
Hat: Joe Fresh
Oh, yes. I do still get dressed. I just also wrote an MCAT and stopped dressing nicely or even taking pictures of myself. Anyway, here’s a little bohemian outfit I wore three weeks before the MCAT out to dinner with friends at the local actor’s pub.
Date: June 5, 2011
Dress: Anthropologie
Cardigan: Gap
Shoes: Steve Madden
A little old-fashioned shoe never hurt anyone, especially not this girly sailor-inspired dress from Anthropologie.
Date: March 17, 2011 (St. Patrick’s Day)
Dress: Anthropologie
Cardigan: Club Monaco
Lace undershirt: Staring at Stars, via Urban Outfitters
Belt: H&M
Tights: Joe Fresh
Oxfords: Aldo
I wonder sometimes why there are people who choose not to wear any green on St. Patrick’s Day. I’m not even Irish (I’m half-Scottish) but I will take any chance to wear green. Plus I feel like if the print is Oriental-inspired, then I’m not being too prosaic.
Date: December 25, 2010
Dress: Anthropologie
Tights: Joe Fresh
Belt: L.L. Bean (Christmas gift from the Boyfriend!)
Cardigan: gifted from New York (Christmas gift from my mother!)
More Christmas day pictures are over at my blog, but I will say this over here: first, that this dress is sparkly! And second, merry belated Christmas.
Date: August 18, 2010
Dress: Maeve, via Anthropologie
Belt: H&M
Scarf: Thrifted
Shoes: First
Looking at this picture two days after the fact, the outfit looks a lot better here than I thought it did at the time. I got this sky-blue cargo-esque dress from Anthropologie during Boxing Day sales, and like many Boxing Day sales, I’ve often wondered if it fit quite right. I like this. I really think the scarf does something great for the outfit - I thrifted this scarf back out in Nova Scotia. Oh, thrifting. Why don’t I commit more effort to you? Maybe this weekend I should.
Dog Trot Cardigan - Anthropologie.com
I am so into this kind of print right now. My mother went to Scotland and brought me back a beautiful sky-blue cashmere sweater, and brought herself back a rough Icelandic wool sweater with a sheep print. I totally coveted the sheep print.
Date: July 25, 2010
Dress: Anthropologie
Shoes: Aldo
Cardigan: Gap
This Sunday was, as previously mentioned, the Boyfriend and I’s halfiversary (a year and a half, to be embarrassingly precise). We spent the day at the local heritage park, which recreates my area’s history from 1846 to about 1920. You move from the fort that engaged in the fur trade towards the first small settlements in 1880, the Edwardian age in 1902, and finally the 1920s. People get dressed up in costume and tell you historical facts if you’re so inclined. You know what I mean. I am not ashamed to say I love it - I’ve been going there since I was a child and my mother would take me as often as she could, and it’s a sweet whimsical romantic way to spend an afternoon. (I dressed the part.)
Another fun fact about it is that the film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (my favorite movie, incidentally) was filmed here (at least in part). Most notably, the train in the robbery scene in that movie is in fact this train! You take it from the entrance gate way back to 1864, which used to be innocuous but ever since I saw that movie it now feels slightly foreboding.
So clearly another important fact about this park is that Brad Pitt was once here.
I think, really, that aesthetically my favorite part of the park is seeing the insides of the houses and their antique furniture and sewing machines and books and decorations. Sunday was a sunny day and everything looked beautiful.
Date: July 17, 2010
Shirt: American Eagle
Skirt: Anthropologie
Belt: Club Monaco
Trench: Lux
Shoes: Aldo
Headband: Club Monaco
The Boyfriend and I drove about half an hour out of town to visit the university’s botanic gardens. We wandered through the Japanese Gardens, the Alpine Garden, the Iris Dell, the Rose Garden. We shared an ice cream and read in the sun (me, Good Omens; he, Poe’s short stories). It was a beautiful day, and as the Boyfriend has acquired somewhat of a green thumb (or at least the knowledge thereof) from his summers working at the local garden centre in his hometown, I kept being startled by how little I know about the prettiness of flowers. I like hearing about the practicality of flowers - the soil, the sun, the moisture. It’s far more interesting.
Date: June 21, 2010
Skirt: Anthropologie
Shirt: American Eagle
Cardigan: Club Monaco
Scarf: Gap
Shoes: Steve Madden
On very simple days, I like to just take this lovely vibrant embroidered skirt and pair it with a white tee-shirt and black flats. Today, I added a scarf and a cardigan. The Boyfriend and I just got back from our weekend in the mountains and the thought of oppressive office-wear and high heels was just too daunting to bear.
A 21 year old university student struggles with style and science.
