Not-So-Casual Friday, Crazy Saturday and Slouchy Sunday Shopping

Where does the time go? Sunday already? Outrageous! 

It was a fun weekend, though - I don't begrudge any of my time. But let's cast our minds back to Friday. This outfit garnered the comment, "You really just don't do the Casual Friday thing, do you?"

Nah, not really.

Any excuse to wear this gorgeous Desigual dress. L and I went out for a nice dinner after work on Friday, and since I stayed downtown, I wanted to be nicely dressed up for him. He wore the floral Dolce and Gabbana shirt I got him last weekend, but I didn't get a picture of it.

I last styled this dress here in January for Megan's birthday, but only had it on for a few minutes. The last time I actually wore it as a real outfit was in the March 2012 capsule (recap here), where I wore it three times.

Speaking of Megan, the other Megan (The Fashionable Bureaucrat) has this same dress - check it out. We both purchased them the same year; she got hers in Paris and I bought mine in London.

"I've got my eye on you."

It's such a gorgeous piece, I should really wear it more.

The stuff:

After work, but before dinner, I shopped for about an hour, picking up things for my niece's birthday. Mostly books - I like giving books. These shoes were most comfortable for all my hiking about. I last wore them in June, here, for Elaine's art opening. Disco Dutch!

Big bling:

Flowers and blue rings.

Dress (Desigual), shoes (Prepare Hi Steady, Fluevogs), earrings (local), lapis lazuli/Fulvia Ring (Wendy Brandes).

Yesterday, we didn't have Ulty, so we met up with friends for breakfast at our diner. I kinda went crazy with my hair.

That's what it looks like when I wake up in the mornings, although this hairstyle is crafted to deliberately look like this. Yeah, sometimes I want to look whackadoo! This is my entry for Patti's "Visible Monday" over at Not Dead Yet Style! Thanks for hosting, Patti!

Green dress! With eyelets! And a hem of boustrophedon ruffles! I last wore it earlier this month (here), also on a Saturday.

The shoes are also somewhat "out there" - they are my Faith Low Reumahs that I last wore here in June with a shoulderless top and swaths of chains. I wore this outfit to our niece's birthday - happy birthday, Sydney! My other nieces were appropriately impressed with the wackiness of the outfit/hair.

Oh yeah, I got some socks for myself while I was out on Friday night.

Hee, owls! These will be fun with boots in the fall.

Today, I got up early and headed down to get groceries. It's still quite hot and after two days of short dresses, I felt like being covered up a bit more.

I had actually planned this to be my Casual Friday outfit, but then decided to dress up more. So why not a soft and slouchy outfit for Sunday? Perfect.

The yellow is one of my camisoles.

I last wore this cardigan on a grocery expedition in April (here), also with a neutral skirt.

This skirt is one of my favourites. I love the mushroom colour and the wrinkled texture. I last wore it here in May while being inspired by nature.

The sandals are my pearlized cream Clarke's, getting very good use this summer. I last wore them here with the green dress above.

I added my cross-body bag for walking around and shopping, and a yellow silk scarf for extra coverage if needed.

Cardigan (Kersh, consignment), cami (RW & Co., consignment), skirt (Club Monaco), shoes (Artisan by Clarke's, consignment).

I headed down to My Sister's Closet consignment shop. There's still lots of summer stuff in the shop, but I found this seasonless dress aka the Black Blob:

I am actually really excited about this black blob! It's finally - FINALLY - a perfect shirtwaist dress. I used to have a turquoise one (this one) that wrinkled way too much, and I got rid of the horribly-coloured-for-me oatmeal one (this one). These are not easy to find second-hand!

I bleached out the colour in the photo so you can see a bit of detail.

It's a cotton/spandex blend, with cuffed sleeves (I'll be able to do L's cufflinks in them, yay!), pockets (double yay!) and buttons up the front from neck to hem. It had an awful plastic skinny black shiny belt (why?? this probably cost new over $100 - why not put a better belt on it?) that I tossed into the donation bag immediately.

It's from Talbot's and was only $28.98 - the white tag you can see at the neck has the little envelope with a spare button, so pretty sure this was never worn! Fine by me - I love being able to find a beautiful quality staple piece for a good price.

I also scored on this gorgeous brown leather belt.

It's wide like an obi in front (and quite rigid), with a narrow buckled back.

It was only $18.98, and it's by Brave Belts.

Italian leather, made in Canada! It's pretty close to their current "Fiano" style (here, linking 'cause I love), which sells for $130, so I think my belt was probably around $100. Score!

Hope your weekend was full of fun and good deals!