Weekend Outfits - Working and Playing

I filled in at the main WW centre Saturday morning on Reception - woo, it was crazy! I had to build my outfit around semi flat boots, plus I was weighing in (no change, yay!), so I had to wear light clothing.

The end result:
I've only worn this dress once before (as part of my favourite outfit here), and wanted to change up the complementary colour to blue. Added the cardi over top, and my blue vintage slip underneath, along with my navy blue pouffy underskirt:

I also pinned open the neckline of the dress (it is meant to button up) with little safety pins.

I left the pics uncropped so you can see the puddle of cat watching me very carefully. Heh.

The stuff:

I love these boots - they are so comfy.

I had several compliments on my "lovely necklace" - ha, fooled ya! It's actually a brooch.

I just threaded it onto the silver cord chain.

Dress (no label/unknown, consignment), cardigan (Jessica, consignment), slip (vintage, thrifted), underskirt (Noa Noa), belt (Denver Hayes, consignment), boots (Miz Mooz), brooch worn as necklace (The Bay), earrings (Plum).

Saturday night, our friend Chris celebrated his birthday, so L and I joined the crowd for dinner and drinks after. I wore this new-to-me dress that I picked up a few weeks ago:

I had seen this dress at my favourite consignment store several times and not tried it on. It was a little pricey at $59, and the style was a bit intimidating. Ruffles? Studs? Not sure. But this time I tried it on, and I loved how it fit, so I bought it. I'm so glad I did! This was ultra-comfy to wear all night.

The dress is Bodybag by Jude Clothing, a Montreal company. I couldn't find this dress pictured in any of their collections, but I found a mention and picture of it in this blog, calling it "Love Dress O". How cool, my dress has a name!

I sort of played up the cowgirl look of it with my Hispanita boots (last worn here) and my Shi Studio cowboy belt:I did the belt-wrapped-around-my-wrist thing to make a cuff:

A close-up of the top half of the outfit:

The dress is an khaki velvet with a bit of stretch. I love the pyramid studs and the snap at the neckline. It had the original price tag on it when I bought it, so it's never been worn:

I saved $100 bucks!

L and I walked to town, so I bundled up.

Okay, you folks getting dumped on with snowstorms and such can officially hate on us West coast-ers. This is a thin leather jacket, and I'm sleeveless. And I didn't need the gloves or scarf that badly.

That's my awesome Matt & Nat bag (detail shots here).

The stuff:

I did silver accents instead of trying to be all matchy with the brushed gold. My tights were a gold/black blend, though.

A close-up:

Yup, that's stuff.

Dress (Bodybag by Jude Clothing, consignment), boots (Hispanitas, consignment), belt (Shi Studio), belt worn as wrist-wrap (Plum), wrist-wrap (Club Monaco), ring (gift from Cindy), white gold earrings (gift from L), jacket (Bebe, thrifted), faux fur gloves/scarf (Parkhurst), bag (Matt & Nat).

Weekend Outfits - Fuschia and Skulls

I did a little once-over of Plum's close-out sale (still a few weeks to go), as they're still getting stock in for clearance before they close. I found this sweet, skull-licious cashmere blend cardigan:
That's the kind of quirky thing I adore: funky but still a classic shape and material. It was regular $88 on sale for $26.

Coincidently, I'd just picked up this skirt the weekend before for a whopping $7.00. The thrift store I found it in had slotted it into their regular (as opposed to "boutique" or name brand) section. The regular stuff is all the same price (i.e. all skirts are $7), whereas boutique items are individually priced, and usually more expensive. The clerk was surprised that this had not been marked as boutique but score! for me!

I love that there is just enough fuschia in the skirt for it to go with the cardigan. I wore this outfit for my weekly WW weigh-in (woot! down 1.2!) and then out for lunch after.

Check out the back of the cardi:
There's a skull with a red bow! How awesome! That led to me doing a red cami underneath, as there was a bit of red in the skirt's pattern too. The skirt is a satin-finished polyester. Very flowy.

The back of the cardi detail:

Oh, that just makes me giggle with delight. A skull with a bow!

The stuff:

The shoes are also new - they're Aldo, leather and were priced at $32 in my favourite consignment store. Fortunately, I had a $30 credit from my last clothing trade-in, so that made these cheapy-cheapy.

Unfortunately, they are a smidge too tight. The woven leather will stretch out over time - that's a given - but the heels rubbed like nobody's business. So....I took an X-acto knife to the edges of the heel and made two incisions on either side of the vertical heel seam. Ahhhhhh...much better. It means these won't be worth consigning when I'm done with them, but you know what? They're gold kitten heels! I'm going to wear them to death!

Edit: Okay, here's how I do this. I DO NOT recommend you do this yourself unless you want to run the risk ruining your shoes (if you cut too deeply, it can wreck them - I've had it happen). I do not take responsibility for what you decide to do to your shoes.

This is my hobby knife/X-acto blade. I've indicated by the red arrows where I made the cuts:

I have cut through the stitching around the edge of the shoe deliberately, because that tends to be where the heels are tightest.

A close-up:

I'm pulling the edges of the cuts apart slightly so you can see how much extra stretch this "repair" gives.

Cardigan (Kersh), cami (Mexx), skirt (Dex, thrifted), shoes (Aldo, consignment), earrings (gift from L).

I did some cleaning out of the den earlier this week in preparation for the Winesday clothing swap this weekend. Inigo took the opportunity to hop into an empty bag.

Aw, what a cutie-patootie!

For Winesday on Saturday night, I swapped the skirt for my comfy jeans:

Inigo doesn't want me to go.

I traded my earrings for these new ones I also picked up at Plum (regular $33, on sale for $3):

Also wore my Club Monaco wrist-wrap.

Cardigan (Kersh), cami (Mexx), jeans (Seven7, swap from Caro), booties (Miz Mooz), belt (Plum), earrings (Plum), wrist-wrap (Club Monaco).