What Day of the Week Is It?

Like many of you, I'm at the point in my quarantine life where I have only a vague sense of what day it is. While I still have to keep track of assignments, meetings, etc. for work, the days sort of just blur together in a way that feels very foreign to anything that I have ever experienced before. Speaking of things that are foreign, or at least in a foreign language, how cute is this tee that features the day of the week in French? I actually had no idea what the words on the tee meant until I read the description on the website but, to be honest, the days of the week might as well be in a foreign language to me at this point!

I wore this outfit for a stroll, which has now become an at least daily ritual. About once a week, however, my husband and I, myself being dressed up, take a walk sans our dog, William, because he can be a little crazy when we stop and take too many pictures for too long of a time! While I'm not always as happy with the results as I might be if I had the luxury of going into the city to be photographed against a cool backdrop or a colorful wall, I'm starting to become less picky, which might, in the long run, be a good thing! (I also now know where all the bougainvillea is!) For this stroll, I paired my tee with a cute, orange skirt and summery knotted headband. It's not the normal thing I would wear to take a stroll but it felt nice to get somewhat dressed up for a little while and it was a nice distraction from whatever I was doing on whatever day it was!

Tee: J. Crew here
Skirt: SheIn similar orange skirt here
Shoes: J. Crew similar silver flats here
Headband: J. Crew Factory here
Sunglasses: Celine

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It's in the Bag!

I bought this paper bag waist skirt last spring on clearance, but I'm just now getting around to wearing it. Due to the olive drab color of the skirt, I think it actually works quite nicely for fall. Anyway, when the skirt first arrived last spring, I was a little confused about how to wear it and tie the bow since the sash it came with was really, really long. I eventually figured out that it needed to be wrapped not once, but twice. I tend not to like my clothes to be a mystery in regard to how to put them on, but I really wanted a skirt in this color, so I made a few concessions!

I wasn't the only one who was somewhat confused by the skirt. When I wore this for the first time last month, my husband said, "I like your military style skirt." In order to teach him something about fashion, I then explained that it's actually a paper bag waist skirt, to which my husband gave a sort of a confused expression. (I can't say I blame him because it is kind of an odd name!) Anyway, from that point on he started referring to my skirt as a "military trash bag," thus combining his own thoughts about the skirt with what I had told him into a really unique twist on this particular style of skirt!

Well, no matter what you call it, this style has definitely grown on me (and maybe even my husband!), so you will see a few versions of it that I linked to below if you are interested. On a side note, I wore this outfit to a wine tasting event that was sponsored by Riedel wine glasses. It was all about how different glasses influence the taste of the wine you are drinking. It was a pretty interesting event that taught me a few things I didn't know before about wine and stemware. I guess no matter if it's the world of wine or the world of fashion, there's always something new to learn!

Skirt: J. Crew paper bag waist skirt here, very similar style here
Tee: J. Crew similar here
Shoes: J. Crew similar yellow pumps here
Earrings: Baublebar similar beaded earrings here
Clutch: Clare v. foldover leopard clutch here, cheaper version here
Sunglasses: Celine here

Flower Power!

This time of year always tends to be a drag for me. It's a month before the end of the school year and there's always a ton of work to do, but because it's almost summer, I want to go into vacation mode and not do any of it! So as you can see, being in the final stretch like this is nice because the end is in sight, but tiring at the same time. We've also had days of some very overcast, gloomy and cold weather, which has only made me more tired! Well, the cure for all of this is...bright colors, of course! Nothing brightens my mood and wakes me up like a splash of color and some flowers, which is clearly reflected in the outfit I have on in today's post.

In addition to bright colors, the other thing that recently made my day was discovering that a fantastic artist had drawn up some sketches of me in several outfits that were featured on my Instagram account! One of the outfits is actually the one in this post, which I am sharing below. The artist is Lori Burt from Project Print and I absolutely love her artistic style! She got all of the details of this look down, plus, she made me look really chic (much more so than I feel lately in real life!), which cheered me up from my "May Gloom"!

While this tee is no longer available on J. Crew's website, I linked to some others that are similar and also have some adorable flowers on them. J. Crew's T-shirt game has been strong this year. The only thing I wish is that the sizing could be a little bit more accurate. Some tees seem to run quite big (like this one) while others run too small. But I can't complain too much when I'm wearing such cheerful flowers and a talented artist created a really cute illustration of me wearing them!

Skirt: Kate Spade here
Tee: J. Crew
Bag: Kate Spade
Shoes: J. Crew
Sunglasses: Prada

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