Personal Style: Casual Glamour

I love bumming around in casual jersey. And when I say "bumming around", I mean running errands while wrestling with my kids. Usuallly, I would wear flats, but couldn't find them so I wore these trusty shoes. My (sold out) Shade jersey skirt is a little baggy and a little frumpy. Actually, it doesn't look quite as bad in person as it does in these photos. The fitted American Apparel athletic vintage fit gym tee is one of my favorite fits of all time. Unfortunately, the shirt doesn't hold up to washings very well and gets a little too faded/ pilly for my liking, but I'll survive. Especially since it's my favorite (sold out) Ich Liebe Etsy print.

So, I did this somewhat 40's wave with my bangs and another messy side chignon. Since I made my Ivory Rose earrings  using (increasingly harder to find) vintage cabs from around the same era, and donned my red lipstick, I feel justified. Casey has some wonderful retro hairstyle tutorials, and there are many on youtube as well.

 skirt: shade/ shirt: etsy / shoes: thrifted / earrings: jeweled ambrosia

To learn how to REALLY glam up this look, visit my post here.

*Linked to Clothed Much's Rule Breaking Monday.

Scrunchies.

So American Apparel has a thing for doing things a little over-the-top. Take the assless tights for instance.

But the fact that they're advertising scrunchies in 2009 just absolutely blows my mind. I know I still have some in my bow drawer at my parents house (yes, I had a bow drawer and yes it's still there) but God forbid I ever wear one unless I'm washing my face.

But fo realz who will wear these??


After reading the Cut post and I immediately thought of the Sex and the City episode (which AA totally tries to downplay here) where Carrie's dating that obnoxious writer, Berger, and he writes about a girl that wears a scrunchie and Carrie totally flips out over it. TOTALLY JUSTIFIED.

When you see someone in public wearing a scrunchie one would only hope it was by accident or they're pretending like it's 1985.