Rockin' Black and White

White Sparkly Shirt- Old Navy
Black Cords- JCPenney
Black Fleece- Columbia Jacket Liner
Earrings- I wore for my wedding.. Claires?
Sunnies- Fleet Farm
Heels - Old Navy (best $5 shoes EVER... clearance shoes NEVER come in my size!)

Me Most of the Time

I am a casual cat. I tend to get dressed up for work. That is about it. This is what I look like on the weekends. And standing in front of OUR NEW HOUSE! Yay! We are mostly moved in and loving it. Decorating is fun. Even with no budget.



White Tank- Old Navy
Red Striped Shirt - Target
Jeans- American Eagle
Belt- Kenneth Cole.... I always say Diesel... when I say Diesel it is also this Kenneth Cole belt. (Weird)
Shoes - CROCS! AHHHHHHHHHHHH



Yes I said it... I wear crocs. I have TWO pairs. I don't have any of the originals. I have a wedge heel version and a mary jane version.

P.S. I made the chair! Thanks high school shop class!

Thrift Jacket Exploration

How many suit jackets fit in a paper bag?
My mother thrifted these suits for me the other day. I was crying.. YES crying over the fact that I now have to wear a suit to work daily. Since I made the move to our new area, I have been slowly (and quickly lol) adding city appropriate clothing to my closet. With the new workload that I have, not a promotion (no raise or title), I will now be required to wear suits daily. I HATE suits. I know they can work, but I struggle with them to no end. I have problems with lengths of pants and jackets. I have problems with rise of pants. I have problems with sagginess of pants. I have problems with buttons on jackets. I have problems with locked and loadedness of items under said jacket.

I struggle to find mix and match suits that fit that look nice together (and apparently that look professional enough). I struggle to find all together suits that fit me. I am a 10/12 on bottom when low rise. I am a 14/16 on bottom when high wasted. I am at least a 16/18 through the chest and I am somewhere inbetween everywhere else. I know the answer is to find something and tailer it but honestly I never take the time. I have every good intention but I don't so let's just leave it.
I hate suits. I feel more pulled together in a blazer and jeans. Why can't business be conducted in clothes like that? Do suits make you feel pretentious? Do they make you feel like the people you meet think you look down on them in their casual clothes? Do they make you look like you are playing dress up in your mother's clothes?

I HATE SUITS! Granted I can handle wearing them once in a while but EVERYDAY? I feel like I want to cry.

All the clothes that I have bought are basically garbage as I don't dress business casual on weekends. I do like to mix in some pieces but I have more than I can ever wear on weekends. Dressier is just not fitting for my casual weekend lifestyle.

Ok off the rant...
My mom thrifted me these suits so that I would have some options on what to wear. I am not sure about any of them. I think the black one feels big... anyone opinions? I think the middle one is great but since I can't button it does it count as a suit? The third one is too small. I don't think I can circle my shoulders.
Sorry mom I didn't take pics of the eighties jacket. I am a bit afraid of it honestly.
Let me know what you guys think. PLEASE!




Jacket One: A bit big?
Jacket Two: Won't button but still like it
Jacket Three: Toooooo small!?

What do you guys think?

Keeping the Dogs Happy

And when I say keeping the dogs happy... I mean my feet. Along with buying a new house, I have had a change in my job. I am spending a lot of time out and about rather than at my desk. In honor of this, I bought some new shoes. If I wasn't an advocate of Marshall's before, I would be now.

I bought these Naturalizer Akin's for like $29.99


I found them here on Zappos for $74.95.

These shoes have been perfect for 3 straight days of lots of walking. They look cute under suit pants, with a skirt, and I am trying out cropped pants tomorrow (I think).

I am undecided about the other pair. I also came across a pair of very similar Naturalizer shoes for a similar price. They felt like sneakers when I put them on! But they were white. I am not sure how much use I would get out of the white shoes. Do you wear white shoes? What do you wear them with? What don't you wear them with? Can you dress them up with a suit? HELP!

Whoa!

The Budget Babe posted about these shoes. I need to share! They are awesome... but Jenna you say. You need work shoes. To that I must respond. Yeah yeah... I know (insert resigned and dejected sigh here.)
Click on the image to buy these beauties for yourself! (another sigh here)

Sunglasses

Do you ever have enough pairs of sunglasses? In the previous 4? posts, I am wearing 3 different pairs of glasses. The white and black ones... were eaten. The metal aviators are a little bent but wearable. The black with BLING glasses are alive and kickin'. The black ones were are my new replacement pair. I will try to get a picture soon. Oh Fleet Farm. How can I not love that you have rockin' glasses for about $15!

Blue Blue Blue

Blue Shirt- thrifted
White Tshirt - Mossimo via Target
Pants - Nicole Miller via JCPenney
Shoes- Target
Black Jacket - Columbia Convert Jacket Liner
Necklace - my mom