(top and shorts: Vestique // shoes: Sole Society // bracelet: Ashlar // ring: Jenna Logan)
In case you didn’t know, this past Sunday was Mother’s Day. In honor of the day, I slept in, woke up to my husband making a fresh pot of coffee and enjoyed some homemade scrambled eggs and bacon. Then, I had a relaxing brunch/lunch with a fab group of girls including a dear friend of mine who was visiting (and just started an awesome new jewelry line. hint: check out my bracelet). I may not be a mother yet, but I’m pretty sure I’ve got this mother’s day thing down pat.
All kidding aside, we did spend some time with my mom who is pretty great, if I do say so myself. We hosted a dinner at our house, and I even made this strawberry-rhubarb pie.
P.S. Make sure to enter my Darphin giveaway which ends next week! $100 of luxe beauty products could be yours. for realz.
The first issue of Carolina Style is available online! Check it out to see yours truly as well as the 24 other most stylish people in the triangle. Holler.
(tee: Threads for Thought // jacket: H&M // skirt: Ann Taylor // bag: Coach // shoes: Jessica Simpson // necklace: Vestique)
An offsite meeting with a full length mirror in the bathroom calls for a blurry outfit shot.
obviously.
(skirt: Eva Franco via Anthropologie // top: Development by Erica Davies // clutch: no brand // shoes: DSW // necklaces: Gorjana and House of Harlow)
Last Friday was the awards party for the Triangle’s 25 Most Stylish Event put on by Carolina Style Magazine (issue out this week!) and here’s what I wore! I wanted something fun and a little unexpected, but still comfortable. It was actually neck and neck between the votes and the coral dress even won by a hair, but when I tried on the outfits, I decided I felt most confident in the skirt. I paired it with this strappy black tank instead of the pink shirt and brought in color with my shoes and clutch. Knotting my House of Harlow necklace was sort of a last minute decision I made in a rush because I didn’t like how long it hung on my neck. My hair covered the chain and luckily, I was able to get the knot out when I got home. whew. Sometimes you just gotta act now and hope for the best later.
What do you think of my outfit choice?
Trillas,
I need your help.
The Triangle’s 25 Most Stylish Awards event is tomorrow(!!!) night (tickets here, y’all $5 off with code Style25MS . Come and say hi! pleeeease.)
I’m debating between two different looks. Since I have a reputation to uphold (ha!) I need to know:
- Which of the above is your favorite?
- Are they just both dumb?
There will be a red carpet to walk (ha. ha.) and then I have to accept my award and shizz. So help me pick one pleeeease. And if you are well versed in the sorts of things that involve walking red carpets and getting your picture snapped without being perfectly posed, please give me some pointers. I know to stick my arm out so it looks skinny and Jessica Simpson taught me to stick my chin out and down. What am I missing?
xo,
Julie
It’s so flippin cold in my office that I’m literally spending my lunch hour just standing in the sun.
Alternatively (and thanks to the wind blowing my skirt around), I could caption this photo, “Look ma! No legs!” (Taken with instagram)
New bangle from furbish. Only 14 smackers and tres on-trend. (Taken with instagram)
(sunnies: House of Harlow // top: Belk // skirt: Frock Shop Revival // boots: Steve Madden // bag: Coach)
Last Sunday, Jason and I treated ourselves to lunch at our favorite little french restaurant, Coquette. They have a really great brunch complete with $10 bottomless mimosas!
Can we talk about my skirt for a minute? I’ve had this skirt since February and have been dyyyyyyying for some warm weather in which to debut it. I paired it with a striped shirt and these boots I’ve had for ages and it was a perfect outfit our little Sunday date.
And what’s even more perfect is the story behind this skirt. Once upon a time, Jason had a beautiful cousin named Caroline  and she opened an adorable store in Charlotte, NC called Frock Shop. It grew organically out of trunk shows she’d held over the past couple of years and when she opened a brick and mortar place a couple months ago, we popped in for the grand opening.
(yes, that’s her and yes that’s her real hair color. ugh. i know. totally jeal.)
She features an extrememly well edited collection of vintage clothes and a line of reworked vintage pieces called Frock Shop Revival (which is the collection my skirt came from). You know how you might try to be cool and go “thrifting” but then you look at like twenty things and they all suck and the racks are crammed together and it smells funky in there. No? Just me? Well, the good news is that Caroline does all the leg work for us. Literally every single thing in her store is a great vintage find that she’s sourced from multiple thrifting excursions. So, pop into Frock Shop and then when people ask where you got something you can be like, “oh this? it’s vintage, dahling.”
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(sweater: Vince Camuto // leggings: Romeo and Juliet Couture // boots: Steve Madden // bag: Handmaid by Michelle Franz (not even sure if this brand exists anymore) // necklace and sunnies: House of Harlow // bracelet/hairtie: Emi-Jay)
It’s alive! IT’S ALIIIIIVE!!!!
That’s basically what I said to myself last night as I logged into my blog for the first time in a week to write this update. Ooopsies.
I didn’t mean to go all missing-in-action last week, but it’s just that I didn’t think to blog.
*gasp*
I don’t know what in tarnation is wrong with me, but suffice to say that everything is a-okay in the land of moi and please accept this outfit post as my sincere apology.
I spent this weekend catching up with my little brother who was in town after dropping the bomb that he has been married for two years.(Yes, you read that right. harumph. don’t want to talk about it. Moving on.) And I relaxed. Work has been uber cray-cray and I’m relishing any downtime I get. This weekend, downtime looked like: me on the couch with Vampire Diaries on Netflix (ZOMG I have been missing out); me at my little brother’s elementary school’s International Night where I heard a second grader sing and I am sure they will be using the home video from that performance in about 12 years when she’s winning her first Grammy; me at a bridal show with two of my besties - one of whom is getting married in four months; me drinking mimosas with said besties; and me out with my boo late afternoon on Sunday to recap the weekend.
Oh, also I tried out a center part starting on Saturday. Do you likey? I’d been rocking the side part plus swoop since my days as a sorority girl (if you’re counting, it’s been 11.5 years), and I figured it was time to change things up a bit. My mom is a fan “because my face is perfectly symmetrical,” but she also thinks I shouldn’t wear makeup and “ruin my perfect skin.”
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