Daily Outfit - Kate - 2/5/10

You can't tell from the way I'm posting (ummm...no Internet postmarks :-P) but I'm blogging from our super-nice room in the Fairfield in downtown Chicago. Jeff is off doing envinronmental lawyery studenty things, and I just came back from breakfast. Just setting the stage for ya.

Here's yesterday's outfit, which was worn in cab --> St. Louis MetroLink --> Amtrack --> CTA bus --> CTA train --> CTA bus --> FIELD MUSEUM --> CTA bus --> dinner. So it got around (and you're catching it at its third-to-final stop, when we were in the Field Museum :-)


That's how I was running around for most of the day. Do I look exhausted and like my feet were killing me and like my shoulder was numb from hauling around a day bag with my Nikon, 300g of sock yarn (3 pairs' worth), my stainless travel mug and other purse necessities? I hope not!

The outfit under that superwarm wool coat (seriously worth every penny. LLBean knows outerwear!!!):

I actually put more thought into this than I do my usual daily outfits. The flat boots were a must, and I actually figured that Friday would be less running around than other days, so I chose the least-comfortable of my flat boots. That corduroy skirt and red scarf are pretty much like a security blanket for me at this point; I knew I wouldn't want to feel like *everything* around me was unfamiliar (which was nice, because we spent a good chunk of the day L-O-S-T LOST.

I look kinda psychotic here, but look! It's Sue!


Coat: LLBean (mine is the older style - not the "new and improved" linked there).
Boots: 704b, via DSW
Skirt: GAP, fall 2009
Scarf: Plowsharing Crafts, summer 2009
tights: Hellmart
tee: Target
flowered shirt: Sears, circa 2001. I wear it rarely but keep it because I LOVE that print!
earrings: mummie

Daily Outfit - Jen - 2/1/10

This weekend, my friend, Thao, and I went shopping. I told her that I was in desperate need of cute, semi-dressy, (and most importantly) functional shoes for work. After all, I have vowed not to wear my Uggs this month, so this is SERIOUS BUSINESS, folks.

We looked everywhere! DSW, Aldo, Nordstrom, Macy's, Steve Madden (that store will make you feel like an old lady like that *snaps fingers*), Nine West... you name it, we tried it. I felt like such a failure. Even when I found a pair of shoes for real life (i.e. not work), they had one size too big and one size too small, but not my size. The trip was a bust. Correction: almost a bust. Check out the super cute coat I picked up.

I'm pretty obsessed with it.

Coat: Nordstrom

Pashmina: NYC street vendor

Sweater: Old Navy (clearance!)

Jeans: Nordstrom Rack

Boots: Aldo

Daily Outfit - Jen - 1/29/10

Thank dog it's Friday! That stinker is Dimitri. Say hello to Dimitri, everybody!

This was my second attempt at doing a fancy scarf tie, and I think I'm getting closer to what it's actually supposed to look like.

I love this coat. I loved it so much that I didn't care that it was not in my size. It was the last one left, and if I couldn't have it, I was determined that NO ONE COULD. I was so smitten that I paid real money for it to a store that I loaaatthhheee.

Cutie green coat, I love you!

Peacoat: Bebe (grrr)

Pashmina: NYC street vendor

Sweater: Gap

Jeans: Nordstrom Rack

Boots: Ancient and unknown.