Have you noticed, it's Spring at J.Crew

Don't you wish it was spring here too?   More importantly wouldn't this blouse be perfect for spring?  Love the emerald green roses and the cut looks like it would be sooo flattering. 

The Perfect Pants

With my wardrobe re-vamp in mind I recently did some good ol' online shopping and bought these fabulous new pants.  They weren't on sale, this my friends, is a big deal for me.  Virtually every article of clothing I own I bought on sale.  So this was a splurge, I got them in bright red and at first I was hesitant, I mean...can I really rock bright red pants?  They're pretty uncharacteristic of me, but when I put them on I feel pretty awesome and they're surprisingly wearable. 

 

(image via Harper's Bazaar Street Style)

Bill Cunningham's New York

My parents are fanatical New York Times readers.  They live in an area where you can't get it delivered so they buy it every single day without fail.  When they were in the Peace Corps in the 70s my grandmother would mail the Sunday editions to them.  When lived in Indiana also in the 70s, my grandmother would mail them the daily editions.  On any given evening you can fnd my parents listening to folk music, drinking red wine and sitting in their living room reading The Times.  As an adult this sounds rather appealing, as a child not so much.  Then at about age 8 I began finding the newspaper interesting, particularly the styles section.  Each week I would read about glamourous New York with total fascination.  My mother and I would also have elaborate discussions about the weddings and of course, Bill Cunningham's On the Street.

Red Lipstick

So recently I've been thinking that my style is pretty stale - often fluctuating between a adolescent girl from the 90's and a frumpy middle aged woman.  Post-baby my old clothes aren't too big or too tight they just fit different, so maybe I need to spend some time going through old clothes, chucking what doesn't work anymore and investing in some new clothes I actually like and didn't just buy because they were on sale.  In addition to working on my clothes situation, I'd think I'd like to try wearing lipstick, some red lipstick, I just want to look like me, but with pretty red lips.

Do you wear lipstick?  I don't, well at least not daily, maybe for a date with Esposo but it's really light and I usually lean more towards a stain or a lipgloss.  When I put on lipstick I usually wind up feeling like a clown or waaay overdressed for daily life.  For my wedding my good friend who's far more fashionable than I kept insisting that I put on more lipstick and I thought she was crazy but I listened to her anyway and when I look back at the pictures I don't look like a clown, I just look like me with pretty red lips.