California Casual

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Simple white cotton long tank with dark orange full skirt and flat bronze Rampage gladiator sandals. Plus couple of bangle bracelets I brought from Hawaii. In second version I replaced the skirt with bebe charcoal grey shorts.

Euro Chic

Recently I've read "Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style" and decided to post my own version of ech of the 10 styles using whatever I can find in my closet. The first one is Euro Chic.

Here is the casual version next to a dressy version. the dressy one is what I wore few days ago for 70's-80's party. It was pretty tough to come up with something that even slightly resembles 70-80's outfit since I am more of a 50's-60's girl myself.

The dressy version is a polka dot silk Valentino dress with Enzo Angiolini white heels, black faux crocodile print Liz Claiborne purse and white hair ornament. I think this dress is very Catherine Deneuve! :)

Yellow shorts

To folow up on the rule of each piece of clothing to pair up with at least 3 other items, here are my yelow Bebe shorts with 3 different tops: Coral Eileen Fisher tank, peach Due per due tank and Ann Taylor faux wrap shirt.

Closet cleanup

With the issue of having nothing to wear coming up too often these days, I've decided to do a closet cleanup. I made two piles: one to consign, and another to donate. The pile to donate has been left in the wealth area of the house for about 4 weeks (I know that because I put it there when Alberto came from Buenos Aires and now, after 4 weeks he is going back there and thus I know the pile spent a little over 4 weeks in wealth area) and now I should donate it within next few days. Feng Shui thing...

Anyways, with most unused clothes out of the closet I finally got room to breathe and can make some serious changes.

I've made a list of criteria a piece of clothing has to meet in order to stay in the closet. Here they are:

1) Each bottom has to go with at least 5 tops

2) Any new purchase has to match with at least 3 items already owned



Also there is a list of general closet rules:

1) 75% of all clothes has to be worn on regular basis with the remaining 25% can consist of clothes worn on occasion

2) 75% of the closet should be in solid colors and only 25% can be prints

3) 60% of the clothes should be work clothes, 20% family time clothes, 20% sports and recreation clothes, and 5% evening wear

I feel bad because I kinda broke one of my rules the other day when I bought two adorable Nine West print dresses

Lime green and chiffon skirt

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It took me a while to find what to wear with this chiffon skirt. I have a passion for those little skirts that are so hard to match. If color is right, then fabric is wrong and vice versa. This lime green Ann Taylor top seem to do the job

yellow and purple

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This is my experiment with contrasting colors, darker shade of purple with the lighter shade of yellow. The top and Nine West clutch are the same shade of dark purple and Bebe yellow shorts and BCBGirls peep toes are the same light lemon yellow.

I know it's a weird cobination of dressy shoes, shorts, and clutch combined with rather casual tank top but I like it

Navy and grey

Here is another combination of navy but this time with grey. Again, my navy pencil skirt but with gret Ann Taylor top and dark grey Nine West sandals.

Here it is with shittake colred B. Makovsky handbag

Navy and coral

Here is one of my favorite Theory pencil skirts in navy paired with Ann Taylor coral fitted shirt, coral purse, black Via Spiga sling backs and a string of white pearls. Navy and coral is one of my favorite color combos.

Experimenting with navy dress

Here I experimented with navy Ann Taylor dress, accessorizing it with coral and peach, yellow and warm pink.

The first combo was the dress with coral Liz Claiborne purse and peach pashmina, along with light brown sandals.

In the second one I paired it up with Bebe yellow three-buckle belt and BCBGirls yellow peep toe pumps.

The third variation combines the navy dress with warm pink Jones New York jacket, think black belt and black Via Spiga sling backs. These are my favorite!

I figured black and navy would not be a bad combo if there is more than one accessory in black. Besides, the buttons on the jacket are also black.

Warm pink near the face neutralizes the effect of dark colors - I am trying to stay within spring palette

Lime green and brown

That was my going to the movies outfit today

Clothes: lime green Ann Taylor top, golden brown Express design studio pants, and Boutique 9 brown sandals. I am trying to stay within spring palette when choosing my colors and lime green and golden brown do the job. This particular shade of lime green is by far my favorite

Teal and camel, peach and camel

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Clothes: Teal top and camel colored pants.
Accessories: pearls and white belt to match the pearls.

Below are the same pants but with a peach colored sweater and 2012 necklace. Same light brown shoes

Turquoise purse, multi-color top and neutral capri

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Turquoise, blue, white, grey and black xoxo top with cream Motivi capri and turquoise purse. I absolutely love this top, it goes with pretty much any neutrals or blues: black, white, greys, blues, teal, turquoise, blue jeans etc.

Purple

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Purple top, purple purse and purple and orange print on a skirt. Purse is Nine West, skirt is Motivi. Shoes are Enzo Angiolini

Medium spring green

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Combining bright spring colors with neutrals. I love how yellow shoes liven up the look. Love Nine West!

Clothes: Medium spring green BEBE top with neutral linen colored pants from H & M

Accessories: Yellow crocodile heels by Nine West and shittake colored B. Makowsky leather bag

Coral & Brown

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Coral and brown is one of my favorite combos.

Clothes: Coral fitted top by Ann Taylor, brown BEBE pencil skirt with small white polka dots and two slits - front left and back right.

Accessories: Brown Via Spiga sandals, thin brown belt, and peach/coral Liz Claiborne purse

Coral & Brown






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