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