The Style Checklist: The Ultimate Wardrobe Essentials For You

If you enjoyed Nina Garcia's "The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own" and "Lucky Shopping Guide", you will definitely enjoy this one. While Nina Garcia's book is more of a list of her personal favorites, "Style Checklist" is a complete guide to all the basics every woman must own. In author's words, this book should be a prerequisite to his other books where he teaches women how to create outfits without realizing that there are a lot of women out there who does not own the aforementioned basics.




I loved the beautiful photos and good descriptions of every basic item, starting from black pumps and ending with a trench coat, paired up with some tips on what to wear it with. The book is divided on a number of sections: Work, Weekend, Saturday Night, Travel, Entertaining etc. and each section contains a list of basics pertaining to that section.



For example Work section contains black pumps, black suit, white shirt, navy blazer, twinset, black skirt, black turtleneck. Weekend section: easy jean, khakis, thong sandals, polo shirt, white jean, linen shirt etc. Travel section: Trench coat, nude heel, trouser jean, festive flats etc.

Spring colors

Slowly but steadily, the "summer" colors in my wardrobe have been replaced by "spring" colors. The interesting thing is that it's so much easier to find nice things in "summer" colors than "spring" colors. Especially when it comes to t-shirts.

My favorite "spring" colors are apricot, peach, and green apple. Followed by coral, turquoise, yellow and orange.

Here are some of my t-shirts i especially favored this summer in those colors:



As for the t-shirt brands, I prefer Banana Republic, Gap, Ann Taylor, Bebe, and Lilly Pulitzer.

Trench coat for a baby

I got this itch to get my son a trench coat so that this fall we both could be wearing trench coats, the mother and son. Turns out it's not that easy to find one in infant size. The only one I liked was a Burberry one and it was very expensive, I felt bad buying him something he might not be able to appreciate while there are so many things he might enjoy that I could spend this money on, so I was hesitating to get the Burberry one and kept on lookng.

And finally today, when I went to get sushi at lunch time, I stopped at this store and saw the cutest baby trench coat for 6 month (He will turn 6 this fall!) and I absolutely fell in love.

Here it is:

Summer wardrobe for the baby

The other day I posted a question on some baby forum on what should constitute basic baby wardrobe for the fall-winter. Basically asking what is the minimum needed to suffice and to cover any occasion. I guess I was not understood completely because the answer was "depends on how much laundry are you planning on doing".

Well, that lead me to put together a basic summer wardrobe for the baby. I swear, if I did not have anything else, my son would suffice this past summer.

Here it goes:

1) 2 short-sleeved sun suits



2) 2 bright polo onesies



3) 2 shirt-like, more dressy onesies


4) 2 casual onesies, one striped, one solid


5) 2 light-colored onesies for sleeping


6) 2 t-shirts


7) 1 pair of pants


8) 1 pair of shorts


9) 1 pair of overalls

Viviene Westwood

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I LOVE this dress!

My shoe closet

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Here is the shoe closet my husband built for me when we moved to our new condo. On the top shelf I keep smaller purses and the rest of the shelves are filled with shoes. These are the photos before my postpartum cleanup

The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's MostElegant Woman

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You will enjoy this one if you are a fan of Chanel and are interested to know more than just about fashion side of Chanel's life. I have purchased this book after watching the movie "Coco before Chanel" and found out many interesting facts about Chanel's biography. It was very enlightening to find out exactly how Chanel developed her style by simpy accomodating her needs. It was fascinating to find out that she came up with idea of belted cardigan simply by not wanting to put on a pullover lended to her by a boyfriend over her head. She had a hat on and she didn't want to go through the trouble of taking the hat off and messing up her hair, so she cut the pullover open, put it on and tied a belt around it.

I found out a lot interesting facts not only about Chanel's style, but also her personality and her social life. I would highly recommend this book.

P.S. This book somehow reminded me of "I love your style" by Amanda Brooks, which I absolutely LOVED. I prefer books on style that do not force things upon youor force you to choose a "category" for your personal style, but instead help you to discover your individual style by showing you how others have developed theirs