Today in the Year of Living Un-Dangerously…

I felt the need to go super-conservative today because yesterday I wore a marabou brooch like a cah-razy person.  It’s amazing how you immediately look old when you put your hair up.  Here is hair-up-and-conservative attempt #2:

I call it “The School Marm”.  I think it makes me look appropriately serious about my job, don’t you?

This year in outfit-a-day world is subtitled “The Year of Living UN-Dangerously”, because I may or may not have been told that I need to dress a little older and less interestingly or else people won’t take me seriously at work.

Like a knife to my heart.

So I’m trying to take this as an ‘interesting challenge’ (as opposed to a devastating horrible blow to my self-worth), where I dress older in order to conform to ‘the man’, while still not losing my identity and becoming one of those chicks who wears over sized beige suits from Sears with black running shoes to work.

I have to admit today I’m pushing it with my marabou fuzzy shoulder brooch.  BUT, my hair is up in a prim bun and I’m wearing little stud earrings like in a Kate Spade ad… so hopefully it evens out.

Another day another mumu.  This time with a 70′s vibe.  It makes my mumu slightly less depressing, but only slightly.

Yes, it’s the return of Outfit a Day.

Although being super-busy did make it difficult to post as often as I usually do, I will be honest and say that a large reason why I haven’t been Outfit-a-day-ing is because I’ve somehow gained about 30 pounds of lard from unknown circumstances.*

By posting my mumu-esque outfit today, I hope it will motivate me to get me my fat ass in gear and stop eating buttery lard-balls of bread for breakfast, lunch and dinner.  Here’s hoping.

All that aside, my mumu is quite fabulous.

*I think we all know the circumstances around my lard.  Croissant-based circumstances.

Hey, did you know that J Crew had a sale this weekend?  I did.  HA HA HA HA HA HA H AH AHAH AH HA HAHA .  Hence the new red dress.

In other news, apparently my hair has grown like two feet since the last time I straightened it.  I’m going to see how long I can grow it before it starts getting caught in like doors and electric pencil sharpeners and other comical “long hair getting caught in things” situations.

DAMN YOU PAM AND YOUR SKINNY PERFECTION!!

“Necklace – Francesco’s, it has an anchor on it
T-shirt – two cheapy H&M Tees. I double them up to make one thick tee. Ghetto, but every time I do it everyone asks me where I got my nice, THICK tee.
Jeans – J-Brand High Waisted Flare – can’t remember the style name, sorry
Belt – You found it at that vintage shop in Chicago
Shoes – Dolce Vita

 So, I was trying to demo how flare-y my jeans are and then realized that it was a bit ‘Charlie’s Angels.’ So then I did a Charlie’s Angels shot, which I really messed up (I’m really not good at taking photos of myself in a mirror) and Natasha totally photo-bombed me.

Also my hair is shit today. I did a “messy pony.” In other words, “No time to shower.” “

WHOOT WHOOT first guest submission honours go to Jamie, who seems pretty adorable/awesome.   I especially like that she purchased some of her outfit at Dufferin Mall, mostly because I’m fascinated she made it in and out of that juicy-sweatpantted death-trap alive.  I think the photos I posted below were her “outtakes”, but I thought they were adorable, so here they are!

 “so here’s the thing about being a guest post-er in an outfit a day blog feature:

1. you have to be funny. (fuck). 
2. you have to take photos of yourself. which often end in ‘outtakes’
3. you have to depend on your blackberry to do the work of making your ‘i haven’t slept for 3 days, and this outfit was basically the only thing i could see this morning in my closet’ look ‘yes i DID just come 4th on the best dressed list and will DEFINITELY wear your clothes for the rest of the year joseph mimran!’ and it’s a blackberry. so there’s that. 
4. you are (i am) a procrastinator. which doesn’t bode well for having good outfits all week, and then remembering on thursday that you meant to take photos. 

Remember these?  The poo-green pants that didn’t fit me?  Well, I’ve been working hard to minimize the number of croissants I stuff into my pie-hole and have managed to lose a bit of weight, so now I can heave them over my arse somehow.

Have I mentioned that I LOVE POO GREEN?

HEYYYYYY YOOOOOUUUU GUYYYYYYS.

Although I am pretty self-absorbed, I’m starting to feel a *little* uncomfortable just posting picture after picture of myself every day.  I mean, it makes me feel as if I think I am cool/pretty/fashionable, and it makes it seem like I’m trying to tell YOU guys that I think I’m cool/pretty/fashionable, when the truth is, you guys are all cooler/prettier/more fashionable than I am.  Let’s be honest here.

So Pam gave me the idea to do an “Outfit a Day Guest Submission” every Friday.  HOORAY FOR YOU!  That means you will get to show everyone how cool/pretty/fashionable you are, AND BE ON THE INTERWEBS like a celebrity.

It’s easy.  Here’s what you have to do.

1. Put together an outfit that you wouldn’t be embarrassed for people to see you in;
2. Take a picture of it (PLEASE NO MONSTER-SIZED PHOTOS);
3. Write something about it;
4. Send it to me via natalie_pcc@hotmail.com.

Will I get any submissions?  Only time will tell.

Well, you’ll be able to tell if I don’t post one on Friday.

I am trying really hard to wear coloured pants and not want to constantly pull on the thigh material of said coloured pants due to my extreme thigh-self-consciousness.

These are yellow.  They make my thighs look big.

Also, I don’t know why I decided to stand all pigeon-toed in this photo, it makes me look like I have some kind of scoliosis or some shit.