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Inspired by Le Stylo Rouge: Cream Sweater + Boyfriend Jeans & Link Up On the Edge #173
If there is one style blogger in all of blogland who never ever disappoints me with her fashion choices and always leaves me swooning over her outfits and her amazing shoe collection, it is Ashley of Le Stylo Rouge. Ashley is a fashion blogger based out of Kansas City and she has been creating edgy wearable fashion for nearly a decade in her blog space. She has a way of taking current trends, adding her own little twist, and coming out looking like a street style star who has effortlessly created sartorial magic. Every single time. She is sassy and sweet, cool and smart, and she will wear whatever she…
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Inspired by Not Dressed as Lamb: Denim, Camo, & Combat Boots
I just love when I see a fashion blogger go outside of their norm and present the unexpected. I thrive on the unexpected. It keeps me on my toes. It prevents me from becoming too complacent. It forces me to stay on top of my own game. Please don’t interpret that as my being competitive. The only person I compete with is myself. And that competition is quite fierce so it’s kind of all I can handle right now. The blogosphere is a huge place and we don’t really have to compete with each other to make a statement. In fact, I find it so much more fulfilling when we…
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Inspired by Style Elixir: Metallic Print Dress & Link Up On the Edge #151
This is a rare occasion when I am writing a post that features the outfit I wore on the exact day that I am writing the post. Usually, I take outfit photos and edit them and then they sit in a stored file for about 2-4 weeks before they ever appear on my blog or social media. But on Tuesday, I saw Lauren of Style Elixir wearing the prettiest black maxi dress with gold metallic dots. It immediately reminded me of this shorter dress I recently snagged off the Kohl’s clearance rack for somewhere close to $10. My dress has gold stars rather than dots, but it was very similar…
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Inspired by Walking in Memphis in High Heels: Spring Style
It is the final day of Spring with the Summer Solstice coming tomorrow and I am only just now getting to show off some actual Spring clothes! I have had this darling little dress hanging in my closet for a few years and have shown it on the blog once before styled with tights and over the knee boots in Winter. Because when you live in a place where it is Winter for eleven months and Summer for one month, you have to get creative with clothing for different seasons. I don’t want to look like an Eskimo all year round! Back in March, I saw Laura of Walking in…
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Inspired by Living Outside the Stacks: Style Icons & Link Up On the Edge #149
This is a kind of a double “inspired by” post…inspired by Daenel’s look that was inspired by Nicole Richie for last month’s Fab 40’s theme of Style Icons. My style icon for that post was Gwen Stefani as you may probably already be aware…since I ended up sharing two Gwen-inspired outfits. But when I saw Daenel’s super chic boho outfit, I knew immediately that I wanted to create something similar. If you don’t already know Daenel, let me introduce her. She is the creative and super stylish librarian behind the blog Living Outside the Stacks. In Daenel’s own words, she has “the research skills of a librarian, the preservation skills…
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Inspired by Gwen Stefani: The Power of Clothing
Just last week, the Fab 40’s and I brought you some outfit stylings inspired by our favorite fashion icons. If you read that post, then you know that my outfit was inspired by the spectacular Gwen Stefani and that I photographed two separate outfits. I ended up not featuring this particular one for two reasons. The first reason is that I photographed the other outfit in front of murals of rock icons and that seemed to be the perfect setting for the Fab 40’s theme. The second reason being that once I created this look, I realized that it is absolutely something I would have fashioned on my own without…
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Inspired by Pumps and Push Ups: Coral Gingham Top & Link Up On the Edge #146
Happy Thursday everyone! The Memorial Day weekend is almost here and it is a big one for celebrating at our house. First of all, as a military family we do like to recognize the holiday that honors our fallen heroes. And secondly, both my husband’s and my birthdays fall right around the Memorial Day weekend. His birthday is on Sunday and mine is a week from today. Because we have so many May birthdays in our family, we have always had a huge celebration on this weekend every year since we met nearly 11 years ago. But this post is not about the upcoming weekend. It is about the inspiration…
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Inspired by Claire Justine: Friends
I remember when Friends first aired. I was a junior in college, living with 5 other young women in off campus housing in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. And I think there was a little part of all of us that wanted to be much like this group of 6 friends making it on their own in the city. But out of the group of us, I was probably the one who the big city called to the loudest. I didn’t make my way to New York City until I started a new job at 26 years old that took me there for frequent business meetings and eventually transitioned to an office near…
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Inspired by Fashion Fairy Dust: Faux Fur Vest & Moto Jacket
My friend Debbie of Fashion Fairy Dust has inspired me once again with her amazing styling tricks and layering ideas. Actually, this is the third post where I am sharing an outfit inspired by Debbie. You can see the other two here and here. And as always, it is not only her sartorial choices that get me excited and motivated, but her wonderful words of wisdom. The post that inspired this outfit was part of the Ageless Style series which is a collaboration among 10 bloggers who all style one theme to showcase a variety of looks and prove that we can all wear whatever the hell we like at…
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Inspired by This Blonde’s Shopping Bag: Plaid Blazer & White Booties
First, I have to tell you that I adore Kellyann of This Blonde’s Shopping Bag. I don’t know how long ago it was that she and I found each other in the grand wilderness of blogland, but we became fast blogger friends right from the first introduction. It is funny how you can never meet a person in real life but still have about a million things in common. And one thing, for sure, that Kellyann and I have in common is our love for shopping, all things fashion, and apparently plaid blazers and white booties. When white booties really hit the trend scene last year, I was hesitant at…