Wednesday, Thursday: SYC Challenge

Busy, busy week. Lousy, lousy photos. But!
1. A much-needed hair color appointment is scheduled for Friday night. This should remedy some of the photo issues.
2. I am really enjoying the SYC Challenge and plan on extending it for another week or longer. Turns out I have a lot of items that have been stuffed in the back of my closet waiting for their turn, and it's invigorating to find new ways to wear them.

Wednesday:


At first glance it doesn't look like anything unworn recently, but there are in fact two items. First the familiar ones: the top is a recent purchase from Kohls, only worn once this summer, the pants are my long grey Gap modern bootcuts, and the necklace is my gold mesh from BR. SYC Item #1 is this never-before-worn Caslon camisole; I have a bad habit of stocking up on many different color camis, but then I stick to a small group of them to wear. During my closet re-organization, I thinned out the herd to ones that truly fit and that I had a fighting chance of wearing. That brought this forest green one closer to the top of pile, and I liked it with the purple.



Item #2 is peeking out in the first photo: my multi-colored Nicole Blessed shoes from last winter. OMG!!



These shoes are ridiculously, ridiculously cute. Check out when I wore them here and here. It was too hot right now to wear trouser socks with them, but they look just as cute under pants as they used to. So glad I rotated my shoe collection to the fall set and got these back into play!

Thursday:


This sweater wasn't my first choice for my SYC Challenge item, but it was 85 degrees and anything longer than a cap sleeve was not going to be happening. I bought this no-name sweater on impulse at Marshalls in the spring, and I have yet to figure out how to wear it in a way I like. It's kind of a strange weight, a little heavy and it tends to drag down at my waist. Buttoning it has never worked but I went open-style this time.

Thursday I wanted to try it with all-neutrals, but I am not sure it worked. It might have to do with my hair currently mimicking the colors of my top, with my dark roots in the middle surrounded by a washed-out lighter tone. I will try it again in a week or so with refreshed hair color.

I did like the neutral of the rest of the outfit: the black is a ruffled-front knit from Ann Taylor Outlet, the skirt is a brown-olive from, oh yeah, Ann Taylor Outlet, the necklace was from Julia's blog ShopExileStyle, and the shoes are my Sam Edelman cheetah-embellished flats. Those have turned out to be my #1 best purchase from NAS; I don't know I wore before I had these!

And now I am late for work. Toodles!