Style or Die! challenge: Rave denim jacket

  Ever put something together you really like, then don't like it looking at photos at all? So it is with this.

Jacket: Rave (thrifted)

Graphic tee: dirty violet (thrifted)

Pinstripe flare capris: BCBG Maxazria (thrifted)

Mary Jane heels: Unlisted a Kenneth Cole production (thrifted)
Button bracelet: The CAMP, Dichroic glass star: Green River Studio etsy shop

  Pretty sure these newly thrifted pinstripe pants were designed as capris, which means they are ankle pants on me. I normally avoid ankle pants like I avoid salmonella poisoning, but the flares on these were really cool and I thought they'd balance out my big wushu legs. The Internet told me to wear them with heels. Photos tell me the damn Internet was wrong! I look like a bad stereotype of ... something. A style blogger? Peggy Bundy? A puffy exclamation point?

  I tried a loose graphic tee on top to balance out the formality of pinstripes and the fitted booty cut. I think something fitted next time will work better with these. Remember folks: if your thigh is close to the circumference of your waist, wear fitted on top.

  I don't mind the look with the jacket, so I tried an exercise. Since the jacket worked, I tried similar things in my closet to the jacket to see if it was redundant. Here it is with a denim dress I wear as a coat:

Dress-as-coat: Forever 21 (thrifted)
Pregnant Scully from X-Files. Not combining long coat and big shirt again.

 And with a similar blue military style jacket:

Blue military jacket: View by Walter (thrifted)

  Here's an auto animated gif Google made when I uploaded these:

  I think the second jacket proves the denim jacket redundant, and ridiculous passants aside, I'm far more likely to wear it. Rave denim jacket is a donate.

June Showers

  One day was not enough time back in my own home.

  But today there was a special party in my hometown for my best and oldest friend Meghan, so off I went!

  I tried to go with summery and feminine party dress, because Meghan's family has always been classy and because my hometown is kind of a scorcher during the summer.

  I am a consummate resident of the peninsula, because I brought along a jacket, JUST IN CASE the weather turned.  ... turned from 106°F

I did not end up using it. My friend's mother laughed at me. With good reason.

  It was really wonderful to see everyone. I feel lucky to get to know my high school friends' parents as an adult now, especially because I was kind of raised by wolves, so I appreciate how understanding they must have been to this strange kid, decades ago.

  This dress was picked up at a cheap juniors store in Daly City a few years ago that a friend of mine liked to frequent. For some reason my lady friends and I who enjoy shopping for clothes together all historically did not like shopping for clothes, and really did not like shopping for clothes with other people. Then we became friends, then we somehow went clothes shopping together and enjoyed ourselves, and then we became clothes shopping buddies. (And then they keep moving away. Come back, lady friends! I miss you!)

  The dress was $10 and cute, so I bought it! \o/
  It was also transparent! /o\

  I am sporting a thrifted plain heather grey dress under it as a slip.  I picked it up because its color matched the skirt of the dress, and it has the same empire waist cut, but now I wonder if the straps at the top are too wide and it looks like I'm wearing a horrid grey undershirt visibly under my dress. Feedback, please!

  This ham-blasted jacket is also the hardest thing I have ever tried to photograph for this blog. It might be the weird interference between the natural and artificial light (new East Bay venue). You'd think this jacket is navy blue, right? Because it totally looks navy in photographs. But IT IS NOT. It's a dark cerulean, slanting a little bit toward teal.

  They're not showing in the photographs, but my Rieker antistress shoes received several compliments at the party, so I either have great taste, or I wear shoes marketed at the generation ahead of mine. Either one is fine with me!

  I hope you all had a lovely weekend. Here's to the holiday weekend coming up! Do you have special plans? Do those special plans include special OUTFITS? :D

Dress: monteau (cheap juniors store)

Jacket: VIEW by WALTER (thrifted)

Underdress: Heritage 1981 (thrifted)