Recent Finds: Call It Spring

I've been watching this trend of strappy minimalistic sandals for too long. I finally went and bought myself some. I've actually tried them on at a lot of places - naturally including Aldo where I love to buy shoes - but I have tiny ankles and the ankle strap never fit right. Lo and behold JC Penney had these sandals by Call It Spring that fit me just right. I wasn't there to shoe shop, me and my mom were just killing time. But I saw the flat and the demo shoe fit and I mean you know what they say. (By the way I swear I used to wear a 10 but this new shoe is definitely an 8 1/2 what's going on did they think I wouldn't notice?) I also picked up the other cause I'm a sucker for a chunky low heel. So yeah, "You have too many shoes" my dad would say, but he doesn't understand that I need them for reasons and things.



Call It Spring Incinesca Sandals X | Call It Spring Vitereta Flat Sandals X

Florals & Pastels

Shirt: H&M | Jeans: H&M | Tank: H&M | Shoes: JCP

This outfit is amazingly completely by H&M ('cept the shoes but more on them another time). I'm super pleased with what I found there. I'm guessing the Freedom Day sales are still in effect because about half the front of the store had those $5 and $10 signs we all know and love. These lilac jeans were a bit of an impulse buy, and they had a sale on jeans, but what I'm really stoked about are these babies right down here..




H&M &Denim High-Waist Jeans X

Now if you know me you know I live for high-waisted stuff. It just fits me better and of course it also helps that it makes me look all curvy and things. So I have been on the quest for high-waist anything for the past couple years and let me tell you they don't make it easy. If you follow me then you know that I generally thrift for shorts and buy Know Style's pants (for whatever reason they have the comfiest and most affordable high waist pants I've seen). But what they do not have is denim. Simple thing you'd think, but the only place I've seen it is American Apparel and lets be real nobody got time to be shelling out $90 for jeans. So let me tell you when I found these jeans at H&M on sale for $15 the sound I made was probably inappropriate.




Sleeveless Dress X | Floral Button Down | Black Tank | High Waist Jeans X | Lilac Jeans | Earrings

That's not even accounting for all the other stuff I found. Now I'm new to this whole "having the money to buy the things you need" thing so I haven't let myself go into H&M to shop for a few years at least cause they always have these ridiculous sales and I'm weak. But I just started at a new job (another graphic design position guys!!) and as luck(?) would have it I blew out my tire and while it was being fixed I was stuck at the mall with my first pay check. Haha, so naturally.. Ahem. To be fair I did technically need the things I bought.. I swear! Shut up.

Inactivity

I feel it's quite understandable that I haven't been posting because Thanksgiving.. But I still feel a bit bad for letting my blog sit so quietly. So here's what I got. As Christmas is coming up, I've been doing a bit of present and ahem personal shopping (I mean let's face it those deals are too good to not buy something for yourself amirite) and I've found some neat shopping - mostly online - that I feel I should share.

WholeSale-Dress

This site is kind of hard to believe. They sell quality dresses and sweaters and whatnot for insanely cheap. It's like online thrift shopping sans the whole second-hand part. I found this site a looooong while ago, and I must say my favorite part of it are the sweaters. Anyway, it's worth a look if nothing else.

Looback

They don't seem to be that well-known, which is sad really because they have beautiful accessories for ridiculous prices and free shipping to anywhere in the world. I checked them out on the recommendation of CutiePie Marzia on YouTube - an adorable young Italian fashion guru - and I don't know how I've lived this long without knowing about this site.

Solestruck

I doubt there are many fashion addicts left out there that haven't heard of Solestruck. It's pretty much the place to go for all the IT shoe designers these days. Jeffery Campbell, Dolce Vida and Dr. Martens just to name a few. I AM IN LOVE with the shoes over there.

Chicnova

I don't really have too much to say about this site beyond the fact that they have mad cute stuff and I would definitely recommend you check them out. The stuff is a little pricey, but if you love vintage as much as I do it's worth a look for a piece or too. I personally love their accessories and the prices on those aren't too bad. But yeah, overall.. very vintage, very comfy, and very cute.

RiotLoco

This site definitely features more 'cutting edge' fashion, or at least as close as us commoners can get, heh. Their pieces are very interesting and DIY-esque; odd cuts, ombre and prints galore. Very Tumblr. They are a bit on the pricey side, which is the ONLY reason I haven't purchased from them yet. The Fashion Citizen over on YouTube have a few videos where they style some clothes from RiotLoco if you're curious to see them in action, so-to-speak.

And last but certainly nowhere near least...

ModCloth

My friend literally just showed this site to me today and I CANT STOP. They essentially sell my style left and right. It's brilliant! Again, a bit on the expensive side, but the dresses and prints and SHOES are just gorgeous. They seem to cater to a more vintage-y, girly tailored type sense of style, which I LOVE. Lots of classic cuts and retro patterns and cinched waist lines. I'm totally spamming my relatives with this site for Christmas, man. I need one of those dresses. It's just that serious.

Well, there you go. That's pretty much been my life recently besides work and school and Sherlock (yeah that happened) and Thanksgiving. I can only hope this will make up for the horrible lack in actual fashion posts until I can get the inspiration - or new clothes - to do a shoot. Meh.