Category: work outfits

Fuzzy

maxi skirt with ankle boots, teddy coat, winter outfit ideas

When: Dec. 17 // Weather: snowy // Real life: work (including our department’s Festivus party)

maxi skirt with ankle boots, teddy coat, winter outfit ideas
maxi skirt with ankle boots, teddy coat, winter outfit ideas
maxi skirt with ankle boots, teddy coat, winter outfit ideas
maxi skirt with ankle boots, teddy coat, winter outfit ideas
maxi skirt with ankle boots, teddy coat, winter outfit ideas

Do you ever randomly recollect great childhood memories that you hadn’t thought about for decades? Tonight I had macaroni & cheese and green beans, and I suddenly remembered one of my favorite books as a kid, Suppertime for Frieda Fuzzypaws. It’s about a kitten who wants a cookie, and her parents say she has to finish her dinner first. But she hates green beans so she tries to hide them under her macaroni. So her dad draws a cookie for her, and Frieda’s like “f*ck you, pops” (but, you know, the PG version of that).

Suffice it to say, as a child I identified on many levels with little Frieda Fuzzypaws. I do like vegetables now, but to be honest, they’re still just a necessary precursor to dessert. 🙂

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How to “Fake Tuck” a Sweater

sweater over dress, monochrome outfit, how to winterize a summer dress, tall boots with long skirt

When: early December // Weather: 30s // Real life: work

sweater over dress, monochrome outfit, how to winterize a summer dress, tall boots with long skirt
sweater over dress, monochrome outfit, how to winterize a summer dress, tall boots with long skirt
sweater over dress, monochrome outfit, how to winterize a summer dress, tall boots with long skirt
sweater over dress, monochrome outfit, how to winterize a summer dress, tall boots with long skirt
sweater over dress, monochrome outfit, how to winterize a summer dress, tall boots with long skirt

I’m not usually one to bring you “life hacks,” but hot damn do I have a good one so I have to share. I’m sure I’m not the first person to do this, but I did come up with it independently, so I’m pretty proud of myself.

Here was my dilemma: I like to layer sweaters over dresses, but as a vertically challenged person with a small frame, it can look frumpy, especially with a longer dress. Now if the sweater is cropped, magical optical illusions happen and I look tall and fabulous. (This is my life goal.)

But how do you make a non-cropped sweater looked cropped when you can’t tuck it in to anything? (Imagine me saying this into the camera in black and white, infomercial-style.)

Here’s what I did – I took an old pair of tights with runs in it, and cut off just the waistband. Boom. Instant belt already snugly fitted to my waist. I put that over the dress, then tucked the sweater up and under. This also works when you have a skirt that’s too thin or fitted to tuck normally.

Hey, I didn’t say it was fancy, just that it was good. It might work with a “regular” belt but you’d have to make a belt pretty tight for it to hold, which wouldn’t be very comfortable. And it wouldn’t be as cool and resourceful.

So there it is – my one and only life hack. Hope you enjoyed.

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