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Frocktober #3

periwinkle lace dress, long line vest, ankle boots

When: Wednesday // Weather: 80 // Real life: work

periwinkle lace dress, long line vest, ankle boots

periwinkle lace dress, long line vest, ankle boots

periwinkle lace dress, long line vest, ankle boots

periwinkle lace dress, long line vest, ankle boots

periwinkle lace dress, long line vest, ankle boots

Just when I was getting all into Frocktober, it got hot again. Luckily this vest looks the autumnal part but lets my skin breathe. And yes – it’s officially ankle boot season! (“How to Wear Ankle Boots” continues to be one of my most popular posts ever, by the way. Have you read it? You should.) Wednesday morning after I got dressed I decided boots would be the perfect way to complete the look, so I went down to the basement and pulled out all my tubs of winter clothes looking for these boots. Tub #1…sweaters. Tub #2…shoe boxes holding other ankle boots but not black ones. Tub #3…more sweaters. Tub #4…tall boots. What the hell. Also: why do I have so many clothes?!

I went back upstairs to my dressing room and then remembered there were a few shoe boxes on the top shelf of the closet. I put a couple pairs of boots up there back in the spring because I knew once early fall came, I would probably want to wear them before I got around to unpacking all my cold-weather clothes. It was a really great idea that would have worked out better if I had remembered having that really great idea six months later.

similar Dress // Vest (on sale) // similar Boots // similar Bag // Bracelet (on sale) // similar Earrings // Lips “Broadest Berry”

Plum Crazy

madewell silk dress, black collarless blazer, chinchilly nails, studded boots, blush bag, pave midi ring

madewell silk dress, black collarless blazer, chinchilly nails, studded boots, blush bag, pave midi ring

madewell silk dress, black collarless blazer, chinchilly nails, studded boots, blush bag, pave midi ring

madewell silk dress, black collarless blazer, chinchilly nails, studded boots, blush bag, pave midi ring

madewell silk dress, black collarless blazer, chinchilly nails, studded boots, blush bag, pave midi ring

I know I’ve gone on record warning everyone about the dangers of going straight for the clearance rack, but that’s exactly what led to my buying this dress. Look, if I wrote the rule, I can break it. Sometimes you just have to buy a pretty dress for no reason. This dress is actually even prettier than it looks here – the sleeves are sheer and fluttery and princessy – but I wanted to wear it to work so I added my most serious looking lawyer jacket. But then I still felt too dressy, which is why I added these kind of punk rock boots. The moral of this story is: if I hadn’t made an impulse purchase from the clearance rack, I never could have lived out my dreams of being a royal rock star attorney. And that would have been a shame.

Dress (on sale) // similar Jacket* (on sale) // similar Boots // Bag // Ring* // similar Earrings // Nails

*Jacket purchased with gift card provided courtesy of H&M; ring purchased with gift card provided courtesy of Shopbop.