Tag: loafers

Planning Ahead

embellished striped shirt layered under gray sweatshirt, dark skinny jeans, black menswear loafers, blush satchel, leopard coat, outfit planning, at-a-glance planners

embellished striped shirt layered under gray sweatshirt, dark skinny jeans, black menswear loafers, blush satchel, leopard coat, outfit planning, at-a-glance planners

embellished striped shirt layered under gray sweatshirt, dark skinny jeans, black menswear loafers, blush satchel, leopard coat, outfit planning, at-a-glance planners

embellished striped shirt layered under gray sweatshirt, dark skinny jeans, black menswear loafers, blush satchel, leopard coat, outfit planning, at-a-glance planners

embellished striped shirt layered under gray sweatshirt, dark skinny jeans, black menswear loafers, blush satchel, leopard coat, outfit planning, at-a-glance planners

similar Shirt (on sale) // similar Sweatshirt (on sale) // Jeans // Shoes // similar Bag (on sale) // similar Bracelet // Sunglasses // Nails

Planning for the future is important. You want to be prepared. You don’t want to wake up one day and realize you don’t have what you need. One of my biggest fears is to look back and be filled with regret for not thinking ahead. Oh, did you think I was talking about retirement or something? No, silly. I’m talking about planning for the really important stuff: what to wear. I might be working til I’m 90, but I want to look good doing it.

I’m always coming up with ideas for pieces to put together: sometimes the ideas come from what I see someone else wearing, and usually when I buy something new I start brainstorming different ways to style it. The problem is that I have trouble recalling one of these great ideas when I need one. Like if I’m trying to come up with something to wear to work, all I can manage to think of are outfits that include jeans or short skirts. So I end up starting from scratch, which usually turns out fine, if a bit experimental. It’s not that I want to stop being experimental, it’s just that I want to spend more time wearing more carefully thought-out looks that feel like me. The outfit you see above was one of those outfits – I just really loved wearing it (so much so that I wore it twice).

My new plan…is to plan. To actually write down my outfit ideas and then look at my schedule to figure out when I might have an appropriate occasion to wear that outfit. I recently received a bunch of awesomely nerdy planning goodies from AT-A-GLANCE, and their weekly planner is perfect for planning my outfits and (bonus!) scheduling my blog posts. I just started using it a couple days ago, so stay tuned and I’ll let you know how it works out.

embellished striped shirt layered under gray sweatshirt, dark skinny jeans, black menswear loafers, blush satchel, leopard coat, outfit planning, at-a-glance planners

You’ll see these shoes in Thursday’s post! Yes, it’s scheduled in my new planner. 🙂

For those of you who share my love of both clothes and planning, be sure to enter the #myAAG sweepstakes sponsored by AT-A-GLANCE! The winner will get a $100 Visa gift card and more than $200 worth of AT-A-GLANCE Collection products. To enter, just post an original photo to your Instagram account showing an outfit that represents your 2015 style, and tag it #myAAG #entry. The sweepstakes runs until Jan. 31, and 1 winner will be chosen randomly. Full contest rules are available here.

embellished striped shirt layered under gray sweatshirt, dark skinny jeans, black menswear loafers, blush satchel, leopard coat, outfit planning, at-a-glance planners

Disclosure: I am not a sponsor of the #myAAG Sweepstakes, but I received compensation from AT-A-GLANCE in exchange for this post.

Loafer Love

gray leather jacket, black ponte pants, black tahari loafers

gray leather jacket, black ponte pants, black tahari loafers

gray leather jacket, black ponte pants, black tahari loafers

gray leather jacket, black ponte pants, black tahari loafers

gray leather jacket, black ponte pants, black tahari loafers

gray leather jacket, black ponte pants, black tahari loafers

I’ve had my eye on these bee-yoo-tiful Everlane loafers for months and I had grand plans to save up my money to buy them (not that they’re THAT expensive, but $170 is enough that I have to plan ahead for it). Unfortunately, I’m not the only fan of these loafers so they’re sold out with a very long waitlist. Who knows, maybe once they’re back in stock I’ll get them in another color, but in the meantime I decided to consider the possibility that there may be another pair of not too manly but just menswear-y enough loafers out there for me. There are plenty of shoes in the sea, as they say. Or something like that.

I did some sole searching (I crack myself up), and found these lovlies at DSW for almost $100 less than what I had planned to spend. Lest I hurt these cheaper loafers’ feelings, I did not settle. I don’t believe in sole mates (last one, I promise). I loved the Everlane loafers, but now I love these. We’re still in the honeymoon phase, so I actually wore them 2 days in a row last week. I’ll be sure to share look #2 with you soon, and don’t be shocked if they’re followed shortly by a look #3. Basically, they make every outfit look better. Ah, young shoe love.

similar Shirt // similar Jacket* // Pants // Bag // Necklace* // similar Sunglasses // Shoes

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