Greatest Spectacles

white jeans with denim jacket, stripe shirt, Rebecca Minkoff Love bag, Balenciaga sunglasses, hermes dupe sandals

When: Cinco de Mayo // Weather: 70 and sunny // Real life: walk in the park, lunch, errands, and froyo

white jeans with denim jacket, stripe shirt, Rebecca Minkoff Love bag, Balenciaga sunglasses, hermes dupe sandals

white jeans with denim jacket, stripe shirt, Rebecca Minkoff Love bag, Balenciaga sunglasses, hermes dupe sandals

white jeans with denim jacket, stripe shirt, Rebecca Minkoff Love bag, Balenciaga sunglasses, hermes dupe sandals

white jeans with denim jacket, stripe shirt, Rebecca Minkoff Love bag, Balenciaga sunglasses, hermes dupe sandals

white jeans with denim jacket, stripe shirt, Rebecca Minkoff Love bag, Balenciaga sunglasses, hermes dupe sandals

Greetings, my fellow Americans, and I hope you enjoyed your Memorial Day weekend. As a proud resident of Indianapolis who values my time, sanity, and personal hygiene, I opted to enjoy a chill weekend in my lovely city, doing anything but going to the Indy 500.

But enough about the Greatest Spectacle in Racing…I’m more interested in the greatest SPECTACLES that protect my eyes from the sun and make me look fabulous at the same time (see what I did there?). I have a bit of a sunglasses habit, and when the sun actually reappears in the spring, I start getting the urge to add more shades to my collection. I keep all my sunglasses on a wall-mounted display shelf, and a couple weeks ago it came crashing down in the middle of the night. Some might see that as a sign the shelf was too full, but not me. I see it as a desperate plea for attention: “Put more sunglasses on me!” Message received.

These are my latest pair – they’re Balenciaga (#sofancy) but I found them at Nordstrom Rack for $100. I also may or may not have ordered another fabulous designer pair on eBay that is scheduled to arrive this week! Someone build me a stronger shelf!

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Everything is Rent

Draper James gingham dress, gingham midi dress, Rent the Runway unlimited

When: a couple weeks ago // Weather: springy // Real life: work

A few weeks ago, I saw Rent the Runway was doing a promo discount on their unlimited subscription, and I gave it a shot. I’m a month in and I think I might be a convert. I get to sport all kinds of nice crap that I otherwise wouldn’t bother buying because the cost per wear would be way too high. Like this dress – it retails for $375 and as someone who doesn’t really repeat outfits, I wouldn’t get my money’s worth because there aren’t a lot of ways to wear it. And that fabulously fun Zac Posen bag you saw me wear a couple times last week? Also rented. In my opinion, it’s a little too “out there” to be worth investing in long term.

The RTR subscription isn’t super cheap either, but I’m learning some good tricks for making the most of that $159/month (like downloading the app and keeping a running list of “hearts” so you can quickly pick your next items and get them in the mail). In theory, an RTR Unlimited subscription should help me save money by shopping less, but…we’ll see if that actually happens. 😉

The RTR Unlimited promo is still going on, by the way. If you want to give it a try, click here.

Dress (actually on sale here, so not too bad!) // similar Bag // similar Shoes