Gossip girly

Exhibit A.

So I got this girly dress from a Taiwan department store during a visit about 4 years ago, and wore it twice while in Taiwan. After returning to the States, I realized I would feel too frilly-nilly self-conscious wearing it in the US. So it was banished to the back of my closet. Actually, its status was even lower -- it was exiled to the guest bedroom closet downstairs.

Exhibit B.

I got this sweater blazer from TJMaxx about 4 years ago, and always wore it to work only, and with the same beige tank top and black pants over. . .and over. . .and over. However, I recently got sick of wearing my stuffy consulting clothes so it was pushed to the back of my closet (I was a stuffy dresser as a consultant because it was so much easier for me to pack black and basic stuff rather than being creative).

Items A + B = . . . .Gossip Girly?

I was flipping through an old Lucky magazine yesterday, and saw a page of frilly layered dresses. Then a couple page flips later, I saw a sweater blazer that looked exactly like the one in exhibit B. As I was thinking to myself what a great deal I got on mine and how other suckers had paid ~300 for theirs, it all somehow clicked in a second, and resulted in the outfit below.

I was seriously going to chicken out and change to another outfit in fear of receiving laughter or snickers at work (who wears party dress-looking things to work in the city I live in?), but surprisingly it went well. . .or at least, no snickers that I know of :)

I also get bonus points for using my old blue bag -- it's a jewel toned blue bag that I stalked for months at TJMaxx over 6 years ago. Good thing no one else wanted it! But sadly it just collected dust for about 5 years during my stuffy fashion phase. I had to wipe off the dust while at work today.

I'm on a mission to wear everything in my closet so I gave a heads-up to my 2 girl co-workers, alerting them that I may be wearing some wacky stuff :)