don't miss sample sales for Thursday, September 2: on Hautelook: Dolce Vita, EcoSkin, Amrita Sinngh. on Rue La La: MICHAEL Michael Kors. on Gilt: Accessories & Jewelry final sale.
So, you may notice that today’s outfit is similar to Tuesday’s – I really liked the combination of the skirt and draped shirt, so I wore my other Anthropologie skirt today with a Vince top, No6 Clogs and Alexander Wang bag. We had an ATX Ladies who Lunch lunch today and afterward walked over to my friend Megan Summerville’s lingerie pop-up shop (hence the lingerie mannequin behind me – and THANK YOU Sydney for getting me at such a flattering angle 
) for some frilly girl-stuff shopping – something that I do not do enough of.
A little about Megan: She was the winner of Texas’ next top designer 2009, and awarded the peer’s choice award for best designer during this year’s Austin Fashion Week. She’s also just amazing. Megan creates absolutely stunning pieces – like this bra (it was my favorite, but I’m not good with “pretty” bras, I tend to go for nude/boring):
This bra/panty set – “modeled” by Elia
and fun petticoat/skirt modeled by Diya (doesn’t it BELONG on her?)
finally – here’s Megan handing me my new bra all boxed up nice and pretty
Wearing:
James Perse tee
Anthropologie skirt
Alexander Wang Darcy bag
No6 clogs
Over the weekend, Sharon and I went to the JAMES PERSE OUTLET!!!!!!! in San Marcos because 1. it was tax-free weekend and 2. they were offering an extra 30% off. 30% off and no tax?? believe me, it was tough not to buy a lot more, but I had a budget, and I blew it on two things. One was this top. It’s 100% viscose and besides also trying it on at Neiman Marcus, I haven’t seen it online anywhere. It was $30, and I LOVE it. It’s super-lightweight, and nice & drapey, although now that I’ve worn it, I wish it was a size smaller…
I also got this top for $70 (I won’t be wearing it for a while though…it was 106 here today!!!!)
It is AMAZING. Really flattering on, in spite of it’s boxy shape. I tried it on with a fitted pencil skirt, so it definitely needs to be worn with something fitted on the bottom, but I’m so excited I was able to get it.
This is my “Ladies who Lunch” outfit from today: the dress is from Target, the bag is Jas M.B., and the shoes are No6. My smile was goofy, so I cut my head off.
Here are some more of the ladies:
From L to R: Cathy, Katie, Elia & Sydney.
I’ve had this dress for a while, and after I saw a girl Monday night at an Austin Fashion Week event wearing it I thought if she could do it, I could do it. But I can’t. It’s too hot for polyester. And since I’ve been out nearly every night this week doing local fashion events, I’ve really had to push my comfort zone: yesterday, I wore my James Perse spaghetti-strap maxi dress without anything underneath *gasp* and today, I’m going to wear my James Perse tube dress without anything OVER it. *double gasp* I think I’m just too hot to care about a little arm flab right now…
Here’s a look at a picture from last night at the Buy Definition party:
From L to R: Sydney, me, Joyce, Sarah. Picture courtesy of Austin360.com
What’s the first thing you notice about this picture? Is it something positive or negative?
I posted a picture last night on twitter I found on a local blog of me, Indiana and Kelly from Yelp! who I met at an event Monday night and I thought everyone looked great, except I immediately focused in on my double chin, and my fat upper arms. And Kelly tweeted back to say “omg. someone stop be from eating…” Which was funny, because I thought she looked GREAT in the picture – her dress was super-cute and very flattering on her. And her smile is amazing. Anyway, I was talking to a friend today at lunch and decided to do an experiment and ask what you guys see when you FIRST look at a picture of another person. Is it the same thing you see when you first look at a picture of yourself? Do you automatically pick out all the flaws on the other person like you do yourself? I didn’t think so…
Yes, it’s true that we are our own biggest critics. As I’ve gotten older, it’s definitely gotten better, but I still look at pictures of myself that I post here and see the things I don’t like: my knees, my double-chin, my arms….it doesn’t stop me from posting pictures of myself here, though, because I’m starting to accept that I have flaws, but they don’t make up who I am, and I know that they are NOT what other people see when they look at me.
How many of you do the same thing? Do you notice flaws in other people as much as you notice them in yourself?
