Elizabeth Suzann silk florence pants (size large, short, previous generation) | gift from ES to review
Elizabeth Suzann linen harper tunic (one size minus) | gift from ES to review
James Perse v-neck tee
AllBirds wool loungers | have you seen the new colors??
Eileen Fisher organic cotton jeans (size 4)
James Perse slub crew neck tee
Mongolian camel hair vintage cardigan (secondhand via slowre)
Vince Warren sneakers | quite a few colors on sale
Marsell Dritta 4 bag
In case you have forgotten, or are new here, I am not a fashion blogger; I’m just a person who wears things and talks about them 😉
I don’t do photoshoots, or staged outfits. Everything I post is what I wear IRL.
Do I mention this again to “excuse” my boring outfits, or wandering discourse on them? Maybe. After Friday’s post, I wondered: who wants to read my dysfunctional thoughts on getting dressed? Am I using this blog simply as a diary?
Sort of. But that’s how it started, and where I’ve chosen to stay: Grechen’s Closet is a chronicle of what I wear and my journey through life and all it’s ups and downs through personal style and getting dressed. I write A LOT about getting dressed…
Onto what I wore this weekend:
I wore the first outfit on Sunday. I didn’t leave the house. I had all the laundry to do, lots of cleaning, and a ton of work to catch up on, so I planned to stay home all day and enjoy the quiet house with everyone gone (Leo is out of town). To be honest, I don’t normally just wear my ES florence pants around the house, but they need to be washed and I thought I’d get another wear out of them beforehand, so…speaking of washing silk, these wash really really well, and don’t “look” dirty at all. I just wore them on all my plane trips recently and at my mom’s so I think they need a wash by now.
And Saturday I wore the outfit with the jeans on a couple trips to the airport + errands and around the house.
If you read my Friday post where I proclaimed that I didn’t want to spend my money on anything, and anyway I don’t want anything, you’re probably thinking…new jeans? Yes, well. I am human, after all! I took my niece to the mall on Friday because it was stormy and cold, and I stopped in Eileen Fisher to see if there was anything interesting I should try, and fixated on these jeans. I found them appealing right off, and knew I wouldn’t have any problems fitting my calves in them, but didn’t think they’d look great on me. I haven’t liked or had very good luck with any Eileen Fisher jeans in the past.
I tried on SO MANY SIZES and finally settled on the size 4. Which is so weird. I’m not a size 4. But Eileen Fisher is super-hard to fit correctly. Amiright?? I even tried the petite version, but the rise was shorter and uncomfortable on me, and they were a little shorter than I’d want. For reference, the 8P was a little small on me. WTF. I could have gone with the size 6 in these and still been comfortable, but I wanted them to be a little more fitted than big if that makes sense.
Anyway, I’ve worn them a few times already and will do a more thorough review later this week, but so far I’m happy with them. And yes, they have some stretch in them, but they are 98% organic cotton and made in the US. They do have $25 off this week with code POWERMOVES so that made them a little more palatable, but overall I think these jeans are a good value.
Happy Monday!!!
The fact that you actually wear these clothes and talk about them is why I read your blog!
Love both outfits, love the jeans, yes – EF sizing is weird!
I’m just not really interested in blogs that are walking advertisements for clothes without the substance of a real person actually wearing them. I want to know this is a thing that a real person wears outside of a pretty photoshoot. It’s also why I like reading blogs like yours!
I also agree florence pants are great for wearing around the house. No occasion necessary.
This!!
I started blogging in 2009 as a version of a diary of sorts. Not the kind with the lock and key, but still, something, sharable, that was a record of what I was doing, growing, changing. I was 30 when I started blogging and will turn 40 this summer, and I really enjoy going back through posts.
I don’t stage photos either. I try to make things work. I try things. I like them or I don’t, and I make note of it. I blog for myself, so if I have a big gap (hi, kids), or don’t have anything to share, or if work is crazy and I can’t find time to write, I don’t. The ten people who read my blog either follow along or don’t, and that’s okay. It’s such a bonus to the extent it has been relatable or formed a community, but that’s not why it exists.
I love your blog, and I love your commenters. Keep doing you!
I love those jeans. What is the rise, would you say? They look kind of high from the site/back, but more mid on you?
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Also, I love love love your hair this short and dark. I am itchy to cut mine, then have a good long-hair day, and second-guess the whole thing. I have a hair appointment in a couple of weeks and there’s very little chance I will have decided by then. Ha!
oh my gosh, thank you! i’m sort of having a hard time with it. i like it darker, but i think i’d like it to be more of a short bob instead of layered SO MUCH in the back, so that it’s just “short” if that makes sense. i don’t hate it. but i also thought i might try and grow it out later LOL longer but with long layers. ugh. hair.
the jeans feel like a really low rise on me but that’s just because i’m so used to high-rise lately, which i think isn’t as comfortable, honestly. they’re more of a mid-rise, but come up in the back, with very little gap (another reason why i got the size 4) so they fit me remarkably well in the waist/hips. i think i was so shocked at finding a good pair of EF jeans that i had to bring them home…
That!
I like rambling blogs best, which is funny because I’m always afraid of rambling myself. Maybe I should ramble more?
Yes, I agree with Leah. I like rambling posts too. Why? I don’t know. When people told me I was doing a stream of consciousness type writing, I thought ‘oh no, I’m rambling!’ and wasn’t sure if that was a good thing but now I realize that I enjoy reading other people ramble too, haha.
yes! that’s why i enjoy your blog so much. i’m all about stream of consciousness…it’s hard for me to do anything else
I really like these jeans on you! (More than your Rachel Comey ones which I also like but these look even better.) And I love love love your blog. I’m very different from you (geographically, job-wise, family-wise) but I relate so much to what you say that sometimes it’s uncanny. And reading your “ramblings” on dressing totally brightens up my morning! And yes, the “I don’t need to buy anything, followed promptly by a new purchase” is my reality too. I was going to give up online shopping for this month and then the big Shopbop spring sale (presale this week?) came on and I ended up getting some white sling backs I’ve had my eye on forever. (White shoes are an obsession right now.)
i love your blog BECAUSE it’s so real and free-associative. Stylized websites and their picture-perfect fashion posts bore me to tears. Please keep doing what you do, Grechen — you’re a breathe of fresh air. And I know you’ve been blogging since 2006 or something, but you’ve remained true to your intent and message regardless of how your style has evolved over the years. When I first discovered your blog a few years ago, I was so happy, because I could really relate to you. You have a true voice.
Also, I think your hair looks so chic and adorable the way it is right now. It’s a super cut. But I seem to always like your hair regardless of how you style it. You just have great hair. And the darker color is very flattering. It makes you look younger.
I wish i could wear the jeans like you do, but I’m afraid they wouldn’t look as good on me. I’m 5’2″ and have a pronounced derriere, thighs and chest, so I don’t have as delicate a top as you do, which makes for such a pretty line the way the cardigan and tee fall. I’m dying to try them, though. Such a gorgeous shade of indigo.
How would you style the wide legs on a short, curvy girl?
xoxo
OMG speaking of uncanny…i am also OBSESSED with white shoes. and i placed my shopbop order today (I’m not allowed to post about the “sale” until tomorrow though so lips sealed!) with the code and ALMOST ordered these jacquemus oxfords (clown shoes!!), but did not, because 1. i had white platform oxfords last year and besides not fitting right, they got SO DIRTY even after being treated, and i would hate for these to get dirty and 2. i’m really trying hard not to buy any “new” leather right now.
which slingbacks did you get?
i like these jeans a lot, they’re definitely easier to sit in than my RC jeans. i do know that high waist + wide leg does NOT work very well for me generally, which is why these jeans are probably more ‘flattering’ overall..
thanks holly 🙂
i was sort of thinking that the darker hair made me look older. maybe darker and shorter…so funny how differently we all see things!!
i definitely think you could wear these jeans! i have no experience with dressing for any sort of chest at all, but i think they would look really cute styled like they are in this image at eileen fisher – that whole outfit (oxfords!!) is so good…and would accommodate a larger chest and look amazing – i think, anyway.
thighs and derriere i know about, and these jeans accommodate mine well 🙂
Exactly! You are a real person, to whom I can relate. Like chatting with a friend. Thank you!!
Thanks so much, Grechen, I’m totally going to run over the local EF boutique and try them one. You’re the best. 🙂 xox
That was validating. You have to try on EF. Do I wear a 12 or an 16? ?
Your hair looks super-cute in pic #1. (#2 as well, but I’m fixated on #1) And even though I KNOW it has to be black, the first outfit appears navy (to my eye) in the photos!
I really like the second outfit…the jeans are cute on you! Thanks for the heads up on the coupon.