changing up yr style and/or new look 4 u in 2012

It's hard for me to be professional-looking every day w/o stressing out in the AM, and since I have internal organs and sit at a desk, the list of styles I'm willing to wear for 10 hours or more is getting shorter and shorter and does not include things like pencil skirts or waists that will ride up or prevent me from digesting food. Or undergarments that don't stay where they're put, like the ones I'm wearing today that I now remember why I don't wear more often.

I just looked at the Uniqlo website for 1st time ever and brb I am going to buy them out now.

Because like I just told facespace I need a whole new wardrobe that I can sweat in 94/7 that doesn't make me want to kill living things.

I have on a pretty new skirt and my fancy swirly sandals you helped me pick out last summer and I feel all ladylike and pretty. SUMMER!

ps - <3 Uniqlo.

i just shopped at uniqlo for the first time yesterday and am VERY HAPPY.

I get all my boring separates during my annual visit to Uniqlo.

They need to open up one here. I haven't been since I lived in London! NY gets all the good stuff. :/

Do they have them in Chicago?!

Nope, I've only been to the one in NY.

Ones?

Fashion inspirations for me right now:

http://images.wikia.com/bladerunner/images/1/19/Rachael-blade-runner.jpg

http://www.celebrity9.com/img/anna-nicole-smith/anna-white.jpg

Wellllllll, I went to Uniqlo and...their cardigans are a really good deal? I'll take one in every color?

Apart from that I only found one skirt in any style, in any color, above a size 6 (it was a size 12, and still didn't fit) and almost none of their shirts fit me in any size. Something about where they think your breasts are supposed to go (or not go, or not exist).

1 cardigan, 2 stripey tshirts = $50

No wait $60.

Wellllllll, I went to Uniqlo and...their cardigans are a really good deal? I'll take one in every color?

ha, i was looking at their site last night and got all excited when i saw cheap crew neck cardigans, but then realised they don't have an actual store online :( i'm on the hunt for crew neck style, but it seems like everywhere is just v-neck cardis which i hate.

but they are opening a store here in the fall.

I mostly only wear Vnecks because crew neck cardigans gap and pull funny, on me. It's not that I have giant breasts, it's something about the height of them, about where the fullest part is. It's never where the clothes are made for the bust to be. I think Uniqlo clothes just assume you don't have a bust, though.

i bought a skirt from there i really like (an orange swishy skirt) but when i tried to wear it this morning i realized it doesn't go well with anything i own. given that my only options are returning & recouping or spending MORE money on clothes, i think i will probably be returning. :(

xp i only ever wear cardis open, so the gaping thing is never a prob!

wearing bracelets on my left wrist today and one on my right wrist. i never wear anything on my left hand/wrist. feels weird. going with it.

it was hard to get the bracelets off my left wrist. mechanics of it. but all is well, i'm not stuck with bracelets on my left wrist for the rest of my life or anything.

I've decided that the knuckle on my right ring finger is too short to put a ring on--when I try, it hurts whenever I move that finger. (My wedding ring is on my left ring finger.)

Palazzo pants: y/n

Pros: look comfortable, breezy. Can pretend I'm Katharine Hepburn
Cons: I'm shorter and fatter than Katharine Hepburn. I don't know man, those are some crazy wide-legged pants

Very hard look to pull off imo. I'm not sure Hepburn rocked it so hard, either.

Really? She totally did! I guess they can be hard to pull off if you're really short but done right I think it's awesome. I'd love to get a pair for this summer. Have you seen them around lately, Carl? I'm a huge fan of wide leg pants in general. I think they're way more flattering for most people than skinny pants.

I too am fond of a wide leg pant, but "palazzo" to me sums up a drapey elastic-waisted rayon number, not a tailored pant. Clearly I need to do some GIS research.

No, I think they are drapey. Well flowy maybe. They're sort of like long skirts but just pants? I love long skirts. Have one on today!

So I guess I only like certain types. I don't really love the first three of these looks but the one on the far right is awesome, or would be if that was a longer shirt. I like them paired with flats - not heels or platforms, I think.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sU4NbKgbvyg/TzwKExHeMqI/AAAAAAAABlc/ckILAr0eRDI/s1600/palazzo-pants-asos.png

oops

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sU4NbKgbvyg/TzwKExHeMqI/AAAAAAAABlc/ckILAr0eRDI/s1600/palazzo-pants-asos.png

The ones on the far left just seem like staight up flares. The blue ones would be OK if it weren't for the pleats.

that is one of my least favorite pants and i will never wear them

I like the orange ones! But I would describe them as a wide-legged trouser and not a palazzo.

Actually I *covet* the orange ones--any idea where they are from?

I believe those are all from ASOS! I would consider them just wide-legged as well and they are pretty sweet. I just don't think I'd be able to pull them off.

I like the orange ones, I do. But these are a firm No for me, forever, for all styles.

The pair on the far right is most similar to the ones I'm considering.

I mean let's be real this is all about wearing pajama pants to work. Though I too love the long skirts (also wearing one today high five ENBB) and am attracted to the overall look.

I don't know. I'm on the short side for these but I'm long legged so it might work. Also I have a 30% off/free shipping coupon.

*high five!* I think if you're long legged it can work even for shorties! 30%! That's a good coupon. I want the black ones now. Hmmmmm. Let me see if I can find them on the actual site.

Alright, I've decided against the palazzo pants. Why? Well, none of the plus size retailers where I was considering buying the pants could style them in any pleasing looking way, and if photographers and clothing retailers can't style something, what chance do I have?

(por ejemplo, these are lovely but look at how dumpy the model looks, as they chose to pair these large, flowing pants with some kind of a smock top and shapeless cardigan.)

(these look pretty good on the model but EVERYTHING looks good on that model (who is my on-line girlfriend FYI).)

lol she's totally the one who modeled the dress you bought sort of recently. You said something similar then :). She's adorable and reminds me of Lily Allen. Yeah, I think for it to work whatever's on top has to be cut close to the body or overall feel is very Dorothy Zbornak.

Just to make things interesting, I'm linking to a Muslim clothing website that sells a lot of wide-legged pants for women.

Yes, she is the same model! That lovely dress, btw? I ordered it, Simply Be charged my card, and then two weeks later I got an email saying it was out of stock and if I wanted a refund, I had to call them. The call took two minutes - she put me on hold and was like "Okay I'm back it is refunded!" Then the other dress I bought, which was more of a workhorse dress, got holes in it on the second (delicate cycle, cold, hang to dry) wash. So I'm kind of meh on ordering from them again anyway.

The "classic weekend denim" pants on that site are great.

Those are the ones I like, too!

I love them!! They remind me of my favorite Gap trouser jeans from a couple years ago that they don't sell any more. I had three pairs and wore them to death!

I kind of want to get them.

I wish men could wear pyjama bottoms out in public.

i'm very happy they can't.

I feel like I see men do this all the time? Most recently I saw a man with faded black pajama pants with a marijuana leaf print.

Not that I'm endorsing this look but it's extant.

I'm told it's more of a West Coast thing? Saw a guy in nice new snazzy pj bottoms at a surf-y bar last weekend. Questioned the look and that's what I got.

I feel like what with moving to a new city and totally changing my lifestyle, I ought to be going for a change of style just because I can. I need to get on and think of one. I am basically thinking

- learn to do stuff with hair
- wear more colour
- tuck things in occasionally
- more jewellery

This doesn't seem radical enough.

More jewelry cd be totes radical if it was the kooky art teacher stuff that ENBB, horseshoe, and I love.

belts are a good alternative to tucking things in imo