Bright Colors of Ghana

My lovely friend Kassie showed me this post which made me o so happy. I've spent the last few years interning and working on and off, as school allows, with a great little microlending organization WomensTrust. I went to Ghana a bit more than an year ago and loved it. Among other things, the clothing is amazing - beauitful fabrics sewn into gorgeous outfits. Inspired by the post, I look through my pictures from Ghana and found a few to share:

These women are carrying their children as is tradition in Ghana with a beautiful wrapped fabric. I particulary love the green and blue on the left.

There were quite a few twins in the village and they all wore matching outfits!

This is the program director and my wonderful host while I was in Ghana - she's modeling a brand new outfit.

And this little girl was by far one of my favorites and loved to dress up and be the center of attention.

life rolls on

Who knew that college could make people so busy? Oh wait, we did. But the blogging must go on! So, briefly, some recent outfits. Trying hard to re-wear old favorites in interesting ways, as shopping budgets are very small (read: non-existent) at the moment.

fashion's night out

so I just tried to call my o-so-cool younger sister who is in her second week at NYU. she, of course, can't talk now because it's Fashion's Night Out and she's way too busy for her big sis. I, in a state of complete jealously and despise for my current location, had to do a blog post.

we don't have any new photos of us to post, again. blogging and school is tough! but I promise, we will get the hang of it and take pictures more often. for now, instead of new photos, I'm going to highlight one of my favorite blogs:
Madeline from Uber Chic for Cheap is great at finding steals on good clothes, often looking for something similar to a higher priced item. Here are some of my recent favorites.
This $346 Anthropologie outfit

for $92.74 with her alternatives

this $392.50 J.Crew outfit

for just under $100

I think I even like the alternative dress better in this case!

She also often posts great sale finds. I happen to have just purchased a $10 cardigan and $10 shoes from Delia's, to much delight!

My shoes are actually bronze, but this was the available picture.

Moral of the story: College students may be poor, but we can still be pretty:-)

back to school blues

As Sasha said, we have been extremely busy lately with the beginning of the school and having jobs and heading up student organizations and trying to also maintain some kind of social life at the same time. Suffice it to say, it's hectic. In fact, I got off of work at midnight and ran home to finish a couple of assignments for tomorrow. One is finished, and the other will have to wait, because this post has been in the making for about a week now.

Sadly, it's going to be a much shorter version of what I originally planned. I wanted to go on and one about how it's always been very important for me to choose my first day of school outfit, to set the tone for the year. And since this past week was my last first week of school ever, I was especially sure to make it something good.

So here are my outfits from the first and second days of my last year as a student. I hope they set the tone for great things to come in the future!




They are definitely setting the tone for lots of procrastination, for sure.

fashionable friends

we have been busy busy bees lately with the beginning of the school year - classes, club organizing (Anna is the editor-in-chief of Clark's life, culture, and style magazine and Sasha is a co-coordinator of a community service group and Clark's Amnesty International), and seeing all of our lovely friends who were not in Worcester for the summer. lots of our lovely friends are in the pictures:

the first days of school have been beautiful and sunny and I favorite cheap outfit - cut off thrift jeans, thrifted shirt and cheap Charlotte Russe necklace.

our friend Anna is one of the most well dressed people we know

another friend Anna (it's apparently a popular name at Clark) found this beautiful dress in her closet and wore it with a beautiful feather headband

this weekend we went to a delicious Italian restaurant in Boston to celebrate our friend's 21st birthday. Sasha is here with our lovely friend Pia

Anna, beautiful and cute as always

and a close up on the feather headband that the other Anna was wearing above

at Anna and her roomies housewarming

and, finally, our friend Julian who is not overly stylish but really wanted to be in the blog and wore a shirt with some sparkle in the design

iwantiwantiwant

So Sasha decided to make a bit of a wishlist, which has sparked some crazy online shopping on my part. I'm not actually going to buy any of the following things, but I really wish I could.

First, shoes: I strongly desire very tall riding boots. I lived with a girl who rode and had the most amazing tall boots that she wore to actually ride horses. I don't plan on riding horses, but I want want to look like I do. (And these flats are really cute.)

(urbanoutfitters.com)

Dresses: I always want to buy more dresses, even though they are rarely appropriate for my life. Here are some dresses I covet, all of which very in their levels of inappropriateness. Most inappropriate, and my favorite, is the strapless black and white one. I also wish I could go to a dog show and wear that dog face print dress.

(anthropologie.com)

(oldnavy.com)

Outerwear: I LOVE OUTERWEAR. I grew up in South Florida, so before I moved to New England for college, I had 2 coats ever in my life. As a result, I'm now obsessed with outerwear of all kinds. I am having fever dreams about blazers right now, and this floral one is slowly killing me. The sweater is something I would wear everyday. And the cape? I would never wear it, I could not really afford it, but it is so gorgeous and Edwardian, I cannot resist it.

(urbanoutfitters.com)

(oldnavy.com)

(anthropologie.com)

lazy bloggin'

it has been a very very busy week with the last week of summer work and preparation for fall classes, clubs, and work, and a couple of late nights with lovely people. i have lots of pictures to upload, but i am now at home in the woods where the internet is slooooow. instead, here are some wishes from some of my favorite shops:

bright and colorful and even affordable from Anthropologie

so beautiful, also Anthropologie

i actually have tall winter boots about this color that i love, but these are still fabulous. (Anthropologie again)

hat! clearly i dreamed the Anthropologie website landed in my closet.
and a cute t-shirt from Delia's for those early morning lazy days

enjoy! i'm getting really excited for fall fashion, so more wishful thinking to come:)

grey lady and stripes ahoy!

Sasha got this grey shirt, which has made appearances on here before, at Old Navy some time in July, and has put it to such great use throughout the rest of the summer! We often discuss how great shirts like this are. They're made of t-shirt material, so they're super comfy, but they have something extra and interesting to them! They're really easy to dress up or down, and that's an great quality to have in one of your favorite tops.




Sasha also got some new glasses (for FREE!) when she bought her new contacts. Aren't they cute?





As for me, my love of stripes has been coming out to show its face a lot lately. Example one: I've been pining over the American Aparell Le Sac dress for what seems like forever, and I finally broke down and got one. In the store, I pushed past all the solid colors and beelined straight to this rainbow striped number. It was calling out my name! I can't wait to wear it all the different ways.



Example two is another outfit from the week, comprised of my (favorite ever) dress from Topshop that I got while in London for a semester, paired with my striped purple cardigan, and my gladiators, which striped my feet. This whole ensemble got me very excited, and I can't wait to re-work it in the fall with some tights and a scarf and my purple boots.




In conclusion, I just saw Julie and Julia so: BON APETIT!