How fun would it have been if I’d had a Halloween outfit (ha ha otherwise known as a “costume.” Speak much??) to share on Halloween? So Fun.

So So Fun.

Please lower your expectations immediately.

Today is a regular old casual autumn outfit. For regular old casual me and my regular old casual life. But the subheadings are good:

  • Do Wear White After Labor Day
  • Successfully Waiting for a Bargain.

Do Wear White After Labor Day

We’ve all been hearing this ad nauseam. Are you doing it? I’m wondering if, after January 1, people will start saying “Wear White Before Memorial Day.” Or if by then we’ll just be so indoctrinated into the current WEAR WHITE ALL YEAR ROUND credo that we won’t even give a thought to the appropriateness/inappropriateness of wearing certain colors only at certain times of the year. New Guideline: WEAR ALL THE COLORS ALL OF THE TIMES.

Successfully Waiting for a Bargain

I had been watching and liking this navy and white stripe pullover on Nordstrom Rack since the fall of 2017. But it was too much money, too much money, too much money. It would go on sale, still too much money. It would go out of stock then come back in stock. I put it in my ShopTagr and just waited. I sorta forgot all about it. Then one day mid-summer I got a notification that it was on clearance for like TWELVE DOLLARS. Come on. I snatched that sucker right up. Success. The End. I love that story.

Ha ha, funny epilogue–I just checked my account to see if the exact sweater was still available, and found I was wrong. It wasn’t $12. It was ten dollars and thirty-five cents. Ha ha ha. And, while it is no longer available, here are some other fun striped pullovers that I am loving:

This is a nice combo for fall until it gets super cold…and then I can put a cardigan over it or a turtleneck underneath. But I feel like it will get mostly worn during fall and spring. Maybe it’s the nautical feel of navy and white that seems more warm weathery to me. Ha ha, didn’t I just say to wear all the colors all the time? NEW GUIDELINE: Wear all the COLORS, not necessarily all the color combinations 🙂  I tried to be foot-loose and fancy free for just a moment but I quickly boxed myself in again. It was a good effort.
Do you have color combinations you only wear in certain seasons?
I like that the sweater has little side slits, that helps ease the fit around the hips. That’s a good detail to watch for if you’re larger in the hips/butt area. I am not crazy about the super long ties and I think I’m going to cut them so they’re just barely longer longer than the sweater itself.

What I’m Wearing: