MONDAY

Monday outfit, with and without jacket. I’m doing an Instagram challenge this week: #oldclothesclub, where we share the clothing we’ve had the longest. I’ve had this Tahari merino wool sweater for six years. I liked it so much when I found it (at TJ Maxx) that I also bought it in blue – and I NEVER do that. My mother did that. Find a bag/beach towel/pair of sandals she liked and buy them in EVERY color. Anyway, the white Gloria Vanderbilt jeans are almost two years old, and the leather espadrilles have been with me through two summers. I’m also wearing earrings I’ve had for nine years. The green utility jacket is from Loft last fall.

tuesday

Still being mindful of the #oldclothesclub Instagram challenge, I have on a Tencel buttondown circa (ha) 2015…so almost five years old. I got it from Charlotte Russe, back in the day, before they curtailed so many of their plus size items. I think now they only carry plus size in jeans. It was a camera club day and rainy, so dark jeans and sneakers made the most sense. I just love this color of faded blue with the chestnut cardigan (like I showed on a blog here a couple weeks ago). I’m looking a bit rumpled from being out in the rain earlier.

Wednesday

Day 3 of #oldclothesclub I have on a five-year-old cardigan from Charlotte Russe over this fall’s dress from Old Navy. With Reeboks again cuz I still haven’t found The Shoes for this dress. I had pictured like a beat-up looking pair of chestnutty brown lace-up prairie style booties…I BOUGHT a pair…but they’re sitting here waiting to be packed up and returned. They’re cute. Just not on me. I could also see clogs with this dress (and a lot of other fall/winter outfits, but I haven’t seen Just the Right Ones (at a price I’m willing to pay). Anyway. No camera club today, nice weather, no schlepping of boxes that I’m aware of…so I finally got to wear a dress! And it was good. I like the contrast of the schlubby scruffy grey cardigan over the pretty prairie dress…also the color combo. If I can find the right footwear, this will be repeated. I have like three other things in mind to wear with/over this dress, also!

Thursday

It’s Day 4 of #oldclothesclub so my daily outfit choices continue to be based on some old article of clothing. Here it’s the skinny jeans from (say it with me now) Charlotte Russe. Until this week I hadn’t realized how many of my older items were from Charlotte Russe! I never would have thought of that as a favorite, but 2015 was when I just started to be mindful of what I was wearing…and really my first foray into the world of online shopping. They had a couple things that fit me when no place else did so. Anyway, five years later these jeans are still going strong. I’m wearing them with a new cream v-neck sweater – last year I felt the lack of “one and done” items that didn’t need anything else to go over them. And new loafers. I’ve had cognac loafers on The List for over a year now…and recently I added camel/beige…and these seem to fall somewhere in the middle so hopefully will work for both needs.

I’m so weird about shoes. I have never had many. 10-12 pairs, including summer shoes and sneakers, that’s my normal number. But I never seem to have all the right shoes to go with all the outfits. So I’m trying to loosen up my “One Pair of Shoes Should Go With All The Things” mentality and actually buy the shoes I need to create the outfits I want.

And it was cool enough today I actually needed a jacket. We walked in the woods near a lake for camera club and we were all pretty chilly! Even me! This is the utility jacket I got from Loft last year when I said “if it goes 50% off, I’ll buy it,” and like the next day it went 40% off and I said CLOSE ENOUGH! And I’m glad I did.

FRIDAY

For the fifth and final day of #oldclosetclub, I wore this striped top from Avenue that I believe is from 2014. On warmer days I’ll sometimes wear it by itself but I prefer it under the camel cardigan. White cropped straight-leg jeans from Old Navy. And my new camel/cognac (cagnac? comel?) loafers.

I was going to wear a dress with some high boots I got late this summer but haven’t worn yet, but I could not get myself out of bed this morning and I realized I didn’t know where my long silk underwear or silk socks were and that’s what I like to wear under high boots. As thin as possible and a gazillionhundredmillion times easier to get on than tights. SO, I passed on the dress but it reminded me I need to find those this weekend cuz the COLD has arrived. I’m glad I brought my patio fern inside yesterday as it would probably be dead today.

And this week’s a wrap! It’s already getting harder to get the daily photos. Most of this week I took them during lunchtime in a wooded cul-de-sac near work but that takes up more than half my lunchtime and then I’m rushing to get food, eat it and get back to the office in time. Indoor mirror selfies are a last resort, in my mind. I know I COULD get up 20 minutes earlier and do them on the patio BEFORE work but HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

Byeeee!