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Loft Plus Fitting Room Try-On: A Drama in Two Parts

So, hallelujah, some Loft stores are now carrying plus sizes. There are 10 Loft stores on Long Island. One is carrying plus sizes. Sigh. But it’s a start. Hopefully it’s just a test, and if sales do well, they’ll spread to more stores. Maybe even all the stores. But I feel like to

Thinking Ahead to the Holidays

When this Connected Apparel plus size dress arrived from Gwynnie Bee, I was pleasantly surprised. It was looser fitting than I’d expected and stretchier. But in sort of a thick, slinky way, so lumps and bumps don’t show much and it just skims away from the body. Nice. The v-neck was not too

Fall Wardrobe Wish List Part 1: Clothing

I’ve done an assessment of my fall wardrobe and I’ve decided there are a couple (alright, more than a couple) things that would round it out. I feel I’m heavy on “solid on solid” looks – solid colored dress or top under a solid color cardigan. That is feeling a little boring

Week in Review: Week 135

Daylight is getting noticeably shorter. The one time I made it out this week to walk before work it was too dark to even take pictures. That’s no fun! Work was work-like. We had a tornado on Long Island. While certainly not the norm for this area, I feel like it’s happening more

Fall Florals & Fabulous Friday Link-Up

So, I’m doing something new and different his week, and co-hosting the Fabulous Friday link-up with the lovely Jennie of A Pocketful of Polka Dots. I hope you’ll join our link-up party (I’m so excited to see who comes!) and maybe you’ll be selected and shared next week as a favorite blogger!

Fall is For Being Bold

After summer’s whites, neutrals and pastels, I’m looking forward to the warm, rich, bold colors of fall – mustard, golden yellow, ochre, sienna, copper, cinnamon (yum). I wonder if it’s an unconscious desire to “warm up” by wearing spicy colors during the colder parts of the year. Whatever the reason, it’s deliciously

Week in Review: Week 134

Week. Busy. Whew. Monday was our big annual golf fundraiser. It was beautiful weather but MAN were there a lot of hills! I’m the photographer so I walked up hill and down dale getting pictures. Me in my high fashion golf shirt. And sweating. Shocker. With foofy hair. The next morning I

Month in Review: September 2018

September is OVER??? It just STARTED! It’s already FUMMER!!!  Okay, let’s get right into it, then, or it’s gonna be the end of OCTOBER already!!! Top 3 Blog Posts #1 Last day of Summer – Really! The one where I actually buy something new (!!!) and really really love it! #2 Sentence a Day: Best

Transitioning Your Closet

It’s time to start wrapping up the full-on summer wardrobe, assessing each item’s success (or lack thereof!), and a) deciding what stays in for fall, b) what comes out now but will be saved for next summer, c) what fall(ish) items can be moved into the closet to be combined with summer

Transitional Dressing: The Best of Both Worlds

The Fall Equinox. The Summer Solstice. On paper, these terms have a well-defined and clear-cut meaning. On a specific date, the seasons change. From summer to fall. From spring to summer. But in real life, we know this is rarely the way the seasons work – from one extreme to the other,

Week in Review: Week 133

Whoosh! That week flew by! Started Monday after work, going back to a garden I shot in awhile back, to get some additional shots for a blog post. This is a teaching garden at a local college and it is one of my favorite gardens on the Island. OOTD Tuesday Work days

My Favorite Summer Looks

Sigh. It’s really time to start seeing what’s in the “fall/winter” tub…but first I want to take a look back at my five favorite outfits of this summer. #5 – Starting at the bottom, is the outfit I wore on the first day of summer, the bright pink rayon embroidered top from

Last Day of Summer – Really!

The past two weeks we’ve been bombarded with pictures of pumpkin lattes and cozy sweaters and all the spicy brown tones…but really, that was jumping the gun just a bit! Tomorrow is the last day of summer, for real, so today I am showing my last summer outfit of the season (sadface). It was my

Week in Review: Week 132

Another week down. They’re ticking off faster and faster. At this point in my life I just hope I get to enjoy a little bit of retirement before I die. Had a 4-day weekend. Rained a lot so didn’t do too much. Pre-bra-fitting carb (and sugar)-loading. You’ll read more about this in

Month in Review: August 2018

I have felt very disorganized ever since vacation, I can’t quite get my ducks together, so, yes, I realize it’s the middle of September and I’m just now posting my August in Review, but…LIFE. Top 3 Blog Posts #1 I Was Ghosted Ooh, that’s a little sad. There’s not even a picture. I

NYFW Street Style Trends

I LOVE Fashion Week…and almost more than the runway shows themselves, I love the shows happening out on the streets – the street style looks from guests attending the shows. The “real” fashion is, of course, amazing, but generally unattainable by us common-folk. I love to see what’s being worn out on

Come Along With Me: Escher Exhibit, Industry City, Brooklyn

This past weekend some friends and I finally got to do something we’ve been wanting to do all summer, but were never all available on a Saturday – and this was a visit to Brooklyn’s new(ish) Industry City in Sunset Park…and the MC Escher exhibit. Industry City used to be just dilapidated, mostly

Week in Review: Week 131

Which is actually Week 132 cuz I noticed going back through some old posts that I’d named the WIR post the same thing two weeks in a row. Whatever. So, here we are in Week 132 posting Week 131. Not confusing at all. Back to work this week. I don’t know if

Vacation Bucket List Revisited

Well, the Vacation Bucket List kicked my butt. It taunted me daily with whispers in my ear, “you didn’t shoot September content, loser” and “I thought you were going to go for a bra fitting, slacker!” Stupid Bucket List! I had been all gung-ho but got the wind knocked out of me on


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