NYC Goodies

from Aritzia

from Topshop

from Gap (they're selvage!)

I brought a few things back with me from NYC.

Neglect

Banana Republic tank, Old Navy sweater (It's an open-weave one, not that you can tell with the photo adjustments I made), Silver Brand (yeah, I don't know either) jeans, Minnetonka mocs, F21 locket (someday maybe I'll show you what's inside the locket. If you're lucky)

I've been neglecting the blogs. Big time. Can I be excused because of work?

I'm typically pretty good at keeping up with what's going on in the land of style blogdom, but I'm sorry to say my blog-browsing sessions have been hit-and-miss lately. I don't know how to make up for it except that this evening I'll be reading and commenting like a good little blogger.

On an unrelated note, there's a helicopter buzzing (buzzing?) around above downtown San Francisco right now. It's because of this. Let's not get political, k? K.

On a serious note--Ha! Just kidding. This is totally not serious. But it is style-related, and isn't that what this blog is for?--let's talk about my jeans. Ladies and gents, these jeans were purchased sometime in probably during my freshman year of college. I picked them up while I was back at my folks' house. [Kind of] free jeans score!

Seven

Here they are. My first pair of designer jeans. I'm such a proud mama.

Now, for those of you who don't know, my husband works in denim. No, that doesn't mean I got these for free. But he did buy one of those daily deal coupons for a local boutique so that I got them pretty much half off.

But he knows denim. So I let him help me pick them out, and we settled on this high-waisted boot cut style. The cool thing? I'm not supposed to wash them. Like, for a year. Sound strange? It's true. I'm supposed to let them develop their own "wash story" through wear and tear, not tumble dry low. (Ha! See what I did there?)

And so I guess I'll be styling these a lot and watching their wear evolution through my outfit photos. Pretty cool, huh? Oh, and they fit like a dream. I guess now I know why people invest a lot of money in their denim. It only makes sense for someone like me; I can wear jeans everyday at work if I like, so might as well get some great quality, right?

 Banana Republic top, Seven for all Mankind jeans, Mossimo wedges, Gap scarf, F21 locket, Mango blazer (bought in Spain in 2004)