Yeah, so I had this awesome blouse and trouser jean outfit I was going to wear today, but then I looked at my calendar last night, and realized I had an appointment that required serious, high-level adulting. Dang it.
So I full-on, mega-seriously adulted.
On the upside, it gave me a chance to extol the virtues of Simply Be a few days earlier than I'd planned!
Remember the rockin' British company I mentioned on January 24? Yeah, it does take a while to get delivery, but it is so very, very worth it!
Everything here is from Simply Be. Except the shoes. (Did I mention that Aerosol's A2 collection is cost efficient and extremely comfortable? I'll get more into that this weekend.)
The shirt is currently $9.50 off, down to $31.49 - the "Print Tie Neck Top." It's got a subtly elasticized (I'm calling that a word now if it wasn't before), hip-length hem, which is also very flattering with pants. It's a halter neck, but I don't take off my jacket when I wear it with suits. And it's soooooooooft. I like soft. With this, obviously, I tucked it into the skirt.
The skirt and jacket come from the Mix & Match selections in the career wear section. This is the short 25" blazer (28" also available, not to mention the "long line" jackets) with the 29" pencil skirt (25" also available), in navy blue. In theory, I could have also gotten matching pants. And a longer, matching jacket. And I could pair it with one of the gray or even bright pink blazers, or what have ya. I have a few pieces in several colors so I really can mix and match. But today, the maximum adult level kinda begged for matchy-matchy.
(Next week should only require medium adulting rather than full-force adulting, so I can play around with some of the mixing and matching as long as I don't revert to "LAZY - WEAR DRESS TODAY TO MITIGATE NEED FOR THOUGHT" too often.)
With a $37 skirt (well, rounded up), and $58 jacket (rounding again!), it's definitely budget friendly (plus shipping, of course). Jacket prices in particular can vary by about ten-ish dollars, depending on what length you go with.
But seriously ... REALLY great career stuff!
The sizes, with limited exception, tend to run pretty dead on, which is nice. I typically wear a 26, and the 26s in the career section fit great. I recommend, though, if you vary off to other sections and get something from the Joe Brown collection in particular, order a size up. The Joe Brown stuff tends to run a bit small.
Happy Friday!
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