Ensemble du Jour

The Outfit
I just realized I'm wearing black and brown again today. I'm wearing cropped black pants and a black camisole, plus a croc print Merona cardigan. Because I have a lot of pattern, I am only wearing my rings and my nice watch for jewelry.



I really only have two watches. My sportier one is the acrylic Toy Watch, which I wear a lot because I like the chunkiness of it. My everyday, nicer watch is a Raymond Weil Parsifal with a diamond bezel and numbers. This is actually my second one. The first one got stolen at the gym because I dumbly, took it off during a class.

I am of the belief that if you have a few key nice accessories you can dress up most any outfit. I would say the key things to invest in are a wallet, watch, sunglasses, and, of course, shoes. You can even get away with a less pricey bag or other jewelry if you have a nice wallet and watch. Same goes for men - wallet, watch, belt, shoes. From there, you're good to go.



The Focal Point
Croc! No, not Crocs (ick!). Croc print. I'm risking wearing a pattern overload by wearing two croc print items but the color tones are complementary and not matching, so I think it works.



I luv these shoes. Their Manolo Blahnik Tuccio in pony hair with the print magically on there.



These are the most comfortable heels ever. What a silhouette.




I would wear these everywhere if I wasn't so over-protective of them.

Ensemble du Jour

I was going to post my outfit yesterday but couldn't get a good Polyvore going of it. The main thing I liked was just my tights and shoes anyways. They were the magenta Guess Pyramid slingbacks and I paired them with a the deep purple tights I mentioned the other day. The outfit was a grey pleated skirt and a grey plaid jacket that had stripes in the magenta and purple tones.

But on to today.

The Outfit
Its Friday and I wanted to wear some jeans, plus it's an excuse to wear more sparkly shoes. I'm wearing the very Barbie-esque sequin Manolos.

So, Gap jeans, grey cropped cardigan and pink/grey baby doll shirt from Target, pink heels and pink scarf.



This is the pattern on the shirt. It's grey and pink with darker pink butterflies.



Accessories shot! I finally got my vintage bag fixed by my amazing shoe guy so I have that, some pink knit gloves and my pink vintage sunglasses.



The Focal Point
Today's outfit is brought to you by the color PINK!



This might possibly, sort of be one of my favorite songs! I'm not saying, but maybe.



; )

That Rosy Glow

The other day I mentioned that I was having some challenges regarding the sequined Manolos in Oro. I got all three of the shoes at the same time. The red and fuchsia pair where in more of a rounded toe style and grouped together on the BG site and the Oro pair was grouped with a version in black. They also looked like the heel was slightly different and pointier. My plan was to get them all, see which ones I liked and that fit, if any, and send back the rest.

But I was most excited to get the Oro pair. Now I know that Oro means gold. But if you look at the picture on the site (shown here) they seem to have a pink-ish cast to them which could possibly be extremely pretty. Also, in the item description on the site it reads: Choose Oro (blush, shown) or black (see below) sequins. And when you zoom in on the image there is a definite pink tone.



But when they arrived they were gold. Not rose gold and not at all blush, but full on gold. Shiny shiny gold. Almost tacky gold. And, as the heel isn't sequined but is just a plain shiny finish, it actually did look tacky. The husband, who usually doesn't not have much of an opinion on these matters agreed with me. Luckily these were 35.5s while the other two were 35s so they were too big anyways.

Since I was so surprised that I called customer service to see why they were so misrepresented and to see if maybe it was just my pair that looked so gold. They were going to track them down at the warehouse to see what the deal was. But I also decided to call the NYC store to see if they even had them in the stores and to see what their opinion was considering they were seeing them in person.

So when I called they said they looked pink-ish to them, not gold! What the heck!

But then they said they also had a pair in 35, which had not been available online when I place my other order. So for curiosity (and hopes sake) I said to send them to me. I could always return them if they still weren't what I wanted.

They arrived last night.

And they are definitely more pink, when you look at them in natural light you can see a big difference. And even better, the heel is fully sequined just like the other two! I don't think you can tell the color as much. Although it is not as "blush" as it is in the BG picture, more like a champagne, it is not the tacky gold like before.





The shape is different though. The Oro pair are much pointier and the sides near the toe-box are lower. And even though these are a 35, they're surprisingly still a little loose, which the others aren't.



I'm still deciding whether I'm going to keep the Oro pair. I'll have to test a shoe cushion insert which would help anyways because these are both really high heels. They're listed as 4 1/10" heels and I think that extra little bit pushes them over the top.



So my advice, if you want to get them is to try and get them through the store if you want the sequined heel. I'm not sure why they are different but I'm much happier with this version than the ones I got through the site.

Sassy, Elegant or Smoking Hot!

It is so not fair that I can't have all three of these Manolo Blahniks! I love Resort collections almost as much as Fall. They usually have such a great sense of humor.

I love everything about these Sequin Pumps. I just have to decide which persona I want to be. That's why it's so hard to choose. They all feel like me and they're all so wonderful!

A little Barbie-esque, girly sass in fuchsia.



Cool and elegant in the light pink-gold Oro.



Or classic Dorthy/Jessica Rabbit/Sexpot in crimson!



One of each please!