monday manifesto: sometimes fabulousity is fate

so anna is my colleague and i love her like my sister from another mister. she's smart, funny, gorgeous, silly, and everything a fashionista could ask for in a cubicle-mate. what's great about anna is that not only is she fun to work with in my *cough cough* real job, she's super into fashion too. this only slightly reduces our general productivity due to excessive amounts of communal online shopping. only slightly.

today, anna came in looking SUUUUUPER CUTE.

she is so much cuter than the giant pile of recycling under my desk. next to the space heater. obviously.

it wasn't until we'd been talking for a few minutes that she mentioned that she had unintentionally put on textured tights and a differently textured skirt, and wasn't sure about the results. to be honest, i think we have a rare and wonderful case of accidental fabulosity here. because i think they really, really work.




the tights are from new york & company, but you have to go in-store ($14.95).


i love the mixture of textured solids that's going on here. this whole breaking-all-the-rules stuff is actually being done quite intelligently by most of the designers i've seen, and even mostly by the people i've seen out and about actually doing it. as i always say, you have to know the rules to break them well, so let's keep doing it that way and avoiding any fashion faux pas.