Reign of the 47cent Skirt.

Yeah that's right. I typed 47 cent skirt AND it has a story...
Well I was at Old Navy and I happened to wander upon the clearance rack like I usually do, and BLAM! cute skirt gotta have it! Of course I have a limited supply of moo-lah seeing that I have no job. I would have had $3 but I think my mom accidentally gave me $5 and  my cousin dared me to sing karaoke  and said she'd give me $5 if I sang a song.( I tagged along to one of her friend's birthday party full of people I didn't know) and little did you know I am quite the daredevil and did a spot-off rendition of "Jesse's Girl".  So $13 in the pocket! While sparing nothing but my dignity.
  So back on topic, I glance at the price tag and it said it was $2.97, so I ran to the dressing room to try it on and as you can see, it fits.As I'm pulling out a five to pay the lady says it's 47 cents!!! And the rest is history.

Skirt- Old Navy, Shirt- Delia*s, Belt- Marshall's.

 I'm wearing one of my favorite T-shirts which says "Never Judge a Book By Its Movie". Which is completely true. Because even if the movie is awesome (Harry Potter) then that means the book is 62 bajillion times better, so READ it's good for you.
This belt I'm wearing hasn't been taken off (figuratively  speaking of course) but seriously it matches EVERYTHING, and it has a hidden elastic so it fits on my waist and on my hips. Double-whammy right there.

Shoes-Delia*s,Headband-J.Crew Outlet

These two literally hurt me from head to toe. Since I have an abnormally large head and still attempt to wear headbands painlessly but fail miserably, and these little torture devices called shoes apparently want to make my toes look even uglier. So I defiantly proved that fashion is indeed pain.

-Opal

P.S.- These are pictures from me at Camp Blue tree.BEST.CREW.EVER.

Me and my boyfriend Ronald Bilius Weasley...(by the way I'm a MAJOR Harry Potter fan.)

In Philadelphia, and The city had all the coolest mosaic walls.

So yeah that's me in the top right looking extremely depressed.

Is there REALLY summer clothes for 3 digit degree weather besides a swimsuit?.....no.

Just so we're clear I just got my wisdom teeth taken out on Friday, and I'm letting you know that I didn't magically turn into a squirrel over the last two months I haven't posted.
  
Okay it's officially "summer", although the nice weather in Texas started in March and ended in May. Now the space in between June and September that could be called summer, I choose to call "Blazing Inferno of Hell". And no amount of shorts and tank tops, can cool me off. My house is also the ONLY house on the street with no pool, and the upstairs AC unit broke....So yeah I'm reiterating Blazing Inferno of Hell.

Today I wouldn't have worn my denim button up, because of the unexeptionally hot weather, but I had this giant bruise on my arm from I don't know where, and my bra straps were showing. And while we're on that subject here's a very important fashion rule that you should always remember,

 Never wear a shirt that shows your bra straps. It's tacky, but if you do have a shirt that would show your bra straps...WEAR A STRAPLESS BRA!!!!

   Any who,I think my outfit was very laid-back. I'm showing some Texas pride by wearing some somewhat cowboy boots. They may have been studded and shortened, but cowboy boots none the less.

I also got them half off for $25 at Nordstom Rack. Not bad right?

And the colorful feather print of the shirt added to the laidbackness of the outfit as whole. And honestly I put on the first pair of shorts I saw, because I am NOT wearing jeans.

  

 Well now I'm putting an end to my first "summer" blog post, and I'm going to try to go to bed late because it's SUMMMMMER!!!!!(But I highly doubt it because I have to take the this giant pain pill, with the #1 side effect being "Extreme Drowsiness")

 Until next time,

 -Opal

VERSUS!!

I love scarves. I have tons of them. And I have come to the conclusion that there is 2 majorly different but effective ways to wear scarves.

  New York City                                           VERSUS                                                      L.A.

                                                     

When I think of New York City, I think of a chic and classic person.And When I think of someone born in L.A, I think of somebody the laid back and " Yeah I just got up but I still look awesome." type of person. A way to wear a scarf ,that to me epitimizes New York City is to mix it up. For instance, The denim button up,the distressed satchel, and buckled boots was a bit utilitarian. Then the ruffled skirt added some femininity. And last but not least the leopard print scarf comes out of nowhere yet it matches seamlessly. Lately I've really liked buttoning up the whole shirt, and tying it in a knot at the waist. But I don't know if it's just me but if I were in New York wearing this outfit, I think I would fit in nicely. But fitting in in a Texas high school....that's another story. 

   Now look to the picture in the right hand side, That's an "L.A". way of wearing a scarf. Now instead of the thin rectangular shape and nice fabric of the NYC scarf the L.A. scarf is squre shaped with loosely woven fabric. How I wore this outfit, I just got a T-shirt and my denim motercyle jacket (It's ironic since I don't ride motercycles.) , and paired those with a splatter painted scarf & a purple loose beret for some color. And although this isn't necesarely L.A., I always like to add some retroness. So I put on cropped jeggings and my wingtip oxfords.

    Overall I would have to give the scarf victory (Oh my god that sounds lame.).... To New York City!!!!

 Then again I'll have to admit, I'm a bit biased since I have a giant NYC sticker behind me.

 Well gotta go.

     -Opal

 

accckkkk!! Driver's Ed.......

So I started Driver's Ed yesterday And you know what the teacher said to me because i was working ahead??....."I'm gonna roundhouse kick you into a glacier." Seriously? Why can't school teachers be like that?? He was freaking hilarious!!

So any who I tried out  the "combining bright colors look"  I like it. But I made it where a NORMAL person can wear it!! unlike a certain someone...

Ummm yeah ...Target just happens to have bright orange high-waisted pants on hand (sarcasm) ...So I decided to do a cheap & wearable way to wear one of many bright color combanations.

DIY'ed blazer-H&M,Dress-Forever 21,Tights- Target, Belt-It's my mom's

AND these are my sister's shoes from Nordstom Rack and don't they look like Cinderella's glass slippers??? Yes, I know it's a bit naive but in the back of my mind , I kind of hoped that at some point during the day, I would be walking down the stairs, one of the shoes would "happen" to fall off and Prince Charming would pick it up and give it to me, and then HAPPILY EVER AFTER!!!" (but it's 2011, so happily ever after would be for a few months or something)
But what really happened, was I was walking out of the grocery store, my shoe fell off, and my mom told me to put my damn shoe back on.(her words not mine)

So any who back to the outfit....
Yellow and blue are my favorite colors to combine, so I found my DIY'ed blazer (post about that in one of my previous posts) and cobolt tights I never wear.  The thing I was having a tough time with is something that would cover all of my necesarry parts. And I would have stuff I've worn to recently or dresses that just didn't go. And at first I didn't give this dress a 2nd glance , because I thought the stripes would make to busy, but at 10:30pm it was my last option and instead of ruining the outfit I had in mind, it actually brought it together. The reason being the neutral colors kind of tone it down, this season you can't go wrong with sripes, because it's spring's top trend. And the belt was just the nearest out of all of them, because it didn't really matter which one I wore. And I wore the shoes because of the Cinderella-ness of them.

See you next time
   -Opal
P.S. That's my dog Dakota in the picture above...she wouldn't move.

Yeah. I'm wearing sunglasses inside....what of it?

So I'm doing my biggest pet peeve and that would be wearing sunglasses inside, but i had to do that to emulate my Audrey Hepburn poster behind me.. so I just had to state that.

Sunglasses & jacket-Forever 21,Skirt H&M, Scarf & Roper boots are my Mom's.

(Oh yeah and not to brag or anything but I had a pretty GREAT hair day(( it's gotten me pretty excited)) any who since Audrey is my style icon I chose to wear something that had her in mind but still gave it a modern twist . But since most people at my school don't know who Audrey Hepburn is, they said I looked like Rachel Berry from Glee. But I don't mind cause I was aiming for 1960's retro, and like Monday , to keep the sweetness from going overboard, I opted for my mom's Roper boots instead of flats. But my favorate part was the cheetah print scarf under the collar of the red jacket, I don't why but i loved it. I felt like I would have fit in perfectly as an extra in Breakfast at Tiffany's ...wel I guess that was a reason why.

-Opal

   P.S. Don't wear sunglasses inside, you'll look like a tool.

Gone With the Wind

UUUGGGGHHHHHH I hate coming back to school after a break cause it's waking up at noonish a week straight then BLAM!!! waking up at 5:45 am. Idon't like it. I don't like it at all.OH and big news I'm taking drivers ed on April 3rd!!!! WOOO HOOO!!!I really need it since I'm a horrible driver( I had a minor parking incedent by ALMOST crashing into the light pole...but my mom is really scary when I'm driving so yeah..Well any who I guess I should start talking about the outfit I wore today...

Top- Nordtrom Rack ,Skirt-Nordstom's, Shoes-These are hand-me-down Dr. Martens but you can find them on
http://www.drmartens.com/ for $110.00 (pretty pricey if you ask me but they last. )

 Okay DON'T wear this skirt while riding a bike & on a windy day because those ruffles will fly up like a bird and it's really embarrassing and you have to walk the bike home with your face downcast because NOTHING is wrong with the bike!!!...Well now that my spasm is over I'll explain the outfit..

  I like how this outfit fades from girly to edgy starting out with one of spring's top patterns, watercolor floral.It's very frilly and flowy (alliteration!!) , then the skirt is still slightly girly with the cascading ruffles, but darkens with the black. Then my favorite part is the mint condition Dr. Martens that my cousin just had laying around and then gave them to me!! (Cheesy cheer) and in my opinion they make this outfit, because I prefer to add something edgy to a frillyamd girly outfit. And those boots look so much better than flats!!!

See you tomorrow.
     -Opal

DIY Tiiiiiiiiiiime.

I'll put this in in chronological order:
SUNDAY:
Reading March issue of InStyle on "3 Ways to Wear a Yellow Blazer" and LOVED the yellow blazer! Then saw the "great" price of $375. That's how much my retainer costs!!! and I had to pay for half of it since the janitor threw my retainer away during lunch 4 months ago. So I about died when I coughed up my savings of $175.  So I don't think there's any way I'd be able to get my hands on $375 unless I pulled it out of my butt....so I was bummed.

Monday in Spanish:
I thought, "Hey I have golden yellow(that's the color on the box) dye at home, and a beige blazer I never wear!" So for the rest of day I wasn't really paying attention in class because I was thinking of outfits to go with  it.

Monday after school:
Okay so here's the process on how to dye a blazer or any piece of clothing.(It's really easy, and that's coming from me)

1. Go to Micheal's or some arts & crafts store near you and ask wear the dyes are (enunciate dyes, because the sales clerk thought I said "Where's the guys?"..pretty awkward)
2. Just a tip of advice, when choosing a dye, I prefer powdered dyes over liquid, because it's faster and gives an overall stronger color. I know this because dying clothing with a powdered dye takes 30 minutes, and with liquid takes 2 hours.
3. Find a bucket type contraption ( In my case a washed out kitty litter plastic container), and fill in with water
4. Pour dye into water and stir with a stick or one of those paint stirrer sticks (obviously I know the name of that)
5. Dunk the piece of clothing, stir for about 10 minutes, then let it soak for about 20.( if your not satisfied with hue of the color, and would like it darker, you can leave it to soak for a little while longer, BUT keep a close eye or it will get too dark, and that's irreverseable
6. When you're satisfied with the color, take it out and hang it on a hanger OUTSIDE for 2-3 hours, because it's gonna drip dry. And I'm betting that you would rather have dye dripping on grass than carpet.
7. Take the piece of clothing inside for the night to finish drying.
8. The next day put it in the washer on the COLD water setting.(to get rid of the smell of the dye)
9. Hang up and air dry. Again.
10. Ready to wear!

So I LOVED how my blazer turned out. And a yellow blazer is suprisingly versitile, so I have some pictures of some outfits with my "new" blazer.

BEFORE

This is and $18 blazer from H&M....Not bad compared to $375 huh?



AFTER!!!!!

Outfit #1: Daytime for the weekend


blouse-Old Navy,shorts&belt-clearance rack at Delia's, and my mom's espadrilles

 Outfit #2: Preppy with a Twist
 I would wear this to school if it wasn't for STUPID dress code! I think the polished sweater,shorts,and oxfords offset the bright color of the blazer.


Sweater&Shorts-Target,Oxfords-Kohl's

 Outfit #3: The outfit I'm wearing on the train to Austin tommorrow that I'm really extited to wear.
To me I like mixing together stuff that wouldn't be thought of as looking good together in this case it's..flowy dress+edgy-ish boots+yellow blazer= PERFECTION!!!( and no that's not an overstatement.)

Dress-clearance rack at Macy's, and my mom's roper boots

And last weekend I found that I have a new style crush....Emily Blunt in Wild Target!! It's a British comedy (Is just me or do you feel kinda more mature watching anything foreign?...well I do and I'm not afraid to admit it.), it's really funny, and I loved ALLLLL of her outfits in the movie!!! here's a few pictures of what she wore.(And I'll more than likely be wearing outfits like hers too)...and I want that suitcase!!!

So I need to go and pack my bag for tomorrow.

       -Opal

At least I'm doing better than Charlie Sheen

Well my mom has been traveling all this week with her phone(which I use as a camera) and that means no pictures for the blog. Any who I now have pictures of 3 outfits I wore this week, not including today cause I was just wearing jeans, a vest and my Dwight Shrute shirt( which is awesome)And I guess I'll explain each one.....

MONDAY:

Last weekend I watched 'My Fair Lady" and my favorite part part of the movie is the Ascot scene where everybody is dressed extravagantly in black and white, and I never wear black and white straight up without any color, cause it's just too boring. But ( you can't see it but I'm wearing a black and white polka dotted scarf as a belt) with the opposing patterns I think it makes the outfit more entertaining. And the skirt I'm wearing is black lace, and the shoes( which I bought by myself for $40 on sale and that shows that I REEEEAAALLLY love them cause never in my right mind would I buy $40 shoes! But again goes to show that I love them that much) are black and white oxford heels, and they are NOT golf shoes with heels. Jeez the questions some people ask..


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Sweater and skirt-Target scarf/belt- I have no idea cause it's THAT old shoes-G.H Bass & Comp.

TUESDAY:

I didn't exactly  wear this but I tweaked it a little bit for the better.I felt like a COMPLETE hippie in this!!!(in a good way).

And the skirt is actually a dress that's too short so I just rolled it and wrapped a belt around that.But the clear wellie sandels I was wearing kept getting caught on the skirt and ALMOST fell 3 times!(I have a tendency of falling....alot so I'm pretty proud that I didn't fall in front of a ton of people((and I've done that)). And I'm definatley wearing this outfit when I'll be in Austin for spring break.

Tank-H&M vest-Dillard's dress/skirt- Forever 21 belt- it was my mom's from the 80's

WEDNESDAY:

I'm going for the denim on denim 70's look.and since denim is blue(duh) I decided to wear my orange belt with it they're complementary colors( Yes I do remember 7th grade art class) and I wore my hair all loose and stuff to go even more 70's. But my most favorite part is the NECKLACE!!! It has the coolest knick-knacks on it!! Including a working compass ( so I won't get lost I guess) It's the coolest!!!( Just realized how dorky I sound...but still.

Shirt- Uhh it's my mom's and I'm pretty sure she got it from Talbot's   Belt- Delia's  Pants- William Rast for Target

CHEESIEST name for a store but the necklace is from ... Dressin' Gaudy 

Well I'm gonna go eat some knockoff brand Ramen Noodles
 Bye.


                 -Opal

 


                                                                                           









Freedom to the Sleepers.

Ahhh the weekend, there's nothing like it, except spring, winter, and summer break. But all this week I've had an unusual amount of after-school naps. But algebra is truly exhausting. I swear I'm pretty sure it's the spawn of the devil...wait scratch that the CREATOR of the devil. I'm serious, I hate it that much.

Any who, today was B-day which means no algebra!!!So last night while I was picking out my outfit for today, I just wanted to wear something summerish, to express my happiness of an algebra-less ( yeah umm put the hyphen in there cause it looked like braless which is NOT what I did.So yeah just had to state the awkwardness.)

Dress- American Eagle outlet Jacket- Forever 21 Scarf -it's my sister's and she said she got it from Buffalo Exchange Shoes-Those are my mom's from the late 90's (she has great shoe taste)

But I do like this because, the scarf and the dress go great together. Thy're like PB&J, they're better togther.The picture dosen't give the scarf appropriate credit (I'm asking for a camera for my birthday), but the colors are to die for. I also needed to wear it cause when I got this dress I was negative A cup so I kinda needed to cover up.The jacket I'm wearing is faux denim...is just me or when an American says a random French word, they sound automatically snooty? Well that's what I just felt like. But the dress in general could easily be passed as a going-to-a-church-picnic type of dress and the jacket and scarf gave it a good amount of edge.

I really love these nude espadrilles, (again picture doesn't give them credit) they're easily the most comfortable shoes I have, and they are also really cute. Although I have to stick toilet paper in at the toes because my mom is a half a shoe size bigger than I am, it's completey worth it.

Well I think that's all I have to say.

-Opal

P.S--The dress had pockets!! I love dresses with pockets!!!

No, I'm NOT going hiking after school.

So what I did today was...made the bus,slept in algebra,made a map of Africa in World Geo,had a sub in Bio, and fell asleep in Theatre.But I'm bound to fall asleep when I woke up on 12:20 Monday afternoon and couldn't go back to sleep until exactly 12 hours later. So lay off Mr. Thorley!
Any who , I really like what I wore today, because the skirt I wore made me want to spin around and dance,( and I HATE dancing),and the boots made me feel like i can kick some butt (I don't like to cuss). So putting those two together made a good oxymoron.And I also really love my lace top with the skirt cause lately I've been liking mixing together textures and heavy prints... so yeah.
And to the guy who asked me if I was going hiking after school... that would be a no since typically people don't go hiking in SKIRTS!!

Shirt is vintage, skirt is Forever 21, and the Roper boots are my mom's from the eighties.(those are my faveorite shoes)

P.S.--I have another reason to hate spearmint gum, since I spent 15 minutes peeling a piece off the bottom of my boots with a knife.

-Opal

It feels like Spring has sprung early.

It's may still be cold and snowy up north, but it's a sunny 80 degrees in roller-coaster weather Texas. And even if it may still be technically be winter , I'm defiantly dressing the opposite. So today I just kept it casual since it's Saturday and I'm not doing anything.(What a life!)(( pure sarcasm)).

I just think this is a great "Hello Spring" outfit...Okay the way I dress is I have tons of old clothes and I wear them in all in different ways, so all the clothes that I'm wearing are not in stores , but the clothes I am wearing are cheap...

1. The mini-floral blouse- Kohl's-1 year old
   
2. Denim shorts-Delia's-8 months old?
3. Hand-me-down ...wait never mind stole-from-my-sister yellow and white striped cardigan-Old Navy-3+ years
4. Gray Keds-Famous Footwear-1 yearish.
5. And the wayfarer glasses-Wal-Mart-I actually got those for Christmas

So yeah I rarely go shopping except after my birthday and after Christmas, But when I do I kinda go all out. Any who when the school week starts again on..TUESDAY!!!! ( Besides Dwight Shrute and Zach Galifinackis I LOVE long weekends the most!!!) I'll have some better looking outfits.

Well I think I'm done rambleing so I'm gonna ride my bike to Ace Hardware and get some Sour Punch Straws and pay with change cause that's all I have. Oh how la cajera o el cajero will hate me.(Spanish for cashier,I have a spanish test when I go back to school, and that class is currentley ranking as my lowest grade, so I'm getting some practice.)

Wish me me luck.

-Opal

Opal says Hello.

Salutations!(smart word of the day) I'm Meredith, and this is my blog.
I'll start off by introducing myself.At the moment I am almost 15 and a half,[still no permit] and I'm a freshman at Mansfield High School where I, the tall,pale,clumsy,make-up free,boyfriendless, not blond-not brown haired girl stick out among the petite,artificially tan, make-up heavy, and blond girls.

But honestley I don't mind because my eyes are looking towards the future in hopefully New York City. To either be a fashion design major or a journalism major.But I have 3 and half more years to find out . Well the point I'm starting this blog is because I want to document my outfits everyday(or almost everyday) and talk about trends I'm really loving , so I can combine my two loves, fashion and writing. And I'll more than likely write about some random stuff along the way.

Today I wore my new favorite item of clothing....BELL BOTTOMS!!!!!
Last Sunday I was wandering around Target with my mom, and I was looking for some bell bottoms, because they were having this giant jean sale, but it just consisted of skinnies and jeggings.So I started to get hopeless, but then my mom pulled out these William Rast for Target jeans that had the best qualities:bell bottoms,my size,and best of all 50% off the $50 price!!! That's a major characteristic of mine....FRUGAL so I will also be giving low priced clothing suggestions. And believe unlike what magazines thinnk.. a $40 top is NOT cheap!!!

Well I now I have to go, but I'll post very soon with fashion updates!

-Opal