Outfit of the Day: H-Town Boogie w/ God's Favorite Shoes

From my twitter posts from this past weekend you may know that I spend some very much needed fun time with Reiko from God's Favorite Shoes.  Besides blogging, Ms. Reiko is a teacher of some very interesting 6th & 7th graders.  She asked me to come down and talk to her girls and one very fabulous young man (He was the only boy that wanted to stay.  It just warmed my heart to see someone so young being ok with being different and not going with the consensus of his male classmates) about fashion, being an author, self esteem, college, and plus size modeling.  I happy to talk to them because I remember middle school being my most trying time with acceptance, my self image, and just figuring out who I wanted to be as a person.   Needless to say, her class was just awesome.  They were very attentive and excited to meet me, which was a relief middle schoolers can be a hard crowd to please...LOL.  We had a terrific time hanging out with her four classes for the day.    

I wore a wrap dress that I picked up from Clotheshorse consignment here in Dallas.  Its orginal maker was Suzi Chin for Maggie Boutique.  I think it cost me around $50.  I paired it with my leopard kitten heels from Target and my wooden necklace from Liz Claiborne (before Isaac left).  And FYI, that is a leopard desk cover on Ms. Reiko's desk....POW!

So you know I couldn't leave Houston without hanging out a little bit.  Reiko and I headed over to her favorite Goodwill.  We didn't find anything, but after a long day I don't think either one of us was in the mood to be digging through clothes.  After that we headed over to get Ra, a sushi restaurant, for a little girl talk.  

I tried an outfit that is not my normal feminine style aesthetic.  You guys have to tell me what you think.  The white shirt, which I LOVE, came from Norma Kamali for Walmart.  It was $17 and it is from her plus size line.  The shirt is nice and crisp. It has no stretch I would recommend ordering one size up.  Oh and shipping is free at Walmart for right now.   I paired it with my black blazer from Lane Bryant and leggings from Speigal.  I had on a silver cuff bracelet that my mom gave me from TJMaxx and a pair of nerd chic frames from Amazon for around $3.  I wanted to try out this look.  I am not sure if I pulled it off, but I tell you that I sure was comfy...LOL.

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The Pleasure Principle...or not so much - Carmakoma review & OOTD

Some of you may have already seen, but Reiko from God's Favorite Shoes invited me to a dinner at Cocina in the West Village in Dallas.  She was here visiting.  I love her blog and sometimes you feel people's energy before you even meet them and thats how it was for me.  And of course as I had already peeped out --- She is freakin awesome.  Besides being absolutely adorable, she was just super nice.  And as she mentioned we just chatted as if we have known each other for years.   She invited the lady behind Fashion nette-work, Juanette.  Juanette also sells some really great statement jewelry.  She was absolutely fabulous in her Banana Republic dress which she died from white to yellow.  I love a DIY girl...she tells you how to accomplish this on her blog.  Check it out.  I can't do anything but love another Banana girl.

My bag is from Ann Taylor.  I actually bought it last season on final clearance - orginally $160, I paid $40.

I wanted to tie this into an outfit post/review of the Carmakoma dress that I recently bought.  I really like the dress, but it did take two tries for it to get to me.  Inspired by Reiko (a lover of Janet) and my clip on bangs by Jessica Simpson.  I tried to achieve my long coveted Pleasure Principle hair style.  Just FYI I have wanted this look since I have been 8.  With the weather hot and steamy its kind of hard to pull off the look with my bangs staying oh so straight my real hair frizzing up.  So, yes I tried, but failed.  I have to wait until the Fall for me to get my Miss Jackson look off.    

(yes I picture jacked....but Reiko's looked so much better than mine)

Okay so I picked up this piece from Carmakoma in a 14/16, which is really not my size, but it was on sale and I wanted to try a cheaper piece before I really spent some money.  Even though it was smaller it definitely had good give and was somewhat baggy on me by the end of the night.  Another treat with this dress is that it was like two dresses in one.  There was an off the shoulder dress that was underneath (that was more like a shirt to me) --- This offered a few options of wearing the pieces together or apart.  Another bonus was that the dress was a razorback with a super cute sequin detail.  

Too cute right?!? The plus of the piece so far is that I really like the price, quality, and the style aesthetic. The cons are that it may take a month or so to get your piece.  My piece took two tries, I was talking to someone on Twitter and the same thing happened to them.  So while, the pieces are cute, if you plan to order for a special event, give yourself at least a month in advance. 

And so shall I leave you with the hairstyle that I have been trying to achieve for the last 20 years.   Thanks to Jessica Simpson...I know at least have some kind of hope of getting this look! 

(Now I don't know where I'm going to get some knee pads to fit my big knees. But believe when I was younger I did put my softball knee pads over my jeans)

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