clothes

i don't know why i'm so set on buying clothes. as soon as i buy something i wear it a few times and it just becomes something else i don't want to wear. there are a few exceptions, of course, but the keyword there is few. another problem i have with clothes is completing an outfit. i'll buy something i love and never complete the outfit, so i never wear it. my freshman year of college rachel (from friends) wore an outfit that i had to have. it was a super light pink button-up shirt and gray dress pants. i got the shirt for my birthday (it was from banana and was like $80 so there was no way i was buying it) but i never got the pants. i did get some gray pants at one point, but they were not as cute as rachel's so i never wore them. i did get a cute gray skirt at express and wore it occassionally to church with the pink shirt, but mostly that was $80 down the drain (for my mom, anyway). still love the shirt, can't fit it but can't bear to get rid of it.

when i was pregnant with noah i bought this navy blue polka dot skirt from j.crew. i was so excited to wear it after he was born, but he was born in september and the only shoes i could think to wear it with were my white espadrilles...so it became my summer polka dot skirt. the other problem is the dots are off-white, not white. so what shirt do i wear? i always wore a white twinset but hated the non-match, and in the summer, ugh. too hot. i want to wear it in the winter so that i'm not boiling in my twinset in july. so i finally got closer to completing the outfit this week (nearly 2 years later) by getting a super soft cable cardigan from j.crew in off-white and a shade shirt to go underneath (also off-white). but the shoes. oh the shoes. i have looked everywhere for cute navy heels so i could wear this in the winter and finally found some at nordstrom for $200...but as referenced in this post, i cannot wear high heels anymore (and that's way out of my price range for a one-outfit shoe). so now i'm on the lookout for cute navy ballet flats. does anybody carry plain blue ballet flats fairly reasonably priced? NO THEY DON'T. so the outfit remains incomplete. does anybody else have this problem?

on a brighter note, here are a few recent finds. this dress? hideous. but if i was pregnant i would buy it and wear it every day of the summer with flip flops and a shade shirt underneath. sooo comfortable (i tried it on yesterday at old navy). it's not a maternity dress, by the way, just super light soft cotton and extra roomy.

and check out these orange capris from j.crew. i have got to have them! i recently bought a shirt sort of like the one on the model on the right and i think it would be soooo cute with these pants. but i'm not sure if that shirt is too wild for me. it's not exactly like that one, it's just sort of paisley-ish and has orange and green in it...but it's also one of those peasant-type make-me-look-pregnant shirts...anyway, just love those pants.