Saturday Shopping Outfit

Saturday I spent the whole day shopping (yay) but before reporting on my finds, I wanted to post some pics of my outfit because 1) spring, or I should say summer, was finally here and I could wear my "bon voyage tee" without a cardi. If you live in the area you know that it was very hot, even too hot for a ringspun tee, but I can't go from winter clothes to wearing shorts and a tank without any transition, so I wore my white Citizen of Humanity summer jeans with the Jcrew tee ; 2) I almost managed to walk all day long on my platform sandals without twisting my ankles (I'm not very good at that as as rarely wear heels) BUT when I was a bare thundred feet from home (I was crossing the street just in front of my building) with a big JCrew bag and two very heavy grocery bags, I tripped, falled with my butt on the street while an entire classroom of fifteen years old was passing by (nobody offered to help but they surely had fun) and most importantly SCRATCHED my new golden Thompson tote! Now you can see a little bit of gray leather on both sides. Not to mention that I almost ruined my fresh $30 pedi. Luckily, I had bought a bottle of nail polish at the nail salon so I could fix it at home.

And worst of all I got busted. If you have been reading this blog for a while, you know that my husband doesn't approve of my shopping habit (see my post here for an introduction). With the grocery bags and the "shock" of my recent fall, I didn't pay all the attention that I usually put into hiding my purchases, plus I had also bought a pair of shorts for him (pre-approved purchase) so I just put down the Jcrew bag and quickly transfered my new clothes in the entry closet when I arrived home. My husband suspected something when he saw the bag but I showed him his shorts, so that was it for the moment.
However, the morning after, I woke up at the noise of the thin paper that wraps up the Jcrew purchases and I immediately thought "he found them". He did found my clothes hidden in the closet indeed, but he wasn't as mad as I though he would be; actually he was kind of amused as if I were beyond hope.
So keep all that in mind while you look at the pics.

I didn't want to upset DH BEFORE even going shopping, so I took a pic of my outfit outside the apartment next to the elevator. This is my first attempt with the self-timer and it could be better, but also worst:



The platform sandals that I'm wearing are the same hue of blue of the "Bon Voyage" and are one of my obsessions of last summer. The brand is "Corso Como" (it makes me smile because Corso Como is a very hip, although short, shopping avenue in Milan, the city where I grew up, where I used to go all the time) and I saw them at Lohemann's around end of June. I don't know you, but when I go to places like Lohemann's, Filane's etc. I'm looking for bargains and I don't like to buy FP even if Lohemann's FPs are at least half of regular stores FPs. So I waited for them to go on sale, and waited, and waited and finally bought them in ... October, for half the price, sure, but without being able to wear them until now. I love them even if I had blisters after ten minutes of wear (why, oh why all the cutest summer shoes must give us blisters?)



Here is the effect after the pedi. By the way, the nail polish is Essie "Mini shorts" that was featured in the last Jcrew catalog if I'm not wrong (but I picked it up without knowing that it was that one, I just love orange in the summer).



Coming up, pics from the dressing room...