Past Week Outfits

Wow, what a week! We "woke up" from the holiday sleep on Tuesday morning with our last school interview and then we had a-school-a-day event for the rest of the week that felt a little like the last burst at the end of a firework. We are now DONE and in exactly a month from today we will know if our daughter is going to be accepted in one of the schools that we toured (possibly our favorite). Fingers crossed!

The weather has been absolutely crazy here, we had a change of season at least three times. At the beginning of the week we have been hit by a cold front that made the temperatures drop into the low 20s, then it warmed up again until Saturday that felt almost like spring with temperatures in the 60s, and yesterday it was cold again. Now, not that I want the temperatures to stay in the 20s but could we have some sort of stability, please? It gets really complicated to get dressed in the morning.

Anyway, on the coldest day of the week (of the season, actually) I had to attend a panel at one of the schools and I needed to dress up a bit. I had a hard time not only because I was afraid that I would freeze on my way but also because the skirt that I had decided would be perfect for the event gave me some challanges.
The skirt is the No. 2 pencil skirt in glen plaid that is currently sold-out on the website but should popback. Even if I bought this skirt in store and I had tried it on, I am afraid I should have bought a 2 instead of a 0. It just fit with a silk skirt tucked in (the shirt is Madewell from last year):

but the problem is when you want to tuck in something heavier that a silk shirt, like that night. In case you haven't thought about it, the bow (which is the cute detail of this skirt) makes it almost impossible to wear anything untucked with this skirt (even a cardigan left open doesn't look good). Tuck in or die!
So when I tried to tuck in my cashmere turtleneck in caramel from a few season ago, it looked very bulky (or like I was about to explode). In the end I added my Ralph Lauren blazer (that is exactly the same shade of caramel than the sweater) that covered up a little bit what was going on in the middle area, so I felt comfortable neverthless but keep this in mind if you are interested in the skirt. This is without the jacket (about to explode, as I said):

On another day, I wore the outfit below to another school event. It was much warmer but I had a cardigan on that I didn't take pics of. In any case I love this part of the outfit and the silk polka-dots tee is probably one of my favorite purchases this year (I had missed on it but found it on the JCA weekly exchange for cheap). I am wearing a size 0 in the tee and a size 2 in the flair skirt:

By the way, I have the perfect necklace to wear with the tee, once come spring:

Let's move forward to spring! As I said Saturday was a very warm day and a lot of people were out and about without a jacket. I wore my Lolli pants from last year (I wore them a LOT this year) with the boardwalk-striped zipper tee. The colors go really well together and I received a lot of compliments both on the pants and the necklace, which is "vintage" JCrew, aka from 2008 (see second picture):

So as you can imagine I had very little time to shop last week, but I did take advantage of the Lilly Pulitzer two-day sale and ordered something for my daughter and one item for me (that should be here today). I also (quite surprisingly) caved on a couple of items from the Boden spring collection. Stay tuned!