The Cafe Trousers Day To Night

I have FINALLY got my red Cafe trousers hemmed, just in time for Xmas (I know, it took me almost two months and now they are on sale but better later than never). I don't know how I will feel about wearing these after the holidays so I thought that I should try to get as much wear out of them as possible right now.

I wore them yesterday morning to go to the post office (Xmas cards, anyone else is this late?). I wore them with my selvedge chambray shirt and cashmere shawl cardigan in navy:

The belt is new and is currently sold in the stores. I usually wait for belts to go on sale but this one is NAVY. I don't remember the last time that I saw a navy belt and numerous times I thought that I could really use one, so I bought it with the 30% off (it is $39.50 FP). If you need a navy belt I highly reccomend it (let me know if you need the style number). I took a S in this belt and the fit is perfect to wear with pants.

I more or less lounged in my lounge clothes for the rest of the day and wore the pants again yesterday night to have dinner with husband and friends at an upscale restaurant in the neighborhood. Husband was late from work and met us directly at the restaurant, so I took advantage of the fact that he couldn't see me getting ready and say a thing about my outfit and showed up like this:

The cami (that you can't see well in the pic) is the Lisette from last year. I love this cami, the lace detail is so pretty and delicate. The belt was called crystalline belt, also from last year and you know the jacket. I liked this outfit a lot and husband didn't comment on the pants or jacket (good thing, as you know). Also people at the restaurant were dressed to the nines, as I haven't seen in a long time so I felt comfortable, if a bit extravagant.

All in all the Cafe trousers are very versatile (and again the wool feels wonderful against the skin, it isn't itchy at all). You can get them now in store in this color for $89.99 less 30% off (as of two weeks ago, so now even less probably).

Do you dress in black and red for the holidays?

Wearing Tomorrow

I feel like I have a little bit of a dual fashion personality disorder these days or complex of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in that I go from super-casual to super-fancy without much in-between. Let's blame it on the holiday season, which is the season when we actually get to wear all those party dresses and outfits but we also love to indulge in the pleasure of sipping a cup of hot chocolate in our pajamas and slippers.

This weekend is going to be a very busy one for me in terms of festivities. Tomorrow night I am going to a birthday cocktail party of a friend, which sounds fancy just because it is December and on Sunday evening I am going to see that NY holiday tradition that is the Nutcracker at the Lincoln Center and that, in eight years that I have been living here, I never got to see.
For the Nutcracker I am probably going to wear the Talbots taffeta combo that you have now seen ad nauseam and I am not going to show you again (don't worry).

The cocktail party tomorrow night is not a formal occasion, so I can wear whatever I want and I have decided to break out the Lisette cami in black that I bought recently with a promo. This cami is VERY flattering IMO and quite classic. I am going to wear it with my Minnie twill pants in black and an open cardigan, cinching everything with a belt like in a Jcrew catalog (not sure about the shoes as it was very cold today):




I have been looking to replace this BR merino open cardigan with something similar but more streamlined if I can say so, as I find it a little bit overwhelming. I tried today the Dulphine open cardigan and really liked how it looked (put on my list and checked it twice). The Lisette fits TTS. I am wearing a 0 and you can see the straps of my bra here:



Because I had all these parties and festivities coming up I decided to invest in a Brazilian keratin hair treatment, that is supposed to leave your hair straight like after a blow-dry for a few months (it works on hair that are already pretty straight, I think). It has been a month already and this is how they look without any blow-drying and even brushing (they are not freshly washed in this pic and my cut is older):



If you have lots of parties coming up, this is a good (if kind of expensive) trick to be always party-ready. Bye-bye blow dry!

I am going to leave you with the outfit that I wore today. This is an example of how the fact of feeling good in your clothes can prevent you from buying stuff that you don't need. I went to JCrew looking to find the cashmere cowlneck sweater in black, after putting it several times in my cart without pulling the trigger. Well, after trying it on I realized that I liked my boatneck from last year (that I was wearing) much more than the cowlneck that I was there to buy, so I saved my money. The faux-pearls are chipies from Nordstrom Rack:




Have a nice weekend!