From Safari-Chic to Preppy (Two OOTDs in One)

It looks like the bad weather is following me since we are having a foggy and humid (if not rainy) week in NYC too. Sigh!

This morning I went out in my short-sleeved selvedge denim shirt and lightweight chinos to take my daughter to school:

But I had to come back and take a jacket because frankly it was cold. This little Theory linen jacket gives the outfit a safari-chic feeling (pardon my Espadrilles):

I recently ordered the Large resin necklace in tortoise as a ride-along and I was pretty disappointed: it looks quite cheap and it is too dark (it looks pretty much dark brown with little "tortoise" effect, at least in the one that I was sent). So I already returned it but I have an old chocker by a French jewelry designer with rectangular tortoise links alternated with gold ones that is a much better necklace (even if a short one):

Even with the jacket I was still cold, so after dropoff I gave up the safari look for a preppy one. I went back and forth on the Shrunken Fisherman sweater since it came out. I liked the look of the beechwood color but I wasn't crazy about the lenght in the XS (a bit too long). I wanted to give the XXS a try but it sold-out quickly on the website and this size isn't carried in store. Also, I haven't bought a cotton chuncky crewneck in YEARS because it is usually too cold or suddenly too warm in NYC in the spring/summer season for this kind of sweater. But because of the wonky spring that we had this year I could really have used it, especially when I was in Italy, and regretted it several times. I finally bought it a few days ago with the 30% off, because $40 is a price decent enough even if I don't wear it constantly (and because the style is fairly classic it should last for years).
So this is my preppy look, that replaces the early morning safari look:

As you can see I belted it as to make it a bit shorter. What do you think? Like it belted or not?

Thank you to all of you who left a comment to my previous post. I am not ignoring you but I experienced Blooger issues the past few days (my comments got deleted at publishing). It should be fixed it now, so I should be able to comment back again and comment on your blogs. Thanks for reading!

OOTD (featuring the Safari pant)

I didn't have time to write the post that I had planned yesterday but I want to share very quickly my OOTD featuring the safari pant that I tried last Thursday when I was in store and fell in love with.
I am wearing the pearl color, that incidentally is the same color of the applique flower tee:



The ristop cargo pant didn't look good on me but these have a slimmer fit and I like that they have patch pockets instead of the bulky pockets of the cargo pant. In my opinion they run TTS to small (I bought a 0 and they just fit), but they tend to stretch out a little bit. Granted, at $69.50 they are a little bit expensive for an utilitarian pant and you can find a similar style for less at Old Navy or the Gap but trying them is loving them. However, I wouldn't wear them with heels as Jenna's team suggests, they read as really casual to me.

Because the tee has a small splash of neon orange, I tucked it in and wore a neon orange belt (bought for $6.99 this winter), that helps to break the outfit:



My pedicure matched the orange details:



By the way, I am wearing a pair of Old Navy faux-leather flip flops. They come in an array of colors (including a neon pink that I also have and it is perfect to pair with the neon pink that JCrew is offering this season) and they are only $9.50 (the white and black appear to be sold-out online but you can look for them in store). I highly reccomend them over the Jcrew leather version (I also find them more comfortable because they have rubber on the sole). In any case the life of the leather flip-flops is very short so I would rather have plenty of colors to chose from than one expensive pair.

Have a happy Mother's Day weekend. It looks like is going to be rainy here...