When: Friday, April 23rd
Where: Work and dinner at Spice Market
What: Striped ruffle sleeve top ($20 H&M via eBay), navy blue sailor skirt ($40 Club Monaco clearance sale), brown suede pumps w/ patent leather cap toe ($30 Nicole Miller via Filene’s Basement), brown suede handbag ($50 Kenneth Cole via Loehmann’s), green canvas jacket ($35 H&M on sale)
This Friday was my 5-year wedding anniversary. Usually, my husband and I manage to take a vacation to celebrate the occasion. But plans just didn’t work out this year because of my new job schedule and because his Spring Break fell earlier this year. So, we wound up just having a wonderful and romantic dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, Spice Market.
I’m really excited about nautical fashion influences this spring, and I thought my new ruffle sleeve top paired with a sailor skirt I picked up 2 years ago would be a perfect, work-appropriate interpretation. When I originally tried this top on at H&M in a larger size, I had mixed feelings about it and. Then, I saw another woman wearing it beautifully a few weeks later, and I decided that I had to have it. Of course, it was sold out by then, and I wound up finding it randomly on eBay in a smaller size (and by random, I mean that I searched almost every day for an entire week until I found someone selling it). So far, I’m really happy with it’s versatility. I also wore it with jeans the previous weekend, and it looked equally as cute:
I saw that H&M jacket a couple months ago, but they didn’t have my size! Ugh…I haven’t been able to find it. The length and cut are so perfect and versatile!