Casual Office Style

Wearing: 

Skinnie Mini: Gap Inc. | Studded Blouse: Forever 21 | Purse: Chanel | Pumps: Steve Madden | Rings: Etsy | Enameled Cuff: Forever 21 | Gold Watch: Michael Kors | 

One of those days where you just don't want to put in the effort of getting dressed. 

Collectively, as women, it's guaranteed to happen to us. Those days where you just stand in your closet and stare around at all the fabrics and linens hanging effortlessly on their designated posts. These moments where you seem to be internally yelling "I don't want this!"

{Every woman has those moments}

Those moments where you just seem to hate every piece of clothing you own. There is nothing good enough in that closet that will personify the kind of woman you wish to be that day. There is nothing but sheer frustration that you closet is seriously lacking (and yet not one more piece of clothing can be packed in there). 

One of those days, can quickly become two or three. Until eventually you just seem to go for the basics. 

Basic blue skinnie mini, with a basic blush studded blouse. And here we go, basic-casual-office-style. Easy enough for those days that you just want to rip your closet from its hinges. Effortless enough to give you sense of style as though you woke up like this. 

Paired with simple pumps and accessories, it can quickly put an end to the never ending frustration.

 Classy and graceful enough for a day at the office in Corporate America. 

Until next time friends <3 

xoxo 

Plum 

Currently Listening To: 

Currently Reading: Walt Whitman Prayer for Columbus 

Legs For Days

Wearing: 

Pink Stripe Skirt: Gap Inc. | White Blouse: The Limited | Sunnies: Gap Inc. | Purse: Celine | Pumps: Steve Madden Deja Vu | Purse Scarf: Vintage | Ring Stack: Henri Bendel | Flower Cuff: J.Crew | Statement Flower Chain: J. Crew | Gold Watch: Michael Kors |

I've learned, over time, one simple truth when building the self's inner confidence: 

The goal is not compare yourself to others, but to compare others to yourself. 

The reality (always has been, and always will be) that you are good enough. 

Always put yourself first. 

xoxo 

Plum 

Stripes, yellow, and pearls! Oh My!

Wearing: 

Stripe Dress: The Limited | Statement Chain: J. Crew | Blush Pumps: Steve Madden | Purse: Michael Kors | Purse Scarf: Vintage Heirloom | Multi-Tone Watch: Michael Kors 

There is a large sense of lethargy in my world. The simple task of taking a trail of thought, and the energy which one must consume in order to document such thoughts -- bring about an utter and total sense of loathing. Why not simply think it and be done with it? 

The beauty of the mind recorder is that it enables the thinker to return to these thoughts and be able to expand on them. To journey further into the mind where these wisps of ideas first originated from. The same thinker who was once too lethargic to give a literary symbols to these thoughts, is inhibiting his ability to expand on them at a later time. This is partly why the art of philosophy seems to be slowly dying out. 

My mind wanders to these moments at the most inconvenient times. The fleeting moments before sleep. The slow car rides on each monotonous morning. The small moments of silence nestled in my tiny corner of Corporate America. But how do you begin to make sense of a mind that is in constant and utter disarray. How does one reconcile their thoughts in this kind of life. One in which small moments are only available for brief moments during the hours of sunlight. 

But to overcome the lethargic impulses at night is to recover the scattered pieces of the days forays into the mind. It is to overcome the boundary between you and everlasting thoughts. If one was to simply take the time to record these thoughts upon arrival, they would not be left to scatter with the remnants of sleep. 

They would enable the thinker to create something that would live forever. 

"We all die. The goal is not to live forever, it is to create something that will."

 - Chuck Palahniuk

xoxo 

Plum 

Currently Listening To: Maroon 5 -- The Air That I Breathe 

Mixing Patterns

Wearing: 

Lace Top: Forever 21 | Argyle Pattern Pants: Forever 21 | Statement Chain: J. Crew | Optics: Ray Ban | Watch: Michael Kors | Ring Stack: Henri Bendel | Pumps: Steve Madden Deja Vu Blush | Purse: Chanel | Lip Color: Baby Lips pink

Sometimes you just want to free fall into life. 

Take what the world has to offer and run wild with it. 

Play in the life's sandbox. 

The only thing I ask, is that you run by side. 

xoxo

Currently Listening To: Kimberley Walsh -- Falling Slowly 

Social Friday at Happy Wine. Take 2.

Wearing: 

Jeans: Old Navy | Striped Embellished Sweater Shirt: The Limited | Blush Pumps: Steve Madden | Purse: Michael Kors | Ring Stack: Henri Bendel | Pave Link Bracelet: J. Crew 

Prosciutto Panini | Chorizo en Vino Tinto | Garbanzos Frito 

Happy Wine is quickly becoming a lunch time favorite. 

With the assorted tapas, and easy lunch style; what more could you ask for? 

I decided to kick up my usual casual style, but integrating my casual boyfriend jeans and blush pumps. Add the embellished sweater? Voila! We have simple casual elegance. Enough to turn this easy Corporate America office look, into an after work drink at happy hour. 

The best part? 

The simple chic pattern and embellishments on the sweater add an easy edge to the overall look, allowing my to feel comfortable and still glam. 

Until next time friends <3

xoxo 

Plum 

Currently Listening To: Lorde -- Team 

Currently Reading: T. S. Eliot "Little Gidding"