same dress, different style
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| dress: Forever 21 socks: Urban Outfitters bow: Urban Outfitters shoes: Jeffrey Campbell watch: Fossil necklace: Michal Negrin |
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| dress: Forever 21 jacket: Free People hat: Urban Outfitters shoes: Ariat necklace: vintage find |
Who says you can't wear the same thing twice? The "thing" that is being repeated is my Cooperative Scalloped Bodycon dress in black from Urban Outfitters with stockings, and with very subtle changes it is given a completely different style. My #OOTD, or Outfit Of The Day for those who aren't super familiar with the hashtag, is a classy little number I put together for school. It might seem weird dressing this fancy just to walk around from class to class, but I like to tell myself that you never know who you'll see when you're there to keep my confidence from wavering.
The idea behind putting this look together went as follows: I woke up around 9:50, by which point I should have been showered, made up, and putting the finishing touches of my outfit together before going downstairs and getting breakfast. Since that obviously wasn't happening as planned, and I didn't have time to wash my hair, I threw it up in a bun that miraculously looked incredible (no bumps, no poking out hairs, no bobby pins needed). Since my bun actually worked out I decided to go for the bow, because who knows when the next time the universe will decide to throw me a perfect bun is gonna be. Since my hair had a little extra flair added to it, I thought the outfit should be kept relatively simple. Also related to my hair, I decided that my hair being on point deserved celebration in the form of an especially cute outfit. I grabbed my dress, my stockings, and my beautiful Jeffrey Campbell Everly cut-out ankle booties and got dressed as fast as possible. I didn't want the jewelry to compete with the hair either, so I kept that pretty simple too. The earrings are beaded dream catchers, which I thought would add some nice detail to the all-solid-black outfit. The Michal Negrin necklace shape and length complimented the dress's neckline, and the Fossil watch matched the rose-gold mirrors on the back of my shoes. At around 10:25 my #OOTD was born, and I could not have been happier with how chic it turned out!
side note: I kept the makeup simple, mainly because by the time my outfit had come together it was time to shove a granola bar down my throat and get going. However, I'm glad that I kept it simple in the end, because it added to the overall clean and polished look of the outfit.
Now onto the #OOTN, my outfit of the night. My plans for the night were to meet up with my best friend Sabrina and go up to Drexel (where she goes to college) to party. This was also the first time I was meeting her friends, and I definitely wanted to make a good impression. What better way to make a great impression than with great style?
This look came together one piece at a time. I decided my #OOTD looked too polished and poised to be meeting Sabrina's friends, 1. because it looked too put together (even though it ironically wasn't) and 2. I didn't want that to make them think I was trying to impress them (which I obviously totally was, but they're not supposed to be able to tell). It was adorable don't get me wrong, but I wanted my outfit to embody a different, more relaxed and effortless style. I did want to keep the dress though. So I took out the bow, washed my hair, and let it air-dry before throwing my new floppy hat on. I also figured it was going to be cold outside, and I'm absolutely the type to get cold very easily, so I needed a jacket. My Free People military-esque jacket was the winning jacket, and let me tell you this jacket is no stranger to being the chosen one. I got this jacket a couple years ago, and I fell in love with how it felt like a cardigan yet looked like a jacket. You know how everyone has that one item that is their go to item, like a nice pair of pants or a cool moto jacket? This is my item. Anyway, after adding some color to my outfit I decided on the cowboy boots. These boots are actually a really dark brown with a spot of light brown, so wearing them with an all black outfit just doesn't look right. However, the earthy green color of the jacket with it's brown buttons allowed the boots to blend in wonderfully. The necklace is made up of a bunch of dark, square-shaped, glass beads, and they served the same purpose as my earrings did in my #OOTD, which was to add a tiny bit of detail to an outfit of solid colors. The necklace was the only jewelry I used (earrings wouldn't be visible under the hat, and a watch wouldn't be visible under the jacket sleeve), and I kept the makeup simple again to go with the effortless look I was going for.
side note: This outfit was a hit, and I was getting asked left and right if I model for free people (which inflated my ego by about 100000% since that would be an absolute dream). One of the reasons this outfit worked so well was because of how balanced it was. The black hat went with the black dress, and the Free people jacket went with the cowboy boots. Had the jacket or the shoes been black instead, the outfit would not have been as aesthetically pleasing.
Overall, both outfits turned out beautifully. I gave a little black dress a poised and polished feel by day, and an effortless and bohemian feel by night. Being able to restyle an article of clothing not only means you'll get more wear out of it, but also you can give the illusion that you have more clothes than you actually do. In addition, it helps you give off the impression that you never wear the same thing twice, because it turns into multiple different outfits. If I were to wear my #OOTD outfit twice in one week, I would be outfit repeating (outfit repeating- wearing the same outfit more than once in a short period of time, thus making you appear like you couldn't think up a good outfit so you just repeated a used one). However, by tweaking little things about it, like changing my hair accessories and adding a jacket, most people don't even realize its the same dress.
Xoxo,
Liza Jane
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