How I got There: My Go-to Summer Get Up.

I love to come up with an outfit that I can wear over and over throughout the season.  I'm soooo french that way.  But seriously, the outfit that I got loads of milage out of this summer was my Stella McCartney fruit skirt and a chambray shirt.  I wore it to a friends rehearsal dinner, countless dinners out and even to work.  It was the two images below( from Jak &Jill and Vogue.com) that inspired me rock this look and all though the picture of me below is not the best, you get the idea.  The shirt is from JCrew and the shoes I'm wearing are Loeffler Randall that I got at a sample sale, bringing the final cost of my go-to look down considerably.  Which is important since I'm not a Rockefeller.

The One that Got Away: Summer 2011

You know when you kick yourself for not buying something and it haunts your dreams for weeks? Well, this Prada tshirt will be sorely missed from my closet for years to come. The combination of the joyful (doesn't she look like she's having fun?) Chiquita banana lady and the rich neon embroidery screams "I'm making mojitos for my friends at the most fun BBQ ever!". I feel I could never be unhappy if I was wearing this tshirt. The real kicker is I saw it on sale too. I know, I know. But it hurts me more than it hurts you.