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YES YES YES YES YES!
It’s my most favorite day of the month, Stitch Fix day!
The basics:
Visit Stitch Fix
Answer a super easy style profile
Schedule your fix!
When your fix ships, you are charged $20.
You receive your box (it’s like Christmas!)
Try everything on in the comfort of your own home
Keep what you want (that $20 goes to these items!) and return the rest
Free shipping both ways.
THE BEST.

Do you see what I see peeking out of the box!?!?! That’s right, I GOT SHOES!

How adorable is this top? This is the Collective Concepts Darcee Blouse. I am not typically a fan of the peplum because they are either overly fitted up top or just too wide at the waist, and I don’t need to draw any more attention to my derriere. This one is what I like to call flouncy. It’s flowy and whispy. And the sleeves are amazing – they’re like half sleeves, in between short and three quarter. The pattern on this is so cute, too! Nothing bad about it…except it’s dry clean only 🙁 I hate going to the dry cleaner.

I had this Fun2Fun Rahn Henley Blouse on my Pinterest inspiration board after seeing it on a fellow blogger. I’m so glad Holly found it for me! Wait for it….

BOOM:

LOOK AT THE SPLIT BACK! So much love for this little blouse! It’s sheer, so will be great for the (hopefully coming soon) warm spring and can easily be put under a blazer to be a little more work appropriate.

I also had pinned a lovely blouse from Stitch Fix‘s blog and unfortunately my stylist, Holly, couldn’t find it for me. However, she sent this little ditty, the Collective Concepts Izzi Tie Waist Blouse. My husband, sweet man that he is, told me I look like an old school marm. Very sweet of him. My eldest told me he didn’t like it, but “I don’t like half of what you wear anyway”. I didn’t bother even asking the other two. I think this is great. It’ll be nice with a pencil skirt, but think it looks good under a blazer. Oh, and then there’s this little awesomeness:

Love the little detail on the back.

I’ve saved the best for last!

This is a two-for-one. I’m bloating out in the Adrianna Papell Melynda Ponte Dress that’s lovely and wonderful and a great dress. Many things are great about this (I just can’t think of them right now because I’m distracted by my belly 🙁 ). It’s dry clean only so that’s kinda meh. But I can take it when I take the peplum. But look lower to the FFC New York Bale D’Orsay Polka Dot Flats. LOVE LOVE LOVE. I have seen these floating around the Stitch Fix blog circuit and DYING to get my hands (feet?) on them. I wore them immediately. They were slightly snug at first but almost too quickly became too big. The heel kinda folded back and now they’re huge. And I’m bummed. I freakin’ love these shoes, so I’ll probably pretend like they fit until they fall apart, and just kinda flip-flop around in them.

So that’s that! April was a fantastic, fantastic month, another 5/5 from Holly who is the BEES KNEES and if she ever leaves me I may just track her down and …ask her what to wear!

Go join Stitch Fix. Seriously. Just go do it. You’ll be so glad you did.

It’s that time of month again. No, not that one, the one that is AWESOME!

To get an idea of what this Stitch Fix stuff is, read through the other posts. Really, this one is too good to delay!

Oh, “the stack”. She looks so lovely in her tissue paper. I just want to dive right in.

To start:
In most of the pictures you’ll see me wearing the Zad Evina Spade Fringe Pendant Necklace. I loved it straight out of the box. it’s antique gold and pretty perfectly matches the Zad cuff from a few fixes ago.

Here I’ve paired the Zad necklace with the Crescent Marele Pleat Detail Blouse. I love the fuschia color — I owned nothing fuschia so that was great to see. It’s almost too transparent for my liking, so I went ahead and left the cami I was already wearing on as well as my Kensie skinnies. Love.

I thought it would also look totally cute with the 41Hawthorn Walt Skirt and I’m pretty glad I listened to myself.

So here’s the thing about this skirt. It’s completely adorable and I love it. I love it so much that I have it’s near identical twin already in my closet (two months in a row Holly sent me dupes she didn’t know I own, further proof that she is my styling soul mate!).

(and my eldest is annoying and interrupting and providing no useful feedback or assistance with his finger!)

Totally in love with the top and the necklace. On the fence with the skirt. Keep reading to find out why! 🙂

The 41Hawthorn Roswon Colorblock Striped Sweater is something I’ve seen on other Stitch Fix blogs around the interwebs. And I really wanted it! I am just not sure on this particular color scheme. I’ve seen a handful and this one is my least favorite, so I am on the fence about this one.

Also, this sweater makes me a very deep thinker.

So my favorite piece in the entire box is the Alice Blue Lucio Henley Blouse, dubbed gray by the style card, but it’s clearly a multi-colored beauty. The cut and color are so adorable. It’s 100% opaque, so no option to throw a cami underneath; definite requirement. But the catch is that this weight-training has my arms so super buff that I can’t wear it comfortably. 🙁 I have emailed customer service and so pending a size exchange I will have to sadly send this one back to headquarters. And with it a piece of my fashion heart (which, thanks to Stitch Fix, I didn’t know I had a year + ago!).

<3 I love this top. I hope they have a medium to swap for me! And so the skirt: If I fall in love with the sweater in the next three (or more, pending CS return email) days, then the skirt will cost $7.50 because of the 25% off to keep all five. I can justify twins for $7.50. What do you think? Am I picking the right pieces? How would you style them? (I just realized I never looked at the style cards, holy moly!)

In case you’ve been under a rock for the last few months, I am so in love with Stitch Fix. You can read the full description if necessary, but here’s the short:
Go to Stitch Fix
Answer some personality/style and size questions.
Schedule your shipment.
You get charged $20 when your PERSONAL STYLIST selects five items. It ships. It arrives. You try on and keep what you want ($20 goes to that!) and return what you don’t.
THAT SIMPLE.

So, without further ado:

This goodness arrived today. I was so peeved I couldn’t leave work and come home for a Stitch Fix lunch. But hubby had it inside for me when I got home with my caravan of children. SO PROMISING!

So here we have the Gilli Abriana Textured Pencil Skirt and the Collective Concepts Farma V-Neck Blouse. And I LOVE both of them. The issue with the skirt is that it’s twin, okay maybe more like a sibling or cousin?, is hanging in my closet. I love that one, too. The shirt is AMAZINGLY colorful. But guess what I’m not? That’s right. Petite.
It’s like a crop top. Unfortunately, per the rolls you can see here (children plus my affinity for candy & baked goods) the shirt won’t work for me. So unfortunately both of these have to be returned.

Another super gorgeous combination is the Gilli Jasmine Printed Pencil Skirt and the Papermoon Palo Sheer Inset Blouse. This skirt is TO.DIE.FOR. and is unlike anything in my closet. Easy keeper. Even Thurston exclaimed “Mom, you look beautiful!”. But again, with the shirt, I’m not a petite. So it’s a crop and somehow tight on my chest (which is really all courtesy of Victorias Secret). So I’ll have to send the top back. 🙁

Lastly is the Market & Spruce Alan French Terry Asymmetrical Zip Cardigan. It’s soft and lovely and I thoroughly enjoy the gray color. Gustav was happy to join in on the photo, but unfortunately I don’t like the way this fits me. At all. So sadly I have to send it back.

So this month is the first 1/5 I’ve had in a year! Still quite pleased with the one piece I will be keeping — and I have ideas on what to pair with it based on the green & blue tops that I WISH FIT ME.

Request Holly, folks. She’s rad.