70's Vibe - Through Rose Colored Glasses

Clockwise from top left: Shades | Denim Jacket | Jeans | T-Shirt | Purse | Dress | Shades | Sandals | Jacket | Purse | Jeans | Crop Top

Maybe it's the flowers blossoming or music festival season beginning to kick into high-gear, but I've been really feeling drawn to the influences from 70's fashion. The fringe jackets, lacy details, and rosy pinks are leaving me wanting to hop on the next plane, fly out west, and saddle up on a horse and ride through the desert. In the meantime, I'll keep dreaming and think of outfit ideas to look the part ;) 

-Meagan-

What to Pack: Festival Season

Shorts - Hendrix Bandits // Round Sunnies - Topshop // Heart Sunnies - Wildfox Couture // Crop Top - American Eagle // Ankle Booties - Stuart Weitzman // Backpack - Miss Selfridge // Fanny Pack - Free People // Runners - New Balance

With SXSW currently underway in Austin, music festival season has officially begun! Normally this would just make me sad since it meant the time of year when I sit at my desk looking through Facebook pictures of friends having a blast at Lollapalooza...but not this time! I recently bought a pass for Firefly Music Festival and am giddy with excitement for four days of camping out and listening to unbelievable artists.

Due to my lack of festival attending, my closet is lacking a bit in the free spirit, hippie wear that seems uniform for these events. By scouring through festival fashion on Pinterest for inspiration and the current trends, I've determined the essential items needed for the days of music, sun, and fun:

1. Crop tops 

Preferably floral patterned or paying homage to a favorite band of yours

2. Cut-off shorts

The perfect way to recycle those jeans you no longer wear but can't seem to throw out

3. Sunglasses

The quirkier and/or rounder the better

4. Backpack or Fanny Pack

The fanny pack is back whether you like it or not, might as well go all out with a fringed version!

5. Ankle booties

Good for wearing in those fields when dancing to the music and kicking up the dirt and dust

6. Runners (the cute name for sneakers)

For when your feet are tired and can't handle the ankle booties anymore

What items will you be rocking at your next music festival? Will you be following the runway's example and wearing sneakers/runners with everything this spring? Or should gym shoes only be worn at the gym and festival wear at music fests? I'd love to hear your thoughts on these trends! :)

Happy T - 7 Days until Spring!

-Meagan 

One Piece, Two Ways: Mint Green Jacket

Jacket - Joie

Outfit on Left: Dress - Madewell // Wallet - Rebecca Minkoff // Bracelet - Michael Kors // Shoes - L.A.M.B.

Outfit on Right: Peplum - DKNY // Jeans - Current/Elliott // Purse - Rebecca Minkoff // Ankle booties - Sam Edelman // Necklace - Baublebar (sold out, similar here)

In light of the spring season and recent monochromatic trend, I put together these two outfits to show how you can incorporate the trend in a more conservative manner.

The Joie jacket pictured above and that I'm currently obsessing over makes for a great day-to-night transitional piece due to its silk material, being light enough for the day but enough at night when the air gets a little chilly. Plus that mint green color is to die for!

What do you think of the monochromatic trend?

 Are you all for it and rocking the trend in full out one color all over, or are you more subdued and using it more as an accent to your look?

-Meagan

Bangs or No Bangs: That is the Question

(Images via 1 // 2 // 3 )

I'm getting the hair itch again - no, not because it's dirty (Okay maybe it is a little bit dirty) but because I want to change it up. My hair has been blah and underwhelming to me as of late and bangs seem like a fast and easy solution. When I started my desk job I picked up this bad habit of pulling at my hair while working and in doing so broke most of the hairs surrounding my face, so by getting bangs it would help mask the frizzy short bangs as I painfully and slowly let them grow back.

Now the only problem: what style of bangs? Side swept? Blunt? Long and flowing or short and dense? Maybe bangs aren't such an easy solution after all!