One-Dollar Wonders

Shark Week at Work

March 9, 2013

Post and run from the lunch room!

When I first got this jacket, I could not help but be reminded of shark skin...
http://youlookfab.com/welookfa.....e-dye-moto

So today, I have paired the Ella Moss moto with cobalt blue and light gray in order to play up the effect. I enjoy how the jacket works with button fronts! I feel it will be a workhorse this year for work and play alike. The colors are just dark enough to be moody, but not so dark as to ne depressing in s/s.

Ella Moss moto - Nordies
Olivia Moon skirt - Nordies
Theory shirt - flea market
Rockport boots - Ebay

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21 Comments

  • replied 11 years ago

    Love this Rae! The overall silhouette is pretty classy and polished, and then the RATE and UWP come in with the details.

  • Thistle replied 11 years ago

    Love this on you! I really like it paired with the skirt. Pretty yet with an edge.

  • AJ replied 11 years ago

    Your legline looks fabulously long in this outfit, Rae! Nicely styled.

    I'll have to try my Gap moto with button downs. Thanks for the idea.

  • CocoLion replied 11 years ago

    Very long and lean, fabulous silhouette on you! And the pieces are so stylish. Have a good day styling and selling!

  • Day Vies replied 11 years ago

    How is it possible that you look sassy, polished and RATE?! You wear this juxtaposition so well.
    I enjoy seeing your posts because you force me to consider and appreciate looks that are not my style (to be filed away for later and drawn upon for inspiration when I need just the right element to keep my own look from getting too flat). You rock Rae!

  • Ginkgo replied 11 years ago

    Fabulous! Looks like you're really developing your own style.

  • deb replied 11 years ago

    What a great outfit!!!

  • marianna replied 11 years ago

    You look great! Check your Nordstrom email. ;)

  • replied 11 years ago

    I love it, stylish and approachable. Are you getting any feedback from colleagues re. attire?

  • Transcona Shannon replied 11 years ago

    Ok...this is now a new Rae fave for me! Love the colours, the silhouette, the sassiness, the UWP vibe and yet still appropriate for work look you have going on here. Absolutely gorgeous!

  • Jaime replied 11 years ago

    Gorgeous! I love the midi length on you. Your style is skyrocketing (already was in the strastosphere) lately!

  • Beth Ann replied 11 years ago

    Having fun with fashion, and looking lovely and fab, too!

  • Suz replied 11 years ago

    Wow, this is fabulous, Rae! You look sensational. Love the jacket with the shirt, and what a fun idea to play with the sharkskin idea. I wonder if anyone will notice?

  • kellygirl replied 11 years ago

    LOVE! You look so sassy and stylish :)

  • Joy replied 11 years ago

    Wow! you look wonderful, polished but true to your style too.

  • jayne replied 11 years ago

    jaw dropping fab! 100%. I love how you recreated that shark1

  • Ornella replied 11 years ago

    OMG Rae, you keep posting amazing outfits and threads which I simply can't keep up with (sorry, life gets in the way :-) ), but every time I see your new WIW I think the same: you are in the zone, you have so much fun, you are finally you style-wise. Not that you were not you before, don't get me wrong, I actually think the restrictive banker-style wardrobe did your own style development a world of good. I wrote a post at the end of last year in which I mentioned something you said which taught me a valuable lesson:
    Personality comes through in less pieces than I'd thought...sometimes the only "twist" in my outfit ...was enough for me to feel like "me".

    But this is simply different.

    Your playground is much bigger style-wise and you no longer have to look for subtle ways to express yourself, yet you don't seem overwhelmed by the possibilities but use the new styling freedom in such inspiring way, you always let the best pieces shine. Not to mention your new hair which revealed just how pretty you really are, which is really strange because I loved your long hair and thought it amazing on you, but I guess you are the lucky one who can wear anything on her head.

    I just love how you were inspired by the shark and how you recreated it, not to mention how much I love that jacket on you which does seem to be one of your best buys so far.

  • Mona replied 11 years ago

    Simply fabulous! Love everything about this. The jacket, midi skirt and boots.

  • harmonica replied 11 years ago

    AMAZING Rae!!!

  • Tina.b replied 11 years ago

    I really love how you wear a midi skirt, your styling is fantastic. And of course that fab jacket makes the outfit shine. Gorgeous!

  • catgirl replied 11 years ago

    Awesome. Putting it on the copy-now list. :)

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I'm just your average working stiff who loves nice things and hates to pay for them. This blog outlines my efforts to navigate that treacherous shopping/saving divide through swappin', thriftin', and even a little resellin'. Many of the pieces in my wardrobe cost me just $1! We've heard a lot about people "living above their means" in recent years; I'm championing the concept of living large *below* your means - whatever that means for you. :)