Fashion

[Catiele]

I have tee shirts long and short sleeve. Cotton feels so good. Long sleeve button shirts are a must. I have several denim ones. Also have a few linen tops but they wrinkle easy. Plus the ironing.

[Nataliesgramma]

I was just looking through my closet yesterday and realized that I haven't worn a blouse since I retired.....I have 7 of them, but they are too dressy for everyday. I want to wear the denim one though....I really like that one...

[Harpa]

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@Oznellwrote:

The majority of tops I wear are either shirts or blouses.  Love the look, and the ease-- to me, buttoned shirts are both aesthetically pleasing, and practical.  A bit of that "Hollywood two-sided tape" prevents gapping between buttons.

Today wore a fitted, white shirt, tailored dark denim pencil skirt, thin French blue cardigan, long delicate chain with tiny pearls danging from it, tights, short gray boots.

There's something about a fresh, white blouse-- feels so good!

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@Oznell

Thank you for the Hollywood tape reminder. (Yes, I also have that.)

That is a nice look!! I was just thinking about my denim pencil skirt, but wondered if I had given that away. It may have gotten too snug and is hiding somewhere in the back of the one closet. I'll search. Again, thanks for this reminder, too!

[Harpa]

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@suzyQ3wrote:

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@Harpawrote:

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@suzyQ3wrote:

I wonder, are shirts considered blouses? Blouses always made me think of more dressy clothing. I have a three or four dressy pullover tops that are blouse-like, but I rarely have cause to wear them..

I live mostly in tees. However, just recently, I have discovered the joy of a good denim shirt. I bought two at J.Crew and love them. I also bought a denim jacket. And I will be receiving a white chambray boyfriend from them soon.

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@suzyQ3,

That's the problem. I don't consider a shirt a blouse. Yes, dressy! So, cotton-span is out. I meant something with silk, or silky fabric, nice styling, perhaps button front or back closure. (And I don't do huge flowers or flamingos!)

So, with this criteria, D&C is out, SG is out, MS is out, IM is out, BM,....etc. and so forth...and there is always something I don't care for in a Halston piece.

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@Harpa, have you taken a look at Ann Taylor. That's where I had purchased the ones I mentioned in my first paragraph. They fit your description to a T (or tee if I'm punning).

And no, I save the huge flowers and flamingos for tees and sweaters. :-) I actually do like flowers. Flamingos might scare me a bit.

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@suzyQ3

Yes, Ann Taylor!

One thing about Ann Taylor is that when their designer/s gets on a kick about a detail, they don't let go until they milk that detail completely dry (or out of fashion.)

Their new detail seems to be ties on the sleeves.

[tototwo]

@kaydee50- sorry, but the "new" Coldwater Creek is nothing like the "old" Coldwater Creek, in my opinion.  I toss my new CWC catalogs in the recycling as soon as I get them.

[Nonametoday]

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@Nonametodaywrote:

@Harpa  I am dressed for church, but have about 20 minutes before I need to leave so thought I would look in. 

Today, I am wearing a lovely, somewhat transparent, pink blouse by LDO which requires a camisole.  It is a blush color, has whitish-blush circle dots of a tiny eyelash-like raised pattern, however, very small circles (perhaps 3-4 would comprise the size of a quarter) witha pu**y bow. 

With it, I am wearing a lined crepe pencil skirt of a slightly darker color but int he same pink-blush family by Mark Zunino.  Natural colored panty hose, black leather crock-embossed handbag and black patent pumps.

All items are a few years old but well made and something I keep and wear about once a year.  With my pink pearls and earrings by KJ Lane, what I am wearing has the soft look of Palm Sunday.

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Although as I noted above the blouse I am wearing is LDO from a few years ago, Isaac Mizrah has one similar this year (A302356).   The fabric is the same, clipped eyelash dots, and the pink is very similar or same to what I have.  The difference in the two is that mine from LDO has more of a mutton sleeve and a pu**y bow.  I like the bow against the mutton sleeves, gives it a juxtaposition from the more formal sleeve to the softness of the bow.