style me

when megan told me her idea for the "style me" blog post (where we take our ugliest items of clothing and try to style an outfit around them to make them cute) i knew just the item i would start with. i am a huge sucker for buying ugly items of clothing just for this purpose! i bought these pants at a thrift store not too long ago. they are super fugly, but i kind of loved them and had to have them (plus, i was shopping with my mom on senior day when she gets 40% off...and i think the original price was somewhere around $2.99). there are so many things about these pants that are just wrong. the elastic waist? very comfy, but not necessarily stylish. the color? i am not really a khaki kind of gal, but i thought, what the heck? i'll give it a try. the pleating?  really bad in all the wrong places. yet i still bought these pants. that's right! i also bought a similar, even uglier pair that same day (think these pants but in a darker, mahogany brown color, with a drawstring waist and a kind of velvety-cotton material. HOT!). i wasn't quite up to the challenge of styling those quite yet...

anyway, the pants:

 

and here is how i styled them. what do you think? still ugly??? would you wear this outfit? would you have even bought the pants in the first place? to be honest, i think the outfit is kind of cute...and i think i might wear these pants a lot come spring...

also, i made this necklace today out of a super long string of pearls and a vintage necktie...i am kind of proud of it because i am not usually very "crafty". that is megan's forte, not mine!

tank top- H&M

belt- thrifted

shoes- madden girl

necklace- all thrifted

xoxo, nora bird