Real Life Style: A Week of My Actual Outfits (Not Just Instagram Worthy)

The pressure is real to change into cute pajamas for these types of videos, but we're going to just keep the black socks and tackle this Monday. Luckily this is a work from home day. I do need to wear like comfortable pants, but I still want to feel like productive pants. I don't know why I always like starting with pants, but whether I'm wearing hard pants or soft pants, this is a very important question. For starters, I am putting on these wide leg, essentially like yoga pants, but they have pockets and like fake pockets in the back. I like that these are also long enough that I could just wear sneakers with them and it's still like business casual white sneaker attire, but they're basically yoga pants that are just a little bit looser. Now, unfortunately these are the pants that no one's going to see today because again, it's a work from home day, even though I have four hours of meetings. Oh, and I've got some no show socks on. So I guess my top, I don't know, I'm looking outside, it's windy, rainy, shocker for Pacific Northwest. And it's also laundry day. Like the next three days are going to be laundry day because I'm not far behind on laundry. Spoiler, I don't catch up on laundry and it becomes an issue. Because I'm wearing something larger, like more voluminous on the bottom, I want to wear something tighter on top to balance it out. Back up. I want something that's less contrasty so that it all feels really cohesive, but is also tighter to balance out this. So I don't want it to be too opposite. I want it to be like kind of opposite. All right, here we are. Rolling up the sleeves just a touch. Okay, that makes it feel like a waist belt, like boink, boink. It's still a little giving vibes of, I wish the shirt was a size larger, but again, no one's going to see it. Real quick, jewelry, because I'm already late. So I have, let me get a little bit closer so you can see, have these really simple hoops paired with this really simple necklace. So here's my Monday outfit. All right, Tuesday. Going into the office today, which means I'm running super late right now. So it's a hard pants day and it's a sneaker day because we're doing this walking tour of a new facility. So I need to be super comfortable, but also I might be outside for part of the day, so it might be raining. And there's this thing in Oregon where you're not allowed to use umbrellas even though business clothes rarely have hoods. The thing is, I'm trying to show my thought process through things and the only thing I had predetermined about today were these black jeans. They're super comfortable. No one knows that they're jeans. I have no idea what I want to wear on top or even what jacket I want to wear. Like what's the weather supposed to be? Okay, high 53, no rain, oh my gosh, who is this? And like I said, it's going to be like three days of laundry day. So I haven't, I really don't have that many clean shirts, but if I know my jacket is going to be long, probably it's going to be a wool coat that's underneath, ideally a sweater since these are a bit tighter, balance that out with a bit of a sweater. Do I think I have a clean sweater? So I found, found, there's not a lying around, but kind of it was on the ground, but it's still clean. This gray sweater from my favorite place to buy cashmere because it's not super expensive. Then I'm deciding between the gray wool coat and then I also grabbed tan. All right, so here is the sweater, super comfy. All right, so first we're going to try the tan just for color. Oh, hello. Like that looks good. That looks good with some white shoes. That'll look, that'll look nice. It's a good option, but I just want to try the gray and see. It's not quite as comfortable. Like this one is unlined. The other one is lined. What do we think? Too much gray? My goodness. This light makes me look so pale. I know I'm pale. Here's a theory I've been playing around with. When you have solid colors, it looks, or it could look more business professional. So the more monochrome you go, the more like sleek and chic it looks. Like the tan one looks really good, but maybe since this is business and I am wearing jeans and sneakers, this would actually be a bit of a sleeker look. Zoom you out a little so you can see the mess. Here we are. Here's the fit. Oh, jewelry. I just zoomed you out. Here I am coming back. I just went with these simple link studs and then just a really simple but thick necklace. Should I be getting like style shots? Photoshop the microphone out. Hello and happy Wednesday. You'll notice I'm already dressed. Have you ever had those days where your brain is just super slow and your body is slow and everything is slow? I'm having one of those days. But the reason I didn't share what I wore to work this morning is because we were cleaning out a basement. So I'm just in old jeans and a sweatshirt, but I did try putting my hair up and I put my sunglasses on my head thanks to that Haley Bieber video I just did. I thought I would instead show you what I change into for the rest of the day. It's just kind of a weird clothes day, which happens. So what do I want to wear? I'm going to tell you that basement that we just cleaned out was really, really cold. So I am still really, really cold. So I want to wear something really, really warm. I'm thinking sweatpants like the sweatpants I wear all the time, but I don't think I've worn that for you. So maybe it's not that big of a deal. Sweatpants are on. I freaking love these things. And then this is actually what I was wearing under my sweatshirt. It's just like a gray ribbed t-shirt and it's so comfortable. And lately what I've been liking to pair with these, to pair with this kind of outfit is just like a long duster cardigan. Is it a super exciting outfit? No, but this is honestly just what I'm going to be wearing the rest of the day. Staying comfortable, staying warm, and just focusing. Hello and welcome to my messy closet, but I'm going into the office today and normally I think about what I'm going to wear while I'm getting ready. But I've been telling myself to not think about it so that I can walk through my thought process with you because that is the whole point of breaking down how I come up with outfits. So it is raining today. I have too many boots that are swayed and are not okay to be wearing outside in this weather, which was a very poor decision on my part. And as I turn around, I see these boots. Are they rain boots? No. They've been kind of a disappointing boot. I bought them during the anniversary sale and they lasted one, maybe two wears and the toe was already fraying. But yeah, super disappointing because now I need to go buy another pair and I had invested in that pair. It's not the point of investing. I'm going to want to wear a dress with it or a skirt. Yeah, it would be a little dressy. I can dress it down. We would want to go with a black top, which I have, I think. Oh my gosh. Yes. Or I have this sweater dress. I was actually thinking about returning it because I was never wearing it. You probably can't tell the difference between any of it because it all kind of looks the same. All right. I had to back you up really far so that you could see this whole outfit. So this is what I'm thinking, but I kind of want to try this. I'm just going to try it on real quick. I don't know. Let me try it with the shoes. Um, I just don't think I love it. If I don't love it, I kind of don't want it. Like this one at least gives me a waist and some kind of shape for it to go kind of like in and out. So I think we're going to stick with this. Now the jacket dilemma, blazer option. What is this doing? I know it's always better if you do this. Like that's always going to make things look better, but I don't normally stand like this all the time. So how does stop putting your hand on your waist? Is that too much? Is that too much contrast? This is definitely a more casual option. No, this isn't quite vibing the way I want it to. I wonder. So I have this short olive green coat, so not quite as much contrast because it's a darker color. I'm getting less contrast. So it just feels like it goes and it's not like drawing as much attention. So because I'm doing something high neck and it buttons here, I don't think I need a necklace. I'm just going to do bigger earrings. So I put on these. They're bigger hoops and they're also, I don't know if you can see, they've got like this cool little texture on them. And then I added a bracelet instead of a necklace. So I'm wearing two bracelets and just some earrings and there we are. Good morning and happy Friday. I am so excited for this Friday. It's a complete work from home day and I have so many furniture deliveries. Everything that's been delayed months and months and months is all like after the first of the year was suddenly ready to deliver. I'm mostly done with laundry. That might be a bit of a stretch. I think I have like three more loads to do. I want to be comfy, which means I want leggings. So I haven't done the leggings laundry yet. So these are the two options I have. Do I have anything cute that's clean? Is this, which is covered? Oh, nope. That needs to be washed too. Okay, maybe I'm not going to wear leggings today because I have nothing clean. So I guess we're doing jeans and my jeans that are super comfortable for lounging are also dirty. So I guess we'll wear these, stretchy, comfy. It's going to be really dressed up for working from home, but I guess that's what we're doing. So when I wear these, I tend to like to pair them with white or black. Awesome. I don't have anything white or black except, okay, so here we're at, is where we're at so far. Ignore the bra straps. We'll just cover those. So we have, honestly, they're like skinny jean pant legging things. They're very comfortable. They go great for work. And then we have a tight black high neck tank. Wearing two tight things, top and bottom, makes me want to wear something a bit more oversized. I could go one or two ways. I could keep with the black or I could go with the white. And the white would actually give me that contrast that would elongate my torso. So I'm going to grab this, which is super comfortable in the summer. Something where I wear all the time is like kind of a cardigan slash cover up. But yeah, I think we're going to try this with some jewelry. One sec. Sorry. I feel like I'm rushing this because literally my camera's about to die and I have like 30 seconds left of memory card space and I don't have time to fix those problems. The jewelry that I chose, I went with a layered, slightly busier, so it just doesn't look too black and white. It's too simple. I don't know. Black and white to me can sometimes just look too simple. But I think adding in some brown, adding in some layering pieces, a little bit busier of a hoop, I think that just adds a little bit of interest rather than making it look too stark. I'm really excited for this Friday and I hope you're really excited for your Friday too. It is Friday the 13th.