Another Take on Hobbit Pants
Today will be a two-for-one - an outfit story in this post, and I'll follow it up with all the sewing details for my Emerson cropped pants in the next post.
First the story, in three parts - I have a bit of a mixed relationship with this style of pants, whatever you want to call them (culottes, cropped wide-leg pants, etc). I wore them a lot as a kid, and liked them then. Back when they started coming back into style a few years ago, I jumped on the bandwagon and made myself a pair out of a fabulous turquoise, black, and white wool plaid. John dubbed them my hobo hobbit pants and was not on board at all. :) I've had a couple of different iterations since then as well, and I like them, and I really like wearing them when it's like 95 degrees out, so they'll stay in my closet, whether or not they make me look like a hobbit. More details on the pants will come in the next post, but they are the Emerson cropped pants from True Bias, and made out of a heavy-weight grey linen from Ikea.
The second part of my story involves the shirt - it's a fairly new addition to my wardrobe (Banana Republic, May, $45), and while it's simple, it's a style that I've stored on many a pinterest board over the years and have never quite found the very specific version I've wanted until now. I try not to fall into the trap of buying multiples of the same thing (because I know I'll always just wear the black one anyways), but I did buy this shirt in red, blue, grey and black and have worn all of them. It's just such a perfect shirt for work, because I prefer knit tops over woven, and it's just dressy enough to look like I'm not wearing a t-shirt.
And the last piece of the story brings everything together - similarly to the shirt style, I've had a photo saved for years of a women wearing wide-leg light grey pants with a light grey sweater (which I weirdly can't find at the moment), and I've always wanted to recreate it. I just happened to figure out that I could when I was trying to figure out what to wear to the office today (my office wear section is a bit pathetic at the moment, given my lack of leaving my house these days), and here it is! I've been on an on-going quest to figure out my style for years, and one of the problems is that I feel like is that what I'm attracted to changes a lot, but certain things stay the same (but never in a cohesive way that I can pin down my style). There is such a satisfaction of accomplishing this look after all these years though, particularly when I can tweak it in ways that I know make it better for me (cropped wide-leg pants vs. long wide-leg pants, close-fitting top vs. loose sweater).
While the story is technically done, I will round out the outfit details. The shoes I talked about in my last outfit story actually, and I'm trying to wear them more, so lucky they happened to be light grey! I'm not a big jewelry person these days, so keeping it simple with my wedding ring (well, one of the rings I wear as my wedding ring, that could be a whole post in and of itself), my watch and big silver hoop earrings. Apparently things I've loved a long time are the theme of this story, because I have worn big silver hoops for years and years now. This is at least the second pair I've purchased from Tiffany Anne Jewelry and I also have them in gold, and love them (only reason I've bought them multiple times is because I lost one). I can never make up my mind whether I want to go silver or gold with jewelry, so when it comes to things like basic hoops, I buy them in both (oooh, another theme to the story - basics in bulk!).
First the story, in three parts - I have a bit of a mixed relationship with this style of pants, whatever you want to call them (culottes, cropped wide-leg pants, etc). I wore them a lot as a kid, and liked them then. Back when they started coming back into style a few years ago, I jumped on the bandwagon and made myself a pair out of a fabulous turquoise, black, and white wool plaid. John dubbed them my hobo hobbit pants and was not on board at all. :) I've had a couple of different iterations since then as well, and I like them, and I really like wearing them when it's like 95 degrees out, so they'll stay in my closet, whether or not they make me look like a hobbit. More details on the pants will come in the next post, but they are the Emerson cropped pants from True Bias, and made out of a heavy-weight grey linen from Ikea.
The second part of my story involves the shirt - it's a fairly new addition to my wardrobe (Banana Republic, May, $45), and while it's simple, it's a style that I've stored on many a pinterest board over the years and have never quite found the very specific version I've wanted until now. I try not to fall into the trap of buying multiples of the same thing (because I know I'll always just wear the black one anyways), but I did buy this shirt in red, blue, grey and black and have worn all of them. It's just such a perfect shirt for work, because I prefer knit tops over woven, and it's just dressy enough to look like I'm not wearing a t-shirt.
And the last piece of the story brings everything together - similarly to the shirt style, I've had a photo saved for years of a women wearing wide-leg light grey pants with a light grey sweater (which I weirdly can't find at the moment), and I've always wanted to recreate it. I just happened to figure out that I could when I was trying to figure out what to wear to the office today (my office wear section is a bit pathetic at the moment, given my lack of leaving my house these days), and here it is! I've been on an on-going quest to figure out my style for years, and one of the problems is that I feel like is that what I'm attracted to changes a lot, but certain things stay the same (but never in a cohesive way that I can pin down my style). There is such a satisfaction of accomplishing this look after all these years though, particularly when I can tweak it in ways that I know make it better for me (cropped wide-leg pants vs. long wide-leg pants, close-fitting top vs. loose sweater).
While the story is technically done, I will round out the outfit details. The shoes I talked about in my last outfit story actually, and I'm trying to wear them more, so lucky they happened to be light grey! I'm not a big jewelry person these days, so keeping it simple with my wedding ring (well, one of the rings I wear as my wedding ring, that could be a whole post in and of itself), my watch and big silver hoop earrings. Apparently things I've loved a long time are the theme of this story, because I have worn big silver hoops for years and years now. This is at least the second pair I've purchased from Tiffany Anne Jewelry and I also have them in gold, and love them (only reason I've bought them multiple times is because I lost one). I can never make up my mind whether I want to go silver or gold with jewelry, so when it comes to things like basic hoops, I buy them in both (oooh, another theme to the story - basics in bulk!).
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