I started each of the last two school weeks in all black.  Black Monday is definitely a thing.  I actually wore the same top both times – this BCBG Max Azria cotton top is sensational.  I have it in white too and also in white in a crew neck.  The quality of this brand is over the top fabulous.  I either buy it at www.bcbg.com or Lord & Taylor.  Oh, and sometimes at Bloomingdales.

I had these pants hemmed because they were 1 1/4″ too long.  Am totally in love with the little slits at the bottom – they are definitely my new favorite thing.  Also love that I’m in a size 0!

So anyhow, I am starting to re-run outfits but am still working on changing it up.  For one thing, I got a haircut.  It will grow back in about a minute; it grows so fast.  But this will be fun and different for a while.

I love the above outfit.  The top and pants are both Trina Turk.  The top is a silk/spandex blend.  The color is that rich oxblood it-color from last season that is still very big.  I bought my first Trina Turk top in 1999.  It’s the one I’m wearing in my profile picture – also a silk/spandex blend and probably my favorite thing in my closet.  It’s older than my students but has transcended time in a way that very few fashions can.  Surplice front, bishop sleeves and of course, black.

Here is that same BCBG Max Azria top I mentioned – in white but in the crew neck.  Found it at the BCBG outlet store in the mall – marked down and 30% off (final sale).  Such a great deal!

This dress currently has over fifty likes on Instagram.  My most liked posting.  The first time I wore it, it was like a ninety degree sauna in school, so I had on sandals and had my hair in a giant bun.  But this day, last Thursday, it was much cooler.  I was subbing for the teachers who left with students on a field trip and I spent a chunk of the day in an air-conditioned computer lab.  I love this dress so much that I got it in white too.  Think I’ll wear it tomorrow – students are just about done painting so it might be okay if I’m careful and wear my smock.  When I look at this photograph, I miss my hair because most of what is ombre ended up on the salon floor (sad face).  But it will grow back.

These Seven For All Mankind jeans are like something out of a dream.  I think I spent an hour trying on jeans and these were the last pair.  They fit like the ones in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.  Crazy.  Had to have them.  And size 25!  Yes!

We had a BBQ for my birthday, so I pulled out the boots I bought for my Native American costume (needed them when I taught at Lake Street Elementary – they had a Thanksgiving feast every year where the kids all dressed as Pilgrims and Indians).  Love them but would love them even more if they had a heel, which goes without saying.  I have this Bailey 44 top in three colors – black, gray and this scarlet red.  The shorts zip in back for a really smooth line.  They are Trina Turk.

This cotton/silk BCBG Max Azria sweater is reversible.  I wore it the other way a couple of weeks ago.  I love it both ways!  It’s like two for the price of one.

Finally, another Trina Turk dress.  The size 2 dimensions are my measurements.  It’s like buying couture.  This dress looks so much like a flat pattern sloper.  The difference is that the fabric is this jersey stretch double-knit and not a muslin draft.  It was available in black but I waited too long to get it and missed out on it.

So Trina, oh great goddess of my fashion world, if you are listening and there’s one in your secret dress lair that you’d like to gift me? Then I accept.  You are my favorite. <3