Pleated Stripes? YES PLEASE

Thank you, Eshakti for this fantastic dress.  Not only is it super cute, but it captures my style.  The fact that I customized the neckline to be boatneck, and straps, but...THIS DRESS HAS POCKETS!  That's right, my friends, POCKETS!

Plus, how can you go wrong with this dress?  It fits like a glove (because of their customization), the colors are exactly what is shown online, and, it arrived in my mailbox within a week of placing the order!  

I must say, that this dress has been sitting in my closet since Eshakti contacted me back in March.  And with the weather being the way it was, today seemed about the right day to flaunt how awesome they are.  Thank you, Eshakti for being so patient and easy to work with.  All the options available to any customer, the individualistic way to personalize the dresses, how can one not pass this site up?  Plus, the customer service is out of this world.  Instant feedback, and such easy communication between the consumer and the company.  I am so excited to flaunt this spring dress, (even though it's approach summer like temps) and look forward to sending all my students to Eshakti for future dances, balls, snowballs, etc.  It's a great site!  Take a look sometime, you'll be so surprised!

Dress:  c/o  Eshakti

And since it is Friday, one must link up!

High Five for Friday, Casual Friday Link Up

Boring Professional

Sometimes you just gotta go boring professional.  Although, upon arriving to work, I learned I could have dressed down in jeans and a tee shirt.  Of course I spend way too much time looking for my SPANX this morning just so I could look clean and polished.  This would happen.  Oh well.  Thankfully, I workout right after work, so I did change into my yoga pants, and a trusty old tee shirt.  

Although, this blue striped button down and a basic khaki pencil skirt is pretty dressed down for a stuffy professional office (unlike mine).  So I guess this is what I would wear on a Casual Monday in a busy uber-professional office...good luck students who are going straight into the professional world.  You're going to need major amounts of pencil skirts!

Top:  Ann Taylor (wrinkle free option, post doc, grad ,undergrad)

Skirt: Banana Republic (great Calvin Klein option,  post doc, grad, undergrad)

Happy Thursday!  One more day til the weekend!

WIWW 0.26- Florals and Stripes

I am getting used to this whole pattern mixing thing.  I am also getting used to my allergies, itchy eyes, sneezing and swollen puffy under eye bags.  (That explains no face in these pics!)  I also am loving this skirt.  Cause, well, look at it!  Long, pleats, floral, color, spring-y.  Everything a girl could want, right here.

Love this sweater too.  Only, something caught it in the washer, and it began to snag, so there is an awkward hole near the shoulder.  I think though, one of my students can fix it.  I hope she can.  If not, oh well.  I am going to wear it until it shreds apart....

Sweater:  LOFT (exact, post doc (cashmere!) grad, undergrad)  

Skirt: LOFT (exact, post doc, grad, undergrad)

Happy Wednesday, chicas!

Linking up today!  

Random Wednesdays, The Pleated Poppy, Whatever Works

floral midi skirt

Princess Seams and Lookin' Sharp

One of the most awesome things about what I do?  The freedom to dress somewhat casual yet pulled together without having to put too much effort into it.  And!  If I'm not in an important meeting, walking around the office in flip flops.  

This dress?  I've worn it many a times on this blog.  If I was ambitious enough to find it, I'd relink them back, but.................oh well.

The white piping are in a princess seam setting.  But like I reminded my student workers, it is piping, not the seams.  In fact, I had them take a close look at the dress.  The side zipper helped prove my case.  I had to add the scarf since, well, this morning's walk was a bit nippy....  Here's to Tuesday! 

Dress:  NY & Co.  (postdoc, grad, undergrad) 

Scarf:  student gift