Tights - A Girls Necktie

Classic Men's clothing can be really boring.  Until you get to the neckwear.  That's where a man can get creative and add a little life to his ensemble.

Women's clothing is not that restrictive, nor is kids stuff for that matter.  Still, sometimes an outfit might get boring even if it is colorful unless you mix in a bold splash of color.  A really easy way to do that would be with a colorful or fun set of tights.

Take the Lili Gaufrette Lass skirt and lafalaise mock top shown below.  Its OK in its fuscia and grey colors, but when you add the Lili Gaufrette labelo polka dot tights to the mix you get a fun playful pop as shown below:

Lili Gaufrette Skirt, Shirt and Tights

Here Comes The Sun

Short pre weekend post here focusing on the hot weather on the way and the vibrant color associated with Summer.  Kudos to Karen on this arrangement which is visible when you walk into the store.  Its Fresh, Colorful and Happy which if you know Karen, all the things that she is.  Oh, Karen...congrats on your status change (or better yet Tweet.  Hey, Facebook is so old school!)!

You've got form left to right A Roberto Cavalli Devils Robe, a Stella McCartney Kids shirt, Moschino Top with Lili Gaufrette Flower and Belt and Lili Gaufrette Clothesline Top and MeMe Skirts (which are not on the site).  Of course here is a shout out to the Moncler Bird (looks like a vulture to me) on the bottom right.

Have a great weekend all!

More Matching Here - Lili Gaufrette

We recently fielded a question on this Lili Gaufrette T-Shirt on the matching table.

If you recall, in the past I mentioned that Lili Gaufrette is unique in the fact that almost everything that they do in a particular season can be mixed and matched so that you can get numerous ensembles and rarely can get it wrong.  That being said help was requested and we jumped at that cuz thats what we luv!

Here is what we suggested:

Lili Gaufrette Chedrole Chambray Pant

Lili Gaufrette Lavande Floral Skirt

Lili - Loisir Capri Pant

Lili Gaufrette Landunette 3 Bow Skirt

So, nu?  Why haven't you requested help on matching yet?

:-)

Frontsies Backsies

You know the deal beause we all did it as kids.  You let your best friend in front of you in the long line at school or at a ride at the fair and they reciprocate the "favor" by letting you go in front of them.

Well, here we mean something entirely diferent.  It's when you have a shirt that has a pattern on the front and a different pattern on the back.  Its a creative look because it shows that the designer was not just making this shirt to get by which they could have done with the front pattern but wanted it to be especially cute and in most cases they succeed.  Mom's and Dad's love 'em because they add a special touch to what otherwise may have been just a cute T, cuz now its a cute too plus the "don't look now but WHAM!  GOTCHYA, Bet you didnt see THAT coming!

:-)

Here are a few boys and girls looks that cute on their own but throw in the back of the shirt and you got that "WHAM, DONT LOOK NOW" look!

Well Start with the GianFranco Ferre Shirt that we worked in the last few days.  The front is sedate.  The back, WOW! Factor 7!

GianFranco Ferre Kids T-Shirt

Or for a little softer change from front to back with a definite cuteness factor is this Paul Smith Junior T-Shirt (hard to digitally depict in orange as is red, so see the pic o the site for better and more accurate color)

Paul Smith Junior Paper Dog T-Shirt

which has the paper model dog folded in the front but with the unfolded tabbed in the back.  Definitely cute!  WOW! Factor 4 

For the Girls here are two examples, first being the Lili Gaufrette Ludeul Bow Top which looks meh in the front but with the three bows in the back is quite adorable.  Even so the WOW Factor gets a 5 as its a cute but quiet top.

Lili Gaufrette Ludeul Bow Top

Finally for a simply adorable look on the theme of Frontsies-Backsies you can't beat Little Marc Jacobs who usually does something like the Miss Marc Kirsten Sweat Dress below. 

Miss Marc Sweat Dress Front

With the Back Here.  Simply Adorable for a WOW! FACTOR 9

How do I know that Moms and Dad's love em?  Cause that's the last piece!

Mix and Match

Often a designer will create one piece and design a second completing piece around it so that in essence the entire look is one company.  This makes it easy for both the buyer and the end user i.e. the customer to lock into one look of a particular designer which is what most designers want to see.

In fact when we see a piece that is a color that might be hard to match for example some shades of blue (perriwinkle) or green (teal for example) which are incredibly hard to match with other blues and greens (hint:  They don't match) we are often forced to skip over them despite how sharp or cute the item might be.

That being said, you arent always forced to keep to one brand if thats your preference.  In order to make sure that the items you like work together try and keep to a shade or color that you find in the item you have picked and work around that.

For example, take this Little Marc Jacobs Lassie Skirt. 

 If you look closely (click on the picture) you see the colors that abound in this skirt.  Its got the orange/pink and the traces of fuscia in the cloud formation of the skirt and although the designer probably wants to see something like this Little Marc Jacobs "Lonnie"

T-Shirt accompanying it for a look like this:

However if you are comfortable going a little outside the norm you can pair with other like toned items such as this:

which picks up the Pink from the Little Miss Marc "Lemon" T-Shirt 

getting a little more pink (but boring)  with this Splendid Top:

Or if you are really daring give a splash of the Bold with either of these two Burberry T-Shirts:

Both of these looks are a little strong on the top but definitely work.