Do: Dress Up For Work

One should always always put her best foot forward in the workplace. Just because it's okay to wear jeans and flip flops to your office doesn't mean you actually should. Take pride in yourself and in your work and put some effort into your look. No one will take a hoodie wearing, flip flop sporting woman seriously, and you're less likely to move up the work ladder. Uch, hoodies. *shudder*



There's no better time to update your work wardrobe than now. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the fall for one reason: fall work clothes. Seriously, this is my favoritest season for work attire. The herringbones, the tweeds. The wines, grays, and pumpkins. The jackets, the pumps, the perfect cardigan weather. It all makes me so happy. *swoon*



I've culled the interwebs for some fun fall work pieces for you. Check them out below. If I worked, I'd be all over a few of these. Oh how I love fall.

Ann Taylor, $88

Yigal Azrouel, $795

Anthropologie, $78 @ *

Restricted, $85

Vince Camuto, $89 @

Nine West, $79 @

Corso Como, $129 @

J.Crew, jacket: $188, skirt: $118 @ *

Cynthia Rowley, was $365, sale $259

Cynthia Rowley, was $295, sale $149 @ *

Diane von Furstenberg, $325 @

Banana Republic, $89.50

Banana Republic, $150

ASOS, $64.03 @

ASOS, $45.74 @

Anthropologie, $148

Ann Taylor, $78

Alexander McQueen, $955

Vanessa Bruno Athe, $350

@Available in more colors

* EWP Fave

New Year's Dresses

I had a request from faithful reader Courtney to do a post on New Year's dresses. How could I say no to a faithful reader? So here go my NYE options.

When I think New Year's, I automatically think sequins. It's all I want to wear for NYE. I don't know, maybe I have a subconcious desire to look like the ball in Times Square. And lucky for my sequin-loving self, sequins are super in right now and there were just a million sequined options everywhere I looked. Y'all are lucky this didn't turn into an all sequins all the time post, because it almost did. But I did pick a few non-sequined options for the non-sparkly among you.

Also, keep accessories in mind. Maybe not so much with the sequined numbers, but the plain dresses will be fabulous with the right necklace.

Happy New Year's (shopping)!

Robert Rodriguez, $685

Trina Turk, was $228, sale $135.90 @

Donna Rico, $138

Suzi Chin Maggy Boutique, $138

Aidan Mattox, was $240, sale $143.90 @

ML Monique Lhuillier, $188 @

Tory Burch, was $695, sale $274

RED Valentino, was $695, sale $274

Aidan Mattox, $295 @

Diane von Furstenberg, was $525, sale $299.90

CelebraTED, $325

Halston Heritage, $495

Nanette Lepore, $288

linQ, $148

ABS by Allen Schwartz, was $436, sale $348.80

LaROK LUXE, was $398, sale $167.16

Catherine Malandrino, was $495, sale $396

Aqua, $88 @

Viva Vena, $225

Twelfth Street by Cynthia Vincent, $298

Juicy Couture, $198

BCBGMAXAZRIA, $178

Parker, $270

Aqua, $188

Milly, $435

Rebecca Minkoff, $429

Diane von Furstenberg, was $345, sale $207

@Available in more colors

Met Gala 2010: Kristen Bell

Kristen Bell in a Diane von Furstenberg strapless gown, set off with a DVF clutch and H. Stern jewelry.

Diane von Furstenberg really gets how to cut a nice feminine, sweet figure, and she definitely did it with this be-ruffled gown. Kristen looks great in it, and I love the shiny locks and fresh face.

B+

Miami Moda

[If you want real Miami vacay pics, check out MTS. I'll have a bunch of vacay pics over the next few days. But, seeing as how this is EWP, I'm giving you clothing pics.]

I am a classic overpacker. There are just so many variations the trip may take and I have to be ready for every single one of them. And I've always been a big fan of the mid-day outfit change. So I ended up packing for this 5 day trip: 9 dresses and 6 pairs of shoes. And I didn't do so badly at actually wearing them - at the end I had not worn 3 of the dresses, and 2 dresses I just wore for 30 minutes each to give them a turn, and I didn't wear one pair of shoes. That actually might be a personal best for use of things I've packed...

Anyway, back to what I wore.

I had a perfectly cute tennis-watching outfit picked out for Thursday night, but our flight was delayed so it made more sense to go directly to tennis instead of first to the hotel to change. I was a little upset to go to tennis in my comfy flight clothes and not my cute tennis-watching clothes, but I survived.

Dress: Nordstrom, tank: Gap, shades: Ferragamo, earrings: Tiffany & Co., necklace: Heidi Klum, shoes: [not pictured] Tory Burch

There is no way I will ever give you a full on swimsuit pic, but here's a seated in coverup swimsuit shot from one of the days. This is all I will give you.

Coverup: Diane von Furstenberg (OMG, have I mentioned how much I love her coverups? Because I do. They're so cute!)

This was my fancy-shopping outfit, meaning the outfit wasn't fancy, but the shopping was. I sometimes give Mr. EWP a bunch of options to pick from for what I wear. I'm nice like that. And by nice I mean I think he finds it annoying as he mostly never cares what I wear, but for some odd reason he really really liked this dress and insisted I wear it. You will recognize it as Miami dress #1. I was leaning towards something designer as we were going to some pretty fancy stores, but Mr. EWP was all about this $45 Nordstrom dress (that's regular price, folks. Not sale), so I wore it. Just shows it doesn't have to be fancy for the fellas to find it pretty. And luckily no one threw me out of their stores.

Dress: Nordstrom, shoes: Marni, bag: Kate Spade

This is Miami dress #2 that I bought for the trip. It was short and sassy and I thought it'd be fun for Miami. I wore it, wait for it... to watch the Final Four at a bar. Yup, nothing says basketball watching like a short dress, elephant necklace (Mr. EWP's fave necklace) and 6 inch heels.

Dress: Nordstrom, earrings and necklace: Forever 21, shoes: Prada

While I was, per usual, ready to wear all dresses all the time, I realized that maybe a dress on an airboat was not the best idea. Didn't want to distract people from watching gators by having them watch my skirt fly up. So I had to dig out some non-dress items to wear (seriously mean dig out, the shorts were lodged under a bunch of clothes in a storage bin under the guest bed).

Top: Ann Taylor, shorts: (not pictured) Nordstrom, sandals: (not pictured) Aerosoles, handbag: To be made from this gator ;)

No pictures of our dinner out to BLT Steak because Mr. EWP dies a little inside each time I snap a pic in a restaurant. So I'll just tell you I wore this DvF dress.

Coming up next: details of my trip to the fanciest shopping mall I have ever been to!