Earlier this month, I went shopping at a couple vintage stores and picked up the most awesome of awesome hats. I saw it, and I just had to have it. It was not a want, it was a need.

Well, one of my friends had heard about it and wanted to see this wonderful hat I kept talking about. So after my classes today, I created an outfit around my favorite hat.

Arden B. pink leather jacket from Goodwill, White House Black Market top, skirt acquired from small vintage store–Nostalgia, tights acquired from Modcloth.com. Shoes (unpictured) stolen from my mother. Filthy house? Courtesy of John and myself.

I actually have several outfits that will work around my hat, but this one is my favorite. I wish the pictures were better, but unfortunately John (he of the horrid picture taking) was not home at this point and wouldn’t have been for several hours yet. At least you can kind of see the Mona Lisa poster I was talking about last time.

And here it is, the hat in all its glory:

The Brain Hat. Acquired from vintage store in town called Mad Hatter’s.

I’ve got a killer surprise for tomorrow that I’m terribly excited to post about. But, I’ll tell you this, it involves shoes!

Mondays are my slow day right now, which means I get to wear my pajamas all day if I really want to. Which is really nice because I own a lot of pajama pants. I ended up getting three new pairs for Christmas, but no jeans. Funny, that.

So even though this is my style blog, I’ve decided to institute Pajama Mondays. I’m kind of the blog dictator, so I can do that.

As you can see, my messiness in losing my tanktop (as written in my previous post) has extended to clothes taking over most surfaces in my apartment. You can see the sweatshirt and jean jacket I got over the back of the couch. And as for the half of the picture you can see above my head? Yeah, that is a poster of the Mona Lisa. I’m kind of into art. In the sense that I love it, but totally can’t afford it so I just buy posters of the pieces I love. I’ve also got Van Gogh’s Starry Nights on one of my walls.

Sweatshirt acquired from younger sister, tanktop from Costco, PJ pants were a Christmas present.

Now to spend the day reading a novel that I’m borrowing from a friend, and editing my own work. And possibly doing my homework for tomorrow, before tomorrow.

Also: Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!

Today only emphasized just how little I have to wear.  I threw plenty of wardrobe options onto my bed before I finally settled on an outfit — and I only did that because I ran out of time.

John came home and told me that we had to go to dinner tonight with some people he knew at church, something I had totally forgotten about. I tore through my wardrobe and tried to find an outfit to go with my favorite pink shoes. I wanted to find this yellow tank top that I could wear under this adorable brown shirt — somehow my yellow tank top had disappeared.

And every other outfit seemed to need the yellow tank top.

I ended up giving up on the shoes. And instead snagged my Michael Kors whore pumps which I almost never wear because they cause serious pain. I determined it would be worth it.

Then I snagged a pair of jeans, which totally didn’t work with the shoes the way I wanted them to, but I ran out of time (I wish I had a good pair of skinny jeans instead of the boot cuts I had worn).

Jewelry was another problem, as was shirts/blouses/tank tops. I think I tried on most every piece of jewelry, and all the shirts that were clean. This only emphasized how John had not done laundry like he was supposed to this week.

Finally I came up with this:

Red glasses acquired from Costco 2 years ago, Gap Leather Jacket acquired 9 years ago, Top borrowed from sister, Sabrina jeans from Buckle, Michael Kors shoes, necklace from Modcloth.com.

This pretty much confirms my suspicions about needing a tailor. And the fact that those jeans are way too large on me now. I hate being between sizes. Also, John cannot take decent pictures. I guess I’ll be acquiring a new webcam ASAP.

Tomorrow will be better style-wise, I hope.