May 30 x 30 Challenge

Ok, let me start this post by saying that I am NOT a fashion blogger!  However, I follow Kelly at Mrs. In Training (stumbled on her blog when researching the name Guinevere – turns out she has a Guinevere who is about a year older than my Guinevere) and she is a fashion blogger.  She posted about this challenge and asked people to join.  At first I thought, “no, that’s not for me.  Besides, I bet I wear the same 30 pieces over and over again anyway, where’s the challenge?”  But then I thought about it more, and it actually sounds like a great way to a) achieve the goal of writing more – even if it is to bore you with my fashion choices over the next month and b) have some fun with the clothes I own.

Here’s the deal – I chose 30 pieces from my wardrobe: pants, shorts, shirts, dresses and shoes.  I can only wear those 30 pieces for the next month.  I will take a picture each day (probably a crappy iphone in the mirror selfie – I promise, NO duckface, though!).  I am not counting “comfy” clothes – i.e. the sweats/shorts I change into after I get home from work.  I’m also not counting any tank tops/under shirts that I wear underneath my clothes or my flip flops.  If I wear flip flops on any day, that’s not “fashion,” that's just me being comfortable.  I also know that I need to appear at a deposition this month and will be wearing a suit.  But since I never wear suits to work, it would be totally unfair to count those 3 items against me for the rest of the month.

Things I learned while picking out my clothes for the month:

• -       I am apparently over the color brown!  I feel like I’ve been wearing it ALL the time lately, but looking at the colors that I picked out, they are all more pinks, purples and blues.  I even put away a pair of tall brown boots that I thought I was going to wear!
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• -        I still have 2 ginormous bags of clothes stashed in my closet that I meant to give to goodwill back when I was returning to work from maternity leave.
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• -       Now that I am fitting in all of my pre-pregnancy clothes again, I am super excited to put back into rotation some of the clothes that I had stashed away that didn’t quite fit when I first went back to work.
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• -       I am still pumping and I have only 2 dresses that really work for pumping, which makes me sad.  There are a bunch of dresses that I really miss wearing!

And without further ado, here are my selections:

Pants

Shirts

Jackets & Sweaters

Dresses

Check back on these dates to see what I chose to wear when:

Wednesday, May 1st:  My 30 selected items
Wednesday, May 8th:  Days 1-6
Tuesday, May 14th:  Days 7-12
Monday, May 20th:  Days 13-18
Monday, May 27th:  Days 19-24
Monday, June 3rd:  Days 25-30

Here are the other lovely bloggers participating: