This past week had me craving prints and color and all things spring. While it got so cold this week in Maryland that we had frost and a chance of snow, spring has truly spring with happy birds, flowering trees, intensely blue skies, and every plant bursting forth electric greenery.
A bit chillier, I wore an outfit I wore last week as well - this denim dress from Universal Standard (XS, this is the black), and black Essential Leggings from Soma (L). I washed and dried the dress from Universal Standard and it got a bit softer and a tiny bit rumpled but otherwise exactly like when I received it, and no shrinkage at all. These leggings are super duper soft and not too thick, really great lounging around leggings and my favorite under long tunics and dresses and I love that they are available in three lengths. I'm wearing my Baublebar Hera necklace and my Jenny Bird initial necklace. And again the orange EVA Birks for a pop of color!
I mentioned in my Friday Sale Alert that I got this dress from J. Crew and like it very much. Well here it is! I wore it for part of a day before the sun set and it got too chilly. I'd like to shorten the straps a bit, but it's still wearable now. For reference, this photo I am NOT wearing a bra. I think it would work with a demi or balconette bra with thin straps or a strapless, but I wanted to see how it worked without and I found the double non-stretch fabric and seaming kept me in place all day even when sitting, bending over, and such. With it I am wearing my silver Birkenstocks. I really like cotton dresses like this for summer so linked to a few others below.
Saturday night, we had game night with friends over Zoom. While I was still in my living room I decided to dress up a bit. I wore a silver stretchy knit top I got on Etsy many years ago (you can see me wear it in this post recapping the Hopscotch Music Festival back in 2016) with a black knit shrug with furry sleeves from cabi last season. On the bottom were my Soma joggers. The earrings are from Jenny Bird and a few years old and no longer available.