Am I pass the age group for this outfit?

One of my greatest pet peeves is age-inappropriate dressing. With this outfit, I feel like I am on the verge of doing exactly that. Yes, right there in the right sidebar it says it: Fashion Bloggers Over 30.  Of course, I am proud to be in that league otherwise I would not have it there. However, do you think that distressed jeans and slubby sweaters are for girls in their 20's (excluding celebrities as there are no limitations for them)? What are some of your age-inappropriate pet peeves?

Sweater - Free People from Bloomingdale's 

Jeans - Armani Exchange

Shoes - Kelly and Katie from DSW

Holiday Party

Last night, my friend Maria had a holiday partaayyy at her lovely home. We had a great time, exchanged some presents and took some awesome pictures. I wore a very old Arden B. (worn here and here) dress which keeps reinventing itself.

Dress - Arden B, top - Guess, Shoes - Jean-Michel Cazabat, Clutch - Cache

After two healthy portions of home-made mash potatoes, creamy mac & cheese, sumptuous meatballs,  delicious devil eggs, I could not button up my black Guess top from above.

My girlfriends rocked the house with BEBE outfits. Maria, I hope you don't like your blue jumper too much in case it goes missing!

And finally, what the guys wore. Or not! This is what makes secret Santa so much fun!

Mixin' 101

I wish I could say that matching and mixing different colors and patterns comes to me naturally. Alas, it does not. However, since I have started my blog, I have been more willing to dive into the sea of patterns and be more experimental. This outfit is pretty much as far as I would go as of this point and it is something I would have not done before. Specifically, dress shirt in purple stripes and gray sweater with lace. Surely matching gray with black would have made me comfortable back then but sounds quite boring now. What makes mixing patterns easier?

- Mixing patterns from the same color family (blues in this case)
- Looking at small patterns as solids. You know how you can read and understand something written in reverse order. I think the brain works the same way with small patterns and can see them as solids (gray skirt in this case).
- Space out pieces of similar/same color or pattern (white shirt breaks up the gray skirt and gray sweater).

I can't wait to take my outfits to the next level.

xoxo,

Teodora

Shirt - Banana Republic

Sweater - BCBG

Skirt - Target

Shoes - Kelly & Katie from DSW

Jewelry - Betsey Johnson, Talbots