Hi everyone!
Here's a look at what I wore to work in April.
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You can see all of my monthly outfit roundups here.
As always, thank you for reading!
xo JULES
Monthly Outfit Roundup: April 2019
4.30.2019 • budget, business casual, monthly outfit roundup, outfit ideas for work, personal style, real life outfits, vancouver blogger, what to wear to work, workwear
Hi everyone!
Here's a look at what I wore to work in April.
Click on the Row # to be taken to the original post.
As always, thank you for reading!
4.27.2019 • budget, business casual, outfit ideas for work, personal style, real life outfits, spring fashion, vancouver blogger, what to wear to work, workwear
Hi everyone, happy Saturday!
Tonight I am going to a work event in Whistler! If you remember I've been ordering jumpsuits and dresses to try on for this gala all month. The dress code is "black tie optional" and while I do have a black lace dress that I usually wear to these events, I wanted to switch it up this time. Also, my go-to dress is short, and at "black tie" events I've noticed a lot of women wear longer dresses. So what I ended up deciding on is a dress I borrowed from Boro! I talked about them here, and this is the dress! I'm going to pair it with gold tassel earrings, a red lip and black pumps. I wish I had some dressy black sandals instead but oh well! The dress only cost me $40 to rent + $20 shipping and when I return it tomorrow it's free! I can see why so many people use RTR, it's a great idea!
Edie Leather Loafers by J.Crew Factory
Double Coin Necklace by ? (similar)
Dress by Wilfred Free (old, similar)
Feather Suede Loafers by Steve Madden
Gold Hoops by J.Crew Factory
Mid-Rise Pixie Ankle Pants by Old Navy
Edie Leather Loafers by J.Crew Factory
Patterned Headband by H&M
I have to be honest, I've been finding it really hard to get dressed these past two weeks! I feel like I have nothing to wear and all of my outfits are just the same old thing. I swear I've worn all of these exact outfits before! Which is the same thing I said last week! 🤷 Also, I've just kind of been having some low self esteem lately. I feel like nothing fits, everything is too tight or too short or hugs in the wrong places, so that isn't a good feeling. I'm sure it will pass but it's not a nice place to be. I've been trying to be more mindful about food and exercise as well, so hopefully getting more consistent on that will help.
Anyways, my HBC order arrived this week with these two pairs of white Levi's and this black midi skirt. Well, the whole order was a bust! First of all, these Levi's have embroidered flowers down the leg! This pair was way too tight and the fabric on the skirt was shiny and plastic-y and awful.
My H&M order arrived as well, as you can see I'm wearing one of the headbands this week! I kept both, as well as this straw bag and this blouse. The black midi skirts (here, here) were both no's and I didn't love how the dress looked on me.
I've only had one shopping experience with ASOS and it was a bad one (in short, they lost my order), so I've been very reluctant to shop with them again. But as you know I'm on a desperate mission for a black midi skirt so I decided to give them another chance and ordered this one with box pleats, this floral one, this jumpsuit and this cute scalloped mini skirt. Fingers crossed this order doesn't get lost in transit!
The rug for our dining room arrived and it looks great! It's amazing what a difference it makes to the whole space. In annoying news however our new couch was supposed to be ready at the end of this month but when Tony called to check on it, they told us that the fabric we chose won't be available until June/July! We ordered this couch about a month ago and they never contacted us to let us know about the fabric issue, so that's pretty frustrating. We are hoping they will offer us some sort of discount for the trouble.
Anyways, I hope you all have a great weekend and thank you so much for visiting!
xo JULES
Anyways, my HBC order arrived this week with these two pairs of white Levi's and this black midi skirt. Well, the whole order was a bust! First of all, these Levi's have embroidered flowers down the leg! This pair was way too tight and the fabric on the skirt was shiny and plastic-y and awful.
My H&M order arrived as well, as you can see I'm wearing one of the headbands this week! I kept both, as well as this straw bag and this blouse. The black midi skirts (here, here) were both no's and I didn't love how the dress looked on me.
I've only had one shopping experience with ASOS and it was a bad one (in short, they lost my order), so I've been very reluctant to shop with them again. But as you know I'm on a desperate mission for a black midi skirt so I decided to give them another chance and ordered this one with box pleats, this floral one, this jumpsuit and this cute scalloped mini skirt. Fingers crossed this order doesn't get lost in transit!
The rug for our dining room arrived and it looks great! It's amazing what a difference it makes to the whole space. In annoying news however our new couch was supposed to be ready at the end of this month but when Tony called to check on it, they told us that the fabric we chose won't be available until June/July! We ordered this couch about a month ago and they never contacted us to let us know about the fabric issue, so that's pretty frustrating. We are hoping they will offer us some sort of discount for the trouble.
Anyways, I hope you all have a great weekend and thank you so much for visiting!
xo JULES
4.22.2019 • budget, business casual, outfit ideas for work, personal style, real life outfits, spring fashion, vancouver blogger, what to wear to work, workwear
Hi everyone! Happy Easter!
We went to Vancouver Island for the long weekend to visit friends and got home last night. We had amazing weather on Saturday and spent lots of time outside enjoying it - wine tasting, shopping, and drinking rose on my friends' parent's deck overlooking their vineyard #swoon.
We are back home today and both of us have the day off work. Once again it's raining so we probably won't be venturing out much. I just ordered groceries for delivery since the fridge is completely empty and I'm too lazy to go out to the actual store, and I'll probably do some laundry etc. later on. Do you guys do grocery delivery?
What are you up to this weekend? Do you have today off too?
Tank by Gap
Mid-Rise Pixie Ankle Pants by Old Navy (old pattern)
Edie Leather Loafers by J.Crew Factory
Infinity Necklace by Tiffany & Co. (gift)
Dress by Forever 21 (old, similar)
Tights by Gap (sold out, similar)
Zoe Suede D'Orsay Flats by J.Crew Factory
Mid-Rise Pixie Ankle Pants by Old Navy
Suede Bow Mules by Town Shoes (old, similar)
Earrings from Hawaii (old, similar-ish)
Floral Wrap Dress by Dynamite (old, similar)
Tights by Gap (sold out, similar)
Zoe Suede D'Orsay Flats by J.Crew Factory
Faux Pearl Earrings by ? (similar)
I decided to return the sunglasses and mules from my H&M order, and I've kept the Old Navy jumpsuit for now but will probably return it. I've ordered a few pairs of white jeans to try and will report back with my findings (I'm trying this pair from Gap, this pair from Banana Republic, and these and these by Levi's). I also re-ordered a couple of things from H&M that didn't fit or weren't in stock the first time: this midi skirt, this straw bag, this circle skirt, this headband in cream and pink, this dress to try for the work gala I'm going to on Saturday, and this blouse in dusty rose.
I also ordered from a dress rental service called Boro for my work gala! Rent the Runway doesn't ship to Canada, so I searched for Canadian options and found Boro which is based in Toronto. I've ordered this BCBG dress, with this and this as backups which they include for free. If none of the dresses work I can ship them back free of charge and I only had to pay $20 to have them shipped to me in the first place! They should arrive on Friday, and the gala is Saturday. The rental period is 4 days so I have until Monday to ship them back. Plus I have the H&M dress to try, so I'm excited to see if anything works! If not, I have my trusty black lace dress from Aritzia that I can wear.
I'm pretty happy with my outfits from this week although I've worn all of them before, and I'm sad I had to go back to wearing tights with dresses because it rained all last week. That also explains why the photos this week aren't that great, sorry! I am loving the Camellia bush on our patio though - isn't it pretty?!
What else have I been up to this week? We watched the latest episode of GOT and Homecoming by Beyonce last night and earlier in the week The Voice UK finale and Survivor. We've also bee watching a lot of Frasier re-runs! 🤷 I started reading Becoming by Michelle Obama on the ferry ride to Vancouver Island and it's good, but I'm not 'hooked' yet, you know? It's something you have to be in the mood to read.
I've been listening to a lot of Bad on Paper Podcast, but feel like I need another sort of similar one as back up. If you have any recos please leave them in the comments below! In the most recent episode, Grace and Becca talk about what it's really like to be self-employed and I LOVED how Grace called out all the bloggers currently working with Walmart. She said she was offered a LOT of money to work with them, and she turned it down because she doesn't shop there! I just found that super refreshing because yes, a lot of the bloggers that I follow and love have been doing sponsored content with Walmart and it's not believable to me that they shop there because they have never mentioned shopping there before! And also I don't shop at Walmart and I wouldn't want to support that brand, so I find it a little sad that others are doing it just for $$ but hey, it's their business! Also, no shade to anyone that does shop at Walmart! I don't judge you, it's just not for me.
We have been doing some home decorating as well. A few weeks ago (when it was sunny), we picked out some patio furniture and it arrived last week so Tony was busy putting it together on Thursday night. Of course it's been raining since then so we can't put it out yet, and we still need to decide on an outdoor rug and a coffee table/fire pit. We ordered this rug to try in our dining room and I really hope it works! We've been looking for a persian rug pretty much since we moved in (in September!) so fingers crossed! We also ordered a new couch for our living room! (It's not online so I can't link it, sorry!) . It's slightly larger than our current couch, which is funny because originally we were thinking we needed something the same size or smaller, but the main thing is that it's a lighter colour (our current couch is charcoal grey), so hopefully it will lighten up the whole space. Once the new couch is in we'll start looking for a living room rug and new coffee table. We've also been on the hunt for one or two poufs! We have this chair from West Elm that needs a footstool, plus with a new, smaller coffee table we figure we'll have space for another pouf as a footrest/extra seating.
I need to put some time into figuring out Spotify as well. I got it for my phone maybe a month or two ago? It was shortly after I upgraded to the iPhone XS. Tony's had Spotify for awhile now, at least since last summer, and we'll use it at home through the TV to play music. I used to use iTunes, and my phones never had enough storage for my entire iTunes library, so I would only ever have a selection of artists and albums on my phone and I would literally just shuffle play through all of them, unless there was a specific album I was obsessed with at the time (Lemonade comes to mind!). Anyways, now that I have Spotify I've just been listening to random playlists which is fine sometimes, but what I really want is to 'shuffle play' through songs I already know and love! Is there an easy way to do this? I'm not a playlist maker!! I may just have to go back to iTunes LOL
Anyways, I hope you had a great Easter weekend and thank you so much for visiting!
xo JULES
I also ordered from a dress rental service called Boro for my work gala! Rent the Runway doesn't ship to Canada, so I searched for Canadian options and found Boro which is based in Toronto. I've ordered this BCBG dress, with this and this as backups which they include for free. If none of the dresses work I can ship them back free of charge and I only had to pay $20 to have them shipped to me in the first place! They should arrive on Friday, and the gala is Saturday. The rental period is 4 days so I have until Monday to ship them back. Plus I have the H&M dress to try, so I'm excited to see if anything works! If not, I have my trusty black lace dress from Aritzia that I can wear.
I'm pretty happy with my outfits from this week although I've worn all of them before, and I'm sad I had to go back to wearing tights with dresses because it rained all last week. That also explains why the photos this week aren't that great, sorry! I am loving the Camellia bush on our patio though - isn't it pretty?!
What else have I been up to this week? We watched the latest episode of GOT and Homecoming by Beyonce last night and earlier in the week The Voice UK finale and Survivor. We've also bee watching a lot of Frasier re-runs! 🤷 I started reading Becoming by Michelle Obama on the ferry ride to Vancouver Island and it's good, but I'm not 'hooked' yet, you know? It's something you have to be in the mood to read.
I've been listening to a lot of Bad on Paper Podcast, but feel like I need another sort of similar one as back up. If you have any recos please leave them in the comments below! In the most recent episode, Grace and Becca talk about what it's really like to be self-employed and I LOVED how Grace called out all the bloggers currently working with Walmart. She said she was offered a LOT of money to work with them, and she turned it down because she doesn't shop there! I just found that super refreshing because yes, a lot of the bloggers that I follow and love have been doing sponsored content with Walmart and it's not believable to me that they shop there because they have never mentioned shopping there before! And also I don't shop at Walmart and I wouldn't want to support that brand, so I find it a little sad that others are doing it just for $$ but hey, it's their business! Also, no shade to anyone that does shop at Walmart! I don't judge you, it's just not for me.
We have been doing some home decorating as well. A few weeks ago (when it was sunny), we picked out some patio furniture and it arrived last week so Tony was busy putting it together on Thursday night. Of course it's been raining since then so we can't put it out yet, and we still need to decide on an outdoor rug and a coffee table/fire pit. We ordered this rug to try in our dining room and I really hope it works! We've been looking for a persian rug pretty much since we moved in (in September!) so fingers crossed! We also ordered a new couch for our living room! (It's not online so I can't link it, sorry!) . It's slightly larger than our current couch, which is funny because originally we were thinking we needed something the same size or smaller, but the main thing is that it's a lighter colour (our current couch is charcoal grey), so hopefully it will lighten up the whole space. Once the new couch is in we'll start looking for a living room rug and new coffee table. We've also been on the hunt for one or two poufs! We have this chair from West Elm that needs a footstool, plus with a new, smaller coffee table we figure we'll have space for another pouf as a footrest/extra seating.
I need to put some time into figuring out Spotify as well. I got it for my phone maybe a month or two ago? It was shortly after I upgraded to the iPhone XS. Tony's had Spotify for awhile now, at least since last summer, and we'll use it at home through the TV to play music. I used to use iTunes, and my phones never had enough storage for my entire iTunes library, so I would only ever have a selection of artists and albums on my phone and I would literally just shuffle play through all of them, unless there was a specific album I was obsessed with at the time (Lemonade comes to mind!). Anyways, now that I have Spotify I've just been listening to random playlists which is fine sometimes, but what I really want is to 'shuffle play' through songs I already know and love! Is there an easy way to do this? I'm not a playlist maker!! I may just have to go back to iTunes LOL
Anyways, I hope you had a great Easter weekend and thank you so much for visiting!
xo JULES
4.13.2019 • budget, business casual, outfit ideas for work, personal style, real life outfits, spring fashion, vancouver blogger, what to wear to work, workwear
Hi everyone! Happy Saturday!
It's a rainy one here today so I think we're mainly going to hibernate on the couch, although I do have to go out to pick up a UPS package that I missed earlier in the week, and I was thinking of taking my Club Monaco trench into the dry cleaners to have an interior closure put in. Their tailor is only in on Saturdays so I kind of need to do it today if I want to get it done! Next weekend is Easter and we are planning on going to the Island to visit friends :) . Our fridge is completely empty so I should probably pick up some groceries if I go out, too! LOL
Tomorrow we are seeing my brother and sister in law for the last time before they move to New Zealand!! They have a long layover in Vancouver so we are going to pick them up and go for lunch and I'm not sure what else! Maybe mini golf or a brewery tour?
Faux Suede Ankle Boots by Old Navy (old colour)
Botanical Print Sleeveless Top by Banana Republic
Mid-Rise Pixie Ankle Pants by Old Navy
Edie Loafers by J.Crew Factory
Necklace by GemPassion Jewelry (Etsy)
Pleated Midi Skirt by J.Crew Factory (old, similar)
Faux Suede Ankle Boots by Old Navy (old colour)
Tortoise Hoop Earrings by J.Crew Factory
Mid-Rise Pixie Ankle Pants by Old Navy
Zoe Suede D'Orsay Flats by J.Crew Factory
Flower Earrings by Forever 21
My big Old Navy and H&M orders arrived this week and I filmed try-ons for Instagram that I'm planning on posting today & tomorrow. I'm already wearing a few of the items from that order in this post, the botanical print sleeveless top and the boho tie neck swing top! I fell in love with the colour of the boho top but let me tell you it wrinkles like mad. I steamed it before these pics and you can already see it's pretty wrinkled. Once I got to work it was even worse. I had already taken the tags off so I can't return it and I do love the colour, but tbh I am really considering whether or not I would have kept if I knew it would wrinkle so much!
Anyways, the other things I am definitely keeping are the sleeveless jersey swing dress in black/white stripe (size small petite), and the striped wrap dress. Can you tell I love striped dresses? LOL . The items I'm torn on are the sunglasses, the mules and the jumpsuit in white/blue (size xs). I like the sunglasses I just think they are little expensive coming from H&M; the mules I like (but don't love) and don't need, and I can't tell if the jumpsuit is too big or not. Also it's 55% linen so I'm very concerned about it wrinkling!!
I'm really happy with all of this week's outfits though, which is nice! Usually there's one or two that I'm kind of meh about ! LOL
What are you guys up to this weekend? And any plans for Easter? Share in the comments below!
xo JULES
Anyways, the other things I am definitely keeping are the sleeveless jersey swing dress in black/white stripe (size small petite), and the striped wrap dress. Can you tell I love striped dresses? LOL . The items I'm torn on are the sunglasses, the mules and the jumpsuit in white/blue (size xs). I like the sunglasses I just think they are little expensive coming from H&M; the mules I like (but don't love) and don't need, and I can't tell if the jumpsuit is too big or not. Also it's 55% linen so I'm very concerned about it wrinkling!!
I'm really happy with all of this week's outfits though, which is nice! Usually there's one or two that I'm kind of meh about ! LOL
What are you guys up to this weekend? And any plans for Easter? Share in the comments below!
xo JULES
4.06.2019 • budget, business casual, outfit ideas for work, personal style, real life outfits, spring fashion, vancouver blogger, what to wear to work, workwear
Hi everyone! How are you?!
As I was editing these photos I realized that my outfits with pants this week are basically opposites of each other! (Dots on top or bottom, paired with another solid dark colour). Oh well!
It's funny, I thought when I bought the black and white dot pants that they would go with everything, but the truth is I struggled to put together this (very simple) outfit! I guess my M.O. is mainly plain bottoms and patterned tops?!
Anyways, if you didn't see my Insta Stories try-ons (I saved them to my Highlights if you want to go watch!), I've branched out from my Pixie pants to try Old Navy's High Rise Super Skinny Ankle Pants, which I'm wearing here in the black dot in my regular size 2. I also tried these in the gingham and olive green colours, and the green seems to run small, just FYI. These pants have a side zip and no front pockets, but they do have faux back pockets. I found them to run small at first (they were hard to zip up), but by the end of the day they were much easier to zip up while also maintaining their shape. So far, I really like them. I had two differing comments on Insta about how they wash and wear (someone said they kept shrinking, and another person said they wash better than the Pixies!), so I will keep you updated on my experience.
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Duster Kimono by Dynamite (old, similar)
Suede Bow Mules by Town Shoes (old, similar)
Tassel Necklace by Banana Republic Factory (old, similar)
High-Rise Super Skinny Ankle Pants by Old Navy (wearing a size 2)
Rodney D'Orsay Suede Flats by Sam Edelman
Flower Earrings by Forever 21 (can't stop wearing these!)
Mid-Rise Pixie Ankle Pants by Old Navy
Edie Loafers by J.Crew Factory
Simple Gold Hoops by J.Crew Factory
Necklace by Gem Passion Jewelry (Etsy)
The yellow dress and cardigan are new Old Navy, too. I bought the dress in regular XS and Petite S to try, and ended up keeping the Petite S as it was a tiny bit shorter. If it shrinks a bit in the wash that is okay with me too.
The weather really turned this week from sunny and beautiful to super rainy and cold. The day I wore the black dot pants it was raining really hard, so I had to take outfit pics on our covered balcony which I was not prepared for, so apologies for those pics!
Last night when I got home from work I was SO cold! I had been cold all day and just could not shake it. As soon as I got home I wrapped myself in a cozy fleece and curled up on the couch. Normally I go to yoga on Friday nights but I was too cold! LOL . So I stayed home and read Daisy Jones and The Six instead. I was already about halfway through and finished it last night. It was pretty good! Afterwards I put on Annie Hall (I'm making it my mission to watch some classic Rom Coms I've never seen before! Last week it was When Harry Met Sally) but kept falling asleep! I think I got the gist of it though?! LOL
I did another big order from Gap/Old Navy/Banana Republic and H&M last weekend. I think I am finally getting over the sticker shock of doing a big order. I have to remind myself that I am not keeping everything, I am just trying things on. The final bill will not be nearly as bad.
H&M just sent me the shipping confirmation and I'm so mad, two of the things I was really looking forward to were cancelled! I guess they weren't in stock? It was this straw tote and this macrame bag :( . The other things I ordered were these sunglasses, these joggers in dark pink, this casual summer dress, this sleeveless jumpsuit (for an event later this month), this v-neck camisole in white and black, these pointed mules, this striped skirt, this black midi skirt, this black pleated skirt and this creped jumpsuit.
From Gap/Old Navy/Banana Republic, I ordered two bralettes to try (this one and this one), a striped shirtdress from Gap and one from Old Navy (in two sizes), a pink sweatshirt, denim shorts in a size up from the last ones I ordered & had to return, this extremely cute striped linen jumpsuit in white and lavender (in two different sizes to try), another casual summer dress, this super cute top in the mauve colour, and this sleeveless botanical print top from Banana. So far only the top from BR has arrived, but once everything does I will do a try-on in Insta Stories!
Anyways, it's supposed to rain all weekend so I'm not sure what we are going to do. Probably just have a lazy weekend at home with a lot of couch time, catching up on blog reading, watching TV and movies etc. We have some annoying things that need to be done like our taxes (!), organizing the front hall closet, backing up my iPhone/organizing photos and I'm sure loads of other things I can't think of at the moment!
What are you all up to this weekend? More exciting things than me I hope!
Thank you for reading!
xo JULES