Fashion Finds: Mango

Last week I posted this outfit that Rebecca found somewhere online.  I love this outfit, and I want to recreate it once fall comes.  And now, thanks to a weekend trip to Santa Monica, I found some pants that are pretty similar and will help me recreate the look.  And bonus- they'r on sale at Mango right now!

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Mango, $34.99

I think either pair would help me recreate the look.

Mango, $34.99

Another picture I posted last week was of this Missoni coat.  I adore this look, as well, and again, I found a similar look (on sale!) at Mango.  

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College Style Shift, $44.99

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Granted, the inspiration picture has a coat, and these are dresses, but the style is similar.  I almost snatched one of these up on Sunday, but I decided that it would be just too short for work.  I do adore the dresses, though, and I love the price tag too!
Hope your Tuesday is going well!

Labor Day

This week's Friday's Fancies is all about the weekend... the three day weekend! I am glad it is here, mainly because I want to catch up on sleep and clean my house, which has very quickly become quite a little wreck. Last night I went to Back to School Night for the first time ever. This might not seem like a huge deal, but my daughter in in junior high, and I had never been to one of her back to school nights. I promise it isn't because I'm an uncaring mother. I've always, always had to work while they were going on; that's what happens when your kiddo goes to the same school where you happen to be a teacher. So in the past, my parents have always gone in her place. It was good to hear her teachers talk about their expectations.
Anyway, it was a long night, with a pre-planned dinner and planning session with a friend/colleague after the school deal, so I am tired today and ready for some time to relax and get caught up on my life outside of school.
So how about you?  Any fun plans for the three day weekend?

Labor Day 

Mango blue dress, $26 / Quiksilver top / Orlebar Brown clothing / rag & bone/JEAN torn shorts / PLAID WESTERN SHIRT / Sperry Top-Sider sperry top sider shoes / Sam Edelman leopard shoes / Converse sneaker, $70 / Tory Burch buckle handbag / Mango gold bracelet bangle

Big thanks to Long Distance Loving for hosting another round of Friday's Fancies!

Friday's Fancies: Beach Classics

beach classics by desertgirls featuring 1 piece swim suits

Seafolly swimsuit, $135 / Roksanda Ilincic 1 piece swim suit / Lalù gold handbag, $37 / Mango cateye sunglasses, $15

It's blazing hot here in the desert so we need to escape to the beach. These are a few bathing suits I would actually wear to play with my kids and walk around in at the beach without worrying how I look in comparison to the 18 year old in the string bikini. Not that I do anyway. I feel that classic beach attire always wins glamour--and comfort--points no matter what your age. I am linking up with Long Distance Loving and her friday's fancies "beachy chic" theme. There are some really great looks on there today (as always). Stay cool out there!
 

Mother and Daughter

Mother and Daughter by desertgirls featuring linen dresses

Mango linen dress / Stuart Weitzman flat / Marc by Marc Jacobs tote bag / Zara Check Shirt Dress With Belt / Zara Animal Print Sandal

Film Inspiration: Bonjour Tristesse

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A few years ago, on some lazy Saturday afternoon, I came across a film called Bonjour Tristesse, 1958 (French, "Hello Sadness."  Novel by Francoise Sagan, 1954) starring Debora Kerr, David Niven and, this pretty little actress I didn't know, Jean Seberg.  It is a rather artsy film about a flimsy, do nothing, father-daughter duo with plenty of money and no drive.   Their lives consist of laying in the sun, and dancing the night away with their latest conquests.  The realization of their pointless existence is not the tragedy; the real catastrophe exists in their inability to change their own pattern of living. 

 It is the kind of film that never leaves you once you see it.

Jean Seberg is not a noted actress, yet her beauty seems to be enough in her roles.  American critics gave her very poor reviews (including this second attempt, Bonjour Tristesse) but when she moved to France and began making foreign films, the press there loved her and she had a fairly successful career for awhile.  

It is odd to think that this beauty, who is the picture of gamine European style, was actually from Marshaltown, Iowa!  She still inspires all of us today with her minimalist, summery, devil- may- care look.  

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I am already dreaming of summer with Seberg as my style inspiration.  Here are some things I found that I am going to need.

Jean Seberg by desertgirls featuring an oversized t-shirt

Topshop chambray top / Mango oversized t shirt, $16 / Esther Williams red one piece bathing suit / Warehouse skater skirt, $40 / Chloé ankle strap flat / Charlotte Russe summer straw hat / Alexander Wang cat eye sunglasses, $380