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Sears Style: How to Style Junior Jeans for Adult Women

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The idea of grown women shopping in the Juniors section of any department store sort of makes me cringe. Why you ask? If it was okay for women to wear teenagers clothing then there wouldn’t be a delineation of clothing type in my opinion. I have been know to be a hypocrite when it comes to certain things and today I proved myself wrong when it came to me, a grown women crossing over and shopping in the Juniors section of Sears.

I’m a skinny jean girl. I love skinny jeans, I like the ankles as narrow as they come and I would prefer them to be dark washed. I like what I like, and if it isn’t broke then don’t fix it. Well I was challenged to go into Sears and take a look at their current denim offerings and pick something out of my norm.

So I did some looking and searching and unfortunately in the adult section I didn’t find anything in the fit I wanted that particularly tickled my fancy. After walking around in circles I knew it was time to cross over the linoleum aisle and step foot into the land of Juniors *insert horror movie scream*

Surprisingly not only did I find some out of the box denim but the pricing was great. As I perused the aisles I wanted something a little different that I could possibly tone down and make appropriate for a grown woman to wear. After a couple of trips to the dressing room because I kept forgetting that Junior sizes don’t account for adult hips I finally decided to take home a Bongo pair of jeans with some distressing, rips, and contrast stitching. What drew my eye to them was the contrast in the stitch, second to the rips. After trying them on I was smitten with the length and how they kind of scrunched around my ankles.

When purchasing I made sure to get credit to my Shop Your Way account, which gives me credit for qualifying purchases. While I had credit available that I could’ve applied to my purchase I decided not to use them at this time.

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Children Shopping

Tanger Outlets Back to School Taste & Style Food Truck Festival

I can hardly believe here in Georgia we are less than two weeks away from the start of a new school year. Even if your children won’t be going back as soon as mine it is still time to start thinking about new school gear.

Tanger Outlet- Locust Grove

Join Tanger Outlets Saturday, July 27th and Sunday July 28th in Locust Grove as they kick off Back to School Shopping TangerStyle with food, prizes and tons of entertaining fun!  Join them as they  give new meaning to the term FASHION PLATE!

While there Stroll an array of gourmet food trucks from the Atlanta Food Truck Park and taste some of the best selections of unique food offerings the metro area has to offer! Enjoy 11 Food Trucks and two yummy dessert additions!

Throughout both days don’t miss out on interactive family fun, Kitchen Collections samplings, Corningware Corelle & Mores displayed array of Cookware, Tangerstyle Stops will be set up around our center for you to receive additional savings and special giveaways and become a Tangerclub member to spin the wheel for your chance to win one of several great retailer prizes!

Live music featuring The Regulars Band from the hit reality series “Next Great Family Band” from 12 noon – 4 pm Saturday! Meet the sister and brother leading this band to stardom!

My family will be there getting our school shopping underway and taking advantage of some of the additional savings that will be available. Look for a shopping haul next week! For more information please feel free to check out Tanger Outlets Locust Grove Facebook Page.

Hope to see you there!

Fashion Mama Style Shoes Shopping Summer Wardrobe Wednesday

Wardrobe Wednesday – Summer Flats

ShoeDazzle is sponsoring today’s discussion, however all opinions are my own. You already know.

As a self professed fab mom I have the habit of purchasing a ton of dress up clothing and high heels but on those days when I feel like dressing down I’m finding myself being more drab than fab because I haven’t done a great job of purchasing nice kick around clothing and shoes for those hot days when no one has time for a maxi dress and fancy shoes.

Lately I’ve been hanging out in shorts, tops and dresses but to my dismay my collection of flat shoes is minimal, and I don’t really count the numerous pairs of colorful flip flops that I have accumulated over the years from Old Navy. At this point I have worn my Tory Burch flats to death because I have few options and I’m in dire need of a pedicure….but that’s neither here nor there.

I am on the hunt for a few pairs of cute, function flats/flip flops/sandals that I can throw on and that are reasonable in cost. With summer here I really have no desire to drag two children into the shoe store so I am going to turn to some online options in the next few weeks to see what I can  get.

One online shoe retailer I have been peeking at is Shoe Dazzle. I recently completed their online quiz and they supplied me with a showroom of shoes based on the pictures that I selected during the quiz. ShoeDazzle is currently offering 25% off your first purchase made within 2 days of taking the online quiz. Get started here!

Here are my top four picks and you will probably see me rocking at least two pair of these in the very near future.

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In the past I have been leery of these online shoe shops but I have been purchasing from them more often and ShoeDazzle has proven to provide timely shipping with true to size fitting with my past experiences. Recently Rachel Zoe has come on board to offer her style advice regarding on trend shoes for those who may be a little style challenged…and in my eyes Rachel is always on.

In addition to Rachel’s style advice there is a Daily Fix shoe which is sold on that day only with free shipping. Once you get the hang of things there is also a VIP Membership program that provides members with free shipping on all orders and exclusive offers for 10-25% off regular priced merchandise for $9.95 per month.

ShoeDazzle is proving to be  a great resource for online shoe shopping while helping women make good, on trend shoe purchasing decisions without dragging a girl friend along or a depending on a small child to tell you whether or not a shoe looks good.

ShoeDazzle is currently offering 25% off your first purchase made within 2 days of taking the online quiz. Get started here!

 

Family Shopping Weekend

Weekend Wrap Up

Fun. Family.  Football. Fleeting.

Those four words would describe this past weekend perfectly.

My husband’s mother and sister came in town on Friday evening to spend some quality time with us and my in laws that live here.

Saturday morning we set out for the football field to cheer on my nephew at his homecoming game. My nephew’s team has a group of moms that are all about the tailgating experience. Tents, fried fish, hamburgers, hotdogs, drinks. You name it they had it. The morning weather was cool and perfect and we  really enjoyed one another.

Once the sun got in the sky good it was time to roll out and we headed down to Tanger Outlet to do some shopping. The Columbus day holiday sales were popping. I say holiday sales loosely seeing that they were advertised as Columbus day, yet there were Christmas trees, garland and even Christmas lights in the mix. What happened to Halloween and Thanksgiving?

The pumpkins, ghosts and turkeys have to be upset

I just want the retailers to see I have peeped their game. It’s all about getting us in the mood to spend money. Pretty soon Christmas in July will have a new meaning.

I digress.

Sunday we found our way to Legoland. This was my first time visiting and I was leery before because of the cost but I am glad to announce if you purchase your ticket online and go after four the price is discounted and children 2 and under are free…You’re welcome

We had a great time. The children had a ball, I almost had to go and drag Lil Mama out of the foam Legos. Sooo let me get into  the lady I saw there playing with her son whilst carrying the largest shopping bag I’ve ever seen and the fact that it had Tory Burch on it…… She made my entire day. I daydreamed of all the beautiful, preppy goodness she may have had in there. Flats, boots, that sweater I’ve been ogling….I digress…again.

WonderFULL weekend I had. I hope yours was just as exciting.

You know the drill. Do share. How was your weekend?

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