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1.5.11b
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1.5.11e{Shop: Top, Boots, Necklace}
It’s been rainy for the past few days. So I expected today to be rainy. This is why I did not wash my hair. It is not rainy today. Isn’t that ironic? This is also true if I have the best hair day of my life, it will most certainly rain and I will most certainly be wearing a white top. Of course B said that my hair looked effortless. That’s one way to put it.

It’s cold outside. Granted my cold is not your cold most likely. When I say cold I mean below 50 degrees. When you say cold, you can see your breath outside and your probably wearing a floor length puffer coat. Tsk, tsk. Details people.

Anyways, it’s cold and all I’ve been wanting to wear is pants. This is not normal for me, as I am drawn to skirts like a teenager to a mall. (It took me twenty minutes to come up with that analogy. It’s going to stay.) All I’m trying to say is that I like pants. 2011 means pants for this girl. This year, I’m wearing the pants. (That one only took me a few seconds to come up. It was just too easy.)

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93 Responses

  1. Ha! See, nobody else understands when I complain about being cold in PR. By cold I mean 60 degrees at the lowest in my area.

    Please, no one kill me!

  2. I enjoyed this post like youths enjoy Michael Cera movies. Hmmm, about 30 seconds to drum that one up. Pretty
    Kendi, prettyyyyy!

  3. Love it head to toe! This is so much like what I want my style to be in 2011, too. The blouse with the sweater and the wide pants look effortless but pulled together and functional. Thanks for the inspiration!

  4. That cardigan. Oh, how I love it. I drooled over it on the J. Crew website for a while but couldn't commit. I love cardigans. Especially J. Crew cardigans. And I've been wanting one that color for oh….forever. It's taking all my willpower right now not to venture over to their website and buy it. Darn you and your tempting cuteness, Kendi!

  5. Hopefully it's going to get cold in Texas, so you can continue to inspire us here with nice outfits!

  6. I have been wearing pants a lot too lately. Boots, jeans and then throwing on random accessories to look different.
    I really wish I had your long legs so I could pull off jeans the way you do.

    Side note: my sister bought me a necklace for Christmas from "Le Mode accessories". She was really excited when she told me she found the link on your site haha. Thought that was cute!

    Happy New Year xo
    Melissa
    miss-melissa.com

  7. @Jessica — Go to j.crew right now — they are having 50% off sale. I got this cardi for maybe $20, as it was marked down then an additional 40% off for me. Too good to pass up!

  8. Kendi, you look so effortlessly chic in this outfit! The colors! The shapes! The proportions! Sigh…I've been in my pjs for 3 days straight. I need to go get dressed now. Excuse me.

  9. Love that navy blouse:) so cute! I'm with you on the cold…anything below 50 is cold to me, and living in northern CA, just north of San Francisco, it's a damp type of cold that goes right to the bones. Have a great day!

  10. Haha effortless, good one B. I love the messy bun look, I'm rocking it today too. Somedays you just can't be bothered, especially if it is rainy!

  11. kendi,
    I would still run my fingers through your unwashed hair…
    And no, your cold is not like our cold. You couldn't handle our cold, I would have to cradle you to my bosom. I wouldn't complain. You might though… my hair isn't the only thing that is unwashed.
    Well, I hope I scared you off enough!
    xox

  12. I have the same necklace! Well, sort of. Mine is simply on a silver chain and falls right below my collar bones. Boring. But I stole it from my BFF so I'm not complaining.

    But I like yours much better.

  13. I'm jealous of your "cold" it's 38 degrees and probably as warm as it's going to get! I like the hair, mine just looks flat and gross when I don't wash it.

  14. I like your hair in these pics 🙂 And I'm loving the color combo of the shirt and sweater, great pick!

    stellawishes.com

  15. I just love to see how you remix your most traditional/classic pieces. Trouser jeans from Talbots and a brown cardigan could have been Boring City, but you made them look very young, fresh, & stylish!

  16. Isn't it funny that we tend to consider "effortless" a compliment, even though literally it means that you didn't try at all. Except it is a compliment, so I guess we all take it to mean "unfussy" or "I'm so cool/stylish I look much better than everyone else without making the slightest effort." So, in that context, your whole look today is effortless. (I especially love the top.)

    Stephanie
    http://stephthebird.blogspot.com/

  17. This outfit is perfection. You always look so effortlessly chic. The color of that sweater and texture of the shirt are beautiful.

  18. great color combo. its always nice to push your limits and what your comfortable with. im the other way around. when i 1st started blogging…i felt like i really only wore pants. now i would much rather put on a skirt or a dress…i guess i was living a lie forever. ha!

    ♥ thesoundoflace.blogspot.com ♥

  19. I like the navy/olive combination. I tend to gravitate towards pants when it is cold outside, but cold here is really cold.

  20. Below 50 is cold for me too. We're Texans! I just wore my puffer coat the other day when it was probably 54 out. When else am I gonna wear it? I'm not going to go anywhere actually cold if I can help it!

    You look cute in these colors and I'm pretty jealous of that bun.

    xo
    Laurel

  21. Well on days of no sun our outfits need to pop and provide the shine; very cute choice =]

    BTW, Back from my brother-in-laws wedding… ready to start 30-for-30 this Monday the 10th…

    So excited! Thanx for the motivation in the email =]Hope you had a wonderful New Years.

    Riquermy

  22. OOoooh! I spotted that top during my last visit to the Loft and thought it was amazing. It is definitely amazing on you!!! I love the little drawstring around the waist- great shirt!

  23. Something weird must be going on because I'm pretty sure this jean-loving gal wants to wear skirts and dresses like crazy in 2011! At least you look gorgeous in either, now go wash your hair Kendi…

  24. awww, I do not know how to put a link in comments! As soon as I recognized that, I realize I've done that before…….also on your blog…..despite the fact that I rarely leave links. It just seemed to exciting to share. But now I've just left a sloppy-reading comment, like a newbie-blogger at a computer (zero seconds to think of. It's also not true. Not new, just incompetent).

  25. I love your trouser jeans! I just got trouser jeans and I've been trying to think of cute ways to wear them! This is a fantastic beyond fantastic idea!
    ~Sarai
    the-puddle-jumpers.blogspot.com

  26. Your hair definitely looks pretty and effortless, and you can't tell it hasn't been washed. Very pretty sweater and blouse.

  27. I can't make up my mind–some days I like pants more and others my skirts are crying out to be worn. I love being a girl–we can do both! Anyhoo, I love the navy blouse with that olive cardi, what a great combo of colors!

  28. Love your outfit posts!! I found you through Pretty Shiny Sparkly and truly enjoy seeing the outfits you put together …. love your classy, elegant yet still original feminine style … keep up the great work and beautiful photos!!

  29. fiiiiinally getting chilly in texas! though i'm not going to complain about our faux-spring; wearing a silk sleeveless shirt to work today in houston was kind of fantastic. that said, i keep looking at the sartorialist and all the fotos from the yankee girls' blogs and i get very jealous and want to wear scarves and gloves and things that are highly impractical at 68 degrees.

    le sigh.

    & you do look effortless, in a lovely, undone sort of way (i read this: http://intothegloss.com/2010/09/sally-singer-editor-in-chief-t/ today and am feeling a bit obsessed with the idea of either au naturale or debbie-harry-level done up. such potential for contrast (and a huge need for beauty sleep, i should think.))

  30. fiiiiinally getting chilly in texas! though i'm not going to complain about our faux-spring; wearing a silk sleeveless shirt to work today in houston was kind of fantastic. that said, i keep looking at the sartorialist and all the fotos from the yankee girls' blogs and i get very jealous and want to wear scarves and gloves and things that are highly impractical at 68 degrees.

    le sigh.

    & you do look effortless, in a lovely, undone sort of way (i read this: http://intothegloss.com/2010/09/sally-singer-editor-in-chief-t/ today and am feeling a bit obsessed with the idea of either au naturale or debbie-harry-level done up. such potential for contrast (and a huge need for beauty sleep, i should think.))

  31. To my surprise, there's already a comment about being "cold" in PR. I am cold right now and it's about 73 degrees.

  32. I've discovered that cold is just a relative state of being; when I left Montreal and stepped onto the Vancouver airport, I was boasting to my dad that I didn't need my stinking winter jacket because I was a tough easterner now and walked around in my sweater.

    Fast forward two weeks in Vancouver, and I am clutching my winter parka. Now my parents are the ones laughing as they anticipate my return to the actually cold Montreal. Sigh…

  33. Pants look great on you (does anything NOT look good on you??!!)
    😉 and i am desperate to know what lipstick you wear? I love that colour – not too red or orange! And yes the cold thing I get, Im in Ireland but am from Australia and the definition of "cold" is totally different!

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