Free Style Yellow Lace Dress

Hello everyone, hope you guys are having good summer time. I love summers; my favorite time of a bright summer day is early morning tea/coffee time and late evenings in the back yard with loved ones. This makes me want to go back to my childhood days, where summer was vacation time, no school just fun, crazy cousin & #39: s outing, Icee/Slurpee afternoons, board game evenings and late night card games, hmmm… I wish I could just stay in that time and never grow up. So, with this summer inspiration, I wanted my outfit to be fun something which would reflect summer colors, so here I present my Free Style Yellow Lace dress. Yellow – color of happiness, warmth and perfect summer color.

I purchased this dress from Loft Store. I wanted to go with yellow black combination, as Yellow and black is a classic combination. I can even suggest one more color choice, pair it up with blue. Lace dress is perfect for any occasion you can choose it for a grand event and even for a casual meeting, so depending upon occasion you can vary your dressing style by adding accessories and levitating makeup and hair look. I dressed up for casual occasion.

As it was a casual look; for my hair, I did light curls and had simple accessories like star earrings from Express, these are perfect for any look-formal to casual. As summer time is perfect for Lace up Zig Zag Sandals, I thought this would be good choice and it would add more elegant and classy look to the outfit, I even purchased them from Express they are very comfy and it was on sale!!!!! 🙂 and finally, never miss a matching hand bag, I paired up myself with a black Kate spade Street Stacy bag.

I hope you guys love this outfit. Please share your thoughts if you want me post pictures of the same outfit for a party look, let me know and please do let me know if you want me try something of your choice. I would love to do that.

Love
A&M

Casual Summer Outfit

Welcome everyone Meena and Myself are excited to share my first summer outfit. The main reason to start my first post with this outfit as I always love to dress up in casual clothes, but at the same time I even wanted to look trendy and different.As in summer, we may have many casual social gatherings with friends and family and we often get stressed out what we need to wear which is comfortable , classy and even fashionable. With this outfit it doesn’t take much time to get ready. So below is the first look of my outfit.

I recently purchased this top from Banana Republic and from then I dint get a chance to flaunt myself in this. I thought this would be perfect chance to try this on. What made me purchase this top was I loved the way shoulder pattern was designed it had cute bow knot which I felt was unique. Normally other stores have off shoulder pattern and crop shoulder and more over the fabric is cotton which is perfect for summers.

I matched my top with black skinny jeans as blue and black are perfect!!  and more over this jeans from American Eagle Outfitters is comfortable . This combination is perfect for morning time as well as evening time. I wanted simple accessories for my outfit as I wanted my outfit to emphasize as the colors were good enough to reflect my personality. I purchased these half moon earrings from express as they are good match with any light color outfits and I had this white lace choker from Forever21, which would add little element to my outfit and finally perfect handbag is a must so I had this katespade white Envelope clutch bag which made me look perfect

And finally I dint want my outlook to be overwhelming with matching accessories . I wanted to look little bit stand out , so I went for nude shade sandals which made total sense to my outfit and other thing was I had a simple everyday make up look for my hair I just straightened it.

So finally here is my first outfit hope you guys love it.

Love

A&M

Love Shopping, Summer time, going to miss My Family

Hello Everyone, I hope you guys are having awesome summer time with your family. Sorry guys, I have been quite busy past week (work is sometimes crazy), but still I managed to have some fun because of my family and friends, thank you guys :), I’m going to miss my family in month of August, hope you guys have an awesome safe trip filled with great memories, I will be waiting for you eagerly as you guys will be back by September. So, my whole August month would be dedicated to you guys as I can go for more shopping and share more stories with you.

I found out some online stores with good deals for clothes on Pinterest, I was interested in buying some outfits for my work, Pinterest suggested Rowme and Shein, So I decided to go with Rowme, I found more cute stuff in Rowme, so I ordered 5 tops from Rowme, so my shipment was divided in two and one arrived after 2 week and other none a week later, so shipping takes time as they were shipping from china. But I was disappointed a bit, I dint like the cloth texture and sizes may vary for each type, some were too loose and some were tight so out of 5 I only liked 2 of them and the return policy is so irritating, I had to create a ticket then they charge me for return to, it’s a waste of time, so I wouldn’t recommend Rowme.

But I needed to change my work outfits, so I found some good choices at Express and Banana Republic, I am sharing the pictures. I am even paring my accessories too. I hope you guys love them, I think they might give you some ideas too. I was even browsing online for some cute flats for work and casual, I found this on Pinterest, its modcloth, they have very cute collection, but the only issue is price is bit high, so check this website and let me know if you guys like it. And apart from shopping I watched bunch of movies as well, which was bit relaxing, so guys hope you love this post. OH noo I forgot to tell you about my Garden, finally I have some veggies (Tomatoes and pepper) now in my backyard, I will talk about it more next week. Let me know if you want me to try some other stores as well. See you next week guys with some new stuff again. See Yaaa 🙂

Love

A&M

Surprise, Surprise!!- In Love with Boston

Hii Guys, I’m back again, I just can’t wait to share this surprise visit to my Cousin Vamshii who lives in Boston for his birthday. This trip was a short one (1 day), but I seriously fell in love with Boston. It all happened like just a week before. Vamshii and his buddy Sujith you guys are amazing, thank you so much for making my Boston trip amazing. I still giggle whenever I remember our conversations. I even need to thank one more person Munna, whom I met for the first time, he patiently took all my pictures, suggested great food options and drinks :). Finally, you guys took care of me so well, you guys are Awesome 🙂

 

So, week before Vamshii’s bday I was speaking with him he mentioned he dint want to have a super cool birthday this time, and he has no special plans at all, this is not Vamshii’s thing at all, he loves to party and Socialize (cool dude) :). I dint want him to miss his bday fun, so I spoke to Sujith and try to find out what exactly they were planning for the bday and the answer was nothing much. As our main motto was to make Vamshii’s bday a lil bit happening and fun, so Sujith came up with the idea of Surprising him with my presence in Boston on his Bday. It was a great idea, but only problem was his bday was on weekday(Wednesday), and weekdays are hectic. But my Boss granted the vacation. So, I booked my flight leaving on Tuesday evening straight from work and my return flight was on Thursday early morning. I was excited for this trip.

On Tuesday evening, I reached Airport parked my car then I received a text saying that my flight got delayed by an hour, but I had connecting flight from Newark which was at 9:55 P.M. So, me and Sujith were like that’s fine we have time. Once I reached Newark my connecting flight was also delayed by an hour I was upset little bit as I would be reaching Boston around 12:10 P.M. I had no other option but to wait. So, I finally landed in Boston around 12:15 and Sujith picked me up we rushed to Vamshi’s place quickly. He was surprised to see me. And then next day morning we went to China Town, Boston Tea Party and walked on streets of Boston. I fell in love with Boston Streets especially Newberry Street and theater district. Newberry Street is an amazing Shopping Spree Spot. Lastly, every good trip comes to an end so I returned to Detroit on Thursday. Boston gave me a treasure of memories, had crazy time with 3 crazy people. Hope to see you soon guys. I posted my look on Instagram.  Let me know if you want me share the details of attire.

Love

A&M

Long Weekend Fun, Road Trip to PA and Shopping!!!

 

Hey guys, hope you had a great weekend and it was a long weekend so fun would be double. I was not sure this time what I would be sharing with you guys, but then I decided to share my road trip to my cousin’s place. So, we went to Harrisburg -PA, it was an 8-hour drive from Detroit. I was not sure how I would handle long drive, this was not my first time visit to Harrisburg, but I have little bit of travel anxiety which makes me nervous, so anyway I had good company, a cute family they are my mom’s cousins, they have two kids 10/11-year-old boys, whose sense of humor is amazing, they always make me laugh like crazy, so we listened to music and even I slept a lot. Finally, after 8 hour drive we reached to my other cousin’s place in Harris burg. Their family is another sweet treat to me. OMG I lover their daughter’s nidi and nitya they are cute little sweeet hearts 🙂

We reached Harrisburg on Saturday Midnight. So next day we had yummy Indian breakfast: idly with sambhar and chutney, it was amazing. and then we decide to go to Askhardham Temple in New Jersey. It was a 2.5 hour’s drive from Harrisburg. The temple sculpture was amazing and it was abode of Lord Krishna. Then we were all hungry so we decided to eat in temple they had North Indian street food like Dhokla, Pav Bhaji, etc. Food was good but I felt prices weren’t reasonable. And by 7:30 we were back to Harrisburg. I love when it is night time there we chat until late night, play cards and I get to sleep with all kids, which is so fun we talk lot about princess and Marvel/DC super heroes and there is always fight between Nidhi and nitya who would be sleeping next to me.

 

And Sunday was Biryani Day, movies, music and lot’s more fun. And here comes my other favorite part of my trip, on Monday we went to shopping and I love their Tanger Outlets. They had amazing deals for July 4 th. So, I bought a Coach Bag and Wallet. Pumps from Nine west and off Shoulder Top from Banana Republic. I hope you guys love my new stuff. I want to know what you guys shopped for July 4 share your stuff.

And I was back again on Tuesday evening to Detroit. I loved this trip, it was bit relaxing. It was relaxing trip. I was in Pajamas watching lots of TV on the couch., which is the most amazing thing to do. I love it.

 

Love

A&M

How to dress up for Traditional Occasions

Hi guys, we are back again, hope you guys are doing great!!!. It’s always fun to share my thoughts with you :). So, last weekend I had to attend a traditional Event which was hosted by my cousins, it was a get together party. So, they had a dress code which was traditional attire. I dint want to dress up in pure traditional outfit like saree, but not even in regular tunics and leggings. I wanted my look to be ethnic and traditional, so I choose cotton umbrella Pattern dress, with chiffon dupatta and matching legging.

Thanks to my mom, she was the one who designed this outfit for me. Umbrella Pattern is similar to Anarkali pattern, but the difference is the way the flares are stitched, if you have a stout personality then umbrella outfit would make you look sleek where as Anarkali makes you look more stout, that’s why I love umbrella Pattern. Moreover, cottons are comfortable choice for summers

Now coming back to my outfit, it is a unique color combination navy blue and brick red, with gorgeous Kalamkari print which is type of hand painted or block printed cotton textile, Kalamkari print is perfect on cotton Fabric, they add more color and texture to it, and more over it is one of the ancient textile, so my mom purchased the cloth from a wholesale store and the stitched it. So, for dupatta, as the whole dress was printed, she suggested plain dupatta with border would be a perfect match, so she dyed the chiffon dupatta with blue and border of brick red and thin golden threads over the border, they all blended together.

For my foot wear I wanted flats specifically, so I choose to go with glitter shoes from Nine west, they are amazing I love the shade and were comfortable to, you can even go for Pumps and Juttis as well, (Jutties are nothing but Indian flat shoes) and Jewelry, you don’t need to much of it, just big Jhumkas or chandbalis (big earrings). As mine was full hands I dint needed any watch /bangles/bracelet, but if you still want to you can choose any one of them and lastly hand bag I was bit lazy so for this event, I dint had it with me, but I would say go for a golden or cream color clutch. You would look Pretty 🙂

I hope you guys love it share your thoughts, let me know if you want me to share my jewelry pics, I would love to do that.

 

Love,

A&M

Outfit Etiquette

Did you guys ever think how it would be if Fashion has rules and regulations, then we would be bound to those rules with limited fashion sense. Luckily we were never in that regime. Today’s fashion has opened a whole new dimension to the world, its colors, patterns and styles are unlimited and unique. Each of them give you an inspiration, to try something new. But do we need Etiquette? I say yes, because, it would help us to dress more appropriately for the occasion and we would be more specific while choosing our accessories.

Let us consider a scenario where you are supposed to host a Fundraising Event. It could be promoting wildlife or it could be a charity event.  As a host, you have a big responsibility to attract the crowd. Everyone is looking over you, so you need to dress as per the crowd and the occasion. For Wildlife event the crowd would be kids, teens and adults. You need to carry a strong image in front this young crowd, so for that if you dress up formally, it wouldn’t capture your thoughts with your image. Same way with the accessories. Good choice would add more depth and feel to your look.

I believe we need to invest our time and money in following accessories, first I would say Shoes. which are” girl’s first love” what say guys, you agree with me right? :). Great shoes would always add more color to your outfit and there is a saying ” one with a right footwear can rule the world”. Next would be a watch. It’s like an everyday jewelry accessory. It makes you look more elegant. Final one would be a perfect hand bag. As you know “Handbags speak louder than words”, with a matching handbag you would look more graceful. To complete your look, you need to style your hair and go for the makeup look accordingly

So, depending upon the occasion you need to emphasize your accessories, outfit, hair and makeup. For me Etiquette means defining Fashion with these combinations, which would give us a unique style for an individual. As there is a saying ” Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak”. I hope this would help you guys to build your own “Style Etiquette”. Please do post your style statements and outfit ideas and share your views on this topic.

Love

A&M