styled for a day

This thread from wardrobe remix has become somewhat of its own phenomenon. The idea is to look through another user's wardrobe remix photos and come up with a newly remixd outfit that the said remixer will then wear and post in the group and subsequent thread.

The above photo shows the outfit that softspoken styled for me. First off I have to say that I love the outfit. The dress she chose is pretty light and summery and wouldn't have been something I would have generally worn in October, but her addition of the grey tights (another thing I wouldn't have thought to choose) and hooded sweater definately gave the outfit the 'cozy' element I like my fall outfits to have.

Softspoken posted about this idea of "stylist for a day" on her blog. She mentions that although rifling through other people's virtual closets is fantastic, the missing aspect of touch makes the task at hand a lot harder than she originally thought. Now that I have reciprocated her favor and picked out an oufit for her in return I have to wholeheartedly agree with her. Textures play a much larger role in my daily wardrobe decisions than I realized. It was really hard going through her photos and trying to figure out what to combine. This is probably one of the reasons I haven't jumped on the online shopping bandwagon. There's something about walking all the way around the rack of t-shirts with my hand grazing each one until I find the softest shirt of the bunch that I need as part of my shopping experience.