Not my style at all so I find it hard to comment. But I dress kind of “boring” for a fellow 21 year old. Lots of jeans, these pointy flats because I am 5’11" and won’t wear any type of heel, blazers with a cute top underneath, argyle sweaters, polos, thin hoodies from H&M, plain tshirts in white or black, button downs, flip flops etc.
But I like American Apparel. Some of their crap is weird, but my friend has this jacket in black and I totally love it.
Is the girl in the mirror you? You’re adorable! I like the dress in a wacky, Lori Singer in Warlock kind of way. Shoes are okay, too but the tights with the dress are a bit much.
Grammy Ko, 52
But it was cold today!
Urban is alright, but here’s the thing: you’re not supposed to wear all of the clothes they sell all at the same time together. Also, just because a store sells some nice stuff, doesn’t mean that everything they sell is nice. The new exemplar for this fact is that dress from Bloomingdales. Bloomingdales has plenty of nice clothes, but they also sell that dress. Notice that it’s on sale. They’re doing their damnedest to get rid of it. It would not surprise me at all if the person who said “yes! I love that dress, we’ll take five thousand units!” has been sacked and is living in a dumpster and spends her days at the freeway exit ramp with a hand lettered cardboard sign that reads “will greenlight fashion nightmares 4 food.”
And those shoes are not classic. Even leaving aside the wedge. They look like a pair of wingtips slipped some tango shoes rufies one night. The poor dance shoes woke up the next afternoon with a headache and eight days later (shoes gestate remarkably quickly. How else explain PayLess?) your shoes arrived in this world. Desperately seeking a home. Watch out, they’ll probably widdle on the carpet when you’re not watching them.
Made me laugh out loud.
Mirror, you are chopping your body into small horizontal segments with that look. You’re already short . . . is that what you are trying to do?
Not really, but it was too cold to just wear the dress as a sundress.
Okay, I love kooky clothing as much as the next semi-indie person,* but you’re getting completely lost in that dress. I can see that the footless socks and the long sleeved shirt sorta coordinate-- they’re similar enough colors to “fool” the eye. But you would have gotten a MUCH better look if you’d paired all of the kooky stuff with something more tailored like a sheath dress that’d show off the fact that you’re not just a big ol’ bag under those clothes.
One thing I must mention is that I hate the “dress like a little girl” movement. Nobody looks good in dresses that are shaped like loose, slightly “too small” toddler jumpers for big girls.
*The weird things in my closet: dark teal leggings (this color), an acid green crocheted 3/4 length cardigan, a black-on-black striped knee length “circle” skirt with tulle ruffles poking out of the bottom, fuschia 3/4 length button down shirt, and a pair of civil war reconstruction boots-- they’re totally “stereotypical witch” and I LOVE them. I used to wear some black-and-white striped stockings every now and then, but they stay in the closet more often these days. Paired with “normal” pieces, I can be kooky and artistic and fun without standing out too much at work.
I’ll second what Jodi said. I don’t want to sound harsh, but you are too cute to wear outfits that look like your grandma’s closet vomitted on you.
You could definately pull off the leggings with your age and body style, well except for those socks (WTF?), no one could pull those off. The dress outfit you’ve described would be better without tights, but plain ol’ black hose, and I think you’d look great in it. I don’t get the shoes.
Patterned tights, or really any sort of tight, and colors that are approaching circus garish, those are for the 12 yr olds.
No. Please, no. You are very nice looking. I’m trying to be nice, but no. Really, no.
<said in a sad tone of voice> I’m pleading with you–just, no.
The dress is wrongly proportioned for you. There are competing bold colors–they tend to cancel each other out, but leave the observer with a headache. The shoes don’t match the “mood” of the silver dress at all.
I find I cannot bring myself to comment on the hose/leggings. Seriously, they sell tights with hearts like tattoos on them?
I’m 45, with an 18 year old daughter. I wear mostly Gap jeans (no mom jeans here); some Aeropostale, and shirts. I favor tweed jackets, mock turtlenecks etc.
Tomorrow (actually today. it’s 3:30AM) I’m wearing jeans and a t-shirt. I’ll check back for approval then.
Ok, today’s outfit. Complete with cat!
I like that. But you are in college, when eccentricities in attire should be explored. (please do so with our good will, IF you promise to dress appropriately for work in future). So, never mind my saying no (not that you were up at night about it anway!). I still say the shoes don’t go with the dress, though. Just MO.
I don’t understand footless socks–are they leg warmers that shrunk in the dryer? I also don’t like patterned hose–unless you are 6 foot and weigh about 100 pounds, whatever pattern it is will add poundage and shorten your silhouette. Not good for 99.99% of us.
Well, to be perfectly honest, in theory, I hate all the pieces from the first post (I’m 25, and not ashamed to admit I’m into clothing, from both a design and consumer standpoint). I’m sure there are certain people who have a fitting body type and who can style them amazingly to pull anything off, but generally they seem like gimmicky nonsense to me (except for the shoes, which seem sensible, but not attractive). And I’m not exactly a ‘classics only’ gal. Thanks for the casual clothes pic, it lets me see your body type better (nice cat). I’d have to say those (first) clothes do not seem appropriate for it.
I’m not saying you’re stupid for buying them, or ugly (the outfit on you in the mirror does make you look squatter, though), or any other kind of value judgement on you. Just…I don’t like those pieces. They all pretty much have the same problem - possibly interesting in an editorial spread, ridiculous in real life, especially together, even on most young people. Some interesting colors, but the colors don’t go off well against each other or on all body shapes, though of course anyone connected to marketing them will say differently in order to sell more. I don’t know whether you’re really short (or if I missed it), but those clothes make you look really short (I am short, so I think about this stuff often). They all also look rather cheap, but it does seem like that’s the in look for the hipsters these days.
So why were you asking? I’m really curious.
I dunno. I guess I just wondered if my tastes were too weird for the real world, which it seems they are.
I love all of you dearly, but I hardly think the SDMB is the place to come for “real world” fashion opinions. 
“Too weird”? Nah. It’s not like if you were walking down the street people would be thinking Ohmigod did you see what she’s WEARING?? What was she THINKING???" You’ve got an intentionally quirky thing going on, and if that’s what makes you happy you should go for it.
And as Hazel points out, you have no idea how awful our fashion sense may be, or whether it in any way compliments your own, so our judgment should be taken, not with a grain but with a shaker of salt. As all opinions from total strangers should be. 
They’re not. See my previous post. Have fun–we didn’t mean to spoil your fun, but you did ask. ( or were you really asking for your choices to be approved? Either way, what we think matter little; how people around you respond and what you think and how you feel is what matters).
Nah. You’re young. Wear what ever the heck you want and what makes you happy. Play with it. Try new styles and looks. Push the boundaries.
Now if you wear asking about proper attire for a job interview, I’d advise against the footless socks but for fun, knock yourself out. Life would be boring as hell if everyone had the same tastes.
Just so everyone knows, I do own blouses and khakis and stuff. It’s not all footless socks and silver dresses.
Hummm. I kind of like all of the pieces alone (well, not really the shoes - maybe if they had a 4" heel they would look less grannyish).
However, all the peices together is pretty brutal. Fashion-victim-y. Like you’re trying WAAAAAAY to hard to be trendy.
Wear them with other stuff and you’ll be cute as a button though.
