The Little White Dress

Oh Lilly, you have done it again....... Eye candy.

Xoxo

CCR

Where to draw the line

I have always wondered about preppy style. Can you be preppy with out spending $1oo's of dollars, and only buying name brands?

In real life I have a preppy style, but I don't buy clothes from Lilly Pulitzer. I have bought some new things from Lilly Pulitzer on Ebay, and found brand new LP things from yard sales. (With the tags still on.) I really like LP- the colors, and the style, but it tends to be on the expensive side. I dont think you have to buy name brands in order to be preppy. Although it is hard to buy things for the style. I dont consider Aeropostale, A&F, and Hollister to be classic preppy style, although most teenagers do categorize it as that.

I define preppy as-

Classic

Bold, bright colors

Minimalist clothes shapes (The shift dress Etc.)

Monograms

Khakis

Polos

Girly

Natural looking make up

Flats, and high heels

Pearls

My style is mixed with a little bit of nautical. I wear earrings with anchors, starfish, and sea horse's. (small silver of gold sea animals.) I wear lots of solid color shirts and accessorize with jewelry.

I would love to be able to afford clothes like LP, but in this economy it is really hard!! I also realize that most people think that if you buy LP or a lot of other name brands you are considered a snob. People of any style can be snobby. I wish people were not judged by their money. I really hope that you guys do not think I am a snob because I have a LP blog design. I love the style, and love looking at my blog when it has a bright bold print. I am blessed, but not the type of person to toss $300 on a pair of shoes. I would love someone to start a preppy clothes business that made a classic preppy style for an affordable price. (Anyone want to help me with that? ;)

I really hope I have not offend/or stepped on anyones toes.

What do you consider a preppy style? Do you think that you have to buy name brands in order to be categorized as a prep?

Just keeping it real!

xoxo

CCR

P.s- SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!! ahhahahah!!

Lands End/Sea horses

My sisters, my mom, and I went to Sears yesterday night. Let me just be clear. I LOVE LANDS END!
I bought this adorable sunhat. They also had- burnt orange, straw, and ummmm... There was another color, only I forgot it. oops!

Anyways, when we were done with looking in Lands End, we went to Hancocks to get some ribbon. Lauren picked out a pink ribbon to go with my sea foam green sunhat. It ended up looking pretty cute, and it will be fun to change out the ribbon once in a while.

Take a good long look at this! I LOVE THE SEA HORSES (Kate Spade flipflops, cardigans, LE)!

They also had a cardigan with sea horses and coral reefs all over it. Those were in pink, and sea foam green. I love the colours they picked for their spring/summer collection!

Since we are on the topic of cardigans- isn't this cute? (it is not from lands end)

CCR