julie daniel

8?  Definitely not.

I’m in the market for a new pair of brown and black flat boots to replace the ones I currently have and are wearing down, and a pair of dress heeled boots to replace the tall black ones in the middle of this pic that are wearing down.  Love me some boots- sexiest thing a woman can wear!

These are the boots I love and I want and I dream about:

{Frye Jane boots}

But the suckers won’t fit over my fattened calves.  I think I’ve found a great alternative, expensive, but look very similar:

It’s the J.Crew Sutton Tall boot, which comes in extended calf sizes (THANK YOU J.CREW!).  Love it.

I need a new wardrobe.  I have tons and tons and tons of clothes, more than I wear or need, but I’m getting older and my style is changing, and more than ever I need a more professional wardrobe.  I find that I have a ton of sweaters… I hate sweaters.  I have probably 15+ pairs of pants…. I hate pants.  Hate, hate pants, I don’t know why I buy them.  The only pants I wear and love are jeans, and these days I am only wearing skinny jeans.  I wish I had jumped on the skinny jeans train a looong time ago, I’m pretty sure I will never go back to boot cut.

{Gap Forever Skinny Jeans, my favorite jeans}

{My other favorite jeans, BDG Skinny Jean… I found them at Urban Outfitters}

So, I need to get rid of a ton of the junk I have that I never wear and focus on some basics.  My favorite combo of clothes skinny jeans + knee high boots:

{Sigh, the Frye Jane boots which won’t fit over my calves…}

+ a blazer

{J.Crew Navy Schoolboy Blazer}

or a blousy, flowy top:

{Am I old enough yet to wear Nanette Lepore?}

Now all I need is a couple thousand $$ to drop on this lovely new wardrobe… until then I’m sticking with what I’ve got : )