Clothes Spin: Orange and Brogues [Throwback Thursday]

Hello! I haven't done a Throwback Thursday look post in a while, so I decided to post one today.

Lately I've been missing a bunch of things from my closet that have since fallen apart. I'm searching for replacements, but I know that I just have to let it go. Fashion can be so fleeting sometimes! In this post are a couple of well-loved pieces - an orange shirt and beige brogues.

Orange shirt from The Ramp, Relic watch, beige Zara belt, Bench jeans, Forever 21 brogues  

Clothes Spin: What We Wore on that One Hot Summer Day - Our Prenup Session [Flashback Friday]

Hello, Flashback Friday! The hubby and I have finally posted our prenup pics --  One Hot Summer Day -- as well as the behind-the-scenes photos at our wedding blog, That Happy Day. It's only fitting then to document what we wore that day on this blog. 

We wanted a casual prenup. We didn't want it to look like a movie or have magazine poses. We didn't want to act differently from how we would typically act. We also didn't want to have props or wear stuff that we wouldn't usually wear. We just wanted it to show us spending time with each other on a normal day at one of our favorite places, UST -- the place where we first met. 

Our only concept for the shoot was modern color-blocking, which was the overall theme of our wedding. We chose orange and blue outfits, our favorite colors. When he wore a blue top, I wore an orange top, and when I wore something blue, he wore orange. We really went orange and blue all the way, from the proposal day (when we didn't know we wanted blue and orange for our theme yet), to our wedding day.

On A: denim Cotton On shirt, orange jeans and brown sneakers from Forever 21 Men

On J: orange Bayo top, navy Zara trousers, blue and orange Punkberry ribbon flats

Clothes Spin: My Mom's Skirt [Throwback Thursday]

I'm missing my mom so much at the moment. She's in heaven, and well I miss her everyday, every hour, every second, but there are days when it's especially hard. Since it's Throwback Thursday, I'm posting a look that features her skirt, which was one of the few things I kept to remind me of her when she passed away. It's actually my favorite skirt, and I don't wear it often because I don't want it to ever fall apart. It's such a precious thing to me. Picture was taken April last year. 

Black Bench t-shirt, rose ring from SM Dept. Store, gray Aldo watch, wooden bead bracelet with purple hibiscus flowers from The Bead Shop, mom's vintage floral maxi skirt, black Steve Madden satchel, gray gladiator sandals from Greenhills  

Clothes Spin: Dressed-up White [Throwback Thursday]

Time for a Throwback Thursday look post! This is an outfit I wore to an unusual wedding. The guests were all required to wear white -- the girls, white dresses, and the boys, white shirts with khaki pants. That's because the wedding was Star Wars-themed, and the groom wore a Jedi-inspired black suit with bright blue accents, and the bride wore a light lavender gown. (Holla, Jho and Ron!)

The dress code was easy for the hubby, because almost all guys have white shirts and khaki pants in their wardrobe, right? It threw me for a loop though. Aside from the fact that my closet mainly consists of black, gray, blue, and orange clothes, I'm not really fond of white. I can be such a klutz and white is too high-maintenance for me. It also reminded me of Lo from the MTV Show Laguna Beach, when she said something like, "I would love a cute white dress, but I haven't found any. All white dresses I've seen are either too tacky or trashy." That was actually exactly what happened. I had a hard time finding anything that looked modern and wasn't made of lace (too itchy for me).

I like sartorial challenges though, so even if I was tempted to just ignore the dress code, I didn't give up. Eventually, I found a dress that suited my taste -- at SM, surprisingly, after scouring so many stores. Although it had a modern cut, I needed to give it another dimension. I put on silver accessories to dress it up, but my shoes added a pop of color and casual vibe to the outfit, since the boys were in khaki pants and all. Here go the pics, plus outfit deets for the hubby (my boyfriend at the time) and a couple of pics of us at the wedding under the cut.

Silver necklace and white dress from SM Dept. Store, silver bracelet bought from a cousin, silver heart connector ring bought from a friend, silver and white Giordano watch, paint splash Jellybean wedges

Clothes Spin: Stars

I just noticed that this site is seriously lacking in fashion posts. I'm not a fashionista or anything, but I love fashion and makeup, and I used to be the Editorial Director of a fashion, beauty, and entertainment website. I haven't been posting a lot of outfit posts here because I'm on a shopping ban. I've been on one for an entire year because I feel guilty buying anything non-wedding-related for some reason - maybe because the fiance and I are already spending so much on the wedding that we don't really feel like shopping. When we shop, we shop for wedding stuff. I've been buying personal stuff here and there but they're just little things. I haven't bought any big-ticket items at all, and my closet is seriously outdated. Oh well.

I really miss going on full-on shopping sprees with my friends Cielo and Sheva. We used to do some serious damage to our credit cards and wallets, but since last year, I have largely avoided the mall and when Mango, Zara, and Topshop had their end-of-season sales, I simply looked away. This is why I'm excited to shop for my prenup shoot outfits. I will finally get to shop guilt-free!

However, this post wasn't meant to be a discourse on my shopping situation (or lack thereof). This is about how I will post outfit pics from time to time that I've been collecting in my hard drive for a long time. I'll start with a recent one though, just to keep things current, and then I'll be posting outfit pics from the not-so-distant past.

I took these pics last February, but I wore this outfit for a meetup with my friend Cielo again today.  The weather was crazy earlier, alternating between extremely hot and extremely rainy, so I didn't feel like dressing up and ended up going with a pretty casual ensemble. It was all about stars.

Aldo watch, star ring (I forgot where I got it from), my engagement ring, blue cuff from Cole Vintage, bangles from Greenhills (I think)

Bright blue Miss Sixty shirt, Bench jeans

Black glitter star earrings from H&M