The Zing Of My Life: blazer

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Crushing on Coral

Not much to say today 'cause well, I am technically handicapped today. I have a laptop with some major issues (I got warning messages to take a back-up today am, which I promptly did!). Ever since then I have not been able to start the laptop properly :( Thankfully I had some outfit pictures uploaded on to the draft posts, and so here I am writing up my very first post from hubby's tablet - Microsoft Surface that is!

Onto the outfit post now, I had been looking for a colored blazer for some time, and for some reason bright 'coral' was the exact color on my mind! I finally spotted the perfect blazer at Mango store (during my birthday-weekend trip to NYC) and was absolutely thrilled when the blazer fit me great!

I wore this blazer for a late-morning spring brunch with friends and posted a picture on my Instagram profile. At that point I wasn't sure if I wanted to do an outfit post for the blazer. But with the encouraging response on the Instagram pic, I decided to do an outfit shoot for the blog.
The first time I wore this blazer, I paired it with the simple white-tee-and-jeans combo; colored blazer adds the perfect pop of color here. I am thinking the coral blazer will style great with a contrasting pair of colored denim, what do you think?
What are the different ways you would style this coral blazer? Please share your thoughts in the comments below, on Facebook or on Twitter!

Mango coral blazer | American Eagle denims | Tory Burch 'Reva' flats

| Target white t-shirt | The Limited clutch | Fossil Watch

P.S.: Sharing this post on The Pleated Poppy link-up - What I Wore Wednesday.

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Blazer-weather weekend

So after a lot of cribbing about winter here, the weather gods have been kind enough to bless us with the 'Blazer-Weather' weekend! A beautiful sunny day where you can wear a blazer and no more layers; and this beautiful day was on the weekend. Double bonanza I say, people!

I bought the striped-blazer on a 'frustrated-with-winter-so-need-to-vent-out' shopping trip. Don't worry I made sure that the shops had a winter sale going on before I indulged though. Thank God, for my brain's frugal-section that was not frozen, right? Since the purchase, the blazer has been hanging in the closet for a couple of months I was waiting for the right day so that I don't need to bury it down under a wool coat (which quite rightly meant that I would never get to flaunt it until this winter-business is done).

So when the blazer-weekend showed up, my obvious choice was to pick this little baby outta my closet :) When it's blue and white stripes, pink cannot be far behind, right gals? Skinny jeans and comfy boots (yeah, it is still winter, duh!) completed the look. The pink is kinda hot pink/ fuchsia pink so for the accessories I went low profile. Also, whenever I wear pink, I have this urge of pairing it with the pink-print Vera Bradley, 'cause well, it really compliments the color!

Striped blazers/cardigans are worth the investment. Stripes is a versatile print, every body knows that, right? No??! OK then, believe me that it is. I can think of a bazillion ways to style this blazer; pair it with the blue top/outfit, or with a contrast hue (like I did here), or with another print - polkas, floral, or stripes-on-stripes - all these work just super!

If you are feeling stripe-shy, take one small step at a time. Get a stripes top/tee, or even a striped accessory like a handbag/clutch/headband. The best part of stripes is it's classic, trendy and a readily available print and of course I hear that it's the spring trend for 2013! SO, tell me, have I convinced you yet or should I do some more yapping??!

Anyhow, without further ado, here are the pictures from a lovely warm-weather weekend we, the people whining through sub-zero temps, were blessed with!