Blue Printed Dresses With Orange Small Love Crossbody Bag | Weekday Wear Link Up

For today's Weekday Wear Link Up, sharing theses two outfits I wore featuring an incredibly easy outfit formula of a blue printed dress with a little orange bag, my Rebecca Minkoff small Love bag.

What I wore:

Dress: Jeanswest 'Chelsea' printed dress
Shoes: slim navy and pink Havaianas
Bracelets: the usual
Bag: Rebecca Minkoff chevron quilted small Love crossbody bag in pale coral

Why I wore it:

I'm getting close to 30 wears on this dress - this is it's 26th wear - but can you believe that I haven't worn it with orange before? It seems so strange to me this is the first time I've tried orange with it, I really like blue and orange together! The little pale coral Rebecca Minkoff love crossbody bag was the perfect pop with the blue print on the dress. I liked this dress for the hot day too, working from home and doing the school run with the kids. Although it does have longer sleeves, it's nice and light and is good on humid days like this was.

Kept it really simple and didn't add a necklace. The tassel tie detail on this dress often feels like just enough, and in the heat I didn't want to add any extra accessories - even just a necklace!


Last worn: tile print dress, Havaianas, Rebecca Minkoff pale coral small love bag.

Other ways to wear: tile print dress and little red bag, Rebecca Minkoff pale coral small love bag with pink.

Perfect for pregnancy: tile print dress in second trimester.

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What Fits Inside: Rebecca Minkoff Small Love Bag

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What I wore:

Necklace: Happiness Boutique turquoise and coral pendant necklace (c/o)
Dress: Shein navy flower print flowy dress (c/o) 
Shoes: slim navy and pink Havaianas
Bracelets: the usual
Bag: Rebecca Minkoff chevron quilted small Love crossbody bag in pale coral

Why I wore it:

Another hot and humid day, with working from home and the school run, meant I wanted again an easy instant outfit. This swing dress is super light, perfect on a hot and sticky day, even with the long sleeves, and helped me feel a bit more pulled together than I felt!

With the red floral print on the navy background, I've worn a lot of red accessories with this dress. Thought that the little orange Rebecca Minkoff Love bag would be a good way to change it up a little, and again as I didn't have anywhere to be other than my home office and the school run, a small bag was all I needed for the essentials.


Last worn: floral print navy swing dress, stone pendant necklace, Havaianas (above), Rebecca Minkoff pale coral small love bag (above).

Other ways to wear: floral print navy swing dress and blazer, Rebecca Minkoff pale coral small love bag and maxi dress.

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Weekday Wear Linkup #214

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What I Bought In March & How I've Worn It: Target Sale and Opshop Finds

First haul of the year. Nearly made it 3 months without shopping, without even trying! After my December opshop haul I hadn't seen anything I had to have as I was enjoying wearing all my thrifted pieces from December, as well as the new things I got for Christmas. But then I stumbled across the Target end of summer clearance sale, and had some time at the opshops, so I bought quite a few things this month!

What I Bought In March:

• Target animal print ruffle hem mini skirt
• Target classic denim skirt in white 

• thrifted wood and marble bead thrifted necklace with white string
• thrifted gold and pastel blue beaded necklace with grey string
• thrifted multi strand multi colour disc bead necklace with tassels
• thrifted wooden geometric bead necklace
• thrifted yellow beaded statement pendant long necklace
• thrifted wooden yellow tassel necklace
• thrifted silver and turquoise multi strand necklace

• thrifted no label black and white leopard print cardigan
• thrifted Kmart blue and pink palm print cover up
• thrifted no label tropical print tassel cover up

Quite a large haul for my first haul of the year! With the exception of the white denim skirt, which I've been thinking about getting for a while, everything was an impulse buy. That explains all the necklaces!

I had fun browsing the Target end of summer sale with my mum and sister at the start of March. I only picked up two things to try on, both of them skirts, and I decided to buy them both. I thrifted a black denim version of the white skirt from the opshop a of couple years ago and love it, so thought it was worth the splurge on the white one in the Target sale. The leopard print skirt looked really cute and when I tried it on I just had to have it! Perfect for autumn here in Brisbane, I'm also looking forward to when it will eventually cool down and I will get to layer it.

The opshop finds were lucky finds! I'd been browsing their $1 book sale for books for the kids, and while I had a little extra time I checked out the clothes and accessories for myself too. Found one of the kimonos on the scarf rail! I loved the colours and the tassels and I pulled it out to take a closer look when I realised it was a kimono. Whenever I see a kimono in an opshop I add it straight to the basket! The cardigan I couldn't pass up either, although I know it will be a while before it's cool enough to wear it.

The necklaces were a little bit of a crazy buy! To be honest I actually put quite a few back, and just ended up taking these 7 home. Still so many to buy at once.

How I've Worn It:

I have a personal goal of wearing everything I buy at least twice in the month I buy it. It didn't work to curb my purchases this time, but my inability to wear everything twice this month has made me realise that yes, maybe 7 necklaces is too many to buy in one go. At just $2 each though, I couldn't resist!

The cardigan I have not worn, as I expected, as it's just not been cool enough, it's been a hot autumn here in Brisbane. I know it will get more wear when the weather cools though, and I've been looking for a printed cardigan for a while.

The kimonos I was sure I'd get two wears from - I do love a good kimono! I have been in the office much more than expected though, and had a few special events this month I'd pre-planned outfits for I wanted to wear, so I didn't meet my wear twice goal with both kimonos, although I do have plans to hit 2 wears with them this weekend.

The white denim skirt, being worn 3 times this month, was definitely the most worn buy of March!

Yearly Fashion Spend for 2023 So Far:

Since I hadn't bought anything in January or February, the March spend is the only amount added to my yearly spend so far in 2023. The skirts from target were 50% off, and the necklaces were $2 each, so my total comes to $52 spent on fashion so far this year.

And in keeping with my fashion goals for 2023, the majority of my purchases this year have been pre-loved, thanks to that awesomely productive opshopping time!

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