Style Crush: Charlotte "Chuck" Charles

Sorry this post isn't coming out at it's normal time in the morning.  But at least I am getting this out on my newly titled Style Crush Wednesday!  This week I am featuring fictional character Charlotte "Chuck" Charles from the short-lived cult hit Pushing Daisies.

From IMDB: "A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress."  The show stars the puppy dog adorable Lee Pace as Ned the Piemaker, Anna Friel as the stylish Chuck, Kristin Chenoweth as Olive, and Chi McBride as Emerson.

I especially love that Chuck stays true to her vintage heart and wears lovely lingerie underneath her ultra feminine outfits.  There's just something so sexy to me about the older style undergarments like the ones above.  The lace ruffle on the panties is especially cute!  I'd love to get a set like these someday.

Anna Friel is so lovely as Chuck.  She is the type of girl that you'd want to become best friends with and also raid her incredible closet!  Above is an outfit someone compiled to replicate Chuck's awesome fashion sense.

Chuck tends to stick mostly with fashion from the 1950s-1960s and pulls it off effortlessly.  Sometimes it's not easy to wear a headscarf and vintage sunglasses along with vintage clothes without looking like wearing a costume.  And even though technically the actress is, it doesn't seem this way on this sweet show.

She has the most beautiful floral dresses.  Chuck definitely has an incredible closet!  The shoes, hats, and sunglasses are all to die for.  It just shows that a woman can be beautiful and sexy without wearing a skintight super short outfit.  To me, this is classy and it's so much more attractive.  The dress below is sooo beautiful!  I love the muted colours, the print, and the cut.

Here is another outfit inspired by the character.  I think it resembles her style perfectly.  It shows off all the best parts about being a woman.  Besides having great clothing and accessories, her hair always looks lovely.  Whether it's in an updo or down with tousled waves, it suits her.  It's one thing to have a great closet, but it's the accessories, hair, and makeup that ties the whole look together.

 

To quote my friend Kristi at Eccentric Owl, "It's my goal to dress like Chuck from Pushing Daisies."  Mine too!  Besides Chuck's beautiful clothing, and Lee Pace being super dreamy, this is an amazing show.  So cleverly written and entertaining.  Sadly it was cut off in the middle of it's second season.  But I still highly recommend watching it regardless!

Do you have a style crush on a fictional character?

Goldfish Crackers and Ginger Rogers

I was tempted to do a post about the fashion from the Grammy's Sunday night but then I just didn't follow through.  There was some good fashion, but not enough so like at the SAGs for me to dedicate a whole post to it.  So instead, I bring you an outfit post.

After playing with fire for the past month by babysitting my nephew every Saturday, the inevitable has happened-I finally got sick.  I don't know what it is about five-year-olds and rules saying they have to be so germy and constantly sick during the winter.  But my nephew has been sick for the past month and I have unfortunately succumb to it.  The only god this is at least I got my flu shot.  But now that means if it worsens, I will be quite sick on my birthday this Sunday.

I don't have parties to celebrate my birthday anymore, but I will still be doing something for it.  Saturday I will be sadly attending the funeral of a beloved teacher that has passed away, and then do a little thrifting as part of my gift.  Then Sunday I will be finally seeing Warm Bodies with the luscious Nicholas Hoult as R.

The one consolation for becoming sick is that I have plenty of black and white films to keep me company.  There are several Ginger Rogers and Rita Hayworth's on my DVR and I just picked up a whole stack of the gorgeous Jean Harlow that came through my library today.  Despite loving Jean, I have never gotten to see any of her films yet so I'm very excited to spend my convalescence getting better acquainted.

I finished watching It Had to Be You starring Ginger Rogers and Cornel Wilde.  Now I'm currently watching Flying Down to Rio with Dolores del Rio, Gene Raymond, Fred Astaire, and Ginger Rogers.  This was the beginning of the dancing partnership between the incredible Fred and Ginger.

To add insult to injury, so to say, on top of feeling under the weather, my back pain has also increased substantially.  Ever since I got injured twice at work, most recently in September, the past five months I've always had back pain.  The amount of pain would vary upon activity and whatnot.  But ever since waking up Sunday morning, it's been excruciating.  I don't know if I did something to it whilst watching my nephew or sleeping, but it needs to go away.  I can't handle feeling sick and not even being able to rest without pain.

 Outfit Details:

vintage hat, vintage skirt, sweater, belt {thrifted}

knit stockings, shoes {target}

vintage jewelry {paternal grandmother}

If my stomach continues to insist on feeling like a rocking boat during a wild storm, my new best friend is going to be the Goldfish crackers I just picked up at the shop.  So you know how I'll be spending the next few days: Goldfish crackers and black and whites, not too bad of a combination.

What's your go to items for when you don't feel well?  Or even just for a rainy day?

My Week According to Instagram

Normally most of the time I usually want to jump back in time into the 1940s.  But as of late, I've been a bit more inclined to indulge a bit farther.  I've just finished reading Austenland by Shannon Hale and am nearly done with Midnight in Austenland.  I've always been a big Austen fan, so reading these stories about women who take a holiday in England and immerse themselves in the world of Austen.  They wear the clothing (down to the chemise, bloomers, and corset), (try) to speak the language, and flirt with gorgeous male actors dressed in breeches that are there as a romantic diversion.  I know I wouldn't mind a little Mr. Darcy, Colonel Brandon, or Mr. Knightley fantasy.  How about you ladies?

 

1. My dear baby taking a wee nap.

2. A groovy shot from a 1968 Scrabble game.

3. Shared this post on Instagram.

4. Put this post up on Instagram.

 

5. Shared this post on Instagram.

6. Watched Midnight in Paris for the first time...loved it.

7. My backdrop on my iPhone.

8. Exactly.

9. My Titanic cross-stitch is nigh done.

10. There's a random TARDIS in the background of a morning news program (Need I say, I live in the States).

11. Not too pleased with this American Idol contestant complaining about not playing with a band when he did on The Glee Project.

12. Shared this post on Instagram.

 

13. DOCTOR WHO YAHTZEE!!!

14. So true...

I've also felt a recent attachment towards the Downton Abbey era also.  I love the 1940s-1950s, but there's something even more glamorous about the years preceding those.  Women had to change their clothing multiple times of the day.  Everyone dressed for dinner.  I just love watching Downton and pretending that I could be one of the Ladies Crawley.  I must admit that I'm a few episodes behind, so no spoilers!

What is your normal era that you wish you could transport back to?  Do you have any other time periods you'd like to visit if you could?

Nicking a Nurse's Cape

So today is the day of this big storm hitting the east coast.  Thankfully I'm a little further south, and it's mostly New England that's getting hammered.  It hasn't even started snowing here yet...

This was an interesting photoshoot.  I was photo-bombed by a random dog in multiple photos, which I'm sharing one of below.  And then said dog's owner decided to watch me take photos of myself, which is beyond awkward.  It would be one thing if I had a tripod and a remote, but I don't.  I have the lid to my 1960s typewriter that sits on top of a stool with the camera on top of the lid.  Then I set the timer setting on the camera, run into the frame, and strike a pose.  It's not something I like to do with onlookers, but with no choice, I rocked it.  Thankfully I was left in some peace for the very end of the photos, and then booked it out of there.

 

 

Outfit Details:

vintage 1940s nurse's cape, vintage dress, vintage hat, shoes, belt, bracelet {thrifted}

vintage handbag, ring {gifted}

vintage earrings {maternal grandmother}

I am very excited I finally got a chance to wear the 1940s nurse's cape.  It's technically my mum's cape that she bought at last year's WWII Weekend, but I have since adopted it since she doesn't wear it and only bought it at the event because of being cold.  So now it's "mine"...at least for now.  It's a navy wool with red silk lining and so warm!  The only bad part is it's hair attraction.  Oh well.

Do you have any items of clothing that you have "adopted", "stolen", or "borrowed" from a friend or family member?

Want to see what photos didn't make it onto the blog?  Head over to Facebook for a look-see.

Style Crush: Ginnifer Goodwin

Welcome to my newest feature-Style Crush!  There are so many people out there that inspire, so I thought this would be a nice way to share them with you.  In this feature I will share the various women of now and then, and even fictional characters that I would love to steal the wardrobe of.  I will also post the many gorgeous men of present and past that know how to dress well.

To kick off the first entry in this new series, I present the always lovely and adorable Ginnifer Goodwin.  You may know her currently from her role as Mary-Margaret/Snow White on ABC's Once Upon a Time.  She has also been in He's Just Not That Into You, Something Borrowed, Big Love, and Walk the Line among many others.

Whether she is all dressed up at an event or low key and casual walking around town, Ginny looks amazing.  She is just utterly adorable.  She is one of those girls that you can tell is just the sweetest thing.  Ginnifer looks good whether her hair is long, in a bob, or her current pixie cut.  It's the likes of her, Anne Hathaway, and Michelle Williams, that almost, almost make me crazy enough to cut my own hair off.  Though I don't think I could ever be as bold as those beauties.

It's not many that can walk around in an over-sized sweater and still look super chic.  Plus it doesn't hurt that her on-screen and off-screen hunk of a boyfriend, Josh Dallas, has incredibly good taste.  Ginny goes back and forth between wearing bold pieces to classic/feminine effortlessly.  She is just one of those lucky girls that looks amazing no matter what she's got on.

What do you think of Ginnifer Goodwin?  Who are your style crushes?  What do you think of having this as a regular feature on the blog?

Girls Day Out

This day I went out for a much needed girls day.  I got to go out with my best friend who I hadn't seen in several months.  She lives 45 minutes away from me and we don't get to get together that often.  We went to an antique mall and then went to various little boutiques through town.  It was really fun and enjoyable.  Just what I needed.  I even came away with a pair of vintage navy gloves.

There were many amazing treasures at this one store called the Curiosity Shoppe.  They had all sorts of incredible items.  There was a gorgeous emerald green dress, beautiful shoes, hats, handbags, gloves...  I definitely must go back there when I have money to blow.

Outfit Details:

vintage skirt, vintage coat, vintage handbag, vintage cameo ring, cardigan, belt {thrifted}

shoes {nyc}

back seam cuban heel thigh high stockings {eBay}

bracelets {Mess of a Dreamer Design}

I haven't had another opportunity since November to see her yet, but I hope we will be able to reunite again in the near future.  What sort of things do you like to do with your girl friends?  Do you go out or relax at home; both?