Week In Wardrobe: Get Your Pretty On Style Challenge

I’m so excited to tell you all about a fun fashion challenge my friend HeatherAnne introduced me to. It’s the Get Your Pretty On Style Challenge for Spring 2015 run by Alison Lumbatis at Get Your Pretty On. The challenge is all about challenging yourself to put more effort into your daily look. I needed this bad – my yoga pants and I were becoming all too familiar. It’s an easy habit to fall into, especially for someone who works at home or is a stay-at-home mom like I am.

Here’s how it works: You sign up for the challenge and are sent a shopping list of all the items you will need to style the 21 challenge outfits. This challenge is not about buying an all-new wardrobe. Alison encourages shopping in your own closet for the items first. There were about 20 items on the list and I had around half already. All of the items mix and match – you are building a spring “capsule”. Ten days after the shopping list is released, Alison starts releasing the daily outfits. Then dressing for the day becomes a snap – you have all the items needed for the outfit, just put them together and go! There is room for creativity too – you can use a different color scheme than the sample items on the shopping list or make substitutions. For example, I subbed a denim jacket for a canvas jacket in one of the outfits and capri pants for full-length jeans in another.

This is the first week of outfits. You can see that some items are repeated but the outfits are completely different.

Day 1 – From my closet: olive jeans, denim jacket, gray t-shirt. New for challenge: flats (Target), necklace (Target)
Day 2 – From my closet: striped dress, wedges. New for challenge: cardigan (Target), necklace (Charming Charlie’s)
Day 3 – From my closet: black top, wedges, necklace. New for challenge: capris (New York & Co), cardigan (Target)
Day 4 – From my closet: denim capris, hoop earrings. New for challenge: white tank (New York & Co), flats (Target), chambray shirt (Old Navy)

Day 5 – From my closet: wedges, boot-cut skinny jeans (Stitch Fix!), hoop earrings. New for challenge: printed shirt (New York & Co)
Day 6 – From my closet: gray t-shirt, metallic sandals. New for challenge: capris (New York & Co), necklace (Target), cardigan (Old Navy)

So for six days of super cute outfits (if I do say so myself!), I bought the bright flats, two long necklaces, the white tank, white capri pants, the printed top, two cardigans and the chambray shirt. And I’ll be using these items in the next 15 days of outfits as well. You guys, I am loving this challenge so much! I love not having to think about what I’m going to wear each day but still looking stylish and put together. I also have more energy; I think just from feeling better about myself. I’ve gotten more compliments from strangers on my clothes than ever before. And like I’ve said over and over – I am not a good shopper. That’s why I love Stitch Fix so much! This challenge was another great way to help a poor shopper like me. I had a shopping list! And example items on that list! I can tell you I never shopped at New York & Co before this – it looked too boring and conservative when I strolled by it in the mall. But low and behold, when I went in armed with my list, I discovered they have a lot of cute stuff. That’s just one example of how this challenge has stretched my comfort zone.

Another thing that I’ve found helpful is the Facebook group. Once you join the Spring Challenge, you can join the challenge’s Facebook group. People in the challenge post their outfits and get ideas and advice from each other. It’s really fun – some of the ladies are really creative with how they style the outfits.

Go to Get Your Pretty On and you can get even more details and view past challenge materials. It’s not too late to join in the fun!

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