High Waisted

MANSUR GAVRIEL mini bucket, MADEWELL jeans,  CARVEN collar, 

All Black Details

CAMEO dress (c/o Adela Mei) (size S), ALL SAINTS jacket (size 4), CARVEN collar, VINCE leggings (size XS)

Off With Her Heard

CAMEO dress (c/o Adela Mei) (size S), ALL SAINTS jacket (size 4), CARVEN collar, VINCE corduroy leggings (size XS)

It's nice that it only took my mind months to figure out how to correctly articulate the runway trend of of wearing pants under dresses without completely feeling like one of those toddlers who choose to wear their entire mismatched closet at once. Although it's hard to tell from a photograph, the pants I'm wearing are a super-tight corduroy, which is a nice texture contrast to the dress's jacquard feeling material in real life —plus, it's much warmer than tights, you know in case you find yourself in San Francisco during our freaking summers. It took the right dress and the right cut to make it all click mentally. It turns out a voluminous drop waist like the one in this Cameo dress is a good way to balance out any sort of pant, as long as it is more slim fitted or simple than the volume up top.

Black, White, Easy

This outfit has been on rotation lately because it's so easy to feel dressed up in so little. I like the proportions of tops that are a little bit roomier, especially when I pair them with a skinny jean, because they help balance out my hips and help my silhouette appear leaner. That's why I got excited when Adela Mei sent me this Finder's Keepers top — the entire concept behind the Adela Mei site is to curate items that women 5'4" can look great in, which is a worthwhile endeavor in my book after spending so much time and money altering jeans and hemming dresses to fit my shorter frame. I highly recommend checking it out. Did I mention they are offering 12:04 a 20% promo? Silly me, Just enter "AM1204" at checkout. 

FINDERS KEEPERS top (c/o Adela Mei), J. CREW blazer (sz 4), MADEWELL jeans (sz. 26), J. CREW sandals (sz. 8, run small)