An Alternative Vision of School Spirit
September 13th, 2011
Hey Pastristas! I’m back-to-back this week with back to school palette building!
In my last post, we created a palette and outfit based on Pastry’s Turn the Lights Up trend. Today, we’re going to switch gears and look at the School Spirit trend.
Erase the stereotype of pom poms, high kicks, and feathery pens: Pastry’s School Spirit “girl” is so much more than that. My inspo look for the day is (drum roll please)… ME. My go-to look in high school was a delicious concoction of a 1950′s school girl meets 1980′s punk. Think: pleated skirts with ripped up tights, cat eye glasses, grandma sweaters and combat boots. I was shuttled back to the “best days of my life” (or so they say) when I saw Pastry’s latest runway show:
Alli Simpson shows off the flouncy Pastry look (image via Fashion Bomb Daily)
The Pastry people really got it down this season. An Ooh! La! La! Couture flouncy lace dress combined with the Sire Hi Varsity sneaker is the image perfected of a girl in a prom dress, wearing her boyfriend’s varsity jacket. Just like Madonna circa 1985, this outfit is feminine, functional, and punk to the core.
Enough of the poetics, let’s get to work!
The Pink and Gray Sire Hi Varsity sneaker is muse of the day, and thus my palette is simple: black, white, gray, and hot pink (to match my Varsity sneaks). I love Ohh! La! La! Couture’s WOW Zebra Dress dressed down with Pastry’s, pretty lace socks, and some rad floral pom pom hair accessories. Asos Flower Stud Earrings reinforce the frilly look. To create a polished but fun finishing note, use a neutral nail polish, like Essie’s Case Study, and then with a white out pen and decorate with dots and dashes (just be sure not to get it on your skin!). To dress it up further: pile on necklaces and bangles; don’t worry about matching! Just make it you!
Counter-clockwise from top left: Tilly’s Full Tilt 6 Piece Flower Barrettes, Ohh! La! La! Couture’s WOW Zebra Dress, Selima Optique Patti Cat eye frame glasses, Asos Flower Stud Earrings, Antipast Metallic Lace Anklet, Pink/Gray Sire Hi Varsity sneaker, Essie Nail Polish in Case Study.
What are you wearing with your Pastry Kicks? Comment below!
xo Alli
PS: I’ll be taking over Pastry’s twitter at 4:30pm EST on Wednesday, 9/14/11 to answer all of your styling questions! Arm yourself with questions, my Pastristas!
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