24 April 2009 – Evening, originally uploaded by academichic.
Sources:
- Fluttery gray chiffon top – Target, a few sizes up
- Jeans – ON Maternity, remixed
- Pointy toe flats – Target, remixed
- Silver bangles – gifts
End Notes:
The end of the semester brings a slew of student-related art show openings at galleries across town. Last night I helped out with the opening night reception for an MFA student showing in a local alternative gallery space. Dressing for art events is always a little tricky. There are unspoken codes about who dresses how: curators tend to wear artful layers of black or gray, MFA students can usually be spotted by their edgier shapes, brighter colors, or wild pattern mixing, and donors often appear in more elegant evening attire. There’s little consensus over how art historians — particularly contemporary art historians, like A. and myself — should dress.
But, when I saw this spread in the most recent issue of Lucky Magazine, I immediately flagged it as art opening inspiration.
Arty Top + Skinny Jeans, originally uploaded by academichic.
I bought this floaty, layered top off the clearance rack at Target a few sizes bigger than usual. Digression: I do need to be really careful about just “buying up” for maternity wear since I gaining girth only in a very particular spot; sometimes large shirts just look awful because of the excess fabric at the chest or back or the droopy arm holes. This particular top works, however, because it’s meant to be drapey. My straight leg maternity jeans are too long to wear without heels, so I decided to chance it and cuff them. To mitigate the break in my leg line, I opted for pointy toe flats that help counteract that break while enabling me to stay on my feet all night. Finally, to make the cuffs look even more intentional, I eschewed fancier, “evening” jewelry in favor of funkier silver bangles and dangling leaf earrings.
I know, I know, it sounds like I completely over-thought this outfit. In reality, though, I just kept swapping things around — cuffed or not cuffed, heels or flats, chandelier or leaf earrings — until things looked “right.” And that’s when I knew I had made Lucky’s super trendy look fit me, bump and all.
24 April 2009 – Evening, originally uploaded by academichic.
I happen to really love cuffing my jeans, despite what “they” say about it. I think it looks cute, and it’s an easy fix. You look fantastic here; I like your look better than the magazine’s!
I picked this top up in green- I was surprised to find something like this at Target, as it was pretty well made and a bit edgy for not being on the Go International line.
I think you really made the cuffed jeans work- I’m now inspired to try it. Great outfit!
This outfit was worth the effort – it looks fantastic and perfect for an art opening. I love those jeans cuffed.
Weird, I came to the site today and discovered you’re wearing almost the exact same thing as me! My shirt came from Fairweather though, and it’s brown instead of grey, and the jeans are cuffed a little higher (and they aren’t maternity).
Needless to say, I think it looks great!
I love the way this flowy top perfectly frames your bump. Beautiful!
[...] man’s closet during pregnancy is course of action to be praised or condemned. I think — much like simply “buying up” several sizes instead of just buying maternity — that there are a lot of contingencies and no hard rules can really [...]
[...] and I went out to show our support at the Saturday evening opening. As I’ve mentioned before, choosing what to wear to an art opening is fraught for art history grad students. There is always a sea of all sorts of fabulousness at these events and I wanted to remain true to [...]
[...] seminar: what does one wear to talk about gender? As E. of academichic so eloquently described the unspoken codes of how art historians dress for art openings, I felt some of that same tension in trying to figure out what to wear for the first day of a [...]