The summer dress

The Summer Dress, via Create28

I bought this dress on our girls' weekend at Loft. I'm just going to pretend you aren't sick of hearing about the weekend we lived in a mall.  Loft was one of the Friday night stops and I don't think we were expecting to come away with anything, mostly because Loft is a store I don't normally rush into but am sometimes surprised at what I found.  Turns out we were all surprised at Loft and many of us left with some cute dresses.    Candace bought a beautiful black drop waist dress (2nd picture, 2nd on left) and Alynne and Christy both bought a really cute maxi dress.  I originally bought a gingham drop waist dress, which I returned (and am now regretting)- I would also like to know why the dress is listed online for 30$ more than the regular price in the store. Weird. 



The dress that survived the cut for me was this off the shoulder chambray dress, because something chambray was on my list.  Sigh, so was something gingham. Let's drool over my remorseful return for a second here. Le sigh.

So here's the dress, styled with a sunhat I bought at DSW also in Edmonton and some shades from our blog conference in April.  I can already hear my friend, Sara cringing at the wrinkles in the dress....I don't iron my clothes- in fact I don't even know where our iron is, or if we have one.  After looking at these pictures, maybe I should locate it, because this dress sure needs one. Or better yet, I'll just bring it to Sara's...maybe she'll iron it for me.



Dress, sans hat, with my Ugg lace up wedges- similar here.  As a side note- comfiest wedges ever. Although I think I said that about my platform wedges last week. Oops. Also as a side note- I love all the shoes, all the time.



Lucia and I did this photo shoot on a chilly day- I wanted to get her and I in our sundresses but it was so windy and cold and despite her being a trooper, this last one was all we got of us together.  Although, I have a feeling there will be way more photo shoots in the future with her- she loved it!



Couple notes about the dress- it came with a tie for a waist belt thingy, but dresses look hideous on me when I try to tie them around my waist...likely because I'm still working on them curves.  So I took the belt tie string thing off and wore it as a home-made choker necklace instead because I saw it on a blog and wanted to copy cat.  You can see Andrea's look here and she got her's on Etsy, so why can't I get mine off a dress I just bought.  In retrospect, I wish I would have worn it with a black dress and tied it properly.  Also- why do I look so tired?



Link up your fashion posts with us as we continue the Create 28 prompts- this is what we're wearing this week...come back on Friday and I'll show you how I style my Blue Jays' gear!



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