Today's outfit is cute but casual. I really love the combination of wide leg jeans and trench coat.
It's great outfit for warmer days, I actually wore it this autumn season, and I hope cold winter days will soon be behind us, so we can start wearing more lightweight outfits again!
I got these super cool, wide leg jeans second hand. They're Zara, and I went for my usual size (eu36), but it turned out they're quite oversized (but I made them work anyway, by adding a good quality leather belt-simple, black one, with a lion head- to tie the whole look together.)
Cropped top is from Pull & Bear, it's quite lightweight and I got it ages ago on sales, but it's still in a perfect condition as it hasn't been worn that much! It goes perfectly together with high waisted jeans.
Trench coat is again one piece that I got ages ago, when I first started building my wardrobe. I knew that one of the style basics is a good trench coat, so I got mine from Naf Naf, even before I moved to Italy, in my mid twenties.
Sometimes I feel, is it so relevant to talk about clothes and where did I buy a certain piece?
I feel that I might have grown out of that phase where all I wanted to blog about was fashion and daily outfits and clothes. I still love fashion and I like to dress nice, I enjoy searching for hidden second hand gems, but, but, but...I seem to think writing about my clothes is just so superficial.
That's why I'll bring more diversity to my blog, and start using it more as a daily journal of my thoughts and feelings, rather than just babbling on about clothes.
I also have some interesting ideas about sharing with you old letters and postcards :-) I already started doing something similar on my @sonia_verardo instagram (so check it out if you're a fan of such a content)!
I'll definitely keep posting outfit of the day photos, but I might be writing more about other things, rather than clothes :-) Even though, my main goal is to keep this place positive and light and not get into heavy/dark subjects. I really want to focus on the beauty of this life and on the happiness and wellbeing!
Outfit details:
Trench coat: Naf Naf
Striped top: Pull & Bear
Sneakers: Reebok Club C (second hand)
Wide leg jeans: Zara (second hand)
Bag: Furla (second hand)
Sunglasses: Vintage Max Mara
leather belt with lions head: no name, also thrifted :-)
These days, I find great pleasure in posting here on my blog, and I have a lot of new projects and ideas I want to keep developing. It's keeping my mind busy and away from negative thoughts.
Because of my spondylosis, and current problem with my neck and vertigo, I've been dealing with a lot of anxiety and I just want to focus on positive thoughts and things that bring me joy and calm.
I've been visiting chiropractor, we already made a couple of sessions, and I do notice some improvements so I'm really hopeful that everything will turn out for the best and that soon I'll be able to be my old self again, active and healthy and happy!
I never had big anxiety issues until those health problems related to my spondylosis started to happen. Since then it's been a true explosion of anxiety, to the extent I've never experienced before, and I know I don't talk a lot about it, but maybe one day I will, when I feel ready.
It's just that now, I really want to concentrate on all the good things and try my best to think positive thoughts!
In this period of time I wear mostly my sweatpants and loungewear, the weather is cold and awful and I spend most of my days inside of the house. But, I do still have a big passion for clothes so I never miss an opportunity to do some on line second hand hunting :-) It's one of the things that relax me and keeps my mind away from negative thoughts.
Here is one OOTD that we shoot a couple of months ago, and is entirely second hand, so I'm awfully proud of this cool styling!
Outfit details:
Trench coat: Michael Kors
Wool cardigan: Liu Jo
Leather belt: Max & co.
Leather shoes: Mass Creator
Jeans: Zara
Bag: Furla
(everything is second hand!)
I like to shop, but mostly I like sustainable fashion and using what I already have, or what I found in a thrift store!
How do you like this outfit?
Here is also a little OOTD video (I might bring back OOTD videos if I notice you guys like them a lot!):
So please leave me your comments and feedbacks, I truly appreciate it!
Here is a little cute "behind the scenes" shot by my little one! :-)
I wanted to share it because it's just such a cute, unexpected pic!
There is one thing I wanted to mention, since a few weeks ago, I'm unable to write comments on other people's blogs! I don't know why that is so, so I wanted to ask if anyone of you has been experiencing the same issue and do you know what seems to be causing it?
It's really annoying because I love to be active in this community and visit other blogs and supporting them! I hope I'll manage to fix this problem soon, but until then, just know that I do care and I do visit your blogs! :-)
I´m sending you a big kiss from Croatia and I'll talk to you soon :-)
ENG: Hi guys! These are the photos from my friend's wedding that I attented here in Italy. It was such a beautiful ceremony and the location they picked out to celebrate their love was amazing too! I wanted to show you what I decided to wear for the occasion. I hope you like it! HR: Pozdrav svima! Danas vam zelim pokazati fotke koje su nastale na dan vjencanja mojih prijatelja ovdje u Italiji. Bila je to jedna prekrasna ceremonija, a i sama lokacija koju su mladenci izabrali za slavlje, bas je bila odlicna! Iskoristila sam priliku da fotografiram outfit i pokazem vam sto sam izabrala nositi! Nadam se da vam se svidja! Ujedno mozete pogledati i vlogic s vjencanja na hrvatskom kanalu (ukoliko ste ga propustili!)
TRENCH COAT: Naf Naf DRESS: H&M SHOES: Boutique in Italy BAG: Vintage Fendi NECKLACE: Mikey London RINGS: Mikey London & other rings SUNGLASSES: My Mum's from the '80.-ies
In today's outfit post I'm sharing with you a collab that happened between me & the lovelyshoes.net web store.
I agreed to this collab with them several months ago, but, as the items I had picked out, sold out so fast, I had to pick new ones, and because of that, things I ordered actually arrived in two different shipments, and I had to wait a good while for everything to arrive!
In THIS blog post I presented you the first item that I picked up from www.lovelyshoes.net, and now, finally, this cute cat print tee arrived, so I was able to complete our collaboration.
The clothes/shoes/accessories they're selling are very affordable, but bear in mind that the shipping cost is quite high (depending of course, on the country you live in), plus, the items they carry, go out of stock in a matter of hours.
Even after you've made a payment, that's not a guarantee that the items you paid for won't get out of stock!
They'll offer you to choose something else for that amount instead!
That's why, ordering from their web store, can be quite risky!
If you already had experiences of shopping at their web store, I'd love to hear all about how that went and were you a satisfied customer!
I think that, by leaving your comment, you'll also be helping out a lot, other people who read this review, because they'll be hearing experiences from the actual paying customers!
(I'm not sponsored to do this post, but they did send me these items for free, to review & feature in my outfit posts!)
I wanted to order a pair of shoes (I found these lovely, Valentino inspired models), but their sizing is a little bit off (the biggest size they carry, for the majority of models, is a 39 eur.)
That was actually quite disappointing, given the fact that I'm eur 40 (and that's not even considered to be that big!)
I do want to thank them for supporting my blog by initiating this collaboration with me, but I'm sure there are a few points they can work on in the future to make a better service for their customers!
The most important one is to actually guarantee that they can provide the items the customers had paid for!
If on the site it says "in stock" when you're ordering it and paying for it, it shouldn't switch to "out of stock" right after you've completed your order!
That's my review of the service I got from them...I still hope you'll enjoy this video & pics of the outfit I styled around this fun, cat print tee :)
Click on the "play" to watch my styling video:
LEOPARD PRINT TRENCH COAT: H&M
GREY CARDIGAN: H&M
CAT PRINT TEE: www.lovelyshoes.net
PANTS: H&M
SHOES: Stradivarius
BAG: INA market, Italy
NECKLACE, SUNGLASSES, KNUCKLE RINGS: H&M
Pozdrav svima!
U danasnjem postu predstavljam vam suradnju sa azijskim web ducanom www.lovelyshoes.net
Do suradnje je doslo prije nekoliko mjeseci, kada su me oni kontaktirali i ponudili da iz njihovog ducana odaberem par stvarcica koje bih zeljela recenzirati i nositi u outfit postovima!
Mi bloggeri uvijek smo zahvalni za takav vid suradnje, zbog toga sto na taj nacin mozemo nesto novo ponuditi nasim citateljima, i sastaviti neki novi outfit :)
Ipak, moram vam skrenuti paznju na par "sitnica" koje sam uocila pri narucivanju sa njihove web stranice, a koje mi se nisu svidjele...
Prije svega, stvarcice koje sam narucila (i platila kreditom koji su mi iz www.lovelyshoes.net ponudili), dok su jos na web site-u bile "in stock", nakon kompletiranja moje narudzbe, u roku od par sati, postale su "out of stock", i obavijestili su me da mi ih ne mogu isporuciti.
Ponudili su mi da odaberem nesto drugo, a u medjuvremenu su mi poslali paket sa jednom jedinom stvarcicom koja nije bila out of stock, i naravno, na taj nacin sam platila shipping dva puta!
Iako sam im napomenula da pricekaju sa shippingom dok ne izaberem nesto drugo i pridodam narudzbi!(uspjela sam naruciti nove stvarcice tek iz 3. ili 4. pokusaja, jer su mi konstantno stizale poruke da je "item out of stock", nakon sto sam ga vec narucila, buduci da je na njihovoj web stranici bio oznacen kao "in stock"...)
Znaci, vec sam taj proces narucivanja, cinio mi se kao prilican gubitak vremena i doslovno sam htjela izluditi (iako nisam cak ni trosila svoj novac!)
Nakon sto sam od balansa/kredita kojeg su mi dali, platila dva (preskupa), shippinga, kredit koji mi je ostao bio je dovoljan za dvije stvarcice...jednu sam vam vec pokazala u ovom postu OVDJE, a drugu vam pokazujem danas (radi se o ovoj slatkoj majici- macom sa naocalama printom!)
Sve u svemu, iskreno govoreci, proces narucivanja pri www.lovelyshoes.net web ducanu, bio je prilicno katastrofalan, a buduci da se radilo o meni kao bloggeru koja ih je trebala prezentirati/recenzirati, zabrinula sam se misleci kakvo je onda tek iskustvo klijenata koji placaju iz svog vlastitog dzepa??
Ukoliko ste vi imali slicno iskustvo, ili ukoliko ste vec narucivali iz tog ducana, podijelite ga ovdje u komentarima sa mnom i drugim citateljima, mislim da nam razmjena takvih iskustava moze biti korisna!
Sto se cijena tice, vrlo su pristupacne, ali opet, sve vam to "zapapre" postarinom, koja ponekad iznosi koliko i vrijednost svega sto ste narucili!
I jos jedna mala zamjerka sto se cipela tice, naime vecina modela lovelyshoes.net, zavrsava sa brojem 39 eur.!
Ja sam si htjela naruciti jedan zgodan "knock-off" Valentino cipelica, ali nije bilo velicine 40! (koja, usput, nije niti toliko veeelika, tj. prilicno je standardna velicina...mozda ne za azijske zemlje, ali buduci da su oni orijentirani prema klijentima po cijelom svijetu...mislim da bi mogli poraditi i na tome!)
Da rezumiramo: Zahvalna sam im na poklonjenim stvarcicama i uzivam u njima, ali mislim da ce morati jos poraditi na nekim stvarima kako bi klijentu pruzili maksimalno pozitivno iskustvo shoppinga na njihovom web ducanu i prije nego sto bih ih ja mogla srdacno preporuciti!
