Have you ever noticed that fashion inspiration pictures are always taken in places that, look cool, but seem completely random? Like, “let’s stop in the middle of a road to capture what I wore today”. I don’t know about the rest of society, but I am not always walking around town. I am however, always walking around my house, my place of work, sometimes Target, sometimes Michaels, and sometimes to and from a table at a restaurant. None of those environments are displayed in fashion photos that I have seen. [Yes I realize ‘professionalism’ matters in marketing].
For Valentine’s day, I was trying to do a Valentine’s outfit challenge post. I ended up not getting it finished for health issues that happened half way through. As I was working on attempting to take my own pictures, I realized the only background I have is either my kitchen [because natural light is amazeballs], my bedroom [because it’s the only place I get one second to myself, long enough to get a picture], or a selfie in the bathroom mirror. Not the most noteworthy of backgrounds that would make a photo seem “professional”.
I got to thinking about Spring outfits around the same time that I had to scrap the Valentines post. I had gone back and forth on making another outfit post, because while I love fashion and sharing ideas, I felt like it was too corny? to have all of my photos with these homely backgrounds. As the days went on, I decided, “you know what, not everyone lives in a pinterest photo-worthy lifestyle. Surely there are plenty of people who, like me, love fashion and feeling good about themselves enough to take a picture, but only have a homey background behind them.”
So with that said, and by the title of this here post, I present my mostly homely and work bathroom selfie background, Spring Pinterest Outfit Challenge.
[The whole idea behind this was started a couple of years ago when I was trying to recreate looks I found off Pinterest using what I already own in my closet. You can check it out here > 2020 Fall Pinterest Outfit Challenge < ]
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I absolutely fell for the jacket! I knew in order for this to satisfy me, I would need a floral jacket, which I did not have. I started just by searching for a similar one and ended up finding the exact one on Poshmark! Granted, I don’t have the yellow dress, I did have a couple other ones that I figured would work.
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I love doing these fashion challenges. Sometimes I get in a rut of not taking the time for myself. Having inspiration helps motivate me to climb out of that hole. Plus, having a job, aka somewhere to go, helps too.
I am happy that Spring is here! Now it is just getting it to stay that is the issue, haha!
🌼 👗 jenn
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