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Personal Style File Game of Thrones Fashion Geek Out Edition

Post author By Jess Ross Creative
Post date June 16, 2015
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The last few days have consisted of binge re-watching Game of Thrones with my boyfriend. Previously, I had made it up all the way through to the dreaded Red Wedding Episode in Season 3, which after viewing I decided I needed a GoT break). He hadn’t seen any or read any of the books up until about three days ago and now, we are up to the middle of season 3, a good 25 hours logged of GOT. Hey, go big or go home right??

yeah, no, I have no life. It’s okay, I should just accept it.

Watching GoT the second time around has proved beneficial (or so I try to tell myself) Besides giving me a GoT storyline refresher and giving me the chance to annoy my boyfriend with all my GoT knowledge and foreshadowing of things to come…

I’ve mostly enjoyed taking a closer look at the opulent costumes the badass female characters wear throughout the show.

One of the characters who has slowly become one of my favorite female characters (besides Khaleesi of course) is Shae, the *cough* *cough* courtesan, who wins over the heart of Tyrion Lannister.

I am in love with the style of dress she wears in just about every scene she appears in, especially the dress’ drapey open back. You can get a good look at the design of the back in these pictures:

I love how versatile the dress is and how she (or the really the costume designer) changes it up adding a thick embroidered fabric belt and metal fastenings or allowing the dress to flow freely behind her.

So I quickly became determined to find a similar style dress to try and pull off and would most likely bring shame to the Lannister family name. So here is the best I could do:

Although there were some good costume replicas of Shae’s dress on Etsy, they were out of my price range and I unfortunately I couldn’t find anything else in the lovely lilac color Shae wears. So I settled with some purple daisies.

The dress I ended up buying online was this Twisted Back Dress available online from Chiquelle for around $60.00 (they are British so their prices are in euros):

Besides the dress I bought, I was able to compile several other similar styled dresses (and one top) available out there for anyone who might be interested in geeking out with me:

1. This Twisted Back Maxi Dress available for only $9.00!!!! via The Iconic:

2. Another online steal from Maykool with their Beige Round Neck Twisted Back Charm Dress for $24.00:

3. This BCBGMaxazria Karli Twist Back Top for $78.00:

4. For the fancy route, this Drape Back Jersey Gown
Badley Mischka, for $495.95:

5. Zimmerman Back Drape Dress via ShopBop for $395.00:

6. Another Evening/Cocktail dress, this one from Max Studio 50% off at $198.00:

7. And finally, this scandalously low back Staring at Stars Crochet Cut-Out Cover Up Maxi Dress from Urban Outfitters, $59.00:

Do you have any outfits inspired by your favorite TV shows? I would love to see! And also it would be comforting to know someone else out there is as nerdy as me…..please be my friend.

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Easy, Breezy, Beautiful, Summer Maxi Dresses: Ten of My Favorites for Every Occasion

Post author By Jess Ross Creative
Post date June 14, 2015
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It’s finally summer (hooray!) But of course, I can’t just enjoy the weather I’ve been waiting for all year long and instead I have to find something to stress over.

The summer weather poses a few problems for me:

1) Blindingly white, pastey legs.

2) Lots of uncomfortable sweating in areas best left unacknowledged.

3) And Shaving, lots of shaving…hours and hours of shaving…

Solution to this very first world problem:

Maxi dresses!

1) Complete coverage of said sunless legs.

2) Comfortable breeze to sweating nether regions.

3) Coverage of lazily shaved legs.

The above maxi dress is from Forever 21 although it looks like it’s not available anymore I found a similar dress also from Forever21 that I think I like even more than the one I purchased:

love21 white lace paneled dress — Love 21 Lace-Paneled Maxi Dress, $34.90

My Sandals are Enzo Angiolini Women’s Jeat Sandal, $84.80 available on Amazon:

Now in no particular order ten of my favorite maxi dresses that I day dreaming of buying to cover up my pastey legs with this summer:

1. In a Dream Maxi Dress from Free People ($350.00):

2. Serilida Maxi Dress from Anthropologie, $198.00

3. Maybe Lady Dress from Free People, $118.00:

4. Motel Wrap Front Maxi Dress with Thigh Split in Floral Print from ASOS, $95.00:

5. Chloe Silk Full Length Draped Dress, for *cough* *cough*, $3,660.74 from Far Fetched:

6. All Tied Down Maxi Dress from NastyGal, $68.00

7. Lisbon Dress from Need Supply Co., $98.00

8. Tribal Print Maxi Dress from Forever 21, $27.90:

9. Faded Floral Flutter Sleeve Maxi Dress from ASOS, $98.00:

10. Summer Solid Lady Maxi Dress from Free People, $148.00:

and one more that doesn’t do much to cover up the pastey leg problem but I am day-dreaming of none the less…..

11. For Love and Lemons Marina Maxi Dress available at Free People, $202.00:

Any “must have” maxis for this summer that you think I missed??

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spring style: fun, flowy, floral, boho dresses

Post author By Jess Ross Creative
Post date April 12, 2015
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hooray for all things Spring….Sun, flowers, rain, birds, allergies. I’ll take it all if it means I can stand outside for more than a minute without getting frostbite. I’ve been waiting for a day that was nice enough to wear my Free People Parker Dress. Although there aren’t enough photoshopping or fliters that help my legs look less blindingly white and pasty.