twentyseven: my relaunch: vindication comes in black and white

I just discovered the fabulous website of Lucky magazine. There was an article showing an outfit for each day in November using the same 15(or so) items of clothing and accessories. To my surprise, one of the items was a cropped houndstooth jacket (one of which I had just purchased a few weeks ago). I am a girl who loves houndstooth and has since before it was everywhere. I remember buying a houndstooth sweater 5 years ago in the Charter Club department at Macy's. The wasband (that will be his name on this blog - I got the term from the book Straight up & dirty : a memoir by Stephanie Klein) teased me to no end saying it was a grandma sweater. Well...look around now. Houndstooth is everywhere - even in men's clothing. I was just ahead of the times (for once at least). I feel vindicated :)

Moving on... I was very inspired by the outfits shown using this jacket, so I decided to share.
This is the jacket they used (by Kensie, $98):

I got mine at Penney's for $40 and it's black and white, not grey.

Here are the looks they made at Lucky:

Another piece I really liked was this Express sweater that they had listed at $74. Well, I checked Express online and it was half off!!!! So I ordered it :) I'm way into this belt trend - thrift stores are a great place to find them!