What Does $125 Get You? -- Target Edition

I love Target. I know, you think, who wouldn't ? Rafe and Proenza Schouler abound, but it isn't just the biggest, newest designers that get me excited to go to the store or browse the website. It really is design for less. I've fallen hook, line, and sinker for their tag line. (Someone give that Target account manager at FILL IN THE BLANK advertising agency a raise!). So, how much could $125 get me at Target? Quite a few things. How could any style loving woman not get excited in the face of these?

Enough patent to satisfy the trend, not so much to make me ashamed if I use this next spring:














Knockoffs of the Christian Louboutin wedges abound and Target's are some of the cutest:

And if you're loving yellow for the spring:
















If ever there was a bag to haul to the beach, this would be it:















Maybe for work... definitely for fun:

Be Prepared

It's official and I got a whiff of it last night: spring is here. There's still a chill in the air, but even that's different. Springtime and 30 degrees and winter and 30 degrees are different. Besides, the chill allowed me to wear my new vintage (ha!) navy blue dress with the neck ties and the full skirt. It's love for sure with the blue dress.

But, my fashion meter has been set to spring for months now. I know many of the cute shoes, pretty dresses, and gorgeous handbags that will thrill me over the next few months. What I don't have--in fact have been lacking for years-- is a great spring jacket. When the spring showers come, I'll be utterly unprepared. My kelly green winter coat kept me warm and upbeat every time I put it on, and I need something just as great for spring. A bit late you think? Better to have picked my spring jacket in the fall? Perhaps, but I have found a couple of contenders.

A khaki trench is classic and says I am a together, important woman (something I aspire to be). And will I be allowed to make this model/diva face when I wear it?:


















Or I can be more school girl cute and pretty as a picture in this:

















Decisions, decisions.

What Does $125 Get You?

There are things that every woman needs to be her best: great shoes, a great handbag, and a sense of her own style. Trends are great, fun, flirty things, but a sense of what looks best on you yesterday, today, and tomorrow is more important. So, if I take $125 can I get any of those things?


This would fall under a sense of my own style. I am a proud girly girl. I would frolic (yes frolic is what girly girls do) in skirts and dresses all day and night. I like to think of my style as classic and sexy. These pieces from J. Crew are classic, items to be worn for many springtimes to come. There isn't flash to them, but then I imagine the belts I could wear, the big earrings that would go, or the vixen like shoes to finish it off. All that at $125.97.

I have a wide navy and gold belt that would look great with this.

Simple, I know but every woman needs one good button down and this would be my pick. This with a pencil skirt, a peeptoe pump, a sexy ponytail, and big gold hoops? The new girl Friday.

Who doesn't need a great khaki skirt? I love the interest of the grosgrain and it would look great with my wedges.

Dual Personalities

Often the women we are on the weekdays bear little resemblance to the women we are on the weekends. At your 9 to 5, you wear cute, but sensible flats with a well cut pant and a button down shirt. On the weekends, you're strictly jeans, hoodies, and maybe Pumas when you feel like dressing up.

This spring, break the cycle with these shoes that say I'm fun, seriously: