Somehow, when it comes to fashion, I’m always a season behind. When I’m ready to move into the next set of wardrobe essentials for the upcoming months, I’m hard pressed to find anything at all.  Everything’s been picked over and whatever is left is either too small, too big or it wasn’t that cute to begin with.  Slowly, slowly, though, I’m starting to get a jump on things.  

I was thumbing through Real Simple Magazine (love, love, love this mag) and it was talking about the trend for this spring is stripes!  Hold up! Stripes? I love stripes and I currently own a few things of a striped nature.  Could it be? Could I be ahead of the game for once?  I paged down a bit more and saw these lovelies.

Ahhhhh. . . . .

I had to keep this momentum of foresightedness going.  So I bought them! Yikes! I know, so reckless of me, but how could I not? They’re stacked. They’re tall. They’re whimsical and they make me smile.  I’m going to have to do some serious calf raises to retire my gams from toothpick status, but so what!  Now, to build an outfit around them . .