How to Wear Jeans + a T-shirt and still look CUTE!

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I'm a jeans and t-shirt gal. Always have been. Probably always will be. In the past, before I figured out this whole style 'thang, my jeans and t-shirt look was... simple. It was comfortable, but it sure wasn't cute.

Comfortable used to be my litmus. The ONLY factor I considered when getting dressed. Then I discovered Inside-Out Congruency, and realized I was selling myself short.

OF COURSE I WANT TO BE COMFORTABLE. I'm NOT a fan of pants that make my crotch hurt when I sit down, or shirts that I have to keep tugging on because the booby darts are fitting me in the wrong place.

So may I present to you my latest jeans and t-shirt combo, that is comfortable AND cute!

I'm wearing one of my FAV (comfy) t-shirts that I thrifted this summer.  It HAD a crewneck... until I cut the neck out and made it a wee bit more edgy. Then I paired it with a (comfortable) fits-me-perfectly black blazer, sleeves rolled and collar popped, and slipped on my faaavorite no-muffin-top-here bootcut jeans.

At first I accessorized with a long necklace and a pair of tear-drop-shaped earrings, but something was off. There was a lack of harmony between the tear-drop-shape of the earrings and the looooong necklace, so I swapped out the tear-drops for these looooong earrings and knew immediately I had a winner!  The long line of the necklace needed an accompanying long line!

But something was still off, so I studied my look in the mirror for a second and realized aha - the neckline on the tee was a little low, so I layered on another, shorter necklace and voila... PERFECT!

I felt bold, confident, edgy and a little mysterious all day.  ;)  Oh, and comfortable.

Now do me a favor and scan over my outfit description above, noticing ONLY THE HIGHLIGHTED WORDS.

When you get dressed in jeans and a tee, are you doing any of these quick 10 second steps? Could you imagine yourself doing them?

Sometimes we THINK feeling good in our clothes takes a TON of effort, when really, a few ten-second-tweaks here and there can make ALL THE DIFFERENCE.

Style begins on the INSIDE, we all know that - but it's the little details of how we put things together on the outside that pull it all together.

xo Stasia