Beige this way

So, what do we think of Gaga's new music vid? Watch it here. I'm not sure what to think. I love the tripped out intro, but the rest is a bit dull. I think she probably sees this video as a clean cut break from the last album to her new one, like incubation or something, and that's why it's so clean and dark. So I get the concept, but I can't wait for her to go all the way again, weirdwise (props for who gets the The Apartment reference!). She does look extremely fierce with an eye for a chin, though.


On to my neutral outfit of the day!

Can you tell I'm SO ready for spring? A bit schizofrenic with the nordic sweater in the middle between the floral dress and my flower headband, but that's just how I roll! Not my favorite look of mine (ha!) but I like it well enough. Sometimes it's nice to wear something neutral, feels really clean and fresh. Is it bad that my version of simplicity contains mixed prints and a hippie headwreath? I'm such a weirdo.

Everytime I want to wear sweaters with all my high waisted skirts and dresses, it bothers me that there aren't more cropped sweaters in my closet (or stores for that matter). I find it so unflattering to wear fuller, high waisted skirts with sweaters that go down to my hips, it just doesn't work, proportionwise (again, The Apartment!). I scrunched this one up to have it look a bit cropped, and I'm sufficiently satisfied with the result. Not perfect, but good enough!

Now, after all my referrals to The Apartment, I might as well do a MOVIE RECOMMENDATION OF THE DAY!

I actually tuned into this one because Joan mentioned it on Mad Men (I'm such a Mad devotee)! I loved the characters, its (sometimes subtle, sometimes very in-your-face) critic on societal values, the dialogues, the jokes and of course the story. Sometimes playful and lighthearted, sometimes gritty and very confrontational, but all around very much worth your time. It really touched me, without it going the melodramatic route. One of the most "realistic" older movies I've seen, which provides a very interesting mix with Jack Lemon's over the top jokester nature.

C.C. Baxter: The mirror... it's broken.
Fran Kubelik: Yes, I know. I like it that way. Makes me look the way I feel. 

Fran Kubelik: When you're in love with a married man, you shouldn't wear mascara.  

Fran Kubelik: I never catch colds.
C.C. Baxter: Really? I was reading some figures from the Sickness and Accident Claims Division. You know that the average New Yorker between the ages of twenty and fifty has two and a half colds a year?
Fran Kubelik: That makes me feel just terrible.
C.C. Baxter: Why?
Fran Kubelik: Well, to make the figures come out even, if I have no colds a year, some poor slob must have five colds a year.
C.C. Baxter: [sheepishly] Yeah... it's me. 

C.C. Baxter: Ya know, I used to live like Robinson Crusoe; I mean, shipwrecked among 8 million people. And then one day I saw a footprint in the sand, and there you were.  

Total recommendation! A bit like a grittier version of Breakfast at Tiffany's (I didn't really like that one by the way).

 sweater: Pimkie

dress, tights: H&M

headband:  etsy (little honey pies)

shoes: ASOS