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Tall Friendly Sweaters

Welp, it seems we’re pretty firmly entrenched in sweater season. The season has given us the cold shoulder. Even Wisconsinites are cancelling on sand volleyball. Some of us ahem, still showed up but we’ll gladly take the free wins. There really should be a cut off point for outdoor volleyball and I’m thinking the first week of November sounds about right. This is the second year in a row we’ve been playing into the second week of November and I don’t think it’s healthy!

We’re concurrently at the point where it’s in your best interest to go anywhere with at least a light jacket on and probably not shorts (directed at all you hardcore Wisconsinites), which leads us straight to sweater weather! Give us all the sweaters, we sure love us some coziness.

Today’s post is about tall friendly sweaters and we can’t talk about those without mentioning H&M. Over the past few years, I’ve had some great luck with doing a try on session in store and finding a great selection with long enough sleeves. Did you know their parent company owns & Other Stories as well? I know we don’t have many stores in the Midwest, but I checked it out in New York and adored all of their offerings. We’ve got a piece from there we’re featuring soon on the blog!

Tall girl tip – Pay close attention to sleeves that are folded over and can potentially be snipped to unfold and give extra sleeve length, like the blue sweater from this post!

Another spot I’ve had surprising luck with, is Forever 21. Obviously you really have to hype yourself up to enter into that chaotic mess. If you browse online and have an idea of which ones you’re looking for – we find it makes the process a little less stressful. There are definitely reasonable gems to be found within their vast offerings.

Caitlin was doing some casual browsing at Nordstrom Rack recently, where she hoped to luck out with a new pair of shoes. Instead, she happened upon this lovely leopard print sweater. Once she tried it on and realized the sleeve length was good, she sent me a picture and we knew she had to bring it home! It almost made up for the Rack slacking on their larger shoe game.

She paired it with her favorite jeans from Gap, which have plenty of length in the inseam for anyone taller than 5’11. Although the Rack hasn’t had great offerings in town, we were able to find her some beautiful new loafers in New York. The cream color is a perfect neutral to wear with anything.

My sweater find is from H&M and I love how the mock neckline isn’t super high but still enough to keep me warm in the winter. So many of H&M’s sweaters are reasonably priced, that you can stock up easily! I decided to throw on a headband now that they’re “back in style,” because I used to wear them often and have missed them. I’ve been eyeing some bow ones and am just waiting for a price I can’t pass up!

I paired it with my Madewell jeans, which I can’t stress enough how nice they are! Check out their “taller” inseam because these jeans are the ultimate in comfort and style. I grabbed my new favorite pointed toe loafers from Nordstrom Rack as well (also found in New York) and my favorite aviators and had a perfect Saturday outfit.

We were excited to have Sarah, Caitlin’s roommate and best friend to join us! You might remember seeing her featured on the blog before in the post here. Plus, she’s been a fabulous photographer for us many, many times before. She is the lucky one who pretty much fits in all of the inexpensive H&M sweaters, and that is where she found this classic striped option! All of you ladies who might be able to get away with the mainline range, consider yourselves lucky. She paired it with some dark wash skinny jeans from Express and her favorite booties that she’ll be able to wear all winter long.

Tell us below, where do you find your favorite sweaters for the winter? Where have you had good luck with main line options for sweaters?

Check out the Real Reel below for a giggles!

Caitlin’s Outfit Details

Jenilee’s Outfit Details

Sarah’s Outfit Details

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Being Maroon(ed) Isn’t so Bad

Walking into Nordstrom Rack the other day, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Front and center were all the Christmas decorations. I know Halloween has passed but I still wasn’t emotionally ready to see that Christmas is upon us. Let’s just get past Thanksgiving first, shall we? Maybe that’s a little bit of an exaggeration, we all know we have to spend a bit of time before Thanksgiving prepping for Black Friday, especially if we’re trying to get a good deal on gifts.

Now that I worked through my feelings on Christmas being upon us, I can let y’all know we’re planning on putting together some information on the best sales to shop and then further down the road some tall friendly gift guides. Stuff to look forward to!

We definitely won’t be inundating you with tons of gift stuff, have no fear. Our intention is quality over quantity. As the years have past our family has made the move towards more intentional gifting and less about quantity of gifting. In fact, in the past couple of years we’ve chosen to do a trip as a family instead of big gifts. This year we’re still deciding if we’ll exchange gifts with everyone and do a specific budget limit, or if we’ll pick a name, etc.

It makes the season a little bit easier on our family and relieves a bit of the stress and/or pressure that comes with trying to pick the perfect gift. As Christians, we try to keep the reason for the season at the forefront and it’s so easy in our materialistic society to get carried away with wanting to impress people with more, more, more.

Apparently I swung past not being ready for Christmas season straight to discussing all things related, so let’s bring it back to no snow being close – because that’s something I’m not prepared for either. It was in the forecast this last weekend when we were up north, and for once the forecast was glaringly right, and that was pretty rude. We’re just trying to enjoy the fall colors and here comes snow trying to cover it up. 

Regardless of that, it’s so wonderful to experience four seasons up north and on a lake. There is a peacefulness that we don’t find anywhere else but there. Plus it is even better to spend some time with our Grandma and cousin doing little things, like working on a puzzle, playing card games, and going for a walk in the woods.

Seasonal dressing – which sounds like something you serve at Thanksgiving is what we’re all about right now. We’re doing our best to keep wearing our skirts as the temperatures continue to dwindle and hang onto the minimal days left of tight-less legs. Once we start, it will be too many months of wearing them continuously to reflect on right now.

For Caitlin, being the queen of comfort; she makes sure her skirts have a good amount of stretch/elasticity to them to make them bearable to wear 9+ hours a day at a desk. Her office setting is more business professional, so they still need to be semi-structured to keep her looking polished. A black pencil skirt is a must have in your closet to mix and match to your hearts delight. She paired it with a cable knit sweater, which never goes out of style, and some heeled booties.

My look is an old silk/satin fabric skirt from H&M I’ve had great luck with their skirts, and think that the fabric always looks so much more expensive than the price tag. It automatically ups your game. I paired it with a mock neck ribbed top I picked up at Uniqlo for SIX DOLLARS while in New York. If you haven’t checked out Uniqlo yet, definitely get to it. They have great basics, including skirts that are definitely long enough for us leggy ladies. I paired it with my new favorite booties from Nordstrom and my Rebecca Minkoff purse that I won off of a radio game! And as always with a skirt in the windiness of a big city I quickly stuck a Dress Down on so I wouldn’t have to worry about my skirt blowing up.

We’d love to hear your personal Christmas traditions or how you choose to share gifts, if at all!

Outfit Details

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