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Happy Monday, and I hope you had a great weekend! We’re looking forward to an exciting week over here. Wednesday is my birthday, Saturday is Valentine’s Day, and since next week is mid-winter break for the public schools in New York we’ll be celebrating S’s birthday with cupcakes in her classroom on Friday. Her birthday always falls during mid-winter break, lucky girl. At the studio we’re planning a few photo shoots and finally sending off all the spring patterns to the printer, so I’m busy proofreading and making final adjustments here and there.<\/p>\n

Here is the second post in our new series, “How I Wear It.” It’s been too cold and snowy to shoot outdoors, so we shot this in the stairwell of the studio. I hope this series will inspire you to think of different ways to style your own wardrobe and sewing!<\/p>\n

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\"HowIWearItBento\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tell us about your outfit.<\/em> <\/strong>When we first introduced<\/a> the Bento Tee<\/a>, I sewed up a few samples to check the fit in a variety of fabrics. The quilted jersey from B&J Fabrics<\/a> was one of my favorites, and I’ve been wearing it in black and cream ever since. A few weeks ago I decided the cream version needed zippers<\/a> in the side seams, so out came the seam ripper. It was an easy add: just open the side seam to the length of the zipper and hand baste the zipper before machine stitching to finish it. As always, I added a strip of interfacing to the edge before basting to prevent the fabric from stretching too much.<\/p>\n

The rest of the outfit is pretty straightforward: my trusty cashmere scarf, two pairs of black tights (one pair is wool for a little texture and the other pair adds extra warmth), my ubiquitous black booties, and a pencil skirt in a bold geometric print. It’s a cozy outfit and perfectly suited to running around the city, which is what I was doing<\/a> the day I wore it.<\/p>\n

Do you have a favorite accessory?<\/em> <\/strong>I think these glasses have sort of become “my look” now that I’m not wearing contact lenses very often. But I rely pretty heavily on several accessories: my booties, my big men’s watch, and a necklace that I inherited from my Grandma that’s very important to me. I’ll talk more about that soon. But I’ve found that I prefer to dress quite simply and let the accessories do a lot of the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liesl shows how she has customized and how she styles her Bento Tee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20687],"tags":[202,20646,176],"class_list":["post-42668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bento-tee","tag-how-i-wear-it","tag-personal-style"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/HowIWearItBento1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-b6c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61139,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2017\/05\/turning-the-bento-tee-into-a-dress.html","url_meta":{"origin":42668,"position":0},"title":"turning the bento tee into a dress","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"May 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Liesl shows you a couple simple customizations she used to turn the Liesl + Co. 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