Traditional with a Modern Flair!

While we were traveling in Romania on Sunday, we stopped by a beautiful city called Sibiu. There, at the Ethnographic museum, I bought a traditional, supposedly, hand-made Romanian blouse. It costed about $30. I was looking at the possibility to buy a full dress but discovered that because the dress was all sewn by hand - with very intricate details - it would have cost over $100+ to buy one. Not wanting to shell out that much, I settled with the blouse.

On Monday, after seeing Ana come in with her traditional Romanian shirt, she asked "why don't you wear yours too". I thought, what a great opportunity! So, I went back to my room, tried on a few outfits, and finally settled with this.  I paired the Sibiu traditional Romanian blouse with a belt from Urban Outfitters and a Skirt from Anthropologie.

These outfits are mixed with a traditional Romanian top (from different parts of Romania) and a modern skirt.

 

Something a little different and quite unexpected!

During this past week, I had the awesome privilege to take pictures of the best-dressed manager in the Cluj-Napoca, Romania office of the company that Andrew works at. We've interacted with him quite often throughout these past three trips. We've also grown to love him very much, especially his peppy personality.  It wasn't till now that I was given a chance to take pictures of him.

The photoshoot came about all because I was complaining about the picture on his Skype. When I mentioned how stern he looks in the picture - contrary to his normal personality - I didn't exepct his reaction to be - "well, in that case, will you take pictures of me then." Although this was more of a clean photoshoot - no frills and such in terms of lighting and even the outfit - with Adrian, even in the simplest outfit, he still looks incredibly sharp. Nodding in agreement with one of our mutual acquaintances, when I showed her the photoshoot, she said, "He is [definitely] a very beautiful man".

 

 

To my joy, one picture made it to his Skype, while the other made it to his LinkedIn profile. :) But the last picture depicts his personality the most! 

Adrian is sporting a baby-blue dress shirt; a black tie with possibly a bit of baby-blue on it, and a black single breasted, tailored suit.  

In Cluj-Napoca, Romania Again

Our third trip to Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

One week passed already. Having more time, than usual, to think, I've finally decided it's time to add to this blog.

I was fortunate, last time, to befriend some of the best-dressed people at the office in Cluj-Napoca (the company where my husband works at). With fashion changed and also changing again with the coming season, hopefully I'll get the chance to see the transformations of fashion from summer to fall.

With somewhere in between - summer and fall -... here's, yet again, the always beautiful Laura!

Another one that stood out today was a good and longtime friend of ours, and also colleague of my husband - Ms. Ana Maria. Perhaps why she stood out was quite simple - she was wearing the shirt I gifted her the last time she came to the states. I encouraged her love for red by buying an Anthropologie red sleeveless shirt that, I felt, would look really great on her! Much to my happiness, not only did it look great, but it also fit perfectly (well it could have been a little smaller, but it still looks great).

Often times it's hard to find clothes that match perfectly because of the varying sizes at Anthro (due to the varying brands and designers that seem to make a lot of clothes either for really big people or very small people). I had to be extra careful. Soo.. just looking at the shirt and how much it stretched... I took a chance and found success. I knew she would know how to style it up.

So here she is. Simple, but yet quite elegant... as she usually is.