Print on print plus family matters.

Print pants and shirt, H&M. Blazer, Leifsdottir. Shoes, Vagabond.

Let me start by apologizing for the super crapalicious quality of these photos. It was almost completely dark when I got around to taking pictures, so I had to brighten them about a billion percent in Photoshop before you could even tell what was on them... and this is what's left. The reason why I'm looking down on all but one is that I'm so horribly, insanely tired, and oh boy, does it show. On the photos where I was looking straight into the camera, I looked like I wasn't sure if I wanted to kill someone or just fall asleep right there.

In other words, not the perfect conditions for a succesful outfit photoshoot. I just think this outfit is kind of neat and figured, what the heck, I'm pretty sure no one has ever died from some low quality outfit shots. (Plenty of other types of shots I hear can be deadly, though, so watch out for those.)

I guess the smart choice when wearing pants with such a bold print would be to pair them with something simple, like a plain white tanktop or something. But what can I say - every time I make smart fashion choices, I get bored. Print on print is usually way more stimulating!

(You might have seen the shirt with the bow print before - here.)

Warning, sappy story will follow: these pants actually mean a lot to me. I bought them two months ago, when I visited my cousins in Seattle for the first time ever. (The only time I'd met my cousin Lauren was when she was 7 and I was 10, and I'd never even met my cousin Leah - who's now 21! So it was about frickin time.) The rain was pouring, (what a surprise, huh? Good thing Seattle is so amazing in every other way) so me and Lauren went shopping to pass the time until it stopped. I found those pants and fell in love instantly, and the fact that Lauren got excited and encouraged me to buy them made me realize that I truly have the most awesome cousins a girl could ask for. ;)

A weird thing: So me, Lauren and Leah grew up in entirely different parts of the world: me in Stockholm, Sweden, they in a small town outside of Seattle, Washington. We never had any contact at all (except that I met Lauren in LA once when I was 10) until we found eachother on Facebook. And you know what? All three of us are journalists. Leah just graduated from college, Lauren writes for Fashion Network Seattle. I felt like we all had so much in common. It was such a strange feeling, flying to a city you've never been to, meeting people you don't know and instantly have a million things to talk about! It appreciate that so much, even more since my family on my dad's side is very, very, very small. It would be such a waste not to make the most of the relationships with the only relatives I've got. Especially when they happen to be quite the aaaah-mazing girls!