Top: TopShop

Jeans: 7 For All Mankind

Jacket: Miss Selfridge

Scarf: Burberry

Shoes: TopShop

Kaitlin Vocker is the Style and Beauty Editor for Chic Galleria and loving every minute of it. She is a graduate of Louisiana Tech University with a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing. In her spare time, she runs her own blog www.secretivestyle.com! ... Read More »]]> This outfit is perfect for a late Saturday lunch date or a Sunday afternoon spent window shopping. I love the coordination of the color, rust throughout the outfit and the laid back feel the jeans offer. The shirt is super comfortable and flowey and the jacket gives this outfit the perfect edge!

Top: TopShop

Jeans: 7 For All Mankind

Jacket: Miss Selfridge

Scarf: Burberry

Shoes: TopShop

Kaitlin Vocker is the Style and Beauty Editor for Chic Galleria and loving every minute of it. She is a graduate of Louisiana Tech University with a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing. In her spare time, she runs her own blog www.secretivestyle.com! You can also follow her on twitter @secretivestyle or facebook.

The pants are gorgeous and the tailored cuffs make them wearable with almost any kind of shoe. I love this top because it’s the perfect combination of warm to cool to keep you feeling comfortable on those in-between icky days! Accentuate this outfit with ultra-feminine black and gold accessories and some glittered ballerina flats and you’ve got yourself the ... Read More »]]> Tuesdays are always when the week hasn’t quite started to look up but yet it just isn’t half as bad as the day before was. I love this outfit because it’s nice enough for work yet feminine enough to keep your spirits up!

The pants are gorgeous and the tailored cuffs make them wearable with almost any kind of shoe. I love this top because it’s the perfect combination of warm to cool to keep you feeling comfortable on those in-between icky days! Accentuate this outfit with ultra-feminine black and gold accessories and some glittered ballerina flats and you’ve got yourself the perfect pick-me-up!

Don’t forget to spritz on some Forever by Mariah Carey! The smell is just as sweet as this outfit. Oh, and if you head on over to the Forever by Mariah Carey Facebook page, you can enter the “14 Days of Forever Love Contest.” One lucky winner will win a Caribbean getaway for two and five lucky winners will receive an autographed bottle of Forever by Mariah Carey! Get started!

The contest ends on January 24, 2012 at 11:59 PM! Good luck!

Top: W118 by Walter Baker

Pants: Madewell

Sunglasses: Chloe

Bag: TopShop

Shoes: Marc by Marc Jacobs

Earrings: Kate Spade

Ring: Betsey Johnson

Watch: Betsey Johnson

Perfume Courtesy of: Forever by Mariah Carey

What is your favorite tailored trend this winter?

Kaitlin Vocker is the Style and Beauty Editor for Chic Galleria and loving every minute of it. She is a graduate of Louisiana Tech University with a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing. In her spare time, she runs her own blog www.secretivestyle.com! You can also follow her on twitter @secretivestyle or facebook!

Kaitlin Vocker is the Style and Beauty Editor for Chic Galleria and loving every minute ... Read More »]]> Tuesdays are always where the week starts to pick up, especially if you have these gorgeous Alice + Olivia pants and Madewell top! A bright-colored cardigan sweater tops the outfit off and the Juicy Couture bracelet and Kate Spade necklace give it an extra feminine flare! Dare to pair these black Alice + Olivia pants with gorgeous cognac Lisbon heels! I promise you won’t look silly. The light brown in the top will make sure you are matching perfectly. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Kaitlin Vocker is the Style and Beauty Editor for Chic Galleria and loving every minute of it. She is a graduate of Louisiana Tech University with a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing. In her spare time, she runs her own blog www.secretivestyle.com! You can also follow her on twitter @secretivestyle or facebook!

Here goes.

Born in Belleville to Bob and Mo.  First child, so grew up as peacekeeper between two younger siblings.  Had ... Read More »]]> I recently came across an article in a year-old issue of Glamour magazine in which several well-known actresses, authoresses and comediennes summarized the secrets of their success in exactly 100 words.  And although I’m not the hallmark of success, it piqued my interest and made me want to bore you all with 100 of my own words.  (I’ll have to admit, I’m crapping cinder blocks over here.  Can I be THAT SUCCINCT?  Me, with my penchant for dictionaries and big words?!)

Here goes.

Born in Belleville to Bob and Mo.  First child, so grew up as peacekeeper between two younger siblings.  Had mullet as 5-year-old, but it was the eighties.  Elementary in a too-small town.  Welcomed high school with open arms and hungry mind.  Yearbook editor, yet well-liked!  Dated a coworker in 2000.  College for T.V., loathed the long hours.  Married coworker in 2006.  In love.  Have sweet job in medical field.  Pregnant for 8 months, became mom early due to complications.  Hayden Darrell Robert, October 10, 2008.  Biggest blue eyes.  Maybelline-long eyelashes.  My everything.  Life is good.

Do it!  I challenge you.  HARDER.  THAN.  IT.  LOOKS.

(If you DO decide to think of 100 words, email it to me, so I can be dazzled! ally_meeks@hotmail.com )

Allison Empey is a 29-year-old medical transcriptionist from Ontario, Canada.  She is happily married  since 2006 and is having an obscene amount of fun being a mom to her 16-month-old son, Hayden.  Allison is an avid amateur photographer with a penchant for portraiture.  She loves to write, and to make people laugh, and has combined the two passions by regularly updating her blog.   Allison’s other loves?  Reading, board games, medicine, cheesecake and wine.

Check out Allison’s websites:  www.flickr.com/allygalore for photos, www.galore.tumblr.com for hilarious (and modest) blog, and www.twitter.com/AllyEmpey to follow her on Twitter!