neverending sweater weather and two-tone pants

{sweater: Central Park West (sold out, love this yellow version; similar here and here); 

hat: BCBG (in-store, obsessed with this one); jeans: Joe's Jeans (coated version); 

boots: MICHAEL Michael Kors; sunglasses: Prada}

It has been freezing this week.  Back down to -25 with the windchill.  It's tricky shopping around this time of year because the stores are bringing out their spring stuff, but also extremely discounting their winter stuff.  Not knowing the weather was drastically going in the opposite direction of spring, but I was eyeing these tweed jeans for a while and totally forgot about them, then saw them again and they were 65% off - score!  With the weather this week, I'm really glad I bought them because, as I mentioned before, my closet is lacking in the pants department.  Plus, they're amazing.  They are super duper comfortable and dressy enough for work (on non-'Casual Friday' days).  And clearly I have a thing for two-tone pants (see here and, most recently, here - I'm still contemplating buying these black and white ones.)

two-tone / printed pants

{top: Mango (old); pants: MICHAEL Michael Kors; ASOS Popper Skater Coat;

sunglasses: Prada; shoes: Nine West (old)}

I rarely buy pants because I'm petite and I'm too lazy to hem them.  Plus, all the money I would spend on hemming, I could buy more clothes!  (I love that GAP has petite sizes and buy most of my pants there.  But my size sells out pretty quick.)  It became so cold last month that I knew I needed to invest in a couple more pairs.  When I walked into Michael Kors, I instantly saw these pants hanging at the back of the store and I'm pretty sure I ran to them so that nobody would steal the last size (they probably had more pairs in my size but I did not want to take any chances).  I tried them on and fell in love.  (Thankfully they're straight pants so I can tuck them under, which is great because I can tuck them according to the shoe I wear.)  I LOVE the print, but am obsessed with the fact that they're two-tone.  (I'm also obsessing over these black and white ones.)  I thought about pairing these pants with some colour but found this navy top in my closet and thought it was a perfect fit.  I added a pop of colour with this amazing ASOS coat (last seen here), which is now only $60!  I think I might have to pick it up in the navy or black.  Or both.