Fashion Resolution Fail

So I decided to try and dress "older" this year in order to try and reverse the trend of being consistently mistaken for a high school student (or one in junior high on a bad day). While it may sound like a good thing, its very hard for someone to take your seriously when they think you're a sixteen year old with a very advanced vocabulary...

So what did I do? I went to Forever 21 with all of the other tweens and purchased the following:

I then added insult to injury by pairing it with leggings. Although my black Gap blazer on top was a stroke of genius...or something!