Meet Dani McGowan. Dani is a student and aspiring ballet dancer from Chicago, IL that brightens up the Internet with her fun loving style on her own fashion blog Mermaid Waves. We admire her sometimes bold choices and confidence to mix prints and try out new looks. Today she shares with us the first time she got up the nerve to try culottes.

She’s wearing a baby blue mid-calf pair from ASOS with a floral bodysuit by American Apparel and a very cool white Sin Clarity cut out blazer. Green sandals, that she insures us are sky high, by Steve Madden complete her spring look. I think this is the last push we needed to get on board that culottes bandwagon.