Doesn’t it sometimes seem as if you only see celebs either totally dressed to the nines for the red carpet or completely slumming it in velour sweats? Here’s Kim K, striking the perfect balance between the two — but in a honest, straight-up casual way. She layers a white long-sleeve scoop-neck tee shirt under a sleeveless red cardigan, and, for shape, she ties on a casual black woven belt. Easy peasy.

Even though Kim Kardashian doesn’t fit the stereotypical California-girl look — after all, there are no blonde hair, blue eyes here — her style is definitely West Coast glamour. There’s a simple, casual feeling around this ultra-sexy bandage dress by Herve Leger, mostly because Kim doesn’t pile on the accessories — her long hair, gold clutch, and gold T-strap sandals are enough to carry the super-simple dress.

It’s always gratifying to know that Hollywood celebs aren’t all that different than normal women — of course, they may have the time and luxury to devote loads of money and effort to the way they look (after all, that is a huge part of their jobs), but take a tip from Kim here. She’s just rocking a simple white button-down shirt and a paneled, pinstriped pencil skirt that has a little stretch in it. The pinstriping? Totally slimming. And the paneling makes the pencil skirt curvy. Plus, who doesn’t like a little stretch. Ah, so flattering.

Who knew a grey turtleneck sweather dress could look so sexy? Ah, but Kim’s got the curves. If you’ve got the curves too, we dare you try it too. Take a tip from Kim and don’t go overboard with the accessories — everyone knows someone in the office who wears a great simple dress and has to put on some crazy cheap long necklace and ruin the whole minimalistic look. Stay sleek, ladies!!

One of the things we love about Kim Kardashian’s style is that she kind of does whatever she wants. If she likes a particular (gold sequined) dress, she has no qualms about wearing it a million times and getting photographed in it over and over again. She also loves Juicy sweats — she says the fit is amazing on her — so she wears them all the time. No pretensions about having to put on a whole face before going outside or only being photographed in an outfit once (ahem, we’re talking to you Paris)…

Not sure where to look first? Neither are we. Between the ultra-humungous blinging cocktail ring, the sleek buckled clutch, the stripey V-neck sweater-tunic-dress, and the go-go boots, we’re loving the casual left coast style that Kim’s rocking here. Can’t you just see yourself hitting the red carpet and then heading home to curl up on your couch in that roomy knit? Okay, maybe not the red carpet part…

So every week I sit her trying to figure out what exactly Kim Kardashian is wearing because, let’s face it, her wardrobe is pretty amazing and figure-flattering. I mean, I especially love that she’s not stick-thin and it seems that her wardrobe would totally translate and flatter women with curves. ANYWAY, after watching “Keeping up with the Kardashians” last week, I learned that Kim pulls most of her dresses from her own store – Dash in LA. So here are our closest approximations. Hello Kim! Open an e-store so I can shop Dash too!!!

Ditching her usual dressy-dress look for an easygoing shorts jumpsuit, Kim still looks great — she makes sure to dress her legs longer in sky-high platform heels and accessorizes with a formal-looking alligator-embossed clutch and a long silver chain-link necklace.