Bleached crinkly cotton

I was on the verge of throwing this skirt out, or re-fashioning it (I am getting so into this re-fashioning it’s not funny, I think it’s becoming an obsession with me) because I ripped it the last time I wore it.  But something about its soft sage green loveliness just kept me back from doing something extreme that I may later regret… a common whimsy of mine that can be a problem.  And with the current hot spell I’m finding myself drawn more and more to my fall-back creams and whites, particularly my collection of crumpled off-white embroidered cotton garments that look a little bit slept in (they’re not), bleached and faded and a little bit shabby, the embroidered flowers are subtle but add a puckered texture to the clothes that I love.  I feel the rumply look is as though one had just arisen from a hammock stretched out under a tree leaving a childhood favourite book open on its spine…  Dreamy summer days of languid heat…
I mended the tear in the hem of this skirt (see below, I don’t think it really shows), and gave it a second chance.  I’m wearing it today with my new scarf; “new”, but it’s actually re-fashioned from the lining of my daughter’s old puff skirt which is why it looks old, thin and washed.  The scarf picks up the black rolled hem edging on the skirt.  I like a tiny hint of black in an summer outfit, I think it adds a bit of an edge and some definition, particularly when all else is pale.  My jade and mother-of-pearl bracelet with its alienesque matte silver prongs was a birthday gift from my parents.

Details:
Skirt; Vogue 7880, sage green embroidered cotton
Top; Morrison
Scarf; own design, refashioned from net skirt lining
Sandals; Micam by Joanne Mercer, from Hobbs shoes
Bracelet; gift from my parents