Being a casual-ish, friendly sort of a day today I’m dressing to suit. I had to do some work in the office (groan) but managed to squeeze in a quick morning tea with some friends and also a lunch with some other friends. And the weather has been bliss. So a perfectly looooovely sort of a day!
Today I’m wearing a necklace cobbled together by my daughter from bits and pieces, which I’ve borrowed in the past. It includes a voodoo doll, given to her for Christmas present, a ballerina charm which I think we found somewhere, and her dog tags, from when we lived in the US. She was awarded these dog tags for participating (they weren’t given a choice, btw) in the DARE programme running at the school. DARE stands for Drug and Alcohol Resistance Education. I should mention she was ten years old at the time. Yeeah… I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions from that one…
We are into that slightly awkward time of the year when the mornings are briskly cold, meaning boots and a jacket or cardi of some sort are necessary, but so warm in the middle of the day one is roasting in the aforementioned boots and jacket. And this little orange skirt has been such a winner. It’s amazing how such a bright in-your-face sort of a colour can turn out to be such a good mix-n-match item.
Details:
Skirt; Vogue 7303, burnt orange silk hessian
Top; Morrison
Jacket; Ezibuy
Gold necklace; had since teenage years
other necklace; put together by my daughter
Boots; Enrico Antinori, from Zomp
Bag; Gucci
okay – orange isn't my thing, but this really put a great spin on the color. I love the casual look you have pulled together here.
having taught public school in here for 7 years, I can verify that there is some weird stuff required. Really. It seems the rest of the world actually educates their children about academics and not all that extra stuff.What a great idea! Okay, enough rant .. Great outfit! It looks so comfy. 🙂 I'm finding my colorful stuff fun to mix too. I told hubby sometimes I am even more colorful than him, which is an accomplishment.
Actually my kids did get a wonderful education in the US, I didn't mean to imply they didn't. But the DARE programme was a funny thing!
Yeah, DARE is one of our national disgraces.
That's a good shade of orange.
Love the skirt and your daughters necklace x
Oh, I loved teaching here too and taught in some great schools … just didn't always love the "extras". 🙂
You got me hooked on orange, so I love this outfit 🙂
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