Today was meeting friends for morning tea, and another friend for a walk later (and afternoon tea afterwards, no doubt!) It’s a tough life. My office work can wait until tonight, methinks… and it would be a crying shame to waste a beautiful day like today. Of course if I said that every day I would get absolutely no work done whatsoever…! but meh.
This is the “Weird Bodice” dress from last winter, that I love for its flattering olive shade, flattering for me, that is; and cute flippy skirt, but has a strange bodice design that needs covering up. I went for some cheerful happy colours to go on over the top. I’ve always had a thing about red, and have always worn a lot of it. I think it suits my hair colour. This winter it seems to have dropped off the fashion radar, apart from the currently all-the-rage LRD (little red dress for evening wear). The shops are filled with drab putty neutral shades, and the ubiquitous BLACK. Seriously, I was out with a friend a week or so ago, and we passed a boutique where everything on the racks was black, and I mean everything. It was a marvellous thing, well, it certain had us marvelling, but not in a good way. Are Perthies so boring in our colour choices, that an all-black shop would stay happily in business? (bearing in mind it was in a high-ish rent area too) Bizarre…
Details:
Dress; Burda 7897, olive bamboo/cotton mix
Cardigan; Metalicus
Scarf; Frangi, from Tie-Rack
Tights; Kolotex
Shoes; Django and Juliette, from Zomp shoes
Bag; Gucci
Again, I love the color combination. You look great.
Trudy
http://www.sewingwithtrudy.blogspot.com
Oh, I love the colors in this outfit. In previous times I would have drooled over an all black shop. Black and white and grey and khaki seemed like my go to solution for looking put together. (my college roommate, a quite colorful dresser – and a fantastic thrifter – I have many things she found for me – would always complain about how boring my closet was) I am enjoying much more playing with color now – much to the happiness of my colorful husband who would have had the same complaint about my closet several years ago. Now, not so much.
It's a very nice outfit, black tights ands shoes look very good with more colorful top.