Monday
Pastel's Last Gasp
I got this shirt a number of years ago as a gift. It was enormous. I
added some darts in the back to give it a more tailored fit, but when I
tried it on Monday morning, it was even more enormous than I remembered.
It just keeps getting bigger! To kind of disguise its overwhelming
size, I cinched it at the waist with a black belt and tied together the
disparate levels of brightness with black pants. You'll notice that the
embroidered florals running up each side are too far to the side
(bigness issue) and their bottom edges get awkwardly covered by the belt
(accessorizing issue). I spent the whole day wishing I could go home so
I could get out of this dowdy outfit. I think it's high time for me to
retire this blouse.
Tuesday
Into the Ocean
Mermedallion. Do you like how I shot it next to a treasure chest? Wasn't that a clever touch? |
Wednesday
Navy Green
In an example of analogous color schemes at their somewhat less fine,
Wednesday I wore a blue-grey top with green pants. The blue-grey top
puzzled me—with its stripes of navy blue and light blue (so
washed out as to appear almost grey), it was too dark to wear with black
or khaki. It probably would have looked good with blue jeans, but jeans
are only to be worn to work as a last resort! So I decided to try it
with green pants. This gave me another opportunity to wear those grey
ankle boots (side note: some day, I will find a way to wear those boots
so they aren't completely covered by pants!) The outfit
looked...OK...but don't think I'll be winning any style awards for it.
Thursday
Black Attack
When you buy clothes in a lot on eBay, you're usually buying the bottom
of someone's closet, which means you usually have the seller's fashion
sense (and 5-year-old styles) imposed on you. For example, the last
large lot I bought was almost exclusively in shades of blue and
blue-green, with a few neutrals like off-white and black. Stripes were a
huge theme. Wednesday's shirt was one from that collection; this black-and-white
shirt is another. Again, the length was too long to wear with any of my
skirts, so I wore it with pants (isn't it ironic that my summer tops
oblige me to wear pants more often than I ever wore in the winter!).
Black pants. Black shoes. My only option for color was going to be in my
jewelry, but instead, I chose a white bracelet and silver earrings.
It's worth noting that after shooting my photos, I decided the earrings
were too ornate and traded them for these simpler, but still silvery,
glass earrings.Oh, and Geoff? All those ridiculous smiles are for you.
Please don't end this!
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