After I wore my red and pink paisley dress for the Red Wedding back in April, I really had low expectations for ever wearing it again. Re-wearing it at a formal occasion sounded like heresy, when I have a constant supply of new dresses and precious few opportunities to wear them! But it is just a little too shiny and flouncy to pull off at work or happy hour. Letting it go seemed like the most practical option, but I liked it enough to let it sit in my closet for several months, just in case the opportunity arose. I figured at some point, I'd maybe take a page from my own book and dress it down by layering it up (I'm getting that trick down to a science)!
So,
I was planning my outfit for Wednesday, and decided I wanted to build
it around this maroon notch-neck top. I've had this shirt for probably 4
years, ever since I salvaged it, still new with tags, from the overflow
pile at a charity donation dumpster (It's wrong to steal from the poor,
but if the donations are sitting outside the bin, there's a good chance
they'll be ruined by the weather before the poor ever get them, so
they're fair game for dumpster divers —according to Valerie's rules).
After 4 years and countless wears, I realize I've never pictured it in
my blog—welcome to the club, little shirt!
So
I was looking at the shirt, and looking at my skirts, and all of a
sudden my eye was drawn right over to my other wardrobe, where this
dress was sitting pretty and practically winking at me! The colors were a
perfect match for the cranberry shade of the shirt. I was a little
uncertain how the wide keyhole neckline of the top would work with the
V-neck and straps of the dress; but, as it happened, they looked fine—in
a somewhat unconventional way!
Covering
up the top half of the dress did a lot to tone it down for the office,
but I took it another step into casual territory by donning some slouchy
boots.
Phew! Now that this dress
had had two moments in the sun, I felt like I'd gotten my money's worth
and was ready to list it for sale...just in time to spill a carton of
cheese juice down the front of it and rip a seam as I was taking it off.
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