It's that time of year when I'm getting really, really bored with
my transitional wardrobe. My list of never-worn clothing (which I keep
to inspire me to create new outfits with it) has dwindled to just 7
items (astonishingly low for me), 6 of which are shoes. Building an outfit around your shoes
is possible, but all my efforts were getting nowhere with the only ones interesting enough to anchor an outfit.
Further limiting me, even my (purely mental) list of clothes that are
old but haven't been worn yet this season, is also down to just a dress
or two and a handful of tops. One of the handful was this mesh greyish
sweater, which was one of my favorites when it was new last winter.
I wore it several times last year, but the only time I shared it was in my beige & sage
outfit from January. I knew I could repeat that outfit if worse came to
worst, but I'd much prefer to wear it with something new and exciting.
The newest and most exciting things I have in my wardrobe are actually
two pairs of over-the-knee socks—which weren't on my list of never-worn
clothing, but I guess they should have been. I don't usually consider
socks anything to get excited about, but when they are thigh-high, they
can easily become the focal point of an entire ensemble. One pair was
burgundy, the other was green. There was already a hint of green in the
sweater, so I had high hopes that they would go together well!
Putting
an olive-green tank top under the sweater was just the ticket to make
the slightly conspicuous overknees (I saw someone else use this word
recently, and I think it's a wonderfully concise way to refer to
over-the-knee socks) fit in with the more subdued colors of the rest of
the outfit. It's at times like this that having green hair is also a
real boon.
Except for when wearing
this sweater with jeans, I seem to always pair it with my lace khaki
skirt, because it helps make the pure white lace border of the sweater
blend in with other garments. And of course the socks had a white lace
top as well, so this was shaping up to be quite a lacy outfit! I decided
the only sensible choice of shoe (aside from another shade of olive
green, which I didn't have) would be more off-white lace! I rejected my lace pumps (too prissy!) in favor of my lace monstrosities. (I do so love to wear those shoes in combination with an overload of lace!)
Because
there were now two patches of stark white standing out a bit too much
for my taste (sock tops and shirt bottom), I decided to wear white
earrings as well to help balance them out. The white beads are even
encased in a silver filigree setting which might be described as "lacy!" Sort of.
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