I've had these earrings for around 2 years and worn them many a
time, but somehow they've escaped ever being pictured in this blog! Odd,
because I really adore them!
Well,
today was the perfect day to finally put these sun and moon earrings
front and center, because today was the day of a solar eclipse! I hadn't
originally been planning to dress for an eclipse, but a few weeks ago, I
stumbled across an article with suggestions for things to wear
(er, spend your life savings on!) to celebrate the occasion. I needed
no further prodding. The Unfashionista likes to dress thematically for
every holiday, and she might as well do it for every notable natural
phenomenon as well!
So when it
came time to plan the outfit I would wear on the day of the eclipse, I
scoured my closet for anything with a celestial theme. I have no shortage of stars,
but even though the sun is technically a star, I wanted something
that's more instantly recognizable as the sun. That left me only one
thing—these aforementioned sun and moon earrings—which were indeed
perfect for the occasion, as a solar eclipse would be nothing without
the moon.
Usually when I wear
these earrings, I take advantage of the aqua stones and wear them with
clothing of a similar hue. But it occurred to me that, for a sun-centric
event, I should be wearing warm colors. So I worked with the other color of stone, the pastel peachy one, and wore my salmon-striped sheath
for the second time.
We have reached the part of summer when I've
mostly run out of new things to wear and I have to start repeating major
outfit elements. I don't prefer to wear the same dress twice in 3
months without doing something drastically different with the rest of
the outfit, but since this dress is so hard to coordinate, there wasn't a
whole lot I could do, sartorially, to add interest. I would just have
to work with what I had, which was basically some pretty cool jewelry
and a penchant for puns.
First step: make the earrings the stars
of the show. Not only would this allow me to work a feeble astronomy
pun into my blog, but it would also serve to strengthen the theme of the
outfit. So, instead of allowing my hair to fall in front of the
earrings, I pulled it back behind my ears with a couple of barrettes.
Second step: figure out just one more way to represent the theme. I
briefly thought about disassembling some of my many moon necklaces
and attaching them to the barrettes, but I decided that would be too
hard, not to mention, might look like I was trying too hard!
In
the end, I realized my outfit had all the eclipse references it needed,
thanks to the barrettes. Now, you might not think that these two
ordinary accessories have much to do with astronomical phenomena, but
they totally do! They're totally clips of the hair!
Thank you, and good night.
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