My motto is "Let's bin the beige and have fun with colour" and it's never been more true than with today's outfit. The marriage of orange and cerise are the perfect antidote to our recent weather. |
I'm wearing another duvet jacket today - this one came from China, via my friend Rachel. I love the colour (obviously), the shape and the buttons which have a sharp, oriental style. |
I found these funky psychedelic tights in a shop in Truro called Enjoy. It's full of all sorts of retro gear and is also my go-to shop for fancy dress clothes. |
What a relief to be outside again after that trial I had with my indoor shoot a few days ago. It was quite funny though, and I did like giving you a bit of a chuckle at my efforts. The big outdoors is what works for me, so I'll be trying to fill my draft box whenever I get a decent spell like this. I've paired my favourite orange with cerise today to get this candy colour delight, throwing in these eye-popping 60's tights just in case I was in danger of taking myself too seriously. I do like my clothes to verge on the faintly ridiculous sometimes. I'm a bit of a clown and I like to make my friends and family laugh even if it's at my own expense. I think being a fashionista can still be fun. The run up to Christmas is all about glitter and crazy cartoon jumpers but I'm holding off from that for a few days more. It's not that I don't want to wear them, just not quite yet. In fact, the search for the perfect party outfit is still on with only days to go until the island bash on Saturday. I'm still trying decide on whether to wear a maxi or a knee length dress or the midi I showed you on Sunday here. I have a dark green, heavily beaded shift dress that I wore to my 40th birthday party (makes it vintage now I think!) that I might wear with some new satin shoes in a floral pattern of orange and purples which would look great. Then I have a multi coloured maxi skirt with gold thread running through it which I could top off with a simple cashmere cardi. And finally there's the peach strappy chiffon number that's intricately beaded with a matching shawl...I had intended to capture these on screen the other day, but hey you know how that story goes already. Anyway, here's a quick round up of today's offering. The jumper is by Compliments, a brand I've not come across before that came to me via a charity shop. The orange skirt with pink trim on the pockets is from Boden and was good money well spent as I've had it for years and it still looks good as new. My long sleeved top is one of many from M&S in their Heatgen thermal range - I have so many of these as they are a perfect winter base layer; not bulky in the least, slim fitting and available in so many colourways and patterns too. And my beautiful silver brogues are from Office. Linking today with Elegantly Dressed and Stylish |