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Archives for September 2, 2014

A little experiment

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Ok so I tried the chambray shirt as a jacket again, but this time over a t’shirt and jeans, in my opinion it looks much better.

I guess it all comes back to the idea of keeping things balanced. The shirt is loose and un-structured and likes to be worn with something structured, such as a pair of jeans. I did something else to balance this outfit, as the shirt is fairly masculine and casual it helped that my shoes and necklace were both feminine and dressy.

Now this may seem to be a contradiction, my outfit yesterday was balanced too, the shirt and boots were masculine and the dress and necklace were feminine…..but whether or not something is masculine or feminine will not make it look more or less flattering, that comes down to cut and shape.

Oh dear, I think I have given myself a headache with all this over analysing….

Guin’s advice today, if it looks good wear it!

G xx

And as requested by Amanda (Great idea by the way)

White jeggings – Country Road (Not available anymore as purchased March 2014, try these instead )

Chambray shirt – Country Road (Not available anymore as purchased in 2013)

Point toe flats – Country Road

Necklace – Lovisa (January 2014)

T’shirt – Target (Bought on sale July 2014, may still be some around)

Hello Spring

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Hello spring (let’s try to ignore the less than spring weather shall we?)

Today I was going to talk about wearing a shirt as jacket during spring. However when I saw my less than flattering photo (don’t get me wrong, I don’t think I like awful, just don’t think it is highlighting my best features) I was like hmmm, was this outfit unflattering because my dress clutches in the wrong places, or because the chambray shirt lacks some structure? (I suspect my face might look a bit like pic 3 when I’m having these thoughts….hehehe)

Could it be that a shirt pretending to be a jacket only suits certain body types? I don’t know.. So in the spirit of not leading you up the garden path, with advice like ‘wear a shirt as a jacket this spring, you’ll look fab”, when in fact you might not, I have decided to undertake a little experiment. So tomorrow I will again wear my chambray shirt as a jacket but this time with a pair of jeans and a t’shirt instead.

Stay tuned….

Rare night out

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Ben and I were fortunate to have a night out together last night. I generally love to wear a cocktail dress when we go out for dinner and drinks, but I have put on a little weight recently and I didn’t want to squeeze into an old one, or buy a new one, so I decided to go pants and a top instead.

As I wear these pants and top to work, I had to really dress them up, in order to feel like I had ‘dressed up’. Now I do casually wear this necklace over print shirts, but over a black top it really stands out, and makes the outfit look more like evening wear.

After a lot of trial and error I worked out these pants really like to be worn with point toe shoes, which limited my choices. Having said that they do work well with the pants as both prints share ‘black’ in common. They also help tie my necklace into the ensemble, as both shoes and necklace have ‘tan’ in common.

I generally don’t like to match my shoes with my bag, so my clutch is bright green.
G xx

Plaid shirt and boyfriends…..

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The weather is amazing at the moment, and it’s warm enough to not need to layer up as much or wear socks. which is a good thing because this outfit would not have worked nearly as well if I had been wearing boots instead of these point toe flats!

This plaid shirt and boyfriend jeans are so masculine that they really need to be balanced out with some feminine elements, and this necklace and these shoes fit the bill perfectly!

Enjoy the glorious weekend

G xx

Plaid Shirt – Target

Boyfriend Jeans – Country Road

Point toe flats – Country Road

Necklace – Lovisa