This season is all about black and white shoes, unfortunately these can be slightly harder to wear than blonde or brown coloured shoes, as they don’t book end your hair (unless your hair is black or white).
An easy way to get around this is wear something else (at the other end of your body) with black or white on it, this could be a necklace like I have done here, a handbag, hat or some detail or colour in your top.
G xx
One of my friends asked me how she could wear her red plaid shirt without looking too masculine, so this post is for you Jess!
If you are going to wear something as intrinsically masculine as a plaid shirt, then you need to pair it with really feminine things to balance out all that masculinity!
An easy way to style your plaid shirt, is to wear it like a jacket over a loose flounced top, with necklace, skinny jeans point toe or ballet flats.
Alternatively wear it as a jacket over a dress, or with a skirt. As the dress and skirt are so feminine you can get away with a puffer vest or more masculine shoes.
You can also wear it buttoned up with a short statement necklace over the top. Because the statement necklace is so feminine You can get away with more masculine boyfriend style jeans.
Hope this has helped Jess!
G xx
Interiors and fashion are so interchangeable. I saw this bedroom on the Country Road IG page and love how the pastel yellow looks amazing punctuated with grey and black.
I bought these jeans last year and was only thinking the other day, that it was fortunate pastels were in again this Spring/Summer.
This bedroom picture confirmed that all I needed to do to make these jeans a bit more current and edgy was to add some black and grey.
G xx
Image source: www.countryroad.com.au
Black and white is big again this summer, which is great, ’cause who doesn’t have plenty of that in their wardrobe?!
It is also easy to add another colour navy, metallics and pastels all work really well and are very much on trend, or if you are a blonde like me, a touch of blonde to your monochromatic look is a non brainer!
Country Road has some great black and white articles, shoes in particular, And the best bit is once this trend is over your black and white pieces will easily assimilate into your wardrobe to become seasonal staples!
G xx
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)