The Birds

Maybe it was all those thoughts about doves yesterday that led me to wear, today, a dress made of fabric with a bird pattern on it.  From notional birds to real birds.

I bought the dress that I wore today in NYC, on my last trip to NYC.  I suppose I didn't have to buy it there; I probably could have bought it in my home city when I got home.  Here is how I came to buy it in NYC:  I happened to be in Anthropologie in NYC.  I spotted the dress and fell in love with it.  It happened to be hot during the time I was in NYC and I hadn't brought enough "hot clothes" with me.  It seemed like a great idea to buy the dress then and there, so I could wear it while I was in NYC (and have it for afterwards).  So I bought the dress.

I know that I am supposed to be working on not talking about wellies, but I have to say that the red wellies are a recent addition to my collection.  Needless to say, I love them.

dress: Anthropologie

socks: American Apparel

boots: Hunter

M*A*S*H Dressing

One of my favourite TV series on DVD is M*A*S*H.  And, as amazing as this may sound, the TV series has inspired a couple (okay, several) outfits.

dress: ?, from my closet
chinos: Old Navy, from my closet
socks: ?, from my sock drawer
boots: army surplus store, from my closet

Keeping On Top Of Things

I gather that the 2011 resort collections are showing (or have been shown).

My interest in fashion often leads to a belief that I should know whenever one of the endless number of designers working today presents a collection and/or that I should have some immediate, thoughtful reaction to a collection.  When such a belief pops into my head, I remind myself that fashion isn't my job, that fashion is my interest, an enjoyable pastime.  Others, whose job is fashion, can bring collections to my attention and immediately react to collections; I can review collections (savour them) at my convenience and leisure.  I am a consumer of fashion.  I don't have to keep on top of things!

blouse: H&M, from my closet
cords: Old Navy, from my closet
belt: Old Navy, from my closet
sweater: Tommy Hilfiger, from my closet
socks: ?, from my sock drawer
boot: Aldo, from my closet

Descriptions

Frumpy and not so smart.  But I want it just the same.

I think that the first time that I wore this suit (with a sheer black blouse, black sandals (very similar to the shoes that I wore today) and black-with-rhinestones cat's eyes glasses), a stranger approached me on the street and told me that I looked like someone from Mad Men.  The series had just begun and I wasn't familiar with it.  I must have looked puzzled by the remark, because the stranger went on to explain that Mad Men was this neat show about an ad agency in the 50s.  It amazes me how clothes can elicit comments (and what comments at that) from strangers.  Incidentally, this little episode in my life was my introduction to Mad Men (for which I am grateful), as I looked up Mad Men immediately I got home that day.

suit: H&M, from my closet
turtleneck: Esprit, from my closet
tights: ?
shoes: Lisanading, from my closet

Oatmeal

Today was one of those days when, when I asked myself what I should wear, absolutely no answer came back.  Rather than panicking, which I sometimes do when I don't have forever to figure out what to wear (which I didn't this morning), I decided to think back to last year, when the weather was more or less the same, and pull out an outfit from then.  After all, if I liked something back then, surely I would like it now.  I did update the outfit a tiny bit, with a sweater that I recently purchased and that I realized today would work perfectly with the rest of the outfit.  Lucky for me the sweater was on my mind (from coming across it while searching for another sweater earlier this week).  Otherwise I may have overlooked it for today's outfit.

I think that the reason I couldn't come up with something new to wear this morning was because there was a ten degree difference in the temperature between yesterday and today -- today being much cooler than yesterday.  There have been so many Summer days lately that I think my mind is now stuck in Summer wardrobe mode.  Lucky for me Summer temperatures are forecast for tomorrow.

jacket: Zara, from my closet

top: Lululemon, from my closet
dress: ?, from my closet
sweater: Gap
socks: Hue, from my sock drawer
boots: Hunter, from my closet
necklace: Aldo, from my jewelry box

Wellies Obsession

I think I have a bit of an obsession with wellies and talking about wellies.  I am going to have to work on this.  In the meantime ... sorry ... I have to mention that I am rethinking wearing wellies just on the strength of a weather forecast, particularly when high temperatures are also called for.  Frankly I feel a bit ridiculous wearing wellies when it is hot and there is no rain.  Okay, now I will start working on the obsession.

The dress that I wore today reminds me of a dress that I used to have a couple of years back.  That other dress was longer in length and made of black linen.  The similarity between that other dress and the dress that I wore today is the criss-crossing straps in the back.  I don't think that I would ever wear today's dress on its own.  Oddly, I never wore that other dress on its own.  I always wore a blouse on top of it.  What does it all mean?  

blouse: Gap, from my closet

dress: vintage (from Sally Jane Vintage on Etsy)
jacket: Gap, from my closet
socks: American Apparel
boots: Hunter
pin: ?, from my jewelry box

Maxi Dress-ing

When long (or maxi) Summer dresses re-appeared a few years back, I thought that I would give them a try.  Needless to say, I didn't mind them at all.  Over the years since their re-appearance, I have acquired a few.  I think that I have four in my closet presently (two of which are recent purchases).  The dress that I wore today may have been my first of the four purchased.  One challenge of wearing maxi dresses is not stepping on the hem; a second challenge, if you wear the maxi dress to work and sit in an office chair with wheels, is not rolling the chair over the bottom of the dress.  Happily, I have conquered both challenges.

Do you think that it is an accident that the colour palette of today's outfit is exactly the same as the colour palette of yesterday's outfit (red, black and yellow -- although there is very little yellow)?  Hmmm.

dress: Zara, from my closet
vest: Zara, from my closet
jacket: Gap, from my closet
socks: Hue, from my sock drawer
boots: Aldo, from my closet
necklace: ?, from my jewelry box
cuff: ?, from my jewelry box

A Few Of My Favourite Things

I seem to have been indulging myself these past few days ... by wearing some of my favourite things.  Needless to say, I generally like everything I wear (otherwise I wouldn't be wearing it), but some things I do like more than others.  Yesterday, I wore an outfit in one of my favourite colours for clothing (red).  Today, I wore a plaid skirt (with a little red thrown in). I can't say it any other way:  I am mad for plaid.  It really wasn't an accident that I wore plaid on Tuesday and a sort-of-plaid on Monday.  Just gimme plaid and I am happy!

After yesterday's revelation -- that I would much rather be caught wearing wellies in dry weather, when rain is forecast but doesn't arrive, than caught wearing other footwear in wet weather, when rain is forecast and does arrive -- you would have thought that I would have worn wellies today, since rain was forecast for this afternoon and evening.  But I did not.  Now I am left with asking myself what I was thinking this morning!  I can tell you it wasn't about proper footwear for rain, that is, wellies!  (It was actually about getting dressed and out of the house fast enough to get in an early morning yoga practice before work.)

Speaking of footwear, and indulging (which I was at the outset of this post), the new Fluevog shoes came in today!  So, off I went to the store!  And, yes, they are home with me this evening!  Both they and I are happy!

top: Jacob, from my closet

jacket: Jacob, from my closet
skirt: Urban Outfitters, from my closet
socks: Hue, from my sock drawer
shoes: Doc Martens, from my closet