What I actually wore #0010

Date: 30/10/2008
Weather: 30°, windy
Time Allowed: 5 minutes

When I was little I had a favourite blue dress that I loved chiefly for its sleeves: when I lifted my arms they arced like wings, so I called it my angel dress. Perhaps that childhood nostalgia attracted me to this pretty top with its intricate folds like origami.

I call them angel sleeves but they are sheer hell to iron!

This outfit began with the top, and I decided the soft grey needed to be teamed with something equally dulcet, and settled on an old standby, my very old Obüs skirt (the second to appear in this journal). The wonkily-shirred ‘underskirt’ of cotton voile I don’t even attempt to iron.

I pulled everything in with a leather obi – a nice cultural tie to the origami sleeves of the top.

Items:

Skirt: Obüs
Top: Veronika Maine
Obi: Witchery
Shoes: Paolo Bondini
Earrings: handmade by myself (SS and FWP)
Headband: Lady Jayne