What I actually wore #0017

Serial #: 0017
Date: 13/01/2009
Weather: yet another scorcher… 37°
Time Allowed: 5 minutes

The normally unreliable meteorologists had predicted another sizzler today, but since we’d been having a streak of hot days I knew they would be bang on the money again.

On a hot day a dress is the best option, and since – as per usual – I had not left myself much time to dress in the morning, it took me about two seconds between eyeing this dress and whipping it off the hanger. Although it’s lovely vintage polyester, it’s a loose-fitting shift so I figured it would be cool enough. I found it in the Salvo’s a year or two ago priced at about $10.

The pattern reminds me nostalgically of the Viennetta icecream of my seventies childhood.

Once upon a time I wouldn’t have touched such a dress with a barge pole simply because of its fabric, but I took an immediate liking to it when I saw it on the hanger. The pattern reminds me nostalgically of the Viennetta icecream of my seventies childhood. That’s why I picked the white patent wedges: they’re like a delicious dollop of whipped cream, the finishing touch to an indulgent dessert.

A purely practical accessory today, the umbrella (another vintage find, this time on eBay) nevertheless didn’t create quite enough shade to protect my legs as I walked home after work, when the temperature peaked. I could feel the heat radiating up from the concrete sidewalks. I really love the contrast of colours though: the turquoise a solid block of coolness against the richness of the coffee ripples. Icecream anyone?

Items:
Dress: vintage
Shoes: Scanlan & Theodore
Umbrella: vintage
Sunglasses: Agnès B
Earrings: vintage
Watch: Kenneth Cole
Rings: Roun