What I actually wore #0018

Serial #: 0018
Date: 16/01/2009
Weather: 21.5°
Time Allowed: 5 minutes

This outfit is all about the blouse. I love that word: it is so old-fashioned, but really fits because of the enormous frill cascading down the front. I feel like a flamboyant native parrot, proudly puffing out its chest.

I came across it whilst browsing in Shag one lunchtime. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular, but that’s when you find the best things, isn’t it? The racks there are bursting with colourful goodies like a lolly shop, but the vivid turquoise – my favourite colour – caught my eye. I tried it on immediately and just as quickly decided I had to own it. Although it is over thirty years old, its puffed and pleated sleeves instantly modernise it, bringing it in line with the volume seen in recent seasons.

I feel like a flamboyant native parrot, proudly puffing out its chest.

Another favourite colour of mine is burnt orange. It isn’t often in fashion so whenever I see it, I snap up an item, such as this silk skirt from Hannii. The plain A-line shape complements the complicated blouse, which, let’s face it, could be something Penelope Keith’s character Margot in The Good Life would wear while swanning about. This dangerous potential for prissiness necessitated an antidote: my stomping black heels. I love a bit of contradiction in life – it keeps one from being predictable.

Items:

Blouse: Edith Hart, vintage
Skirt: Hannii
Shoes: Zoe Wittner
Earrings: vintage
Watch: Kenneth Cole
Rings: Roun