What I actually wore #0023

Serial #: 0023
Date: 04/02/2009
Weather: forecast 31°, morning a cool 19.5°
Time Allowed: 10 minutes

This outfit was built around the pants, which I think are adorable. Karen Walker described them as ‘plus-fours’. The Runaway label features an illustration of a little ragamuffin with all her worldly goods packed away in a square cloth that is dangling from her walking-stick. Cute as a button! … And she is embossed on the gold button too.

The fabric is also sweet – dark olive checked lines on army green, with tiny maroon flowers scattered all over. I love the stretch cuffs on the pants too. (The last time I wore these pants was in Vietnam a few months ago when I was having a combined mani/pedi. The two lovely girls attending my limbs giggled excessively over these stretchy cuffs.)

Occasionally I like to be naughty with my prints, so I decided to wear a blue top from Cue; the baby cord is printed with an art deco style pattern. The top actually flares out, so had to be tucked in, or I would have looked like Tweedledum. (Not Tweedledee, needless to say.)

As a counterpoint, I wore my heavy onyx bead necklace (read more here). The blue-green beads are so delicious I could almost eat them. I like that they are made from onyx beads I bought from completely different markets across the globe: the black from Stanley Market in Hong Kong, the green from the Blue Souq in Sharjah (one of the United Arab Emirate states).

Items:

Top: Cue
Pants: Karen Walker Runaway
Earrings and necklace: green onyx from Sharjah, black onyx from Hong Kong
Rings: green stone ring from Dittoday, silver rings from Roun
Watch: Kenneth Cole
Sunglasses: agnès b.
Shoes: Zoe Wittner