What I Actually Wore #0045

Serial #: 0045
Date: 20/09/2010
Weather: cool night, about 14°
Time Allowed: 20 minutes

Monday evening is usually not a going-out night, but I had two events scheduled: the 2011 Season launch at the Melbourne Theatre Company, and a reunion dinner at a Nepalese restaurant with an old friend who hadn’t seen her martial arts club buddies for the better part of a year. Quite different company at each event, and I wanted to look respectable for each.

The outfit started with the boots – and they had to: these were major boots after all. A male friend exclaimed at the end of the evening when I rose from the dinner table, (to paraphrase an old Aussie film), “They aren’t boots – those are boots!” It was the height of the over-the-knee boots that dictated the length of my skirt, and I tried on more than one. I finally chose against the black option, and went with the taupe pointelle knit. It was still slightly too long, so I had to roll it up at the waist.

A male friend exclaimed at the end of the evening, “They aren’t boots – those are boots!”

I deliberately chose a coloured knit top to pair with it (after discarding a black, then a tomato red, and the black again). I am not usually this indecisive! I liked its structured shape, and the puffed and pleated sleeves – a design more usually seen in blouses than soft knits. The colour, ‘air force blue’ as Wikipedia describes it, is not my best, so I decide to wear my white fur pompom scarf to brighten my complexion.

As a final touch I tied on a tan leather obi belt, although it serves a more functional than decorative purpose: it holds up my skirt, which is a little big! I shrugged on my trusty beige wool coat with its double zips and rushed out the door.

Items:

Knit: Stella
Skirt: Ojay
Coat: Obüs
Scarf: Ginger & Smart
Belt: Urban Originals
Boots: Zoe Wittner
Earrings: Baku
Ring: NGV giftshop
Watch: Kenneth Cole