What I Actually Wore #0091
Serial #: 0091
Date: 02/09/2012
Weather: 19°
Time Allowed: 10 minutes
It is Father’s Day and I am dressing up for a family day at my parents’ house. It isn’t terribly warm, but it is nice and sunny. The outfit starts with the vintage red velvet jacket, which is a newly arrived purchase I made on Etsy, from a Canadian seller. It makes me think of a pierrot with its trapeze shape, feather pompom buttons and cuffs. I fell in love with it the minute I saw it on the website, and purchased it immediately – I had to wait nearly six weeks for it to arrive though, the slowest international mail service I’ve experienced.
Red always looks lovely with grey, and is one of my favourite combinations. The skirt is by Danish label Staff (now called nü), which I purchased in Dubai when I was holidaying there years ago. Such details as pin-tucking, pleating and gathering sumptuous always attract me. (I am also wearing a medium blue long-sleeved, ruched top underneath the jacket.) I love that the red stockings exactly match my T-bar suede heels – a trick that makes one’s legs look longer.
The handbag is also vintage, and is knitted from plastic cord! I have had it for years, and it is always a conversation starter. The purple velvet cap trimmed in feathers is another vintage purchase from Etsy. (On the day I clearly had my hair up, which always looks better with 50s hats.) The bauble drop earrings I made myself, using sterling silver beads and vintage enamel beads in blue with embossed silver stars on them.
I spotted an abandoned stack of mattresses in my parents’ neighbourhood, and thought it would be rather amusing to play princess and the pea for the afternoon, with my niece snapping the photos. (You can see another version here.)
The Princess & the Pea :: Wonder // W40 // No flash
Items:
Jacket: vintage
Top: Anthropologie
Skirt: Staff (now called nü)
Stockings: The Sock Shop
Hat: vintage
Sunglasses: Calvin Klein
Bag: vintage
Earrings: handmade
Rings: Roun (silver), souvenir (onyx)
Shoes: Wittner