What I Actually Wore #0077

Serial #: 0077
Date: 31/07/2012
Weather: 15°
Time Allowed: 10 minutes

It was a blustery day with weak sunshine. This outfit seemed just the right weight for the temperature, and I wore it when I was interviewed by a journalist from a local newspaper last year.

The outfit is reminiscent of the 40s, although I can’t date the vintage items precisely. Very likely the hat is 70s-does-40s, and the knit could be from any time in the past decade or three. That particular cut of sleeve with the puff on the shoulder and sleeve tight to the wrist is called a ‘Juliet’ – after Shakespeare’s Juliet that is. It was a very popular style in the late 60s, influenced by Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet. (Incidentally, it was the first movie that made me cry, when I was about eight. I watched it on our black and white tv late at night – undoubtedly long after I should have been in bed.)

My red suede platform heels are amongst my favourite shoes, and certainly have a 1940s look. My trousers though are a little big and must be belted else they fall down – but I love them too much to get rid of them! They are so wide-legged they flap in the wind, and I have almost been squashed by a car because of them, after almost tripping over the yards of fabric while jay-running across a busy road. Tsk tsk! Suffering for fashion …

Items:

Top: vintage
Pants: i67
Belt: vintage
Hat: Otto Lucas Junior, vintage
Earrings: Baku
Rings: (onyx) souvenir, (silver) Roun
Watch: Kenneth Cole
Shoes: Wittner