What I Actually Wore #0081

Serial #: 0081
Date: 08/08/2012
Weather: 16°C for Cold, very windy and miserable
Time Allowed: 15 minutes

Pants are great for lazy winter days when tights seem too much maintenance, but it’s all dependent on mood, which persona I’m channeling that day. This looks a little bit like winter land girl, with tweed trousers, a cosy cardi, and flat beribboned brogues.

The orange cardigan is by Anthropologie, and I bought it on eBay. At the time I couldn’t decide whether to buy the warm grey version, or the burnt orange and I finally went with the bright pop of colour. Occasionally I wish I had chosen otherwise, as this winter I have gone back to an old love: shades of grey (somewhat less than 50 at a time). As the trousers are wide-legged and loose, I added a double belt for some definition at the waist.

I am wearing a rather eclectic collection of jewellery: my leather necklace knotted with wood and glass ‘beaded beads’ that I hand made myself; my charm necklace and Turkish coin earrings; and the two rings I always wore stacked – the onyx, and the silver concave ring. Sadly I have since lost the silver ring because it slipped off my finger one day walking to work!

The punctured leather brogues I also bought online in a sale store, with the deliberate intention of discarding the boring shoelaces and threading ribbon through the eyelets – not an easy task. I do love that look though – it’s also very land girl: your shoelaces broke? Make do and mend with an old hair ribbon.

Items:

Knit: Kookaï
Cardigan: Moth for Anthropologie
Pants: i67
Hat: Melbourne boutique
Belt: Alta Linea
Earrings: from Palm Beads
Necklace: handmade and collected
Rings: souvenir, Roun
Shoes: Urge