What I Actually Wore #0086

Serial #: 0086
Date: 18/08/2012
Weather: 13°
Time Allowed: 15 minutes

It was a rainy Saturday afternoon and I was going to see the MTC play Queen Lear (based on Shakespeare’s King Lear with females in the roles of the King and his three sons). The outfit was built around new accessories – a piratical Betty Jackson necklace, and bright pink suede boots.

The necklace (I vaguely recall it was called ‘Key to Your Heart’) is pretty demanding and needs to be worn with something plain, so I wore a black knit and a stone coloured linen skirt. (That skirt, deemed dowdily past its best years, has since been passed to the charity store.) The black knit is a very old favourite I bought in Hong Kong.

The little wool felt calot is vintage 1940s, and I have had it for years – it was one of my very earliest vintage hat purchases. I have always liked it because the little flowers remind me of Mickey Mouse ears. I very rarely wear yellow gold coloured jewellery, preferring silver, and have little to choose from. The gold coin earrings – my very first purchase on Etsy years ago – seemed to match the treasure-chest themed necklace. One of the heart cabochons has flipped around – it has little glittery pink lips on it! (You can see a better pic here.) I do heart it, I must say.

Items:

Knit: Max & Co
Skirt: Country Road
Stockings: Columbine
Hat: vintage
Necklace: Betty Jackson
Earrings: vintage
Ring: vintage
Shoes: Solestruck