What I Actually Wore #104

Serial #: 0104
Date: 25/12/2012
Weather: 22°C / 71.6°F
Time Allowed: 20 minutes

Everything’s vintage on this Christmas Day except for my shoes, and the outfit started with those. Then one day, when I was killing time in the city in the vintage store Shag, I came across this Fifties ikat print blouse. I was quite breathless, because the print seemed a perfect match for the shoes! Excitedly, I told the salesperson, and he became quite enthusiastic too. I had to try the blouse on of course, and then look the shoes up online to show him. (You can see the shoes a little better here.)

The heels of the shoes are gold, so I chose my Indian gold foil rah-rah skirt to wear with the ikat pair – it’s such a festive skirt. I had bought it secondhand years ago for a friend’s wedding for $20, and it has seen a lot of use since then. It’s so much fun when you stumble serendipitously across those quirky items that you fall in love with at first sight, and they stay in your wardrobe forever.

As it was not a warm day – and indeed turned quite cool by the time I travelled home – I wore my vintage Seventies pink silk coat over the top, carried a Fifties cane bag that matched perfectly. My jewellery was also vintage aurora borealis rhinestone earrings and ring.

Mum exclaimed in delight as soon as she saw me – an unusual occurrence. I knew she had a bit of Bollywood lurking in her!

Items:

Coat: vintage 70s, from eBay
Top: vintage 50s, from Shag
Skirt: vintage 80s, from Brotherhood of St Laurence
Bag: vintage 50s, from Etsy
Earrings: vintage 50s, from Salvos
Ring: vintage 60s, from Salvos
Shoes: Wittner