It’s a gloomy Sunday post Christmas. I need to clean up my closets and make space for what I will inevitably buy at the sales. So, it’s time for me to look honestly in the wardrobe, then the mirror and ask: Should it go to the Oxfam? Re-invent it with new styling? Be remade – i.e. cut up and remodeled? Put in the Tickle Trunk until it becomes stylish again?
Usually YYZ helps me in person. However, that pesky ocean separates us. So, we’ll use this space and your input to decide.
Black Raw Silk Coast Bubble Skirt
History: I bought it to wear to a co-worker’s wedding almost 5 years ago. In fact, I said hello to Paul Weller in this skirt. Sadly, it was never been featured here when it was in style. Below I have exactly recreated what I wore (except tights and jewellery) to that wedding.
Today: Love the material. Hate the length and I feel the style is dated. J thinks it looks like a jiffy-pop popcorn pack.
Tomorrow: What should be done? If you do suggest keep, please provide styling suggestions.
Grey and White Pinstripe Trousers by Daniel Hechter
History: I believe I bought these babies in Edmonton Winners. I think it was while I was travelling Canada as part of “eBay on the Road”. I had lost my suitcase and needed an outfit quickly. Winners did the trick.
Today: Well, see for yourself. I can’t find them once on this blog. So, I guess I haven’t been wearing them much. I think when I have been wearing them, it’s been more of an Ellen-style than a heels and dress trousers version. Anyway ….
Tomorrow: Could I make them in to shorts? Or could I restyle or just pitch. Thoughts.
Okay, that’s enough for today. I’m going to keep this feature up as I have a lot of items that need to be considered. YYZ, I’m looking for at least you to vote and comment. I suspect that might be all the interaction we get 🙂
Trousers, no. I like them, but they are too big for you, I think. Why wear something that looks okay, but not amazing? You are so cute, there is no need for you to settle for just “okay.”
Skirt is a keeper. How do you feel about it with a chunky knit sweater, opaque black tights and your awesome little pony-skin ankle booties from Holt’s? Maybe do grey on top, wear the laminated silver scarf I gave you for Christmas and wear it to, say, Spitalfields market on a Sunday.
Don’t have a chunky, fisherman knit-type sweater? Wear a t-shirt or two and a cropped denim jacket with a big scarf and a cute woolly hat. Same booties as above.
Dress it up? Okay, try your black and cream ankle booties (the ones that nearly kill me with the pangs of jealousy they induce every time you wear them) or the zebra skin ones you got that time in Soho with Bass & I, a fitted little black blazer over a tiny white T, tank or lingerie-ish camisole.
How’d I do? 😉
Awesome!