What I Wore: April 12-25

Wild Thing

You guys might be wondering why I’m still posting outfits like it’s the middle of winter and that’s because, well, it still is in my neck of the woods. We have had something like 170 consecutive days of below 0 Celsius weather since last October. It snowed 2 days after I took this photo. I am so DONE. Ahem. On the plus side, my coat game has never been stronger thanks to thrifting, so I’ll take every opportunity to bust out my pieces. This Zara leopard print number always gets a ton of compliments. I don’t generally like to wear leopard print, but this is a muted version (if there is such a thing) so I like it a lot. It’s a boxy cut, which helps somehow. When the Adventurer is feeling Sassy, this coat comes out to play. I paired it with the usual – chunky knit, my everyday Madewell boyfriend jeans. In this case, even the bag and boots are thrifted, which means I was wearing head-to-toe thrift to go … where else … thrifting.

That Weird Capelet Thing

… is that I call this, um, weird capelet thing I’m wearing here. It’s a cropped cardigan version of a capelet. Parts of it look like they’ve been spray-painted gold. It’s weird and amazing. Since that was my starting point, I figured I may as well go for broke, so I added some more gold into the mix. Nobody wanted to buy this Madewell shimmer tee on the ThriftRats shop, so I decided to keep it for myself. I like the – wait for it – boxy cut though the material is a bit stiffer/rougher than I would like (even with the lining). I still think it’s a keeper because the aesthetics of it are intriguing. I would say this fits the Prince pretty well; there is a kind of knight-ish edge to this outfit. It’s that weird capelet thing, I’m telling you.

Culottes, Again

I bought these culottes because they challenged me; I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with them, which normally would be a reason to NOT buy them except we live in a brave new world now, baby. And by “we” I mean “me”, and by “brave” I mean … well, “trying to be different and cool”. I’m all about the non-conventional, yo! Anywhoo, I did what they also say you shouldn’t do, which is pair voluminous culottes with a voluminous sweater. (Eileen Fisher, of course. I am fully committed to this Eileen phase of my life.) Did I look a bit like a potato sack? Maybe. I think this is an outfit that looks better in person/in motion, but it’s definitely not figure-flattering in any traditional sense, any way you look at it. And that’s okay! I really enjoyed it.

(It’s an Artist kind of outfit, I think, in case you were wondering.)