Peacock Blue
I recently added this wonderful vintage London Fog wool coat to my winter arsenal, and my only regret is that its colour is impossible to photograph. It’s much more saturated in real life, and a perfect deep turquoise-with-green-undertones. I love it so much, and it really brightens up a grey day. I would love to do a fully monochromatic look with it some day, but finding this exact shade of blue/green is incredibly difficult, it seems, even at thrift stores (where variety is the order of the day, every day). Anyway, I used to be the kind of person who only bought black or neutral coats, but don’t be like me and sleep on the possibilities of a brightly coloured version. I am actually still hunting for a replacement for my old MaxMara camel coat, but in the meantime, I’m having fun with something a little bolder.
Sparkle & Shine
Winter is the season for sequins. It’s not even just the association with the festive holidays; sequins twinkling remind me of sunlight on snow. I hate snow, but I will grudgingly admit that, in the dead of winter (before the melt), it can look very pretty. Probably not rainbow-coloured, but that is where sequins are superior. I did a stripe-on-stripe outfit here, and I was very pleased with it.
Bloomsbury Girl
Hopefully you don’t get whiplash from all the back-and-forth, stylewise, that’s happening here. Some days, though, one craves a little bit of neutrals. Beige doesn’t have to be boring. Okay, it usually is (to me), but I love this Anna Suit crochet top and silk-wool Claude Poitras wrap, so I am making them work. The outfit ended up feeling evocative of the Bloomsbury Group (maybe I’m still secretly obsessed with Living in Squares), which I enjoyed very much. Most of my Bohemian outfits are usually every colourful, but this was a lovely change of pace.
Not So Fast, Buster
… because, yes, back to colour again we go! Candy stripes and abstract faces? Why not. I like that the unifying colour in this outfit is white. White always feels fresh when used intentionally like that. While I probably wouldn’t have worn this outfit at the office, I love that I could wear it at my home office; it makes me happy.