Snow days in Edmonton are about as ubiquitous as grains of sand on the beach, so I don’t take them all that seriously until much later in the game. Like when they dump 2 feet of snow on my driveway. A few inches … eh. Time to wear a dress.

I was especially excited about this particular dress, so I was going to wear it regardless, snow day or no snow day. First of all, it’s hella cute. Check it:

Secondly, it cost me $6 at Value Village. Did I mention it’s a Marc by Marc Jacobs dress? It has a retro-boho vibe that works perfectly with my MJ Kirsten bag. It’s almost as if they were designed by the same person … OK, that was my really lame attempt at fashion humour. Don’t worry, I’m not quitting my day job any time soon.

Especially since I also fail at taking fashun bloggery photos. For the record, this wasn’t an attempt to be cute; my husband had just remarked that my nose would put Rudolph’s to shame, and I was feeling a little, um, self-conscious. Oh well, it all goes with the snow day territory.

I feel like this outfit straddled the line between Willy Wonka-ville ridiculous and pretty cool, and it was the black cardigan that played the biggest role in keeping it in that precarious balance. Sometimes, you just need a little bit of black to keep an outfit grounded.

I have been wearing black and blue a lot lately, and I think it’s starting to affect me subliminally. Or maybe I’m just suffering early winter dysphoria. In any case, this turned out to be a happy blue outfit – mostly because I got a kick out of it’s almost-ridiculousness.