Inopinate – November 18
For a regular Wednesday at the office, I felt like dressing up for no good reason.
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Dress et al: Previously posted grey dress from H&M, with a winter twist. I layered the previously posted almost-perfect white dress shirt underneath, and added grey stockings to reinforce the winter look. After I put together the whole ensemble, it reminded me so much of my school uniform that I was tempted to put on canvas shoes and carry a backpack.
Shoes: Burgundy wedges, seen earlier. Since my feet mysteriously shrank an entire shoe size last year, I have been slowly retiring shoes from my collection prior to said mysterious event. This is the last pair left, and it works perfectly with this outfit. But alas, today had to be their last day with me. They will be missed.
Accessories: An old chunky beads necklace in a nice deep red to tie in the shoes. Other than that, nothing special.
Except for the shoes being way too big to walk in, the outfit was comfortably stylish. And, when people asked me if I had come from a job interview, I cryptically answered “Yes.”
Educated Tatya 11:02 pm on November 18, 2009 Permalink |
Oh! This is so adorable and ironic. I love.
karpelsyndrome 3:33 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink |
Lovely school-girl-innocence-imbibing work outfit.
f 3:40 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink |
Lovely outfit – very like something I would wear, but I don’t think stockinged toes go with peeptoes, IMHO. Have you tried toeless tights? But I suppose it would look odd to have your whole leg covered and just the toes naked, especially with black tights. I think they work well with flesh-coloured tights.
inopinate 11:45 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink |
Thanks, all!
F: Funny you should mention that; I had actually typed up a mythbuster sidebar for that in my description, but ended up editing it out. Stockings can be worn with closed as well as open toe shoes. No stockings with open toe shoes is one of those old school rules like no white after Labor Day.
weewoman 12:41 pm on November 20, 2009 Permalink |
Hmm…I tend to agree with inopiate on this one. I have been wearing stockings with peep toes for a while because I have some lovely peep toes that I don’t want to stop wearing in the fall. Now socks with sandals…THATS another story….
f 4:56 am on November 23, 2009 Permalink |
You girls are probably right. If I had to, I suppose it would have to be a seamless toe. See, for me, and I’m not a fashionista by any stretch of the imagination, it is the equivalent of wearing socks with sandals (which I have done at some point in my life – kill me now!). Mythbusters sounds like a fabulous section to have G!