Today’s outfit ended up being particularly cheerfully coloured. Which was some compensation for it being a grey Friday at the end of a long week, at least.
Shawl – Galathea
Jacket – Debenhams
Brooch – Susan Sharpe on etsy
Dress – East
Tights – M&S
Boots – Duo
I haven’t worn this skirt since last year, because the back seam had come unstitched just below the zip and the end of the zip kept popping through. Which took about five minutes to fix, when I finally got round to it at the weekend. Why do I always put off mending?
Shawl – Citron
Jacket – Debenhams
Top – M&S
Skirt – charity shop
Boots – Duo
The trouble with work is it leaves me so little time to get on with the things I really want to do. I can knit socks on the bus, and read in bed at night, but there’s no time on weekdays for sewing or working on bigger knitting projects or organising things or generally pottering about contemplating the state of my crafty navel. So I’m glad today is Friday, even though the weekend is so short.
Shawl – Godiva
Brooch – Susan Sharpe on etsy
Necklace – charity shop
Dress – People Tree
Things on my to-do list for this weekend include:
-catch up on sleep
-buy storage boxes
-transfer pile of bags of jumper-quantities of yarn into new storage boxes
-tidy up craft bookshelf
-photograph and blog finished socks
-crochet round neckline and front edges of Cria
-sew buttons on Cria
-photograph and blog Cria
-print and trace Birgitte Basic Tee pattern and have a go at FBA
-try to work out how to do twin-needle sewing on my machine
-work on socks with deadline
…does that sound doable? Or completely bonkers?
I’d envisaged myself wearing my Isaura with brown, or maybe purple, but holding it up against the dresses in my wardrobe revealed that it actually looked fabulous with my red dress, and frankly red and orange felt like just what I needed to combat the January gloom (yes, it’s nice that it’s not raining, but it would be even nicer if there was a bit of sunshine instead of dreary grey skies, and if it got light before I get to work in the mornings).
Mind you, I didn’t realise until I saw the photos how much like a cocktail I looked!
So, I survived the Organised Fun and am now on holiday until the second of January, hurrah! I will be knitting and blogging about knitting, but this may well be my last outfit post of 2012. It turns out that even though my normal work wardrobe is quite smart these days my choice of outfit for a ‘casual’ day is still not entirely dissimilar to a smart one; shorter dress, leggings instead of tights, casual boots, but along the same lines. Lots of people were wearing jeans but my jeans are really just pottering-round-the-house-wear and are certainly far too much in need of a wash at the moment to have been worn to work.
Shawl – Elektra
Necklace – East
Dress and leggings – M&S
Boots – Duo
I’m shattered now. Maybe I’ll just sleep until January.
Tomorrow is our departmental Christmas lunch, which is going to be bookended with Organised Fun of the sort that makes my heart sink a bit (though I was pleased to hear this afternoon that at least the planned treasure hunt round Oxford has been revised to a treasure hunt in the Ashmolean Museum, given the weather forecast. I’m sure it’ll be fine really), and for which the dress code is casual, so this is my last smart work outfit until 2013. Perhaps fittingly it’s a completely typical winter work outfit – dress, jacket and boots (in summer it’s dress, cardi and mary-jane shoes). I do wonder whether I should make the effort to dress more interestingly, but there are a lot of advantages to having a kind of template for an outfit in mind that you only need to slot the individual pieces into. Especially at 6:30am in winter when sunrise is still an hour and a half away and I’d much rather still be asleep!
Necklace – made by Helen
Jacket – Debenhams
Dress – LK Bennett
Camisole – M&S
Boots – Duo
Apparently this is shaping up to be a week of green and purple combinations. I wonder if I could manage all five days, and if anyone else would notice if I did? (Apart from you guys, obviously.)
Jacket – Debenhams
Necklace – made by Helen
Dress – charity shop
Tights (merino wool) – M&S
Boots – Gabor
Having put together an outfit in shades of green today, I added a purple jacket on a whim and didn’t even think about Suffragettes until mid-morning. I must be losing it. Still, I like the combination of colours anyway, though the jacket is a slightly odd fit – I worked out today that the problem is that the back neckline is too high so the shoulders end up pulling back rather than sitting neatly. I love the colours, though.
Jacket – passed down by friend
Necklace – East
Top – clothes swap
Dress – East
Tights – M&S
Boots – Duo
These are my new boots, which arrived on Saturday. I’m now feeling rather overwhelmed with choice in the boot department, having only had access to one pair for a couple of weeks; I got my black boots back on Friday and the local cobblers have done a fantastic job of reheeling and resoling my tan ones (in less than 24 hours and for less than £20, too!). It was hard to decide which to wear first!
I picked a brightly-coloured outfit for what started out as a very gloomy Friday; I was in the office at five past eight wondering if it was ever actually going to get light, as it still seemed to be pitch dark then. And even though it did eventually get light it was dark again well before I left for the day. No wonder I need bright colours to keep me going!
Shawl – Elektra
Cardigan – clothes swap
Dress – East
Tights – Monsoon
Boots – Duo
I asked T to take my tan boots to the cobblers today, so I wore my casual Duo boots instead. They aren’t necessarily too casual-looking for work, but they’re a bit roomier than my smart boots so I can wear them with handknitted socks, which means they flap around with just tights. I wore socks as well as tights today, but I don’t really like doing that as my feet feel quite constricted in tights and socks. Happily, my black boots are now back and fixed, and even more happily the local cobblers told T that my tan boots would be ready tomorrow (I reckon this either means that they’re very good or very bad, and am hoping it’s the former!). Less happily, my new boots have yet to turn up and if I’m going to have both my existing pairs fixed before they turn up the purchase seems rather extravagant, but I’m sure they’ll be lovely when they eventually do turn up.
I don’t know whether it was just adding a jacket, or possibly wearing the Soviet nuclear scientist’s lapel pin I was given by Crinoline Robot, but today I was perfectly happy in my red dress.
Jacket – Debenhams
Necklace – made by Helen
Pin – giveaway
Dress – LK Bennett
Vest – M&S
Boots – Duo
The pin is tiny, but I love that it’s a piece of genuine Cold War history.
(Photo borrowed from Crinoline Robot due to my inability to take decent close-up shots – I hope she doesn’t mind, but I really did want to show you the detail.)
I do like red and purple together, and felt particularly chic when I was out and about in my lovely purple coat, with my purple Kipling handbag and the purple laptop bag I just bought to carry my notebook and papers to meetings held in different buildings to the one I work in, because my handbag doesn’t have room and I hate having to carry a notebook and papers around loose, especially in the rain.
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