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In the interest of offering you some content here, without my having to write many words. . . . a few What I Wore photos snapped over the last two weeks or so. I'm really tempted to delete that simpering selfie, above, but it gives the best sense of the sweater's drape, the curve of that high-low hem. I'm afraid those Fluevog loafers are entering their last days, and I wish I could find a replacement as versatile and comfortable. I bought the jeans (Denham) in London six years ago, and they're only this last year really beginning to fade noticeably -- a bit shocking, really, to think how much wear we pay to have knocked out of most of our denim. . . The sweater (which I generally have to wear over a t-shirt or other inner layer) was bought in Bordeaux, 2015, and the scarf is Club Monaco, at least three years old. I'm often happiest in outfits that comprise mainly garments and accessories I've had for a few years yet still feel current in.
I finally dropped my (J. Crew) pea jacket off at the drycleaners -- poor thing spent much of the winter waiting on a hook by the door, supposedly for me to grab it on the way out. Even after I managed to get it to the cleaners, it took me three weeks to get 'round to picking it up! Do you do this too? I mean, really, how busy can I be?!
Perhaps as punishment for my procrastination, two days after I picked the coat up, so pleased to have had the cleaner sew a button back on for me, another button popped up. I have to say, owning two of these J. Crew peacoats (remember
this turquoise one?), that while the quality is otherwise very good for the price and the jackets do seem to wear well, I've had at least five buttons pop off between the two coats, and with very little provocation. Any sewist knows that special care needs to be taken with metal-shanked buttons -- someone should tell J. Crew!
Otherwise, though, this is another outfit I felt good in recently, again comprised of pieces that I've been wearing for a while: my one and only Hermès scarf (a birthday gift way back
here), the peacoat, the striped T-dress I got last fall, and the Vince sneakers whose soles I've almost worn through. (Yes, replacement shoe shopping is definitely in order very soon.)
I have done a bit of shopping lately, so it's not all old favourites. These (J Crew) boyfriend chinos caught my eye as a nice change from jeans, yet with the same ease.
Wearing them with a navy Bompard v-neck, tissue-weight, which I bought last fall as a replacement for the same model I'd bought five or six years ago and worn and washed to a felted frazzle. My bad.
I'm starting to think about replacing my moto-style Mackage jacket -- it's got a few small rips now, and I notice there's a grease stain on one sleeve (and the leather on both sleeves is noticeably faded). At seven years of being worn at least twice a week through most seasons, it doesn't owe me anything, but I'm not in any rush to chuck it out. . . It took long enough to find a fit that works for my short waist; I rather dread having to do that again. Plus I prefer a worn-in look in this style, but I want the "distressing" to be done by me, through day-to-day wear. For now, at least, this jacket stays in circulation, rips and stains notwithstanding.
Below, since I chopped off my head in the photo above. . . the state of my grey and length of my curls these days. . .
And one last series, just to show you my new ever-so-comfortable, unquestionably fabulous, splurge sweatshirt from All Saints.
I love the shape, the fit, the colour, the subdued neutral-toned drama of that beast. The ribbing on a sweatshirt too often says discouraging or downright nasty things about my short waist, so when I tried this on I was very tempted to get a second one (different graphic, in grey very similar cut). Thus I have earned the added bonus of feeling virtuous about my restraint in purchasing only one, even though I fired up my charge card....
Again, Vince sneakers, Denham jeans, all the tried and true. . . .
And to head out into the day's rain (because honestly, that seems a constant lately), a two-year-old trenchcoat and a silk organza scarf I bought on that trip to
Paris with my sister a few years ago. You might note that I've tried a different cuff on my jeans here -- I rather like it, and it's simpler to achieve than the roll in the photo above.
The outfit above got me to a local café yesterday where I hunkered down at a table and wrote enough words for my own writing project to get it back on its funny little track after almost two weeks of being shunted to a holding yard. I didn't really need to "dress up" for that, obviously, nor, if I'm honest, for much of what I do these days, but I like a bit of polish to my casual, I guess. What about you? What activities are you dressing for these days? Work? Play? Baby-sitting the grandkids? Milking the cows? (okay, that was a wild card, but who knows!) First day at grad school? A presentation to your local municipal council? Grocery shopping? Looking for a gallery or local restaurant to display your artwork?
And are you gravitating to wardrobe stalwarts of some longstanding? Or are you liking the lift of the new? A mix of the two? Do tell. Never mind those young men with their thoughts of love; in Spring, what does a Woman of a Certain Age's "fancy turn to thoughts of"? (or, if you're in the other hemisphere, at the other transitional season, feel free to substitute Fall for Spring).
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