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Tuesday 20 February 2024

HOW I STYLED MY NEW LINEN JUMPSUIT

Hello my dear readers, hope you are all well.

This jumpsuit that I recently found in Myer department store was a totally accidental purchase. In fact the reason I was there in the first place was because my younger daughter asked me to return some of her purchases that she didn't have time (they are all so busy) to do it herself.

Besides, the Australian summer is almost at it's end and I was not going to buy anything that will have to wait another 6 months to be worn. However, when I saw this fun looking green belted linen jumpsuit, I couldn't resist its bright print. On top of that, it was hugely discounted that tipped the purchase of it.

There was one feature of it, though, that I was not sure about - thin spaghetti straps which usually means that you can wear a decent bra underneath. However, on a closer inspection I saw that the back panel of the jumpsuit was elastic that tightens up the fabric around your rib cage and keeps everything nicely tucked in place. You know what I mean.

It comes with the belt which is made out of the same fabric which I like, it also has side pockets and closes with a side zipper. Tick, tick, tick.

I had a few ideas of what to wear with it and decided to go for the bold statement. Thus I settled for the red colour shoes and a handbag. If you look at the colour wheel, you will see that red and green sit right opposite each other and thus are called complimentary colours. The best and most recognisable example of this winning combo would be the Christmas colour scheme.

Sadly, these I don't wear these red suede shoes very often so I jumped on the opportunity to air them out. My LV handbag is quite old, alas not vintage and goes perfectly with the shoes. I like the playful vibe behind this outfit. Wouldn't you agree?

Is a jumpsuit your cup of tea? And if yes, would you prefer it to be in one solid colour or print? Please share your thoughts in the comment section below. I really value your opinions, my dear readers.

Outfit details: Jumpsuit (Wayne Cooper), Shoes by Edward Meller - Old (worn here)

Until then,

Anna

xoxoxo

Wednesday 29 April 2020

FLORAL PRINT SUMMER DRESS

Hi everyone, how are you?

Although Australia is in the second month of autumn, we are absolutely blessed with the current weather . The temperature is in the high 20's (Celsius scale) which equals to above 70F, so we still wear short sleeves, shorts and sandals, and the parks and walkways are full of people engaged in all kind of activities: walking, jogging, biking or just taking their dogs for a walk all the time trying to maintain social distancing, of course.

It certainly helps to lift the boredom of lock-down that we all are subjected at the moment and helps us to stay active and positive. However, the main beaches are closed for sunbathing and only open for a few hours a day so people can take a swim and go for a surf in the strictly designated and patrolled parts of the beach and you can't just idly sit on a grass or on a bench and enjoy the sun and the smell of the ocean. Yet, from what I hear about the lock-down rules in other countries across the globe, we are in a much better position, our restrictions are less severe and for that we should be grateful.

Usually, around this time of a year, my summer dresses are all packed away till the next summer yet here I am in the middle of April dressed in my summer best😃. I bought this dress on my last year's trip to Cape Town from a small shop that lined up in multitudes along the beach front of Cape Town when I spotted its bright happy print in a shop window.

It buttons all the way on the front and has a soft belt made of the same fabric which effortlessly defines the waist without creating a distinctive line that visually cuts your body in half which quite often happens when the belt is made of one solid colour.

Keeping up with the colourful palette of my dress, I chose yellow earrings and green bracelets for my accessories and since everyone is dressed casually these days, I decided to be otherwise and wore red high heel painted dress shoes instead. I just refuse to let COVID-19 to take all the fun out of my life 😃😃😃.

Stay safe and keep well

Anna

xoxo

Thursday 31 January 2019

A WRAP DRESS FOR A HOT SUMMER DAY

Hello, everyone. Hope you are all well.

We are in the middle of the Australian summer and the days are extremely hot and awfully humid which is not good for my hair. Regardless of how much time have I spent blow drying it to add some volume, the moment I step outside, it becomes flat and lumpy.

Anyhow, while we cannot control the weather, we are certainly able to choose the clothing that is most suitable for the season and, in my opinion, nothing works better during the hot summer days than a light and breezy wrap around dress. Its V-shaped cut allows the wind to cool your neck and chest while the skirt freely floats around your legs. And to fully embrace the summer spirit, it must be of bright and vibrant colours and prints.

Case in point, the dress I am wearing today which has been in my wardrobe for a couple of years but somehow I haven't grown tired of it. The peacock print, of course, was the major drawcard when I saw it in a window of a small shop in Paddington in Sydney, that is. Besides, I've always loved a wrap dress and every time I put one on, I always thank Diane von Furstenberg for reinventing its design and giving the wrap dress a second life.

The other reason that I am wearing such a bright dress, apart from the weather, is that lately a few good things happened in my household that elevated my mood a lot: this year my youngest daughter graduated from high school (hooray!!! no more school fees), and last week we celebrated her 18th birthday and she was admitted to one of Sydney's university's where she will obtain, upon completion, a degree of Bachelor of Science, majoring in math. I can't tell you how relieved and happy I felt.

Going back to my outfit, as for accessories, instead of trying to tone down the bright hues of the dress, I intentionally chose the most vibrant colours of all. I guess I can partially blame my high spirits for it. My bracelet is of sunny yellow, the hand bag is a deep aquamarine and my shoes are sky blue but somehow it works because that is what summer is about.

"...every time I put one on, I always thank Diane von Furstenberg for reinventing its design and giving the wrap dress a second life"

Wednesday 16 January 2019

HOW TO TRANSFORM LINEN SLACKS FROM DAY TO NIGHT

Hi everyone,

Hope you had a wonderful time over the holidays season and ready to take 2019 by the horns, so to speak. It is not easy to shift your mind back into the grind but I am slowly getting there.

It was one of those days when you planned to do one thing but then something else came up and you had to think quickly on how to make do. Except for having pre-arranged dinner with friends of ours in the evening, our morning and afternoon were wide open and we were thinking of going to the beach during the day when my daughter called me early in the morning asking if I could babysit my granddaughter, Edie, for a couple of hours. She promised to be back well before our dinner time and I agreed, of course.

As they live about 20 minutes away from us by car, I figured that the best way to do both without wasting too much time of driving backward and forward would be for me to get dressed at home for something that I can equally wear while playing with Edie and be comfortable and yet good enough to look nice for our dinner date later on.

As the day promised to be quite warm, I settled for a sleeveless top and light linen slacks that I recently purchased from Uniqlo, a gian Japanese designer, manufacture and retailer of the casual wear. The beauty of wearing linen is not only that it is a natural fibre and is light and breezy but also no matter how wrinkled your clothes might have become, the better it looks. That is the nature of linen. Under normal circumstances, I wouldn't probably have chosen linen slacks for a dinner at a restaurant but I figured that if I wear nice shoes and carry a decent hand bag, I could kill two birds with one stone, figuratively speaking.

Edie and I had a wonderful time together and when the time came to say goodbye, I kicked off my sandals and put on high heel strappy sandals that I smartly brought with me together with my evening handbag and some jewellery and voila, I was ready to go.

Thursday 20 December 2018

BLACK AND WHITE POLKA DOT JUMPSUIT

Hi everyone, hope you are fine and not stressed at all. It is not much to go, a couple of weeks and our lives will return to normal.

Apart from typical Christmas shopping frenzy, I discovered yet another aspect that stresses me out every time I step inside the department store: the abundance of amazing outfits all hanging waiting to be chosen to be worn during the festive season.

And although I already have a dress that I am going to wear on New Year Night, I still can't help myself wandering into a store, having a look around and trying on a dress or two. Surely, we all know that window shopping, as therapeutic as it can be, can't last forever and eventually I ended up with a purchase. I just couldn't resist the urge when I spotted this black and white polka dot jumpsuit (pun not intended).

The last time I bought a jumpsuit was four years ago exactly to the day and believe it or not, it was also in polka dot print but in reverse, the background was white and the dots were black. Moreover, I posted it in my blog on the 18 of December 2014.

You can read the whole post here. Is it a coincidence or not??? Back then the jumpsuit was regarded as a new LBD. Four years later and they are still going strong.

Here is another interesting tidbit: I don't mind jumpsuits, I quite like them but I don't actually wear them which proves the frequency with which I buy them and it was the print that attracted me to the garment in the first place back in 2014 and now and made me want to buy it.

The other detail that appeal to me is the cut as I always like tops with a scooped neck and open shoulders and I was happy to find that this jumpsuit has side pockets.

It didn't require any alterations in terms of leg length, the only thing that I didn't care about was a thin soft belt made from the same fabric and was not doing much for my waist so I replaced it with a leather one.

I am wearing it with my new Alias Mae sandals and Villa sunglasses.

This is my last post of 2018. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

So long everybody, see you all in 2019.

Friday 25 August 2017

MY FIRST CUSTOM MADE SKIRT

Hi everyone,

Hope you all have had a good week.

Pencil floral skirt-black top-Ted Baker hot pink patents shoes

For this post I've decided to change gears and, for a change, to write about clothes that I didn't buy off the peg but rather had sewn by a tailor just for me, hence the skirt I am wearing. I had it made for me when we were on holiday in Bali last year. I don't remember ever going to a tailor in Sydney to have my clothes made to measure as quite often it is more expensive than buying ready-to-wear but it is quite customary for Australians to have our clothes made while on holidays in the countries like Bali or Thailand since it is only going to cost us a fraction of what we would pay back home.

My husband, for example, due to his non-conventional body build, always encounters difficulties when he is on the hunt for a new suit or a pair of dress trousers without having a serious and costly alterations and always looks forward to going to Bali, not just to have great time but also to have his wardrobe re-stocked with freshly made-to-measure suits, pants, dress shirts and sport jackets. Many years ago on our first trip to Bali, we were taken by our driver to one of the many tailoring shops, Anika Taylor and have been going back to them ever since. They provide an excellent and highly professional service and their final product is always of top quality.

What else is good about them is that they work very fast and by the time your holidays are over, your newly made clothes are pressed, packed in plastic bags and delivered to your hotel or villa by their driver.

THIS SKIRT WILL GO PERFECTLY WITH A LOT OF COLOURS DEPENDING ON MY MOOD, TIME OF DAY AND THE OCCASION

We stayed in Bali for 5 days and on the day we were leaving my husband was packing a brand new suit, a pair of trousers, a sport jacket and a couple of dress shirts.

I on the other hand have no problems in buying clothes off -the-peg but when I spotted this fabric at the tailor's shop, I instantly became attracted to it and decided to ask them to make me a skirt out of it. On a close inspection I discovered that this fabric is made of real silk that is smooth and very nice to the touch and I liked that the multi coloured floral motif is printed on a dove grey coloured background that makes each hue stand out.

This means that this skirt will go perfectly with a lot of colours depending on my mood, time of the day and the occasion. If choose to wear something bright, I would pick up one of the colours from the print and pair the outfit with a nude or dark solid coloured shoes.

Alternatively, If I want to have some fun and I will opt for a bright coloured shoe like today, and then my top would be of a more conservative colour such as black or dark grey.

Not wanting to make things too complicated, I settled for a simple straight style skirt with not very high slits on both sides and let the print do the talking.

Linking up with Patti from Not Dead Yet Style, Cherie from Style Nudge, Nikki Boucher from Elegantly Dressed and Stylish
Till next time,
Anna
xoxo

Thursday 17 August 2017

LONG LIVE PANTS TWO WAYS

Hi everyone, hope you are all having a good week.

If you are a regular reader, you shouldn't be surprised at seeing me wearing yet another bold print outfit.

While my fellow bloggers who live in the Northern hemisphere are looking for clothes that they can wear in Fall, we, Australians, can hardly wait for summer to arrive which is hopefully not to far away.

So I would say it is high time for us to revise our summer clothes and make the necessary adjustments, in with the new, out with the old, hence these new Long Live Pants from Sass and Bide.

As my husband rightfully observed, I do have quite a few pairs of stripy pants in my wardrobe but I somehow managed to convince him that these are "the same, same but different".

It is not just the bold print that caught my eye but also the way these pants are constructed. The stripes are not just running all the way down from the waist to the hem but are interrupted by the chevron-style panels that are in turn divided into front leg splits generating movement within the wide leg design. They also fitted with an elasticated waistband that could come pretty handy after a couple of drinks or a heavy dinner.

As I always expect my clothes to be versatile and adaptable and I knew without a doubt that they would look great worn casually with a plain t-shirt and a pair of flat sandals, I wanted to see if I can get more out of them. So I put them to the test.

For the first, summer look, I paired them with a white sleeveless top with a knotted detail at the front and a pair of Dolce and Gabbana slingback shoes in bright orange colour that have been in my possession for a few years but never failed to attract attention and have earned quite a number of compliments.

In the last few weeks I have noticed a significant number of blog posts and Instagram images containing outfits and footwear in orange colour. I think it just shows how many of us, present company included, love the presence of this vibrant hue in our wardrobes and rightfully so as this colour is associated with meanings of joy, warmth, sunshine and happiness.

You might heard me saying before that good shoes can make or break an outfit and having a good pair or two of great shoes should be considered as an investment that over time will deliver you the best return.

In my second test I wanted to see if I would be able to up-scale the pants into the more elegant outfit by adding a light touch of elegance and sophistication in the form of long string of faux pearls, a long sleeve silk blouse and a pair of DVF kitten heels and I think they did well.

I think my newly acquired pants passed the test with the high score. With a little effort I achieved two different looks that I will be able to wear on multiple occasion. Both of them, however, have a a common link- my fashion style and personality.

Which look do you prefer and why? Please let me know

Until then

Anna

xoxo

Linking up with Fashion Should be Fun, High Latitude Style, Fashion Princess, Not Dead Yet Style, Style Splash

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