What I Actually Wore #0055

Serial #: 0055
Date: 25/12/2010
Weather: 26°
Time Allowed: 30 mins

I very rarely specifically go shopping for something to wear on Christmas day, but it’s equally rare that I would not have some new vintage item in my wardrobe that I have not shown off to anyone yet.

This year it was a purple tissue-thin taffeta silk frock I’d bought in a vintage boutique. I have no idea which era it is from, and suspect it might have been a custom-made bridesmaid’s dress, since the cut is quite conservative. The vivid lilac and mauve shot silk lifts it out of the ordinary though.

The plunging v-neckline needed something, and I chose a purple necklace of clustered flowers that is always startling. At the beginning of the day I stacked a pair of onyx bangles on one wrist, but they crashed together so ominously I was terrified they would smash, so I swapped one bangle to my left hand. (Normally I would never wear a bangle and a watch on the same wrist – although why I’m wearing a watch on Christmas day, I can’t fathom – maybe because I have to train it there.) A vintage 50s silk summer coat and dark green satin pumps completed my Christmas outfit.

Items:

Dress: vintage, from Fat Helen’s
Coat: vintage 50s
Necklace: Diva
Earrings: hand made by me
Bangles: Vietnamese souvenir
Watch: Kenneth Cole
Shoes: Sportsgirl