Category Archives: Remix

May(de): Breakfast at Tiffany’s

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Cardigan: Remixed

Blouse: Dorothy Perkins

Skirt: Target

Tights: Sussan

Shoes: Wittner

Lol, you’re seeing a lot of this blouse, huh? I love the scalloped peter pan collar, it’s ultra-cute and perfect for layering. I bought it a size smaller than usual, then sewed up the front so that the buttons didn’t gape. I do this a lot with button-up blouses, as they always seem to be either boxy and shapeless, or gapey around the bust.

I’m wearing it with one of my all-time favourite cardigans, which has had several different incarnations since I first bought it.

It’s the first cashmere item I ever bought myself – it was seriously on sale from 8Inkerman (now Eugenie Cashmere) and it was the most perfect tiffany blue, and SO soft. As soon as I got it home I replaced the plain buttons with sparkly little rhinestone numbers.

A year or so later I discovered that Baby Suki had been using it as a jungle gym and had managed to snag a hole in the bust. Instead of throwing it out I appliqued a ribbon over the top of the hole. It’s made the cardigan considerably less versatile, but it’s still the most buttery soft thing I’ve ever worn.

Ruby Romantic

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Top: Dorothy Perkins – remixed

Skirt: Mokkafiveoclock

Shoes: Wittner

Melbourne’s having yet another cold snap, with temperatures hovering around the twenty-degree mark, but this is unashamedly a warm-weather ensemble.

Which today was decidedly not.

I got struck down with a KILLER lurgie over the weekend, and spent most of the last four days laid up in bed feeling sorry for myself while The Sophisticate looked after me. As a result, this outfit (actually Friday’s) is showing up on the blog a bit late.

Something about this bright red circle skirt screams summer. It arrived in the cooler months and I tried my best to winterise it, but in the end I had the resign myself to the fact that it would have to have to be shelved away until it it got hot.

And now it’s cold again.

Still, there’s a fair bit of summer still to come, with lots of opportunities to wear the skirt, and when I’m sweating through my fourth 35+ degree day in a row, I’ll be thinking longingly back on this cool-not-cold weather.

Earrings: Ruby Dalmation

Meanwhile here’s another sneek-peek Wedding would-have-been.

I bought these earrings thinking they might do well as my wedding earrings, but I think they’ve been deemed not-formal-enough. Oh, too bad, so sad. It means I get to wear them straight away! Hurrah!