Thursday, December 9, 2010

Out With a Bang! - A Whole Lotta Frosting

Okay, have to make this quick as we have to eat dinner and go to our Strata AGM. The joy.

I was happy with this outfit. After all the cake and frosting discussion (and strangely, I am not craving cake AT ALL) yesterday, I resurrected this "cake" dress:
Can you believe I haven't worn this in a year? What's wrong with me? Clearly, I am deranged.

I enjoyed playing with layers with this - button-down shirts (this one was first worn here), once my sworn enemy, are now a staple for layering under my sweater dresses (and are good for showing off L's cufflink collection).
I felt too exposed in the middle (and lumpy) from the shirt, so I added the bustier over it (last seen for Hallowe'en - look out, costume pictures), and my bigass belt. I love the striped tights with the plaid.

Iced it all with the shiny shoes, two necklaces and the cufflinks:
This just didn't look right to me without all that blingy goodness.

The stuff:
The shoes were last worn in May with my groovy London dress (here). They are up high in my closet and I totally forgot about them!

The shiny stuff:
I've worn that pair of necklaces together for years.

The cufflinks are from the 50s-70s and feature hematite (known as "Alaska black diamond" back in the day, I believe).
They are stamped "Senator" which was by Sherman:
Nice.

Dress (Vero Moda), shirt (Ann Taylor, thrifted), bustier (Le Chateau, consignment), tights (Filodoro), shoes (BCBGirls), necklaces (Plum and Jacob), earrings (Aldo Accessories), cufflinks (Senator by Sherman, vintage).

13 comments:

  1. Sheila this is marvelous layering !
    Seriously ever single piece was added so very cleverly.
    WOW.
    BTW I went to see two individual singers that had one show.
    If the tickets had not been free I would have not gone. The gal was from Puerto Rico - Olga Tanon and the dude was Colombian. Yawn.

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  2. This is such a stellar display of layering! I love it all!

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  3. Great cufflinks. You have style, lady!

    For Christmas, I asked for the coolest pair of cufflinks; they're sold by MLB. They're made of a piece of a baseball that was used in an actual baseball game. An identifying number on the links tells you which game they were used in and the links themselves are very attractive.

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  4. Thanks, Lorena! Gee, it's like I planned it, hee hee.
    Ah, I hear ya - still, you looked fabulous.

    Alison, thanks!

    'Doll, I've never seen another one like this since. I do love it, though.

    Shy, thanks. Wow, those cufflinks sound amazing! I hope you get them! That's so cool.

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  5. Every little piece of this outfit is great! And cufflinks? Complete winner :-)

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  6. This is great outfit. The tights and cufflinks are such clever touches and it all works together so well. I love the palette too..what a marvelous cake composition!

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  7. Super outfit - understated and overstated in one! Classic "you" :D

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  8. What a great outfit and especially love the shoes!

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  9. Thanks, Trystan! I am a huge cufflinks fan.

    Baxter, thank you! Cake for everyone!

    Thanks, Tat - I think you could recreate this pretty easily with your awesome dress collection.

    Hi, and thank so much for commenting, Donna! Thanks - I do love my funky shoes.

    Thanks, Northmoon!

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  10. Go Sheila! A bustier for work? I love it. It works so well layered over the dress.

    I love hematite, it's a great stone. It's such a beautiful black stone.

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  11. Megan, but of course! Always gotta push that envelope, right? I've worn this several times to work. I like hematite too.

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