Challenge Week! Friday: The Casual Uniform

And we're done! Challenge Week is over, and thank you to everyone for your rockin' suggestions. I liked all of them, and I might do a special post in the next few days to show how some of them would look or my interpretation of them.

This is a long weekend (Thanksgiving) in Canada, and it being my birthday on Sunday, I took Tuesday and Wednesday off as well. So, I won't have as many posts next week, and I might need to shake it up and have fun on Monday. We'll see.

Anyway, today's winner is Christine Priem! She said, "I recommend your black & gray striped long-sleeved shirt with a burnout print tee on top (a while ago you had one that was watercolorish with a gray and black abstract design) with your orange denim skirt (if you still have it!) and tall black boots. I love how you layer tees!"

Well, I don't actually have this tee anymore, Christine (it was always a little tight in the boobs, so I gave it away to a friend), but I have everything else! Here you go: Gray striped tee, layered t-shirt (my Leonard Cohen "Beautiful Losers" tour shirt) - both worn together for the first time here, in 2009 - my orange cord skirt (third outfit down), and tall black boots.

I wear these boots all the time. I decided to do my over-the-knee socks with this outfit instead of tights. For one, that's a more "out there" look for me (especially now that I am nearly an old bag of 44, hee), and it's good to push the envelope that way. For another, I liked how the stripe on the sock echoed the stripes in the long-sleeved tee.

Wait, I need more cat with this ensemble!

Inigo was actually very lovey with me. He gives good snuggles. Vizzini wanted to join the party, but I can't hold both of them.

I added my leather python print jacket for my outerwear:

I last wore that jacket in February (2nd outfit down) - I can't believe I didn't wear it all spring! And my grey fingerless gloves. As you can see the danged socks slipped down really fast!

Christine, drop me an email and we'll start the conversation on what your prize will be from my closet! Thank you again for the awesome suggestion.

Jacket (Bebe, vintage, thrifted), long-sleeved tee (Majestic, swap from Caro), tee (Leonard Cohen tour shirt), skirt (Jacob Connexion, thrifted), socks (Steve Madden), boots (Aldo, consignment), belt (Gap), necklaces (Plum, Jacob, Lavishy).