Mar 1st - Outfit #1 - Blue, Bugs and a Bust

Pending my February re-cap (which I will be doing on Saturday), here is my new March capsule wardrobe! 

23 clothing items...

and 7 pairs of shoes:

 And without further ado (because it's late and the wine calls), here's Outfit #1:

I'll be incorporating a lot of Smoking Lily pieces from their sale last month, but I actually decided to do a cohesive colour theme this time around, to see how that would go. I picked blue, olive and red (with a few pieces of black). The blouse is silk and was $15.00 - wow! What a deal!

This is my vintage 80s high-waisted Gianfranco Ferre wool skirt (bought back here in 2009, detail pictures), last worn here in April 2010.

Isn't the blouse pretty? I love the deep U neckline and the sweet little puffy sleeves. It's actually quite long - hip-length - and I'm looking forward to wearing it untucked at least once this month.

I'm on a non-roll with my tights - yet another pair that popped a hole. However, I've had these for at least a year, so I know I got plenty of wear out of them.

My office was chilly today, so I ended up wearing the olive jacket all day - I last wore it here in September.

I liked the blue and teal together quite a lot and got a few compliments on my outfit today.

Sorry about the colour on this one, but it shows the nice hand-done silkscreen pattern:

The black spots are flies (yes!) and the cross-hatched circles are done in an olive green shade. Cool, eh?

The stuff:

The Smoking Lily belt worked perfectly with the top, with its gold moths and the blue lines (gee, it's like they were made by the same company or something). I went with more gold with the big leafy earrings and the chunky chain. 

This is the second wear of these shoes that I got via trade-in on consignment back in November (seen here), and unfortunately, they are the first item so far this year to be removed from a capsule due to Condition Issues. I kept feeling little "rocks" inside the shoes all day, and when I finally examined them, I found that the side leather seams had split and the material inside that was holding the sides up rigid was disintegrating.

Sad! So they are going into the donation pile and another pair of shoes will take their place. Aw...

Jacket (RW & Co., consignment), blouse (Smoking Lily), skirt (Gianfranco Ferre, vintage 80s, thrifted), belt (Smoking Lily, consignment), shoes (Marina Luna, consignment), bracelet (Club Monaco), earrings (Plum)