Dec 31st - Outfit #28 & Wild Card #4 - Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you all had a very safe and fun New Year's Eve! 

I've spent today watching an "American Horror Story" marathon (finishing the house one, and getting started on "Asylum") with L, and lounging about, slightly hungover and pretty tired. What a night we had! 

But first, the last outfit of both 2012 and the December capsule:

Flash! Aaah!

And my surprise is - I've gone blonde! Well, strawberry blonde, as the red really didn't want to be bleached out of my hair. I've never been blonde; my natural colour is a medium brown, and I've coloured it black, green, purple, teal, burgundy and every shade of red imaginable, but never blonde. And I say, "Why not?!"

I worked on Monday, New Year's Eve day, and I wanted to be comfortable. It was totally dead at work, so I took the Christmas decorations down and cleared up a lot of little fiddly things so that I could hit the ground running for 2013.

Anyway, the outfit. I wanted to get one more wear out of the Kania Goddess wrap (last worn for a theatre outing, here), and this fabulous blue skirt, which was last seen here with sequins (and a blurry kitty).

The teal shirt was rather under-utilized this month, only worn the one previous time, here, with my grey strapless dress. I enjoy the final week of the capsules, as I really get down to the nitty-gritty over what I'm keeping and what I'm not.

The boots, however, are for-sure keepers! I have worn them a ton of times this month, including the last time just a few days ago for my Smoking Lily shopping expedition, here.

It isn't showing in any of the pictures, but I wore the new pendant that L got me for Christmas; I'm also wearing a couple of blue rings.

Jacket (Kania Goddess Wrap, consignment), shirt (Banana Republic, consignment), skirt (Andre Courreges, thrifted), boots (Prepare Volunteers, Fluevog), necklace (gift from L), rings (Scotland souvenir, Wendy Brandes).

After work, I napped for a couple of hours so that I'd be ready to party in the New Year. We met up with 9 friends and had a lovely dinner at Bon Rouge French Bistro (check out the 'Bistro Interior" on the tour*). We have been having NYE dinners/parties with the same group of friends for five years. Check out what I wore in 2008 (my awesome Betsey Johnson dress), 2009 (a thrifted vintage 70s disco dress), 2010 (a blue/grey/black colour-blocked dress from Plum), and 2011 (my stained glass dress and crimped hair!).
*linking 'cause I love Bon Rouge!

But I know you scrolled down to see what I wore for this New Year's Eve, right? I knew it!

It's not entirely what I'd planned, but I was really happy with it!

This is my new-to-me consignment black leather bustier (purchased here on one of our Nerdy Mission photo days). It was $36.00 and is by Northbound Leather, made in Canada - yee haw! It sells for $182.00 on Northbound's website. Score!

I've layered it over top of a floral sheer blouse (worn in March's capsule). I'd meant to wear just the bustier on its own (screw being 45, ha ha!), but the cut of the bustier was too high for the waistline of the skirt and exposed my sides and back. I didn't want to be that exposed!

I actually really liked the romantic vibe with the blouse, especially with the floral necklace (just purchased at She She Shoes the other day, here) tied onto the vintage 80s Le Chateau top hat.

Okay, the skirt. Pretty amazing, am I right? It's by BCBCMaxAzria and was $70.00 on sale on consignment. Worth every penny. I felt wonderful in this all night, and the pewter leather gleamed - so sexy!

My hair's a little rumpled - I just fluffed it up after my nap. Heh.

I can't wait to wear this skirt again!

I had planned to wear the new lavender booties, but had to factor in all the walking that we did over the course of the evening: walked to town to the restaurant, walked from the restaurant to Randall and Yvonne's, walked staggered home at 3:30am. And in the restaurant, no one even noticed the shoes since we were sitting down. But the lavender booties would have been awesome with this!

The bustier does amazing things to the boobular region...

Instead, I wore my Marc Softwalk boots. Stylish, yet walkable. They were in the October capsule.

Stuff shot!

Put up your dukes!

Bronze lacy leaf earrings, a chunky thrifted bracelet, my leather rose cuff, spinner ring and bigass amber stone ring.

I carried my little steampunk leather purse.

I liked the mix of hard and soft elements in this outfit, and it just may be my favourite Wild Card outfit of the month!

Hat (Le Chateau, vintage 80s), necklace worn on hat (Harriet Grey), blouse (Bianca Nygard, consignment), bustier (Northbound Leather, consignment), skirt (BCBGMaxAzria, consignment), boots (Marc Softwalk), purse (Tina of Montreal, thrifted), leather cuff (consignment), pink/metal cuff (vintage), rings (Twang & Pearl, and vintage), earrings (Plum).

I love that L loves to dress up too!

Kitty coming in for a rub...

L has two zoot suits that he got at a crazy store in Seattle a few years ago. This is his blue one - not worn with the vest, but with another shirt that I got him for Christmas. He's wearing an 80s fedora (one of the only things he still has from when I met him!).

"Purr purr, I love you"

He is also wearing the Iggy Idol Fluevogs in dark red. Fabulous!

Thanks for another wonderful evening, love!

You're the best - thanks for always being my "partner in crime."

Someone was not very happy about us going out - again.

I left the round mirror in because you can see me taking Vizzini's picture.

He came down to see me, grouching and merping all the way.

"I give you dagger eyes! How dare you go out!"

He always sits like that, with his little white back feet sticking out at the sides.

He has resigned himself to ringing in the New Year on his own.

"I will eat your shoes while you're out!"

Again, Happy New Year, everyone! Here's to an awesome 2013!