My Forbidden Dress Week - I Have Legs

You know it, you love it - Dress Week is back!

Customized by me - the original stars Ava Gardner and is called "My Forbidden Past"

For this week's Dress Week aka "My Forbidden Dress Week", I'll be featuring shoes that did not get worn in the 2012/2013 "30 For 30 for 12" Capsule Wardrobe Challenge.

And the dresses are not really forbidden, but I have a penchant for using movie titles (usually horror movies) for my Dress Weeks. You can check out some of my previous Dress Weeks here (scroll down to "Dress Weeks", duh) - I've been doing them since 2008, making this my 5th year! Holy moly, where does the time go?

Feel free to participate! Wear a dress this week!

I pulled out one of my favourite dresses for today.

This is my lovely blue dress that I wore 3 times in the March 2012 capsule (recap here) - it was most beloved by me (and readers) in this outfit (2nd one down) with my yellow leather jacket.

The cardi we all know and since this is the third wearing of it (following here with the black wool circle skirt, and here with coral and teal), and I shall thusly render my verdict: I am totally keeping it. I love the colours it has in it and the colours it goes with. I had a few compliments on the lovely robin egg blue of the dress with it. Who'd've thunk it? Such a unique colour mix and pattern.

I may have gone with a skinnier belt if I'd realized how short this skirt actually is! Yikes, I felt like Legs McGee at work all day (and yes, my legs are bare).

Thank you all for your input on yesterday's shoes - I did forget to say how they were wearing them all day. They were a bit high, but not too too bad. I can walk in them fine, but not run (yeah, I run in my office sometimes, I'm crazy that way). They don't rub or give me blisters. I'll have to wear them again soon to really assess if I'll be keeping them.

But let us now consider today's shoes, which I haven't worn since I found them in a thrift store back here in January for $18.50.

They are Lauren by Ralph Lauren, and aren't they just a classic pump? They are metallic bronze with a snakeskin on the leather. As I mentioned, I wore them bare, no stockings or tights today - brave of me for a first wear of any shoe. However, I was confident that they would soften over the day and be a comfy shoe.

And I was right! They have broken in beautifully. I'll be wearing these a lot, I'm sure.

Dress (Ann Taylor Loft, thrifted), cardigan (Mexx, consignment), shoes (Ralph Lauren, thrifted), belt/earrings (Plum), bracelet (Club Monaco), spinner ring (Twang & Pearl), red stone ring (Fossil).