Seventies Kitchen and an Hermes Knock-Off

I really liked today's outfit - something about the colours evoked a strong bout of nostalgia. It wasn't until I was walking home that I realized: I'm wearing a 70s kitchen!

Yes, red hair is mine once more!

I built the outfit around the new-to-me vintage scarf I thrifted over the weekend. I adore scarves but I'm not too good at wearing them, so I basically just echoed the cowl neckline of the blouse and let it hang there.

The orange top is one that I just love - I last wore it here to a hockey game (man, I look different with blonde hair! It's my 70s Paprika. This orange was everywhere in the 70s. Pretty sure we had plates this colour.

I am so happy to be wearing this gorgeous Noa Noa skirt again. I wore it three times in the April 2012 capsule (recap here). It's been packed away since September 2012, since it's really only good with bare legs - it's quite clingy on tights.

I'm always surprised at the versatility of it. You wouldn't think that chartreuse would go with blue, teal, fuscia or orange, and I've done it with all of those. It's my "Harvest Yellow" (I used to have a fridge that colour).

I wore this olive green blazer as my outerwear while walking to and from work today. I last wore it as a layering piece for bowling adventures here in March.

It's my Avocado. The first apartment L and I lived in had an avocado toilet (and tub and sink)!

The stuff:

My fabulous gold Coach sandals, last seen here last week for our theatre outing to see "Beauty and the Beast." I also did my vintage 70s cuff - how's that for synchronicity?

After consultation with a work-friend who knows fabric and design, and another coworker who knows high-end brands, we concluded that this scarf is not, in fact, actual designer, Hermes or Halston. How did we determine this? Well, it's all in the silkscreening of the pattern.

There's too much bleed-over between colours (see how they overlap, and make a bit of a border, or don't quite line up)? Real Halston or Hermes would never have that.

So it's a knock-off. However, given the very high quality of the silk, and the immaculate hand-rolled and sewn edges, and the raging 70s colour scheme, we did all agree that it's probably a high-end imitation from Japan (where they started manufacturing these post-WWII), and it is probably from the 70s. I think it would have cost much more than the $4.50 I paid for it!

Jacket (RW & Co, consignment), blouse (Michael Kors, consignment), skirt (Noa Noa), shoes (Coach), cuff (vintage 70s, Mom's), spinner ring (Twang & Pearl), ring (Fossil).