Shoes My Husband Hates: Marine, Caramel and Floral Platforms

Having someone pick out one element of my outfits for five days is an easy way to boost my creativity with outfits! 

Example: this outfit! Not terribly creative, but since I just wore these shoes a week ago, I would have normally bumped them to the bottom of the (very informal) rotation and not worn them again for a month or more. So many shoes, so little time!

I adore this beautiful marine blue blouse; it's not quite navy; it's got more green in it. I haven't worn it since October 2013, here, with a sleeveless vest I got rid of. I prefer it worn on its own so that you can see the great fit and nice micro-pleated collar. It's a very unusual blouse.

Another wear of this silk skirt - see me stylin' the pocket? Why don't more skirts have pockets? I last wore it here in May with teal and red underthings.

The skirt has a really small waist, so I liked having the thin leather obi over the waistband.

The stuff:

Ah, the shoes. Comfy again - and as noted, I just wore them last week here, with my red dress. That outfit - and these shoes - inspired this week's theme, so let's see what L has to say about them.

These "walk the plank!” shoes are partly on me. I have a slight colour blindness which makes the straps on these shoes come out looking various shades of brown, when I suspect they are actually much more vibrant. However, even if I could properly appreciate the colour, I’ll never appreciate the solid wooden heel nor the thick, square finish to the tips (I prefer a pointy toe for both ‘his’ and ‘hers’ in shoes). The rivets down the side just add more clunk – they’d be more at home holding down a tarpaulin on a cargo deck.

Well! Tell me how you really feel, L! The leather straps on these are of course coloured, in shades of pink, red, teal, soft green and a bit of caramel. This is why I have to help L match shirts and ties: the poor man is colourblind.

Copper bling:

I can see myself taking the picture in the copper ball of the necklace.

I forgot to take my necklace off for the "stuff" shot, above. I love copper jewelry!

Blouse (Mexx, consignment), skirt (Boss Orange by Hugo Boss, consignment), shoes (Faith Hi Lo Reumah, Fluevog), belt (thrifted), cuff (Matisse, vintage 60s), earrring/bracelet (Renoir, vintage 60s), necklace (vintage 70s).