Baby Your Blue

I never thought I would ever like baby blue. 

But, tastes change. What you hated once, you now love. Like baby blue. Who knew?

• Blouse - no label, vintage 80s, thrifted; last worn here in March for our weekend in Vancouver
• Jacket (below) - Club Monaco, thrifted; last worn here a couple of weeks ago with mom jeans
• Skirt - Melanie Lyne, consignment; last seen here in April 2015 with conservative white
• Shoes - Effortless Vivian, Fluevog; last worn here for the first day of the April capsule

The observant will have noticed that I wore this blouse a lot in the Feb/March capsule. I don't have that many blouses, and frankly, this April capsule is bugging me. I want everything to go together like it did last time and it's just not. However, this is why I have my loosey-goosey rules about changing things up. I can wear this blouse if I want to, because I love it! 

There is a black "racing stripe" down either side of the skirt that you can barely see here.

I've only worn this skirt 4 times since I bought it, which is not very much. It wasn't part of this capsule originally, but the skirt I'd picked out (this one) just wasn't appealing to me. And if a piece isn't rockin' your world, what do you do with it?

You give it away! Into the pile it goes, no regrets. I'm grooving on pencil skirts and pouffy skirts that hit at the knee right now.

This skirt has a bit of baby blue in the pattern (along with rust, brown, tan, white and black), and I really loved how it worked with the Victorian-inspired blouse and the mod 60s-flavoured shoes. It still hits quite low on my hips, but the blouse is long enough not to untuck if I bend over, so we were good.

I wore this jacket as my outerwear for walking to and from work, and for walking to and from our other office in the afternoon. I left it on after that.

Long jackets are going to be a thing again, mark my words.

The stuff:

These patent leather shoes are very stiff, but are softening up as I wear them. Today was the first time wearing them barefoot, and I have two blisters on my toes to pay for that. That's really not too bad considering I did wear them for a full 8 hours today.

Baroque bling:

I would call this a simple necklace - one bigass piece does all the heavy lifting in the accessory department.

• Necklace - Banana Republic, consignment
• Earrings - don't remember

 My little monster was watching me reproachfully as I got ready to leave this morning.

"Seriously, you're going to leave this cuteness?"

Sorry, bud. Try not to shed too much on those benches.