Channeling Chanel: Tweedy Textures

I'm a huge fan of suiting pieces, even though I have very few actual suits in my closet right now. Here's my shot at combining two tweeds to make their own pseudo-suit.

 You know I had to wear this ruffled tweed jacket right away!

• Jacket - Dex, consignment; purchased yesterday here for $28.99 
• Sweater - Gap, thrifted; last seen here (3rd outfit) for tea at the Abkhazi Gardens in April
• Skirt - J. Crew, thrifted; first worn here with more neon yellow in March
• Shoes - Bebe Effortless, Fluevog; last seen here in April with black leather pants

I was inspired by seeing a Chanel black tweed pouffy skirt in Turnabout yesterday (I really wanted it, but not for $500+!!), so played up this Chanel-inspired jacket with even more tweed.

 I let my two tweeds do the talking. They're loud talkers.

I loved this jacket - like Vizzini, I attacked it with scissors, and trimmed all the extra-long threads. I shed a few threads throughout the day as well.

 The ruffles in the back are the best part!

The jacket doesn't do up at all, so I just went with a plain white sweater underneath to ground it.

From afar, these tweeds kind of go, especially with that ginormous creamy-light yellow flower on my lapel.

But up close, they are even better.

I neglected to give y'all a close-up of the texture of the jacket when I bought it, so here you can see the bright neon red, woven with chunky white and a darker red. The skirt also has that neon red and white in it - that's the key to mixing: colours in common!

The stuff:

I am not sure why I didn't keep a pair of red heels out in my spring wardrobe, but these bright pink ones worked fine.

Creamy bling:

Per Coco Chanel's famous quote,“Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off,” I kept my accessories to a minimum.

• Flower pin - Le Chateau
• Earrings - Aldo

Bigass flower, and bigass pearls. Nothing else needed!