Fall Outfit and Super Fine Cardinal Flashback

Fewer work-days means fewer outfits, so I'm still slowly working through all my still-unworn items from off-season purchases and recent shopping trips. Today, I built my outfit around this new skirt. 

Yes, I have a streak of pink in my hair - I tested a new colour (I like it).

It will be going into my fall/winter wardrobe, as the darker colour mix and overall style reads more cooler weather to me. I wanted to get a wearing in anyway.

• Jacket - Vivienne Westwood Anglomania, consignment; last worn here in January with punk plaid and roses
• Sweater - Bleu & Gray, thrifted; last seen here (4th outfit) for Winesday in September
• Skirt - Cream; purchased here for $9.99
• Shoes - Super Fine Cardinal, Fluevog; last worn here with red ruffles in March

I don't have a ton of brown, dark red, grey or leopard in my closet right now, so I pulled out a basic black cotton short-sleeved sweater. Easy!

Added this grey funky jacket to pick out the grey in the skirt pattern.

It's a little chilly in my office, and I'm not moving around as much as I usually do.

 A jacket is needed.

I liked this skirt, but it doesn't feel very springy to me. This is totally a fall outfit.

It'll look good with some of my fall boots.

And a nice chunky sweater or a velvet blazer.

Ready for the rain.

That's my galloping horses silk scarf (from France, KLASSY), to go with the equestrian vibe of the chain/tassel pattern on the skirt. The brown/cream pattern also works with the leopard in the border.

• Scarf - vintage fair
• Hat - Edward Mann, vintage 60s, thrifted

The stuff:

I knew I wanted to wear my chain gold jewelry with the skirt, and if I'm gonna wear all that gold, may as well wear my gold shoes, right?

Gold bling:

Armour, more like. 

• Necklace - Givenchy, vintage 80s, vintage fair
• Leather/chain cuff - local
• Ball cuff - Butler Fifth Avenue Collection, consignment
• Chain bracelet - thrifted
• Earrings - vintage fair

Flashback! 

As the other items in today's outfit are either new-to-me or fairly recent acquisitions, we'll take a look at these shiny gold Fluevogs, the Super Fine Cardinals, which I've only had in my closet for 15 months. How much of a workhorse could gold shoes be? Hmmm...

These are last year's anniversary gift from L, purchased at the Fluevog store in Gastown, and I wore them right away with my teal fringed dress and my brand-spankin' new-to-me PANK wool moto jacket, both purchased that weekend in March 2019. 

These replaced my coppery-gold Big Presence Desmond pair (these ones) which had always been a smidge too small on me, and were also a wee bit too high for regular daily wearing. I gave them to Cat after I found these beauties.

I adore a gold or metallic shoe - they go with everything!

 Like a pretty navy blue dress with a bit of gold in the pattern. This was in April 2019.

When you don't have a pair of shoes that matches, gold works great instead as a neutral.

 I need to wear that fringed/beaded/velvet kimono again soon! This is from May 2019.

What colour goes with yellow? Gold!

Taking my cue from the gold zipper pull, this is jammy dressing at its easiest. This was in June 2019.

And here's another yellow dress, which I wore to the theatre with Mom in September 2019.

I kept the previous yellow dress; this one reads a little too "Disney princess" for my current taste.

"I don't have any navy shoes to match!" Gold will work instead!

They look quite classy there in November 2019.

Gold shoes are also fabulous for parties. Add a patterned dress, some gold accessories, and you are ready to rock.

This outfit was photographed on a cold sunny December 2019 afternoon for Terry's party followed by a very late in the evening party at Nick and Karen's.

And here's the last time I wore them, in March 2020, with this new-to-me red dress.

Again, just a few other gold accessories and I'm good to go.

These shoes were $379.00 new, and today makes the 9th wearing of them, bringing my cost-per-wear to $42.11. I can easily see my wearings climbing into the 40+ range over the next several years. I definitely get a lot of wear out of gold shoes - I'm really pleased that I've worn these 9 times in a little over a year!