Fancy Friday: Jammy Stripes and Yellow Ballet Flashback

Hello, my friends! It's Friday and I'm so glad - it's been a physically demanding week, and I just need some chill time. 

Another jammy dress to the rescue! I look classy, but there's really nothing to it. It's still a Fancy Friday!

• Dress - Eliza J, consignment; last seen here in August 2019 with pops of yellow
• Shoes - Karl Lagerfeld; last worn here a couple of weeks ago for a shopping expedition
• Bomber jacket (below) - Le Tigre, thrifted; last seen here in May with the jelly-deer sweater

I spent most of my day crawling under desks (ugh, so many pairs of shoes) and putting people's personal detritus into boxes. I have one more floor to go.

I also Teams-bombed one of my onsite coworkers and waved to my remote colleagues.

Anyway, yes, the dress! Isn't it pretty? I love a classic fit-and-flare shape like this and the stripes are so jaunty.

I'm completely uncreative and have always worn yellow accessories with it, due to the yellow border.

I should really try orange or pink or emerald green with it, just to shake things up. Red would look awesome too.

As this is only the 3rd wear, and both previous outfits were nearly identical, no Flashback. Maybe in a few years.

I layered my bomber jacket over it for sun coverage - the navy blues matched exactly.

I had pockets in the skirt (nice deep ones!)...

And pockets in the bomber jacket. This is also only its third wear - will it last and become a closet classic? Only time will tell.

I had to take my cuff off to put the jacket on. How I SUFFER for fashion! Hee hee!

The stuff:

I would have suffered more if I'd worn my pointy yellow heels with this outfit - I was on my feet almost all day. However, I have worn these ballet flats a ton, so we're going to have a Flashback on them shortly.

Predictable bling:

My yellow "set".

• Cuff - thrifted
• Leather belt - vintage, Liz Claiborne, thrifted
• Bakelite earrings - vintage 60s, vintage fair
• Lapis lazuli ring - Wendy Brandes

Flashback! 

These yellow ballet flats were the result of some browsing at the Bay department store in late July 2017 (here) - I was grabbing at all kinds of things from the sale racks to try on, until I reminded myself that I would rather make most of my purchases second-hand. I stopped and put back everything, but not these.

They are leather! And look at that colour - such a wonderful lemony yellow. They were discounted to $41.40 from the original $115.00. As you can see, they are by Karl Lagerfeld - swanky! That combination - good quality materials (comfy, long wear), excellent price and okay brand (I know it's all mass-produced) - made them a worthwhile purchase.

I wore them right away, in August 2017 with my Spanish ladies dress, which is another jammy dress that I have yet to wear this year.

 Ooh, my hair is so purple there!

I wore them again in August to go draw at a sunflower farm with Mom.

They were immediately comfortable, and of course, as we all know, yellow is a fabulous neutral.

For Vero's birthday party, in September 2017.

 I gave that Ted Baker dress to Caro.

Later in September, I was looking to the weekend.

I love pink and yellow together - this is such a cool look. I have my yellow Bakelite earrings on there.

If I have to walk somewhere in the hot months, I often turn to these shoes.

"Heh, the Woman doesn't even know I'm here."

This outfit was worn to the theatre with Mom in May 2018. Nice matchy purse!

On the other hand, this is totally a weekend look - very chill and comfy. I probably went shopping in this.

 Also in May 2018. That skirt has a bit of yellow in the pattern.

With my purple tiger blouse again. Another shopping outfit.

They're a perfect match. This was in August 2018. 

From May 2019, again picking out a colour from a pattern. 

This looks like a weekend outfit, but it could easily have been worn to work on a Casual Friday.

Going with all yellow-chartreuse-green tones here, also in May 2019.

 Very flowy and comfy. This is a casual work outfit.

This was an outfit I wore to the Ulti field in June 2019, and out for lunch after the game.

I probably went thrift shopping after! I miss my old weekends, but the new ones are still pretty good.

A pretty work outfit, in August 2019.

Once you have yellow shoes, yellow patterned clothes just magically appear!

Getting one last wear out of them in September 2019, before I pack them away for the cold months.

I love the bright cobalt blue with yellow.

So much, that I did it again in April 2020.

Loads of colour!

And here's the last time I wore them, for my last shopping trip to Turnabout earlier this month.

These shoes are still going strong, although there are small scuffs on them, and both the toes and and heels have small scrapes in the leather, but it's not super-noticeable. I will wear them to death over as many spring/summers as I can!

Mathy stuff: The current outfit is the 15th time I've worn these, bringing my cost-per-wear to $2.76. I'm very pleased with that!


Bonus cat pictures! Vizzini hid from the cleaners on Thursday morning.

"I'm supervising from under the bedcovers."

Uh-huh. Sure.

Later, there was some vigorous toe-licking going on out on the deck.

"Do you mind? I'm having a pedicure."

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone! Thank you so much for stopping by.