Orange You Glad It's Friday?

Hello, and happy weekend, my friends! I had to search and see if I'd used this post title before and...I kind of did? I did an "Orange You Glad It's Monday?" outfit here in 2014. Bah, everyone knows Fridays are better than Mondays!

Today's outfit is inspired by the call for monochrome (aka single colour) outfits from Nancy at Nancy's Fashion Style and Shelbee of Shelbee On the Edge for their Good Buy/Good-Bye series (link here). I usually forget to do these until the posts go live, but this time, I did it! 

Mostly, because I do love a monochrome look! 

Way back even earlier than my last "Orange You Glad" post, I did a whole week dedicated to monochrome outfits, appropriately titled "Monochromania!" (link here for all of the posts). I did grey, white, purple, blue and surprise! Orange! 

• Blazer - InWear; last worn here (2nd outfit) in July 2020 for a little consignment shopping in tulle
• Silk blouse - Zoe + Sam, thrifted; last seen here bookending houndstooth in April 2020
• Skirt - Max Mara, consignment; purchased here for $27.00
• Shoes - Vagabond, consignment; last worn here in September 2020 with a floral denim dress
• Leather trenchcoat (below) - thrifted, vintage 70s; last seen here on Monday

As you might have realized, I love mottos (hee), and the one that best applies to this outfit is "always be upgrading" - if you take a look at my last all-orange outfit (here in 2013), you'll see my beloved tweed orange skirt, which I had for many years before it really started to wear out. 

This new-to-me Max Mara skirt is my upgrade and falls into the "Good Buy" side (nothing in this outfit is a "Good-Bye"), since it was only $27.00 second-hand consignment at Turnabout. It's wool, lined in silk, and it's thick and gorgeous and designer (so, you know, KLASSY). And yes, it really is a dark orange (like the shoes), not red, although it does skew slightly red on-screen. 

So, how to do a monochome look? Assemble all your colours! 

I liked how the skirt and blazer went together - they are distinctly different, but they go. 

"It doesn't have to match; it just has to go" - another one of my beloved mottos. 

At first, I had my orange cable-knit sweater (this one) ready to go with this, but the overall look was too much orange of the same tone. It also felt too casual, and the cable texture fought with the pebble texture of the skirt. I wanted the skirt to shine. 

I woke up thinking of this neon orange silk blouse, and easily swapped it out for the sweater, layering a rust camisole under it. 

I'd also considered rust-coloured tights, but again decided it was too heavy visually, so I just wore nylons. 

I don't like the jacket done up - double-breasted styles are difficult on us curvy gals. 

I only wore it like this when I had my coat on.

Masked up - first wearing of this perfectly matching "flame" patterned one from Mom. 

All the orange! I felt awesome in this all day, and saw a few coworkers briefly, many of whom commented on how nice it was that I was wearing "real" clothes. Yeah, you know I shared my "Life is short; wear the clothes" motto with them!

Outerwear - it was raining this morning, so I have my usual rain gear.

I added my orange leather gloves, and my cream/brown/orange scarf, plus my hat. It was clear by the time I left the office - we even had some sun today! 

• Hat - Edward Mann, vintage 60s, thrifted
• Scarf - Lanvin, vintage 70s, consignment
• Leather gloves - thrifted

The stuff: 

These shoes are almost a perfect match for the skirt - I love this rich, dark orange. 

Orange bling: 

I considered doing all copper accessories (I love copper and orange together), but when I spotted my "Jell-O Shot" necklace in my jewelry box, I knew I had to wear it. I have gotten amazing wear out of it, considering I paid $5.00 for it about 5 years ago. 

• Necklace - Banana Republic, consignment
• Earrings - thrifted
• Silver/crystal ring - Soul Flower
• Amber ring - c. 1996
• Bronze ring - P. Sarpaneva, c. 1970

On Thursday, after our bi-monthly cleaner visit, I walked to town to get groceries, followed by my Mental Health Walk. I spent the afternoon de-lighting the trees, and then thinking about how I could keep some of the lights up without my house looking too Christmassy. 

I left one string of the curtain lights on the bar. Nothing's been rearranged or put back since I cleared it for my decorations back in November. 

L and I have been talking about revamping some of our big living room/dining room area. I'm feeling a strong "nesting" urge now that we're going into winter, and I am mulling over what I want my nest to be filled with. 

We spend most of our time in this space, either chilling with Vizzini (the cuddle benches), playing games, reading, listening to music and watching TV/movies. 

I pushpinned about 5 of the LED strings of white lights from the big tree under the valances that are over our windows. I wrapped them around the mirror, thinking wistfully of parties. The corner is quite bright, and I'm still deciding where that big crystal vase still full of lights is going to go. 

I love the ambience of a movie theatre, and I like dim lighting when I'm Netflixing, so I put more lights under the valences in this section. Yay, this makes me so happy!

Vizzini has his big post back in the corner again - he's been scratching away at it like it hasn't been right there in the bedroom for the past 2 months, and he's been anxiously checking out the neighbourhood to see what he's missed. Surprise! No more leaves on the trees. 

Well, I'm off to enjoy my twinkly lights right now, and will be back on Sunday with tales of adventure. Have a lovely weekend, everyone, and thanks so much for stopping by.