Ann's Request: PANK Dress, Plus Buh-Bye Prystens Flashback

This is my last work outfit of the season, and I've saved Ann's request till the very end, as I love this dress. It's nice to end the fall/winter season with a bit of PANK, don't you think? Today, I also said "buh-bye" to these shoes, so we'll have a wee Flashback on them. 

Please visit/follow Ann's wonderful blog here - she's awesome! I know this dress is a favourite of hers, because it's from a Belgian designer - and she's from Belgium! 

• Dress - Essentiel Antwerp, consignment; last worn here in November 2021 with floral and silver
• Shoes - Tudor Prysten, Fluevog; last seen here (2nd outfit) in March 2021
• Coat (below) - Desigual; last worn here

I love the trapeze shape of this fun dress. 

Plus it has pockets!

For those of you wondering why I'm going on about PANK, it's what I call this vibrant, eye-searing shade of pink. 

It's so pink...it's PANK! 

The only downside are the scads of teeny-tiny buttons down the front - that's how it goes on and off, no zipper. Fiddly things. 

I'm wearing a light camisole and a mini half-slip underneath.

Masked up.

I matched my mask to my tights; they've been worn together more than once as you'll see in the Flashback below. 

Outerwear - I was going to wear my black and white oversized plaid coat and then thought, "I need to get another wearing in of this fabulous coat!"

And so I did. 

It's so much better. It's also far too warm to wear in spring/summer - see you in 6 months, awesome jacket!

Accoutrements: 

Did not need the gloves on the way home. 

• Silk scarf - Ed Hardy by Christian Audigier, vintage 90s, consignment
• Gloves - Echo, consignment
• Mask - by Mom

The stuff: 

Conspicuously absent is the shoes, which I did not bring home. As I was about to twirl my dress for colleague Carol-Anne, she saw my shoes and gasped. On impulse, I encouraged her to try them on, as we have similar-sized feet. She loved them, and they fit her perfectly, so I dropped them off with her at the end of the day. Another Fluevog convert, heh heh. I warned her - once you've had Fluevog, you're hooked! 

• Necklace - Trifari, vintage 60s, thrifted
• Earrings - Biko, consignment
• Brutalist ring - vintage 70s, vintage mall
• Gold/amethyst ring - Frances Jewelers, c. 1965, Dad's

And now...

Flashback: Tudor Prysten Brocade Fluevogs

I bought these lovely shoes back in July 2019 here (way down) when the local Fluevog store had an extra 15% off on their clearance - they were a steal at $119.00

I love that rich brocade - roses! 

And the mixed patterns are so cool. 

I bought L the identical shoes (in men's sizing) that same day. We've never worn them together. 

"Be bold, be strong," they say on the soles. 

I love the fabric, and as you may know, I adore a men's style lace-up shoe. 

I wore them a few days later, in early August 2019. 

My lovely pink leather skirt, and one of many turquoise tops I've had over the years. 

I've always picked out the colours in the brocades and built my outfits around those. This was in December 2019.

A bunch of burgundy, gold and cream. 

This is still one of my favourite outfits, from February 2020. 

Today's coat, plus that same pink leather skirt - and recognize the tights? Same necklace too! I know a good combo when I see one. 

The smallest gap between wearings was one month - I wore them again in March 2020.

More patterns! 

Then my wearings dropped to once a year. This outfit - same coat! - is from March 2021, so I didn't wear these shoes for an entire year. 

This is the last time I wore them, and again, it has been a full year between this and today's outfit. That definitely tells me that I just don't reach for them, they don't really work in my wardrobe, and therefore, they really are just taking up space. 

Mathy stuff: Including today's outfit, I've worn them 6 times, so that's just under $20 per wear, and I'm totally fine with that. 

The happiness that these have given my coworker makes me feel great. I know she loves them - her face lit up when I passed them to her - and she confessed she'd been thinking of them all day, and what to wear with them. That's the best "thank you" I could ever get.