Under The Sea
Posted: May 20, 2013 Filed under: Clothes, Style Imitating Art | Tags: blue, brooch, green flats, lobster skirt, orange, orange tee, style imitating art 5 Comments
My initial plan for this week’s SIA, inspired by the illustration in David Wiesner’s book Flotsam, was pretty simple: orange and blue, done. But then I remember that I have the perfect piece for this – my lobster skirt. Before Debbi and I moved home, we decided to make matching skirts (using the tutorial from What Would a Nerd Wear) and got this lobster fabric from JoAnn because it looked fun and Debbi comes from a lobstering town. But we procrastinated so much that Debbi went home, taking her sewing machine with her before we could actually make the skirts, so I asked a friend to finish them for us. We almost wore them while we went to Ha Long Bay last summer, but in the end decided that we needed to be a lot drunker to make matching lobster skirts work 😛
Stop by Animated Cardigan to see all the other interpretations of this illustration!
It was so hot, I had to accessorize with a huge palm-leaf fan
Shirt: Old Navy, Skirt: gift (since I didn’t actually make it)
Brooch: vintage, Flats: borrowed from my sister
14 Shades Of Grey 
I love that skirt! I alllllmost bought some lobster pants last week. Now I wish I had!
You have a lobster skirt?????????? You are the best!!!!! I have a whole collection of lobster paraphanali (or however you spell it?!) x
Love it! My husband’s family is from Maine, so I’m all about lobster stuff.
Excellent! I love your lobster skirt, such fun. The outfit is great, I hope you wear it ‘normally’, too!
a lobster skirt, what an amazing item! also loving your brooch and the color combo!