Spring Tulips
Posted: April 4, 2016 Filed under: Clothes, Style Imitating Art | Tags: blue, brown, brown heeled loafers, chambray shirt, red, style imitating art, wrap skirt 5 Comments
Whenever an SIA challenge features a work of art with bright colors, it’s a challenge for me, and this week’s inspiration, a piece of 16th century Turkish tulip embroidery, is no different. As gorgeous as it is, I had no idea how to interpret it, since the dominating color is red, and I have very few red pieces in my closet, and even fewer pieces with a print similar to this. And then I remembered my reversible wrap skirt, with an exuberant floral print on one side and bright red on the other. My plan was to wear the red side with a printed/embroidered top, but after looking more closely at the print, I decided it would be better – sort of like a realistic interpretation of the embroidered tulip, if you will. Then I chose my chambray shirt because the faded blue in the piece looks like chambray, and finished the look with my heeled loafers. This is a looser interpretation than I usually do, but I quite like it.
Don’t forget to drop by Jen’s blog to see how others do with this piece!
Shirt: Esprit, Skirt: vintage, Heels: local shop
I like it too, Salazar. I think it’s a great interpretation and your floral dress has great shades of red that mimics the pattern in the embroidery perfectly. It was a challenging (but beautiful SIA) but you pulled it off perfectly!
And besides, your dress looks very spring-like, which may be just what we need to help usher in spring. I don’t know about Hanoi, but it’s been so cold here the last few days, one would think that we were going backwards in the year rather than forward.
Great interpretation!
I know you called it a looser interpretation, but I think your skirt and chambray shirt combo is totally on-point! You look great! 😀
I second that! 🙂
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