Blue Enamel

Posted: June 17, 2019 | Author: Salazar | Filed under: Clothes, Style Imitating Art | Tags: beige heeled sandals, blue, brooch, mustard wide-leg pants, navy print sleeveless blouse, style imitating art, yellow | 6 Comments

Confession time: I didn’t wear this outfit for SIA. I had a different outfit in mind for this week’s SIA, inspired by Van Gogh’s “Still Life with Blue Enamel Coffeepot, Earthenware and Fruit“, including this pair of mustard pants (another pair of wide-leg pants, I know, I know), my blue gingham shirt, and black heels. Alas, I didn’t get a chance to even wear the outfit, let alone to take photos of it, because I spent most of last week taking care of my dog, who got into a fight with a neighbor’s dog and was bitten pretty badly. Thankfully, the vet was able to stitch her up and she is stable and eating again, but it was quite a stressful couple of days.

So for this week’s SIA, I just looked through my existing outfit and picked the one that’s as close to the inspiration as I can get. I ended up choosing this one – just imagine my shoes are black and it’ll be perfect.

Here’s the poor silly thing, before she got hurt

Feeling Crabby

Posted: May 31, 2019 | Author: Salazar | Filed under: Clothes | Tags: beige, beige heeled sandals, blue, blue plaid shirt, brooch, navy paperbag pants, red | 1 Comment

The post title is both a reference to the crab brooch on my shirt (very creative, I know) and the fact that I’m not entirely happy with the outfit. The shirt is a bit too loose-fitting, so when I tried tucking it into the paper-bag waist of these pants, it just created all this bulk around the waist. A more fitted shirt may work better. And the brooch feels like an afterthought too. I wanted a pop of color that was not shoes, and I just got this brooch, so I decided to wear it, but now I think I should’ve saved it for a more “nautical” look. Or would that be too costumy? I don’t know… I guess I’m just not feeling this outfit.

Stripes & Leaf

Posted: July 6, 2018 | Author: Salazar | Filed under: Clothes | Tags: beige heeled sandals, blue, brooch, green, green striped tee, navy wide-leg pants, white | Leave a comment

Another work outfit straggler here. This was taken a while ago, so I didn’t remember why I added a brooch to this outfit. Oh wait, I think it was the day we had some important meeting or something, but it was too hot to wear a more formal shirt, so I added a brooch to make my T-shirt look less casual. And because my shirt has green stripes, a leaf brooch seemed like a good choice.

Hot as it was back then, it was probably still blessedly cool compared to this past week. Yesterday the heat index was nearly 120F! Thankfully school was out so I no longer have to come into work. Even if I still had to work, I don’t think I could bike in this heat. I would be cooked alive.

Sunflowers

Posted: November 10, 2017 | Author: Salazar | Filed under: Clothes | Tags: beige, beige heeled sandals, blue, blue linen blouse, brooch, navy boyfriend jeans, yellow | 3 Comments

I didn’t realize it until I uploaded the photos, but this outfit could have been an interpretation of Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers“, if we’d picked it for SIA (we tend to stay away from such well-known works though). I guess I was influenced by Loving Vincent, the oil-painted animation about Van Gogh’s death, which I saw a couple of weeks ago. The story is nothing to write home about, but the film itself is gorgeous. It’s literally Van Gogh’s paintings coming to life. Highly recommended if you’re an art lover.

In other movie news, I saw Thor: Ragnarok last week (I wanted to see Blade Runner 2049, of which I’ve heard a lot of good things, but Vietnamese theaters only keep movies on a 2-week rotation, so it’s no longer showing. I’m just going to have to wait for the DVD release.) Ragnarok is a lot of fun, but not much else. At least it was more entertaining than The Dark World, I’d give it that.

Uniform

Posted: October 20, 2017 | Author: Salazar | Filed under: Clothes | Tags: beige, beige heeled sandals, blue, khaki blouse, navy skirt | 5 Comments

Whenever I’m hit with a case of “I have nothing to wear”, and that is quite often during the transitional time between seasons (like now), I would come back to my tried-and-true combination: top + midi skirt. If I could have a signature look, that would be it. A top, a midi A-line skirt, and sensible shoes (not that I have any other kind of shoes.) It also helps that most of my skirts are basic enough that they can be pared with pretty much any top. True, it can be less-than-exciting sometimes, but it does make my morning a little easier.