gold link necklace - vintage, great-grandmother's / purse - Athens tourist shop / cardigan - H&M / white braided belt - vintage, thrifted / ring - Primark / seafoam linen skirt - vintage, thrifted / brogues - Primark
In college, some friends* and I got really into dressing in monochrome. It became the theme for all our parties, and we even made Monochrome Monday a weekly institution at school (and by 'institution,' I mean about five of us did it every week). While my days of wearing an entire bolt of tulle to studio are (sadly) over, I still get a kick out of wearing tone-on-tone color combinations (as evidenced here and here); there is nothing that will make you feel quite so striking as wearing a single 'signature' color for a day - and of course it doesn't hurt to pull out your boldest shade of lipstick.
Somehow the end of our time in Paris has completely snuck up on me, and we're leaving tomorrow! I have absolutely loved our time here, but I am (of course) so excited for our next, rather unexpected, destination. It's not a stop we'd originally planned on making, but now that it's imminent I am really looking forward to it. Tomorrow's going to be another looong travel day, made all the worse by the recent additions to my baggage (oof!), but I've got a fresh post scheduled to go up while we're off getting fresh stamps in our passports.
*Yes, my college friends have gone on to be incredible fashion designers. No, I have done nothing cool with my life whatsoever.
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Ooooh, love your take on monochrome. You do it so well with all that practice. :) And that ring- fantastic!! Can't wait to see where you go next, lady.
ReplyDeletei LOVE the monochrome look - and in fact never think to do it. which means....i'll be copying you, soon. ;)
ReplyDeleteThat ring is marvelous! And monochrome is so much fun to do, if you can do it right - which, of course, you can :)
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These shades of blue are lovely, especially with the red lipstick. Can't wait to see where you're going next!
ReplyDeletereally love the monochrome style! Newer really thought of it before, but actually it's a great idea!! Need to do that asap :) Love those colors and I am so there with the red lipstick! Good luck with the travels!
ReplyDeleteThis monochrome outfit is absolutely perfect with your skin-color! and the red lip, perfection!
ReplyDeletei love how you added the ring, too.
Darling. And those red lips? GAH.
ReplyDeleteThanks lady. :) I hope our new locale isn't too much of a let-down - it's not exactly as exotic as Istanbul, but I think it would perhaps be a more reliable base for a mail exchange, no?
ReplyDeleteGo for it! It will totally make you feel like a sexy secret superhero. :)
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Thanks Lauren! And I love this ring too, I can't seem to get enough of giant cocktail rings lately!
ReplyDeleteThanks Emily - for some reason I felt like the lipstick took the whole outfit in a slightly JCrew-ish direction, which is never a bad thing as far as I'm concerned. :)
ReplyDeleteThe best part about wearing monochrome is rummaging around in your closet to see what colors you have - it's so fun to start piling on all of your clothes and accessories in a single color and see what works together!
ReplyDeleteThanks Izabela - somehow even though I love this kind of ice-blue color, I never seem to end up wearing it! I'll have to try and work these pieces into my wardrobe a little more this summer. :)
ReplyDeleteHee, I think, "GAH" about sums up Chris's reaction to this lipstick too - although I don't think he means it in quite the same way. Not a fan, that one. :)
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