As the sun gathers strength, the pollen count rises, causing both delight and anguish for hay-fever sufferers (like me!), beautiful blooms abound on every street-corner and our wardrobes change too.
Throwing off the coats, hats and gloves is gleefully liberating – specially in Oz with our beach culture – but, as well as this annual celebration of the coming warm weather, it’s worthwhile to consider some discipline in a spring/ summer update that complements what’s in your wardrobe.
By all means, be delighted at the passing of a dire, cold, dark winter, like the one we’ve just had here in Melbourne, but its best to temper it with some cold, hard, fashion-calculating nous.
Everything I’m wearing is new-season, but fits my existing wardrobe perfectly. It’s something that took me years to learn, particularly in my early 20s when it was all about brash statement pieces. I developed a ‘revolving door’ wardrobe, which on one hand was fabulous because there was always something new, but it did make it difficult to wear things together, so I was always recycling clothes.
These days I still own the statement pieces, but pepper them with pieces like skinny-jeans, ankle-boots and simple blouses that can be chopped and changed depending on mood, and of course the weather.
I love this Chicwish.com cotton blouse for example, and it’s not maternity so you can all go out and shop for it whether you’re sporting a bump or not. I’m starting to enjoy the challenge of finding awesome non-maternity clothes, kind of feels like it serves two purposes.
And two purposes is always better than one when it comes to canny fashion shopping, don’t you think?
What I’m wearing:
Blouse: Chicwish.com
Jeans: Jeanswest maternity jeans – the beeesssssst on the market with a blog post all of their own coming soon!
Glasses: Gucci
Boots: ‘Splendid’ leather ankle boots, see this post
Bag: Rebecca Minkoff ‘Lenox’ crossbody bag
Rings: various, collected on my travels
Manicure: Miss Fox Melbourne
