Since I'm trying to liven up my very stark-looking blog with more fancy images and things, I've provided you all with an outfit dissection today. I drew this from my imagination, so excuse the limited color range--I tend to wear only a couple shades of grey and black in real life (it's far more practical / I'm going for that minimalist chic look) but perhaps by experimenting with color through my silly drawings on this blog, I'll someday venture into the technicolor world of bold color blocking and pastel denim. Sigh.
Let's call this girl Lucille, or maybe Madeline. I don't know, I guess she's French because both those names are pretty fancy-sounding in my book. So, Lucille is sporting a nice down puffer vest in the shade of tangerines slightly past their prime. Quick DIY: Hack the sleeves off your lightweight uniqlo / patagonia nano puff jacket and voilà, there you have it. Beneath her sleeveless grody orange puffer jacket vest, she layers a very breezy and washed out grungy lilac flannel button down (throwback to the nineties!). Natalie (whoops, sorry I changed her name again) also dons a pair of cut-off high-waisted denim shorts embellished with tiny daisies. She adorns her right wrists with a stack of chunky gold and silver bracelets and bangles--striking a purposefully imbalance with a lone yellow golden band on her other wrist. Whoever said to never mix gold and silver jewelry together was clearly wrong--if French Natalie can do it, so can you.
Natalie has fashioned her thick, soot black hair into a nice lumpy braid which delicately slouches over her right shoulder. She wears some OTK (over the knee, or more like over the thigh) socks made out of some natural textile... wool, perhaps? The socks have intricate cable-knit patterns on them, but that was too time consuming to illustrate so bear with me and use your imagination here. Natalie finishes off her look with an elegant black belt (presumably thrifted from a Goodwill) and some plain, yet classic suade suede Mary Janes. I apologize once again, for the misspelling in the illustration--it's S-U-E-D-E, not S-U-A-D-E. She tops off her entire ensemble with a mustard knit beanie, and there you have it, outfit dissection no. 1.
Sincerely,
Jenny a.k.a. goodwillgrrl
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