The thought of what to wear can be exhausting.
Last Friday night was one of those moments. Seriously, I had no clue about what to wear. I was either dressing for yoga or a black tie event; I couldn’t get my mind around it at all.
In these instances I often fall back on a serious “no-brainer”; black tuxedo pants and a silk or chiffon style blouse. So I did.
With 5 minutes to get out the door, I donned the leopard silk, popped in my fancy drops and slapped on the red lips. Seriously it was possibly like 3 minutes and I was done. No thinking required because a good blouse can always save the day. Fortunately, the hair had already been washed and tortured straight earlier in the day; a good hair blow dry saves me hours.
Funnily enough, the blouse ensemble had more compliments than I have had in ages. As women, we do have a tendency to overthink things, at least I do. All the indecision and the madly-trying-on-only-to-be-discarded could have been avoided if I had headed immediately to what I know works.
Parties this week?
Save yourself some time and go straight to “GO“. The fabulous shirt will do you proud. xv
When All Else Fails
joie lace || nili lotan silk || vince neck knot silk || vince long-sleeve silk || paige leopard tie-neck || dolce & gabbana leopard pussy bow
image, kate spade christmas 2014
Check out the podcast “You Must Remember This,” episode #22: “Audrey Hepburn: Sex, Style and Sabrina.” It says that when young, broke Audrey moved to London, she had only a blouse, a skirt and a pair of pants…and 14 scarves. Everybody thought she was amazingly chic. Super-simple can be great (though a lot of laundry).
Your outfit sounds very classy, and also one you can wear many times, unlike the stop-the-show dazzling dress.
I can never remember…what color lingerie should be worn under a black lace top?
And this, for a 60+ Age Woman ;)
I generally go for black :)
As long as you have RED LIPS, I think you are good to go. Black slacks and a silky, billowy blouse always takes care of the doubts! My solution for that conundrum of “WHAT DO I WEAR” is diamond studs, red lips and something black!