I’ve been slacking. I’ve been neglecting thinking about what to wear to church on Sundays and suffering the consequences of a silent drive spent berating myself that we aren’t getting there early enough to meet new people and it’s my fault.
(About every six months or so I promise myself I’ll do better.)
So the other night I was lying in bed thinking about shoes, and how I like each of my pairs of heeled sandals with one of my summery blazers, and I came up with an easy uniform template for July:
unlined cotton skirt + tank top(s) + cotton blazer + heels
Here’s where you come in. (And please overlook the needed ironing.)
How the two jackets pair up with my shoes: the waist-length tan jacket with ruffle trim looks good with my wedge heels and the leather buttons on the almost-white blazer match my new lizard peep toes. (Sorry Wendy, you’ll have to wait for a better picture till I can get someone to take one of me wearing them.) 
And here are my skirts, again ignoring the needed ironing.
- The peachy pink corduroy.
- My personal favorite: the stripes are peach, rose, ivory, and sage green (something like that), I’ve had it for about 3 years I think, and I paid $15 for it on clearance at Gap – Women’s Clothes
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- Thrifted greenish khaki twill skirt.
- This pink one has a pretty little bow and tiny floral weave.
Now, imagine that I have every color tank top under the sun. It’s not too far from true, I have nearly every color one would wear together with these skirts and the above jackets and shoes. Typically I wear two at a time.
What combinations would you suggest? You may suggest jewelry as well.
wow! Of course, I know you’ll make them ALL work – I think I like the pink skirts with the brownish jacket best, but I am thinking you’ll want to wear the pink skirts with each jacket once, so as not to look too much the same. That leaves you with the lighter jacket and the striped skirt and the corduroy pink, imho.
fun!
Thanks dana. The great thing is that I really only need to come up with a handful of good combinations, after all there are only so many Sundays in July. Ordinarily I wear these skirts quite a bit for weekdays, too, but I am loving shorts enough this year that there’s no danger I’ll get tired of these.
Isn’t it amazing how just a few clothes can end up being so many combinations? And I actually have a few other jackets, too, I just like how these go with the shoes.
I can wait. 😉
Great roster of template outfits Rebecca! I’m favouring the striped skirt and the light blazer myself …
I used to have a skirt like that ‘greenish’ one — light olive linen. It went with EVERYTHING.
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