Good Buy/ Goodbye: Mini Skirts

I had a sketch/ journal session with the theme Sketch Favorite Things.
I chose mini skirts, since I knew that was the theme for Shelbee and Nancy's Good Buy/Good Bye Book this month:

this was for a free workshop series...
it went on with multiple sessions every day for a week...
I got distracted and only did this one Zoom-along

I sent Shelbee this selfie wearing the SUNO knit mini:

I acquired this back in heyday of my Fashion Blogging days (2013?)
SUNO was an interesting design house, not sure if they're still in business...
Their IG's latest post is from 2016 and the bio link goes nowhere.

I also tried looking up the designer, Max Osterweis, and his IG went silent in 2017.

I bought this from LYST, (which had an affiliate program back in the day) and it was reasonably priced for a "designer" item. I love the knit pattern! This is a keeper, even if I don't wear it that much these days.

Aditionally,

In my mini skirt selfie search, I found this photo of the red "butt cover" 

Haha, the back patio, unedited! Now you know!
Photo from January 2023

Jean sent me this along with what she calls armlets, upcycled from a cashmere sweater.

I've been known to throw this on if I have errands in wintertime and my top and sweater are too short.

Keeper, despite the large moth holes (they add character).

Linking up with

Shelbee On the Edge

Let's Laugh

PURCHASED/ PURLOINED/ GIFTED/ AFFILIATE LINKS*/ 

This tee makes me happy:

Severo gave it to me, it's from Newbury Comics, a New England record chain. I think he had a gig there, maybe in Boston.

My new yoga pants and Keds make me happy too:

I grabbed the pants from the sample box at work. It amazes me that I can squish my girth (34" waist) into the sample size Small. Stretchy cotton/spandex is a wonderful thing!

The Keds came from Yoox, via Lyst. Lyst is an affiliate link program. If you click through one of the garment links at the bottom of this blog, I supposedly get compensation. I don't push it very much, mainly because I add the most ridiculously expensive designer items to *"my Lyst of favorites". I use it to research trends, follow certain designers, or find particular fabrications or prints. My favorite thing about it is that Lyst will alert you when a favorited item goes on sale. I can't do much with an Etro paisley shawl "reduced" to $300 except sigh, but these Keds were on sale for $29 and that seemed like a good deal.
They're now sold out, but here are some current styles that caught my eye:

(this is a non-clickable screen grab. The "make a collection" feature was not working for me this morning)

The DOTS!!!!

For someone who "doesn't like sneakers", I'm certainly starting to amass a good collection:

The third (or fourth?) thing that makes me happy is this:

 Secret paisley Happy Socks*! (Why do I have clown feet here? My feet aren't "that" big!)

Have a great Saturday, everyone!
I'm going to a Simply Stylist event at The Grove today (not in this outfit, btw). I'll be wearing my Narrative Clip, to hopefully get some SpyShots of the fashionable goings-on. I'll submit a full report tomorrow soon.

Meanwhile, click on over to The Citizen Rosebud to ogle some fellow ShoeShiners.

Color Craving: Mustard and Navy

I recently saw this combo in a Maxi dress at LoveCulture.

I didn't get the dress [yet] and it haunts me...

source: LoveCulture.com

What do I have in my closet that I can wear RIGHT NOW, without spending any money?

I like the brown with it too

Here are some mustard/navy mixes that I found on Lyst*

follow me / make your ownLYST

A lot of the mustard items seem to be sold out. Maybe they're from last fall, or maybe many others crave the mustard...

Fashion Challenge: Pining for Printed Pants

I envision myself, lounging under the umbrella pool-side, wearing my Pucci palazzo pants, sipping on a virgin mojito...

Source via Lyst*

Then again, I could be in the garden, wearing my Gaultier Monet trousers, stopping for a sip of cool spring water...

Source via Lyst*

Ah, well... The Pucci is actually a skirt and not pants, the Gaultiers are a "bit" on the expensive side ($779)...

So here I am, on the back patio, wearing my Indian hippie skirt that I got in Artesia:

I'm OK with that.
Thus concludes Thursday's Fashion Challenge: Printed Bottoms.

Here are some more printed pants that I found on Lyst*

Fashion Challenge: Tribal Floral #OOTD

"Tribal" is a vague insensitive catch-all adjective that the fashion industry is using for this season's ethnic inspired prints. When I hear "tribal", what first comes to mind to me are black and white/off-white geometrics. Which lead me this morning to to my shopping cart full of treasure gleaned last Friday from Larry's trove of archives.

He had about ten garbage bags that we sorted through. It was exhausting!
[I'll tell you more about that later.]

Alas, the tribal shift was too small.

But, I found this in the cart too!
A Polynisian print muumuu!
Polynesian = "tribal" in my book PLUS it's floral.
Score two points in today's Fashion Challenge.

Ummmm, ready for the luau...

Better!
I chopped off the top and turned it into a skirt.
And look, yesterday's plaid shirt has returned!

It's a mock ikat, which also qualifies as "tribal"

Fashion Challenge: Bold Print #OOTD

Ah, the bold print, how I love thee. You are so easy and fun! You camouflage all my incidents of cupcake debauchery. Even when you become "so last year" (not too soon, I hope) you will always be my BFF.

vintage bold floral shift of unknown synthetics
from Black Market on Sawtelle

See if any of my Fashion Challenge colleagues are wearing a bold print today here on this list.

Maybe some of Patti's Visible Monday Posse sport them here.

Here are some Bold Print shift dresses that I found on Lyst:

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In addition, I added this to Everybody, Everywear for this month's Neon theme