Monthly Archives: August 2015

White embroidered blouses

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Following Keep it Chic’s post, I did go looking for more affordable options of the embroidered white blouse. It has proved very difficult to find anything decent, most of them are quite awful (not bad, very very bad!!). I do not like “boho”, I do not like polyester and cheap. Especially in a white shirt. The fabric needs to be good and, if there is an embroidery, this must be high quality.

As I said, I couldn’t really find anything terribly exciting. I wanted a long sleeve shirt with a real embroidery, done with a thick thread. Perhaps is a bit early for it or perhaps it is not in fashion, I don’t know.

Here’s what I did find:

The only way I would wear such blouses is with a pair of jeans, pointy flats (rounded toe ones look too classic and boring I reckon), I would then add pearl earrings and a fun small handbag, like so:

Embroidered blouse + jeans

So, what do you think? Will you be wearing an embroidered blouse ? (when it gets colder add a long wooly cardigan).

BTW. In the process of trying to find blouses I also found this cute dress:

Finery Ivy Embroidered Shirt Dress

Finery Ivy Embroidered Shirt Dress

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Hobbs sleeveless top, Miss Selfridge blouse, Etsy Deboy, Karen Millen vintage blouse, Hobbs blouse, , White Stuff top, White Stuff top Hettie,  White Stuff fan top, Hobbs Marlena top, Finery dress,

Jeans: no rules

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Since it is time for jeans again, well, I was thinking… how are we going to wear them this winter? Rolled up? Turned up? No hem? Jeans used to be just like trousers, a plain old-fashioned hem would do. imagesThen fashion started with all of those different washes and the classic hem became a bit frayed. Now, well… now everything is possible! It is mostly about not having the hem done at all, it seems, I suppose, easier, not in the least because that way you can adapt them to any kind of shoe, or fashion moment for that matter! So, if one is wearing high heel, one might decide to let it all down, or roll it up to ankle length; if you have flats you might turn it up by a good 10/15 cm for instance.

Here are some photos you can get ideas from:

There is this other option:

heminterest

which is a bit extreme as I see it, but you can do something similar and look chic instead then scruffy :

Sonia RykielThese have the same look but are much more elegant! I also quite like the beaded hem, or you could even try with some contrast thick stitching.

I think I might try the stitching and the “I used to have a hem on these jeans but now they are too short so I have let it down” options this winter.

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