Plaid and Pearls. Done.

 

Hello, sweet people of Blogland.  Today I show you my journey.  My journey to Sussex and along the way, I complete an Anna challenge. 

 

 

My friend Anna of muttonyearsstyleandi recently posted a "plaid and pearls" combo.  She showed a tartan shirt and pearls.  Interesting. Don't know if it's quite me as I have one tartan shirt which I bought for a barn dance 4 years ago, and haven't worn it since.  But it's worth experimenting, so I slavishly pulled mine out but didn't have time to try it out with pearls as I was busily preparing the house ready for the catsitters. 

But it was her other combo with pearls that I really fell for.  Her plaid scarf and necklace.  Classy and lady-like.  So I stored that image in my Pout cells as a definite to recreate some time soon.

 

That "soon" came pretty soon after I read her piece.  Because I discovered that the pieces were all falling into place as I dressed for my unexpected trip over to Sussex (more on that in another post).

 

 

Here's how my journey to plaid and pearls started.  Here, on a very wet November morning and with Bertie the cat spying me suspiciously in the background ("Is my mummy leaving me again?"). For travelling I chose M&S black jeans and modal vest, with a Woolovers light stone cashmere/merino cardi.  Gabor heeled nubuck ankle boots.

 

 

By the way, I apologise for the phone selfies - I would not dare to ask The Photographer to take shots of my OOTD when Bro is just minutes away from picking us up for the drive to the airport.  I think he may just raise his voice if I did.  I know him well enough by now to know that this morning was a time for selfies only.

 

Because of the reason for this trip, I added chunky pearls and earrings (from Barbados airport) to perk up the black dress I have packed in my little carry-on.

 



 

My glaring eyes checked out the look and liked it, so the pearls stayed.

 

Then I wrapped a warm scarf around my neck.   A plaid scarf. And as the plane was delayed by fog and I experienced departure lounge time-to-kill, I started selfying.  Because along the way I realised that I had completed the Anna plaid and pearls challenge, just a little sooner than expected.

 

Classy.  Lady-like.  Plaid and pearls.  Done.

 Now, if you like this look too, why not give it a go and let Anna and me know how it worked out.

 

 

Wishing you a fab weekend, dear readers.

A la perchoine.