The Pumpkin As An Accessory?!

The pumpkin.  Autumn is the time to celebrate this humble vegetable and do glorious things with it which go beyond the realms of our British imaginations.   Right now I am reading of pumpkin spice, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin lattes, pumpkin body lotions and ... pumpkin martinis, which taste surprisingly good, so I'm told.

Yes, pumpkin fever has hit the blogisphere.

As a nation, we Brits tend to be quite conservative with vegetables in general and pumpkins specifically.  We can barely get our heads around scooping out the pumpkin's innards, popping that in a soup then gouging facial features out of the carcase and calling it a candle holder. 

So I decided to fly the flag and try a bit of pumpkin innovation myself.  I see further possibilities for this most voluminous of vegetables.  Why stop at cocktails and body products? 

I see it as the perfect accessory.  After all, others accessorise with hoovers, roller blades and Sainsburys carrier bags (you know who you are!) so why not a pumpkin?

 A few days ago we visited a farm shop.  So, what did I wear?  I wore grey.  Only grey. 

Grey patterned top (Next), grey jeans (Peacocks) ... and grey boots.

Yup, these babies are new.  I sneaked out a-shoppin' whilst The Photographer was playing golf and found these in Debenhams.  I lucked out on a day when the store was offering a huge discount on boots.  I'd been looking out for grey boots for some time and when I saw the deal, I pounced.

Lucky ole me eh?

The fact is that these boots have a high heel and my legs appear longer. IMHO.  And I desperately need extra length to my stumpiest of pins which usually appear to be short appendages bridging body and footwear.  The trompe l'oeil of these boots is that I appear to have legs!

I'd thought to go out in just a cardi (grey), but the weather had other plans on how to style The Pout.

The weather decided that  it would follow my outfit cue - it was grey.  A warmer layer was required - grey, of course.

So the day being grey was the perfect final accessory for my monochrome look.  Oh, and a cross-body being the final final accessory.

Then at the farm shop, I thought maybe I could use a pumpkin as my final final final accessory, but it was orange  and lacked my chosen monochromicity. 

Now, I had always believed that with pumpkins, similar to Fords and black, you could have any colour you wanted, provided it was orange.  But a revelation awaited me in the vegetable stalls. 

Pumpkins apparently come in grey too, here a light grey to match the light greyness of my outfit. How fortuitous.  The ultimate grey accessory. 

And they even come in a darker shade of grey to match my jeans.

Oh, which to choose?

The greys stopped there.  It seems there are not 50 Shades of Grey in the pumpkin world.  I counted two.  Two doth not a best selling book nor a film make, but two was sufficient for the purpose of the monochromaciouness of my outfit.

Yes, you can accessorise an outfit with a pumpkin, dear fellow fashionistas.  Slice it mid-section, gouge out the pumpkin's top half and call it a beret, is my humble fashion tip for today.

To break the monochrome rut paradise I had found myself in, I had my nails gelled glittery soft pink.  Here seen against my laptop keyboard, which is grey, of course.

A la perchoine.