August 29, 2018
Asters… It means stars, which, when you look at the flowers, makes sense!
However, from my perspective, this was really tricky. (Yes, I considered using all “star” accessories – of course I did!);
First up, there are no items with asters on them, except for a very expensive dress, and the really nice cuff bracelets that are available for each month.
To pile on, asters come in about a million shades, from darkest red to a lot of various purples…
What to do? I found six excellent neutral dresses to serve as our background, and then I experimented with a range of colors as accents. (it would be fascinating to mix each of the dresses with each of the various accessory families!)
How do things look? Black is pretty straightforward – especially if you have an Apple watch and you get the watchband for it – that little touch ties everything together!
sunglasses – Smith; dress – Uniqlo; watchband – Casetify; scarf – Cruciani; backpack – Fjällräven; slingbacks – J. Reneé
Next I decided to experiment. This dress is described as grey, but to me it feels a lot more like taupe… I’d have to get an in-person look to know for certain. But I chose, for this dress, a scarf that features a range of reds and purples, and then decided to use the dark red as the accent color. I’m happy with the way it turned out. Bear in mind that you could easily use bright red accents with this scarf too! (although that’s NOT an “aster color,” so I refrained…)
earrings – Kendra Scott; brooch – Kenneth Jay Lane; dress – Uniqlo; scarf – Gucci; bracelet – Kendra Scott; flats – Taryn Rose
Logically, camel and purple should look good together because they’re from opposite side of the color wheel. I felt like the orange in this scarf, and the wee bits of dark yellow, helped make everything hang together here. What do you think?
sunglasses – Bonnie Clyde; dress – Uniqlo; hair clip – Ficcare; scarf – Emilio Pucci; bracelet – Monica Vinader; boots – Steve Madden
Navy and purple are so easy together – some nice amethyst jewelry is perfect against a navy backdrop!
earrings – Alok Jain; dress – Uniqlo; necklace – Nina; amethyst bracelet – Olga Hinojosa; scarf – Treasure & Bond; slingback shoes – Shutz
Although I’m not completely sold on the idea of green and purple together, there was no way I wasn’t going to share this dress with you! If I still wore dresses to work, I’d have the black version of this in a heartbeat. Corduroy just scream autumn to me…
green dress – Uniqlo; scarf – White + Warren; bracelet – Lagos; ring – Lafonn; bag – M2Malletier; slingbacks – Vaneli
And for those among us moving into warmer weather rather than cooler, or those who still have weeks of warm weather ahead, this dress could be so useful… I wanted to add just a touch of rosy pink here – an unexpected, but I think effective, accent color.
earrings – Ri Noor; wine dress – Uniqlo; scarf – Dalliance & Noble; bracelet – Monica Vinader; bag – Coach; velvet flats – J.Crew
I think that I’m going to build little “accessory wardrobes” for my autumn/winter dresses; it will highlight anything that I’m missing, and will make getting dressed up a little bit faster and easier? Anyone else do this kind of thing?
love,
Janice
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I think you nailed all of these. You have very nearly made me want to buy an Apple watch JUST so that I can have that purple floral watch band in the first outfit. I also like the rather plain navy dress with the tasseled scarf to dress it up.
As a September baby who loves all the pinks, mauves, blue, purple tones that asters are commonly associated with – I have to be honest and say that I’m a wee bit disappointed. There are tons of purples and mauves of varying degrees in the shops right now – colours that are bright and cheerful but the dresses chosen here are all rather dull and sad looking with a few purple accessories tossed in. And there’s not even one star shaped accessory. Guess I feel it would have at least been nice to see that very expensive dress.
Your accessory finds always amaze me. And I believe accessories make it an outfit, otherwise they’re just clothes.
I had to google Aster flowers to see what they were and boy aren’t they bright and colourful. Also in my search I did find some lovely Aster flower jewellery, a few dresses and tops with one or two bags, certainly enough to make a small montage for illustrative purposes. I particularly liked the Jigsaw floating Aster Tea Dress in dark navy , which unfortunately is now sold out. But as always, I enjoy seeing your ensembles, although today had you not put the title on each slide, I wouldn’t have known it was celebrating the Aster flowers.
Your choice of accessories is inspiring Janice! And I’d love to have the Puccini scarf myself – it would enhance almost any other colour, but I’d especially like it with the navy dress. I gave no difficulty with purple and green if the shades are right (think of lilacs, rhododendrons and hebes), and they remind me of the Suffragettes.
Puccini? Oooops. Love the music but Pucci are the best at scarves …
I recently bought a scarf with green, grey and burgundy flowers and seedpods. I can envisage it with any of the dresses except for #3 which is too warm in tone to work. My favourite this year would be the green dress with purple.
I love the gray outfit, head to toe! And I much prefer purple + green to purple + navy, although I would probably pick a print scarf rather than plain. With camel, I think a plummy or magenta purple would be pretty. To me all the Pucci scarf has the wrong purple for camel, and also maybe too much white? Accessory wardrobes sound like fun! – nancyo