December 9, 2020
Winter Wonders Bracelet Set – Fierce Lynx Designs
In a Sea of Green and Red…
She’s going to stand out! Not that we don’t love green and red for the holiday season – where would we be without them? But she’s going to take the train into the city for a couple of days of admiring decorations, maybe some shopping, and eating room service while watching movies!
And she won’t be blending in, thank you!
Winter Wonders Bracelet Set – Fierce Lynx Designs
The weather will be pleasantly cool – no blizzards this year! If she finds that she needs something warmer, she will stop into Uniqlo and pick up a down vest or jacket… But she expects to be very comfortable just like this:
Earrings – Wadarat Supasirisuk; scarf – Echo; face mask – Society of Threads; cardigan – Banana Republic; turtleneck – J.Crew; boots – Blondo; bag – Kate Spade; socks – Wigwam; pants – Banana Republic
She’s really packing quite light – with a clear winter theme!
Gingham mask – Express; white and navy tees – L.L.Bean; snowflake earrings – Talbots; light and dark blue necklace – Savvy Cie; Fair Isle cardigan – L.L.Bean; snowflake scarf – Talbots; rinsed wash jeans – L.L.Bean; “love” print silk bandana – ARSHYS; navy cashmere v-neck sweater – J.Crew; snowflake brooch – Charter Club; navy waterproof loafers – Hunter; grey ponte skirt – Banana Republic; dark grey pumps – Nine West; charcoal tights – Gap
Looking over her wee travel capsule wardrobe, she just has to smile… What lovely wintery colors!
She knows that she will be attending a religious service at the famous church that everybody visits. Even without singing, and with social distancing, she wouldn’t miss it!
There’s a neighborhood within walking distance of her hotel that is famous for holiday decorations – that is definitely on her list!
And the main shopping streets are essential – even this year, they’ve pulled out all the stops to make their window displays magical…
She’s looking forward to holiday cheer, happy people, and peace and quiet.
Then, she’ll plunge back into the family working and studying from home!
love,
Janice
p.s. Five years ago, we pondered what accent colors would go nicely with charcoal grey – a pretty appropriate “flash-back” given that today we combined periwinkle blue with charcoal!
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Beautiful, wintery wardrobe! Your heroine will definitely stand out, in a good way.
I was so happy to see this cool calm collection come through early this morning, as I was up at 2am to get “spare heir” down to Seattle for his USAF physical. An oasis in some chaos. Despite all the conversation yesterday about buying with intent, and limiting wardrobes, whenever I see one of these serene posts it gets me to thinking that maybe I really could insert some blue and gray into my wardrobe. Nevertheless, here I am in bright red and sage green!
Gorgeous bracelet – I particularly like the eidelweiss charm which makes it a bit different. I could imagine our heroine wearing it on a trip to Switzerland sightseeing. It is a versatile piece that could be worn all year round.
This colour scheme is the other half of my post-Christmas and early Spring wardrobe. I love these colours. However, this post with the snowflake
jewellery is making me rethink that idea and ‘rescue’ some items I put in the loft the other day. Particularly as pewter/silver, doft blues and navy in
satin and velvet feature in my wardrobe now.
As I looked at your suggestions, I was mentally ticking off my equivalents. I’ve now heaped them on my bed and shall spend a happy hour or two assembling outfits.
My equivalent of the Fair Isle cardigan is a handmade navy, grey and blue patterned cardigan bought in Scotland over 30 years ago when loose heavy knit cardigans were in. It is so unique and made to fit me that I wont ever get rid of it. Now these styles and patterns are popular again.
I would include a coat, perhaps a grey faux fur jacket or a long grey wool coat? Other accessories would include a faux fur collar and hat with faux fur trimmed gloves and long black boots.
Beth T, I also love the edelweiss charm. My mom recently sent me some of her jewelry that she’s held on to but doesn’t wear, including a silver edelweiss pendant that she purchased many years ago at a German-American society Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas market). I’ve worn it a couple times already, but I’m now looking forward to wearing it more this season.
I like your suggestions for winterizing this wardrobe. If her trip gets delayed at all, she will need this outerwear.
I’m needing outerwear already! Thin fleece under a padded jacket on a trip to the supermarket tonight! In the UK, our weather is governed by the direction of the weather systems (rain,) usually from the west. The direction of the wind and air – coming from.the arctic at the moment. From the east is even worse.
Holy smokes! December’s bracelet set sold out so fast! I DO have more supplies on order, but they likely won’t arrive until after the holidays. However, if you’d still like one of these sets, be sure to click through to the bracelet detail page and sign up to be notified when they are back in stock. I expect this set to be one I will not be able to continue to get all of the supplies for. Thank you so much for your support, and I can’t wait to see what Janice comes up with for next year’s creations.
Alison @ Fierce Lynx Designs
The bracelet is gorgeous! I’ll be on the wait list.
Love this wardrobe and could easily pull something similar from my closet. And I’m one of the lucky ones who will have this gorgeous bracelet to add to my collection of Lynx bracelets. Can’t wait for it to arrive!
This entire wardrobe would sit in my closet with just a change to v-neck for the tees. My colours, my style. Truly lovely Janice.
I think you meant “silk bandana” rather than “silk banana”!!! Great post with lovely colours x
Oh THAT might be one of my best spelling mistakes EVER!
thanks for letting me know and giving me the chance to laugh at myself, and fix it!
hugs,
Janice
Janice forgot to post the image of the silk banana. Here you go. :D
https://www.stellamccartney.com/ro/stella-mccartney/scarf_cod45459742tq.html
It’s Chicago isn’t it? She’s going to Chicago. I think she needs warmer clothes. It’s always cold there. Every December I used to drive to Kenosha and take a train into the city. We would stay just off Michigan Ave. and hit the stores and museums. Love, love, love this capsule! You are making me rethink my wardrobe now!
Temps are supposed to get up to 50 Fahrenheit tomorrow – a cardigan could easily be sufficient, with a sweater under! I personally might want gloves…
hugs,
Janice
Positively balmy! ?
It’s ten degrees colder in my corner of the UK but I also feel the cold which doesn’t help. I’ve been wearing gloves since late September! If the cardigan was fleece-lined then that could serve as a coat with a belt.
Lily, I miss Chicago at Christmas, too, especially Marshall Fields and the wreaths on the lions at the Art Institute. Janice, I love this wardrobe, and I think I can approximate it from my closet. I’m sitting here in gray slacks and a gray, silver, and white fair isle pullover!
Lovely palette…and one I would readily wear. I like it especially for a winter to spring transition wardrobe. I keep looking at that blue metallic scarf. In a normal year, I would grab it as a perfect outerwear scarf to pair with my March/April light blue wool coat for my work commute, but in this pandemic/stay at home winter, I’m not sure whether I will even wear my light blue coat this year! So it goes on the wish list for future reassessment.
Love this wardrobe and would wear everything except the pointy toe pumps (I have wide arches, so the combination is always a little absurd on me). I was going to finally click buy on a fierce lynx design and it was sold out…happy to hear more will be coming! Also, would be very curious what a heroine with the silk bananas scarf would wear…made me laugh out loud…very welcome on a dreary, slushy day!
Hi Janice and Everyone! I have worn this color combination for a 4 day conference jaunt to Boston one November. I was able to mix and match and layer 1 navy and 1 periwinkle blue long sleeved (tee) shirt, 1 pair of navy and 1 pair of grey pants, 1 grey skirt, 1 white Oxford shirt, 1 grey sweater, one navy cardigan, turtlenecks in white and aqua blue, a couple of white t-shirts for layering, and a requisite quota of socks and 2 pr tights. And of course very comfortable footwear.
This equivalent color combination was previously paired with a VF Start with Art blog post ( apologies I do not know the title, but it looks like people walking down a cobblestone street in a French village c. 1890).
I love everything about this wardrobe. I have some silver and lapis jewelry that would fit in perfectly. Sally, I love the silk scarf, thanks for the chuckle!
I watched Snow Queen ballet online yesterday. This might well be what Snow Queen would choose, if she for some reason wanted to wear something casual instead of her usual glittering tutu.
Snowflake jewelry has been one of my better jewelry purchases, and my signature look for winter for several years.
Just lovely! And the idea of a visit to any city sounds wonderful. Thank you!
Oooo, this is pretty! Just looking at those colors make me feel so peaceful. Love it!!!
I succumbed to the Aspinal of London’s Robin scarf in teal after seeing it in a fairly recent look-back link. I also got the L.L.Bean Perfect Fit Straight Leg Pants in dark gray heather a couple of weeks ago (thanks to you :). I wore those with a teal cable sweater from Talbots, a Talbots snowflake brooch on my teal jacket, gray ankle boots and a red purse to a (distancing) small Christmas party this evening. It was nice to buck the red and green trend. I knotted the scarf in a triangle and wore it inside the V-neck of the sweater, tucking the knot in my bra-front and making sure the points of the triangle were smooth against my back so they didn’t make lumps under my sweater. I wasn’t wearing a shirt under the sweater because it is 3/4 sleeved and I was quite pleased with how flattering the scarf was; like a turned-up-in-back collar that framed my face. I’ll be wearing a scarf that way frequently now that I know about it. Maybe everyone else already knows about wearing a scarf as a collar tucked inside a V neckline all the way around instead of a shirt but I wanted to share just in case.
I had not thought of that… so I’m glad you shared!!! Thanks! I have a lot of V-neck sweaters, and irrespective of how shallow the V is, my, ahem, placement, is such that a little extra coverage can be appropriate at times. I usually will wear a scarf tied over the outside, but this sounds like an interesting variation!
This is genius – thanks for sharing with us all!
hugs,
Janice
What a brilliant idea. I tend to put away all my fine scarves and low neck tops for winter. Scarves look a bit daft over polonecks and low necks are too chilly. Problem solved. There are lots of little videos of scarf tying on Pinterest.
I used to wear scarves all the time in the 80’s and 90’s but gave up when I had kids – small hands grabbing ruin scarves. I found all my scarf clips the other day. Perhaps it’s time I used them again…
Carol, that’s ingenious…but I’m not sure I followed how to do it. Did you fold triangularly in half/on the bias, then knot those two ends together? Then tuck the knot in the front and the loose pointy ends against the back?
When I was trying to replicate this, I happened to be wearing a crew neck sweater (Lands End cotton drifter sweater, as linked to on a previous post). When I tucked the scarf in all around and played with it for a second, the scarf took on the appearance of a Peter Pan collar, which was less ludicrous perhaps than it sounds.
Yes, the tying method you described is what I did. The sweater I wore it with did have a fairly wide V-neck. The scarf with that neckline looked rather like a turned-up shawl collar.
I forgot to mention one of the best things about this was that very little of the scarf is in the “food path”. It seems that many times I want to wear a nice, silk scarf there will be food served and it always makes me nervous about getting something on my scarf that might be hard to clean.
I love any wardrobe with charcoal, but it is especially pretty with this periwinkle! – nancyo