January 6, 2021
A new year, and our heroine has decided to incorporate a new accent color into her (already pretty lovely, I’d say!) wardrobe:
If you’d like to look back at the earlier posts based upon this painting, they are:
Before she impulsively wanders off into the world of all things green, she pauses to collect and sort her current wardrobe. First up, her cardigans, dresses, and “bottoms.” (I just don’t love the term bottoms – someone suggest a useful alternative, please!)
Frankly, although this looks like the motherlode of grey pants, they’re all very different fabrics, and at least a few different silhouettes…
Now, her shirts, tee shirts, and sweaters:
Her balance of colors between the 2 accents is just about spot-on, and she has a nice range of styles too. Alright, TWO blue turtlenecks might be overdoing it, but we’ve all made bigger wardrobe mistakes, I imagine…
So when she hangs it all on her foldable clothes rack, this is what she has:
Of course, most women in the world could get dressed for quite a while with this wardrobe, and never have a complaint!
But our heroine has been hankering for green… So she sits down with a pencil and note pad (okay, maybe with her tablet!), and looks at what might be useful or missing here, before she wanders into a new color…
She’s coming around to the idea of wearing more dresses and skirts – even when she can’t be outdoors much, she could still look and feel… skirty!
We might as well enjoy our confinement, right?
So she ponders, and browses, and finds these:
Striped tee – Amazon Essentials; pink cardigan – Ganni; charcoal grey sweatshirt dress – H&M; floral skirt – Lily and Lionel
Four new pieces of clothing in a wardrobe of 46 garments doesn’t seem like a big addition, but she realizes that she now has quite a few more options for getting dressed:
She knows full well that she could stop right here and have a wonderful wardrobe, but that green keeps calling to her…
So she keeps her eyes, and her options, open, until 1 day she sees THE SWEATER… Yes, it’s a man’s sweater, but SHE DOESN’T CARE…. it’s beautiful, and it fits her well…
After that, the other pieces just seem to fall into place!
She’s particularly delighted that she found a shirt that she can wear all year…
But OH THAT SWEATER…
Here’s where she has to make the serious decision – is she comfortable wearing this green with grey? Some people might not like it, but she assembles a range of outfits – cool weather, warm weather – and thinks it over:
She’s more than willing!
Would you dare?
Would accessories make A LOT of difference?
love,
Janice
p.s. Not a post from this date in an earlier year, but a handful of ‘Chic Sightings’ in grey and green seem an obvious post to revisit…
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Pink and green can be quite lovely together, in my view. Maybe the green slacks and striped blouse with the pink cardigan?
My green is more teal, but yes, I wear it with grey all the time. Like, yesterday.
I have gray hair and green eyes so I wear that combo 24/7!!
I think the light green fit better into the feel of the rest of her wardrobe, but the green sweater with the grey bottoms look good. And oh, that floral skirt is so pretty ?
I love that color green. Have some in my closet, but I don’t wear it with gray – only because I don’t wear gray. If I did it would have to be the darker charcoal.
I feel like the darker grey works better than the light one, but that’s just my preference. I have some pants that are more sage green and I like them with pink too! It works a bit like red and green on the colour wheel. I think this heroine has some pink pieces that would also work with the green pants.
And maybe the lightest blues? Unless you think ‘blue and green should never be seen’!
I love the green and agree with others it can be mixed & matched with the pink and possibly the blue. But what I especially enjoyed today was the inclusion of a men’s sweater! I have bought men’s sweaters for myself before; it opens up a whole new range of options. I think all but the smallest of women can find something in the men’s department. I especially enjoy men’s slim style tee shirts because they are cheaper, thicker, and longer than women’s. And once you buy a pair of men’s slim sweatpants you’ll never go back: cheaper, thicker, and with pockets. I have found this to be the case even within the same store/brand. (Note I try to find slim style; I find they’re less boxy on my body, but I do have a couple of regular tee shirts that work, too.)
The skirt and pink cardigan are so pretty. Last year I bought a pink, grey and teal skirt in a small abstract print from Marks and Spencer. It looked lovely with cardigan pink over an ivory tee. I tried it with dark teal as that was in the print but it was too dark. However a mid-tone blue-green worked perfectly (often described as Seafoam or Seagrass).
I have a pair of teal jeans and a teal jumper. The soft jade shirt is nice too but I prefer tees with skirts.
Yes to seeing the accessories. I have a scarf with pink and teal blossom.
The Blackthorn scarf in pink wool silk by PJ Studio may be too purple pink to work with the pinks in this wardrobe, but it showed up in an ad near the greens and it definitely caught my eye. For those who wear bluish-pinks, this could be a consideration. The Fierce Lynx pink and gray bracelet “The Vivienne – Triple Wrap Gemstone Bracelet” would be another great accessory.
I love the addition of green. My greens are more on the teal side and I wear them with grey. Accessories always make a difference – especially when you are adding them! A definite yes vote for accessories.
This wardrobe is lovely. I like the greens, especially the darker ones, and would wear them with the greys. I just ordered a mens sweater from J Crew in a beautiful, deep wine to replace my favourite that a colony of moths apparently decided to make their home since last year. As for accessories, they are always necessary! I would love to see your choices for this wardrobe. A scarf with all the colors in it would be a welcome addition and I think opals would tie all the colors together as well.
Yes Laurie – opals do look lovely with pink and teal and abalone looks nice with blue and teal.
Cedar balls work well to deter moths. They are pesky little critters.
The new green is terrific in this palette…it brings a richness and depth of color to the wardrobe that I like to see in fall/winter. And our heroine was smart to buy her 3 darker green pieces all at once from the same brand so that they match/blend well (ask me how I know). I am 100% in favor of this green with grey! I wear it happily with black, grey, navy, or brown.
I look forward to seeing the green integrated further with the addition of accessories. Clearly a scarf with the 3 accent colors would be amazing (a leaf motif like the images used for the outfit dividers would be perfect, no?). I’d also like to see something with the dark green, the light green, and the range in between. With a relatively small number of print garments, there is a lot of scope for printed accessories!
I click on that blue vertically striped linen shirt Every Single Time…I am a sucker for vertical stripes, and in linen, they are softer than the starkly contrasting stripes I typically see (and love, but don’t love me back quite as much with that high value contrast). If you are attracted to it also, and are a straight or petite size, it’s on sale for $20 now (link in April 29 post). Not available in plus size of course because it’s LL Bean. SIGH. (I would joke that I guess I need to shop in the men’s department at LL Bean…but it’s not really funny to me, and I’m kind of not willing to give them by business.)
I’m so used to not looking at blue I had to scroll back up and see what the heck you were talking about! It’s pretty. I actually am “experimenting” with blue today. It’s the Liberty Print Blouse from J Crew I think was featured in one of the “Foxes” posts. I thought I could wear it for sure with my red sweaters (like today) and maybe black or navy? The background is black, but I’ve got it on w/navy cords today and it seems fine – although the sweater actually covers most of the area where blouse hits pants being a pullover. Seems to be working – although, again, mostly I think folks would see the red sweater more than anything – but it is a way to introduce a color I might be hesitant about wearing and still feel the outfit works. If that makes sense.
Sheila, nice observation about how the sweater makes the possible mis-match between navy and black much less obvious. That’s a nice trick to remember. I also get what you’re saying about how layering something over lets you experiment with a color in a more subtle way.
I’m wearing a blouse with a sweater over it today also…cream blouse with green (almost exactly like today’s green) rabbits under a pale blush sweater with a white/grey/moss intarsia rabbit on the front. The darker green and the moss don’t match, but there’s only a small amount of each green so they look just fine together. Anyway, isn’t animal print a neutral? :D
Sally – your jumper sounds delightful. I wish I had the bravado to wear jumpers with animals on.
Animal prints most definately neutral. I wear snake print with all sorts of colours. I’ve also worn things in different shades or tones if you have another colour inbetween.
Definitely yes to the green with grey, and I love the floral print skirt!
This is a delightful wardrobe and showcasing the green has really nailed home the concept of being able to dress in a column of your favourite colour and have it work with the rest of your wardrobe. I have to confess to taking a long time to enjoy green. It was the colour of my high school uniform and I hated it and it’s taken 30 years to get over it! There are so many lovely combinations here. I can’t wait to shop my closet to see how many I can replicate.
Happiness ? …
is finding a bag of beads and necklaces that you thought you’d thrown out ages ago…. including ones that, only recently, you had thought “I wish I still had (such and such) to wear with this outfit…” So now I can….?
Haha, glad to hear it, Beth T!
Score!!! :)
Lots more words but bottoms are simply lower half foundation pieces. Love the green, not a green wearer myself but could so easily substitute teal as someone else has suggested. Thank you for the inspiration, love to read your posts.
Hi! Grey and green is another color combination that reminds me “oh yeah, why didn’t I think of that before?’ (because I’m not as brilliant as Janice that’s why)
Bottoms? How about “unnecessaries” in the Zoom era. ;)