June 7, 2023
I must remember to re-visit this art when the weather cools, and I can put our heroine in an Oxford grey outfit…
But today, our heroine is sticking with black & white, and 2 vivid accent colors!
I don’t know where she’s going! Clearly she’s only going for a few days, because her bag is what we call a “weekender.” And I assume she’s going somewhere warm-ish, because she’s wearing sandals…
Earrings – Drae Collection; necklace – Drae Collection; denim jacket – Alex Mill; tee shirt – Alex Mill; crossbody bag – Hiva Atelier; weekender bag – Béis; pants – J.Crew; sandals – Birkenstock
We might be able to learn more about her upcoming adventure if we peek into her bag?
Multi-stone earrings – Petit Moments; black & white daisy earrings – Emily Laura Designs; cardigan – J.Crew; orange tank top – J.Crew; white camp shirt – Alex Mill; black & white scarf – Stoff Studios; orange scarf – Arlette Ess; black & white bracelets – Fierce Lynx Designs; white shorts – J.Crew; black skirt – Lands’ End; printed linen tee shirt – Boden; black sandals – Vince Camuto; white leather sneakers – Keds
Well, we can conclude that she likes black and white. And that she’s going somewhere warm, and relatively casual. She won’t be gone for too long…
And there’s NO wrong way to put together an outfit from this travel capsule wardrobe – Whatever’s Clean indeed!
We should keep our eyes open for this woman – we could run into her anywhere! What might she be wearing?
Maybe she’s going to be away longer than we think…
Sorry for the brief story, but between fibromyalgia, arthritis and now carpal tunnel syndrome – I have appointments to which I must rush!
love,
Janice
p.s. Six years ago, our heroine was packing for a week at the beach in a BIG family beach house…
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I don’t know why, but it makes me think of going on a “UK gardens trip”, visiting botanical gardens and other beautiful places: strolling through lovely, well-kept gardens, but never too far from town for an ice-cream or coffee.
Fabulous post! I could happily wear this travel capsule (almost) as is. The only changes I’d make are age and size related; I’d substitute white shorts with 7/8 or long white pants and choose half sleeve T-shirts.
Thank you for all your hard work, inspite of your painful health issues.
Love these colors together. Especially, the Olive or Olive Oil colors with black and white. A very West Mediterranean color combo. Just shopped my closet for this combination, but I am using coral instead of orange. I have a black and white with coral and orange scarf that never gets used, but now it will be. Thanks Janice for your ideas and suggestions. Next is to iron and press all of those pieces.
Hope you feel better soon. Getting older is not for the weak. I’ve had carpal tunnel for years and fortunately have been able to manage it by avoiding repetitive motions with my hands. Everyone once in awhile I overdue the crocheting and end up in a brace for a day or so, but I’m thankful it’s never worse than that.
Ok. The post. I looked at the colors and swooned. I am using navy instead of black, but otherwise this is almost what I’m putting together to go visit our son this summer. I’ve just recently joined the orange train and love it. Have been looking for an orange tank and not finding it, so thanks for that. Olive jacket will be sweater instead. And I’ll have to consider the Birkenstocks – which is one of the shoes I can actually wear on my stupid feet – and I do not have that color.
Take care!
I greatly overpacked for my recent European trip and am determined to not repeat the error so I will look to your posts for my inspiration. This is a great one. These accent colors don’t work for me but the concept does. I also love that weekender bag
Thanks for continuing to post while dealing with so much. Hope you’re feeling better soon.
I love this color combo although it looks a little “wintry” to me. However, I could easily live in it for the summer with a little more white and some coral thrown in! never thought I could wear olive but found out recently this deeper version looks great on me. The muted, grayed down versions were blah and washed me out. I also thought I couldn’t wear orange, but guess what–I can wear that too! A while new world of shopping has opened up to me! Lol! Thanks for featuring those colors.
Sorry to hear you are suffering. Several family members have had some relief with Earthing mats (check out The Earthing Movie or Earthing. com) for inflammation as well as sleep issues. My son has fibromialgia and it has helped with pain. Menopause hit me hard with sleep issues for years and I now sleep thru the night!! Hallelujah! Picturing you surrounded with heavenly white light for healing!
When I saw the artwork, I thought this is going to be too dark. Then, I realized that it is just the color combination that I wore last fall. I called it my burnt orange/olive green capsule. Rather than shorts, I found an orange mid-sleeve shift dress that only fits for that one season but it got lots of wear. Thanks for the sneakers, with my arthritis those seem to be the only shoes that are comfortable to me.
Another great travel capsule! I could absolutely use this as inspiration for my next short trip to visit either my mother in NM or my mother-in-law in NY. I would switch out the olive and orange for maybe purple and fuschia, or emerald and aqua (what’s the name of the new Pantone color everyone likes?), but the style of the pieces and the black and white base are me exactly. This would work with navy instead of black, too.
As for the “Weekender” bag, after my last trip I am in desperate need on a new one (My shoulder strap broke in the middle of JFK airport – not fun!). I hear this Beis bag is “It” right now, so thank you for the link. I hope you feel better and find healing for all your issues quickly. Don’t worry about us, you take care of you.
That scarf!! (I do not need another scarf. I do not need another scarf. Eep! But maybe I do need an earthing throw? Hmmm…). Adore the whole capsule.
Thinking healthy thoughts in your direction!
I hope your doctor visits have you feeling better soon.
I saw this painting and swooned over the colors. On my screen the orange reads more burnt orange or rust. I could live in those colors year round. I hadn’t thought of including the dark grey in the mix, but I love it. I’m looking forward to seeing this heroine return in the fall. For me the white would be limited to a black with white print or black and white stripe. I look terrible in a white garment top or bottom. I love that black and white tee, but yikes! $75 for a tee, even if it is linen.
This is one of my favorite travel capsules in a while, even though I don’t wear white shorts/pants or sandals and the vivid orange doesn’t suit me. It is just extremely satisfying to see this color palette played out for hot weather, and it’s an exceptionally well selected set of items.
Take care, Janice. Sending good thoughts your way.
I have been resistant to all of the olive green on The Vivienne Files lately, but this post has done it for me! That jacket with the black is swoon worthy. Now, if you actually convert me to grey in the fall….
These are not my colors but they are so lovely and I love wow you have used two neutrals and two accents, that at first glance I didn’t think would go together. I was thinking she could get even more mileage from the short sleeve white button down by layering that over the tank and the short sleeve top as well. Maybe she is going on a longer trip!
Wow, wow, wow!! The olive and black look so sophisticated together! Love! The orange chosen is exactly right , not burnt or rusty but pure and true. For those who avoid orange there is a bright raspberry pink that looks smashing with olive and black but a softer version of the pink would work as well. I usually wear olive silk pants, my orange tank ( Zulily!!) and black silk jacket with black sandals it’s an unexpected look…just get the orange right. I bought an olive tank to wear with the black version of the silk pants.. it does create the ubiquitous column of colour with the olive pants but with a really jazzy orange scarf ( like the one shown) it goes from ho hum to eye popping! Never thought I would favour olive as a neutral due to my fair blue eyed colouring but with the right accent colour it’s very easy to wear…plus it mixes so well with my other neutral, black.