Outside the Box

I love this outfit. I love the plaid with the floral. I love the harmonizing colors. I love the idea of it – shirt knotted at the waist. I love the juxtaposition of “dress” with “casual plaid flannel.”

I wore it last Friday. Grocery shopping, erranding, etc. I felt perfectly comfortable in the style and the actual clothing.

I love pattern mixing. I don’t have a lot of opportunities for it in my wardrobe as I don’t have a lot of prints.

Inside the Box

BUT. I would not wear this to work. I’d wear the dress. I’d wear the shirt. I might even wear the shirt open over the dress, as a jacket (a shacket). But the knotted front? I would not (how badly do you think I wanted to say I would knot??).

This outfit has one foot inside the box, and one foot out (I will not say and shake it all about). So you’re seeing it enjoying possibly its only outing ever, and what a shame because I think it’s a great outfit, but there you have it.

The shoe selection was dictated by “lack of options.” I think I just wrote somewhere about my lack of black flats, but…that’s what I would have preferred with this outfit.

Do you have “in theory” outfits? Outfits that you love in theory but that you struggle to actually wear out in the world?

What I’m Wearing

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