.. to wear big patterns, especially if you are a small woman 🙂

Here I perform an experimentation, on my own skin, to see, if the style mistakes being told about so much, hold the true.

The dress is ordered from China, AliExpress. The quality is actually really good and in my opinion, the dress is quite nice. I expected the other dress, which I have ordered, with panda bear, to be the same quality, but the the print was very bad there. I ordered the other dress mainly because I have weakness for frogs. But the frogs are not so visible there. Maybe I’ll make photos of the other dress too.

Style error number two here is, that “there is no expensive looking pattern!” – that’s what my favorite influencer/the queen of elegance has said 🙂

Number three – animal prints (prints, not the patterns) don’t belong into elegant ladies wardrobe! This is also said by the lady mentioned above 🙂

From Humana Vintage store. Brand Heart of Haute. Made in USA with the world’s finest materials. Size XL (I didn’t know I’m that big 😛). The textile is really beautiful, the pattern has a golden contour, not so visible on the photos..

And I just bought these shoes from Zara’s new collection..

.. all of those topics are very actual lately.. like the question of life and death 😬

Why is so important to look EXPENSIVE.. I wouldn’t wear ugly things, but there are days when I personally want to wear some cute rags (maybe even a bit trashy looking), which I think is like a lovely bohemian style.

Sometimes some clothes or accessories have the history and emotional value, which makes it expensive, even, if this may look cheap for someone. I think it’s OK to wear rags and some things look even more expensive, when these are bitten by the teeth of time – like my over 40 years old handbag (which actually wasn’t very cheap..)

Anyway, here I have an experimentation, how to put together and make cheap priced second hand rags to look more expensive. I think these look good as separate items too, but I mixed and matched these a little bit with expensive belt (Gucci Blondie Interlocking wide belt from Farfetch – which probably may be classified under quiet luxury items, as the logo there is quite modest and very sophisticated) and Tommy Hilfiger shoes, no, cheap shoes + expensive looking, but cheap Mango bag (I think it’s a bit similar to Ferragamo style 🙄). The shoes I bought last year as the last pair, from a random store, but I found the same shoes today and bought a spare pair, just for case..

This dress just got my eye in the rag store and it seems to be Russian design, brand Glenfield. And I added here a blouse (also from rag store, actually from the department of bigger ladies, size 40, brand named Vintage Stories). For me it’s like a kimono style jacket and I have such a weakness towards bird prints.

Here I’m wearing the real art – the masterpiece of Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli – Primavera (c. 1482), icon of the springtime renewal of the Florentine Renaissance. For some reason I went a size up and bought M, maybe I just wanted the painting to be bigger 🙂

I had a meeting with a client today and I wanted to look summery formal, so I combined the shirt, which I got from Humana 2nd Hand store at a non-existent price, with Zara’s white jeans and Gucci + the shoes are not Gucci, this is some other three striped design 🙂

From Humana vintage..

Here I welcome spring/summer with amazing coat from Reserved 🌞

Here I wear Estonian design alpaca wool coat, which I bought many years ago. Originally the coat had shiny black buttons and black patent leather belt. I’ve been planning to replace those buttons long time ago, but I didn’t find the right ones. Last year I went to the fabric store for another attempt and I was positively surprised by the beautiful selection. I also had suitable belt from before, I just didn’t know it, before I got these buttons 🙂. The belt is from Massimo Dutti and it was waiting, since last summer, as it was too big for my waist and I thought I will wear it with some blazer or coat some day 🙂, but some extra holes were made and now the belt belongs to this coat 🙂. Just as a side comment, I really love Massimo Dutti’s belts – these are high quality and expensive looking and the good thing is, that these are elegant and classic, without too flashy brand logo, from which may easily get bored. Also the boots are from Massimo Dutti – very classic and fully justified – worth to buy.

Another hedgehog handbag found the way to me – from my secret vintage shopping place. This hedgehog is the second one, the third one, I just received from France, is “Sac Herisson Exclusivite” in rainbow colors and this one is brand new. Pictures will come in spring.

Here wearing festive set – dress+jacket from my partners grandmother. Vintage bag from the very secret source and Massimo Dutti boots.