The Christmas Outfit

As promised, here are some more photos of the Zoe Rios snakeskins as well as what I wore them with on Christmas Day.

I bought this skirt awhile back from Etsy and as it's somewhat of an off color, what I would call Cadet blue, kind of blue, kind of grey and I was having a hard time finding a shoe that would go well with it. Natural snakeskin goes with pretty much everything so they seemed to be a natural pair. It's definitely from the 50's and from a department store in England.

The "embroidery", though not very much like embroidery, more like a strange cotton cording applique, is an off white, almost yellow, either from age or being in a heavy smokers home, or both. So the only top that I could think of was a cream colored cashmere twinset that I had ordered from Barrie Pace some time back.

All together, I think it was a pretty nice outfit. Sorry I don't have any actual modeling pictures of myself, but you get the general idea.

The inspiration for the shoes was a modern day pair of snakeskin sandals that I had seen but also, I wanted to get as close the post WW2 period as I could in regards to the style. The period when strappy sandals and more feminine silhouettes were coming into fashion while still maintaining the somewhat thick heel that was used throughout the 40's. I think Zoe did a wonderful job!!