Dressing globally!

Vintage green wool shift, UO braided belt, blue tights, Chie Mihara 'Absinthe' shoes
I don't know why it hasn't been featured in an OOTD post here yet, but this is one of my very favourite green dresses!  I bought this nubby wool 60's shift on ebay a few years back- the green looked sort of bland in the seller's photo, but it was cheap and I liked the texture of the fabric.  Imagine my delight when it arrived and it was the most perfect shade of intense, alive, mossy green!!  In fact, it is exactly the shade of THE green dress, no?
J Crew nutmeg Traversa cardigan
Thursday was supposed to be quite warm, but as recently as Tuesday it was -20 (!) so I needed a sweater to get me through the day.  I grabbed my ruffly rust sweater since it worked with the belt and off I went.  I had this weird feeling all day that there was something familiar about it the colours- I mean, something elemental, but a little too familiar, too close. Then I realized I was kinda dressed...like a globe!  Ahem.

Um, and if you're still hating me for recently stumbling into my ownership/caretaker/loving relationship with Chie Mihara's Absinthe heels from 2008, well...I guess it's that time of year when shoes are on sale and we must acquire when we must...don't read on!

I was admiring a co-worker's brown mary-janes and she said she'd found them on super reduction recently, that it was a japanese designer working for a spanish shoe company she hadn't heard of before...I jumped at the mention of my beloved...then she said what she paid for them and fortunately it was the end of the day 'cause I ran over to check out the last-call sale selection at Ogilvey's!

These babies are teal blue, with bright royal blue laces, and kinda represent a summerier version of the bow-tied oxfords I bought at Christmas (that I have worn every single day since!)  At 70 % off I couldn't say no, could I?  No sirree!  Besides I've been dutifully making my own lunch instead of eating out everyday this month.  That must count for something!
Chie Mihara Livia Fall/Winter 2011 (in Ocean blue)