goldenpig

15 Comments

• replied 10 years ago

  I like reading your analysis and reasoning on your WIWs!

  I think this does look intentional, and not that you didn't know your colours.

• missvee replied 10 years ago

  You are too funny! For me it's one reptile too many, but I love that you have such fun with your clothes. You can really carry off a look like this.

• Beth Ann replied 10 years ago

  As to your post length --- This is a "Natalie post."  You have your own unique style, and I love it.  If I'm pushed for time, I'll skim!  If I'm overwhelmed, I'll choose one observation and comment on that. 

  BTW -- Posing one big question is helpful with a long post.

  To the point:  Love every element, but I'd choose either the pants or the shirt.  If they had a differing scale of print, I think it might work better, but as is, I think they fight for the eye.  This would not qualify, however, as a hot mess.  I know my hot mess, and this ain't it.

  I love the pants with the jacket -- black pants would indeed be boring.  What about a simple underlayer beneath the jacket?

• replied 10 years ago

  This might be one reptile too many for me, but hey, you're having fun!  You're not boring!  Wear what delights you.

  As for terse vs. verbose, again, do what you enjoy.  You can't please everyone.  We all know how to skim when we're busy.  

  I always enjoy how much you enjoy your clothing!  :)  

• Lyrebirdgully replied 10 years ago

  GP, I thought you would get lots of responses to this post - when I saw later that there were just a handful, I had to chip in my support. To this HALGO matchy-matchy moth, your outfit is a flame.  Putting the pants with the shirt and red bangle and the red bag is EXACTLY what I would do (if I had these items) -- as is matching the designs in your metals.So your result is  for me a visual treat. Although, my matchy-matchy streak must be more extreme than yours, because the maryjanes would not make the cut in my imaginary styling  - owing to being not matchy-matchy ENOUGH.( The polka dots on the shoes would have to be represented elsewhere in the outfit to fill my bill.) No doubt this means I'm obsessed. Oh well.....
  BTW, I do love how well you wear red and black together  - your mane of superglossy black hair makes it all happen! 
  RE post length: I'm not fussed either way--  but probably lean towards more rather than less, because it helps my understanding.

• Karie replied 10 years ago

  I think you pull this look off beautifully. I feel that it works because you've made it intentional. If all of the colors were an exact match, it would be too much, but because you've intentionally kept the look tonal it all works. 

  I love the shoes in pic #4! I also like reading the longer versions of your posts, you are very good at putting your thought process for each outfit into words.

• Adelfa replied 10 years ago

  I agree with Beth Ann, this post style seems like you and I enjoy it. So even though I said I take it in better with the terse style, I don't want you to stop doing these. Maybe do both?

  I think you put this outfit together really well, but I think I'm not comfortable with mixing shades of red. I think if you mixed tones of almost any other color it would work better for me.  That might just be me.

• ManidipaM replied 10 years ago

  Natalie, I enjoy seeing you go your own way, dancing to your own drummer! Be that the style of posting or the hyper-matching!

  If I'm short of time (like I was yesterday), I just decide to come back later. I do this with many people who post the story as well as the outfit. And I do it because I want to savour their writing.

  And yeah, I prefer the tonal snake cent per cent! L.O.V.E. --- I think it's great fun! Do, do wear it again!

• rae replied 10 years ago

  The tonal matchiness is fun! Print matching with tonal colors!

  I also prefer your usual post method. If I don't have time to read it all... I guess I just stop reading part way through, myself. I like hearing your writing voice.

• Gaylene replied 10 years ago

  Natalie, I don't think your style could ever be anything less than stellar. And you're right that, while the black pants version is a perfectly fine outfit, it definitely lacks oomph compared to your original idea.

  I'm not a huge fan of mixing smaller prints in an outfit; somehow it always seems too hard to figure out exactly where to look so I'd probably have substituted the shirt for a solid orangy-red one just to keep the focus on the pants. But I love your pairing of pants, shoes, and bracelet--that kind of matchy matchy is right up my alley.

  As for the length, your posts have always been my favorites because I enjoy your musings on your thought processes as much as the pics. It's posts like yours that have really helped me clarify what I'm trying to do when I'm in front of the mirror--so please don't change!

• Mellllls replied 10 years ago

  This is a little too much pattern for me but you look so happy!

• Angie replied 10 years ago

  I think you nailed it in #1. Fashion forward, and to my eye works! There is harmony in the chaos created by the pattern similarities and tonal palette. Well done!

• Joy replied 10 years ago

  I read before looking at the photos and hadn't expected to like it, but I do...very much. The fact that the shirt and jeans are not the same color makes it work to my eye. You obviously had fun putting this together. I can imagine the joy of discovering that the bracelet matched up so well. This is a winner worth repeating.

• Lisa replied 10 years ago

  Wow you really nailed mixing lots of textures and patterns here, just lovely!  I don't mind posts that are long, I like the insight.  Short posts are good too, because I always look for style ideas for myself and I like to see what combinations do or do not work out.

• Deborah replied 10 years ago

  Firstly, I am happy for everyone to post as long or short as they like :)  If I have time i read the full post comprehensively, if I don't I do a quick skim and then to the pics :)

  I alsmost feel I need to see this outfit IRL.  It does look intentional, however for me the reds (at least in the photos) are too different, but please take that with a grain of salt, as I am very much a neutrals girl :)  Personally I really like #8 and see nothing boring, just stylish, about it.  But I understand that you have to be you and the outfit you left the house in is clever and creative in my book.