Dress Like a 1970's School Administrator Day

Fine, it isn't an official holiday...yet.

 We had an assistant principal that dressed like this, every single day. Hot weather or cool, rain or shine, it was a wool skirt and polo neck in varying neutral shades for each day of the workweek. Sometimes she'd get wild and wear a yellow polo neck with a beige jacket to match her beige-blonde hair...but not too often as that was reserved for last day before half-term break, and field day.

 Punk was in full-swing at that point, and where I spent most of my time trying to stretch the dress code as far as possible, Miss B. spent most of her time trying to find reasons to make me turn my offensive tee shirts inside out. I liked her anyway-we were like those couples that thrive on good-natured arguing. A few years later I'd be entering the work world and wearing those hideous, "Female ties" that were little more than silk bows that would look alright on a kitten at Christmas but were absurd on women in an office setting. There's a vintage style I hope to never see again. Miss B. stuck to her poloneck sweaters, and in hindsight, I'd have to agree it was a good call. Forty years after the fact, I can acknowledge how put together she managed to look each day-my eyes were too blinded by the flash of my own studded leather jacket at the time to appreciate the classic styling of a wool blazer.

I did attempt a Google search to see if she was still kicking around, but there's zero internet presence for her. If she married, I wouldn't know her new surname. Anyhoo, I hope she's still still around and wearing a different coloured polo neck for each day of the week.

Outfit Particulars:
Sleeveless polo neck-Sears (about 15 years ago)
Vintage late 70's blazer (part of a suit) by Picket-N-Post-Goodwill
Vintage wool skirt-New Life Thrift
Wedge heeled loafers-K Mart a few years ago
Necklace-Salvation Army
Vintage handbag-Goodwill
Vintage Earrings-yard sale
Vintage brooch-Yard sale
Fragrance-Rive Gauche (what else could I possibly wear with this?)

I've been noticing there's even more brown in my wardrobe than in previous autumns. I don't know what's going on with me, but I wear brown the way Goths do black. I really should try mixing things up a bit, but I am clearly in some sort of rut. I need to have a clear out of the wardrobe and accept that I don't need five (count 'em) brown wool suits (three of which are tweed). This jacket has a matching skirt, and it isn't even a nice one (rather too wide and long as 70's skirts often were).

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And while we're on the subject of brown...no, not turds (what's wrong with you people?!)...

...here's a vintage corde bag I won't be getting rid of.

As regular readers know, I don't spend much on my vintage pieces and I'm willing to do without or wait until I find a piece at a price I'm comfortable with. At $9.99, this bag was borderline. but I went ahead and bought it because A) Good condition and B) Brown. I'm hopeless. really I am.

Here's the same dress worn almost exactly a year ago. I didn't plan it that way, but I also wore the same brooch! What can I say? It is a good dress between seasons. 

Outfit Particulars:
Peacock Print dress-Hand-Me-Ups
Vintage Corde bag-Hand-Me-Ups
Vintage Gaymode shoes-Thrift World
Liz Claiborne Satin jacket-Goodwill (brown and navy satin...yeah, that's practical!)
Earrings-Yard sale
Brooch-Goodwill
Fragrance-Guerlain Santal Royal ( I am aware everyone hated this perfume except yours truly. If you have any unwanted bottles you'd like to donate to a good cause (ME!) I'll be happy to give it a good home. I really don't think it deserves the hate it gets, but I'm not an oud snob-I think I prefer it to the fancy-pants oud in The Night, which I've worn a total of once).

 I'll leave you with a photo of this fellow who essentially screamed on the lightpost outside our house all morning. "Caw, caw, caw" it was worse than the budgie! I wonder what he was on about? There weren't any other birds around provoking him.

Do you have a favourite colour that you end up overdoing?