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Building a Capsule Wardrobe by Starting with Art: Music Party, East Cowes Castle by Joseph Mallord William Turner

October 26, 2015 It takes a minute or two for the images to become clear...

But it's worth the wait. These are great colors for this time of year!

Skipping the Reunion, Again Every year, their school has a reunion. And every year, they get together in their favorite pub, and decide that they don't want to go! (everybody in the world did NOT love their school years...) It's become a tradition...

The someone pulls out the National Rails Timetable, and they haggle around a bit about where they go for a weekend away. This year, Edinburgh!

A few weeks ago, they knew nothing. Now, they're ready for one of the great castles in the world, beautiful scenery, excellent architecture, buckets of ... View the Post

Build a Capsule Wardrobe by Starting with a Scarf: Pigs on the Wing by wrq.e.d. Version 2

October 22, 2015

While the first colors that I saw in the scarf were greys and black, there's definitely enough beige and brown here to work with; maybe I see black and grey first because that's my personal capsule wardrobe focus?

But this time, this is the color scheme. I like giving myself the full range of the blues and browns as options, I think it works well with the scarf, and makes the blending of different shades of one color possible. While there are a few colors that need to be matched pretty closely, others can blend all over the place and work well - I think brown is one of those!

I didn't mention this, but the border of this scarf reads:

"my song was out of tune, my voice was cracked, but at least no ... View the Post

Build a Capsule Wardrobe by Starting with a Scarf: Pigs on the Wing by wrq.e.d.

October 21, 2015 Such a great scarf... Do we all remember the Pink Floyd song?

I am going to work with this scarf twice - I have a warm color scheme in mind for this, too. But for now, I'm concentrating on shades of grey, and that glorious blue.

The Thinnest Veneer of Conformity You have to visit the client. You developed the billing fee plan, so you've got to explain it to them. (those sales persons are such sissies...) You've been briefed at exhausting length about how to dress. Like you haven't been dressing yourself for decades. But you're usually... somewhat... nonconformist, so I guess they might have reason to be concerned. No worries, you are going to board the plane is ... View the Post

My Favorite Posts: Build a Capsule Wardrobe by Starting with a Scarf

You've certainly figured out that I'm an avowed scarf fan, and so working on posts that center around scarves is a delight for me. These are a few that stand out in my mind:

Start with a Scarf: Capri Scarf from Radical Chic

Start with a Scarf: Le Voyage de Pytheas by Hermes

The "Difficult" Scarf: Sepia and Light Grey

Start with a Scarf: Gentian Blue by Yuh Okano love, Janice ... View the Post

My Favorite Posts: Start with Stuff

October 15, 2015

I love Start with Art, and Start with Nature, but some of the most interesting posts I've ever done have started with a vase, a cabbage, a photograph of eggs, and a photograph of a pigeon!

Start with a Vase: A Qianlong Vase, and packing for China

Start with Nature: Ornamental Cabbage - a Four Pack

Start with Nature: Bird's Eggs photograph from Kevin Fleming Photography

Start with Nature: Pigeons love, Janice ... View the Post

My Favorite Posts: Maximize Your ROI

Maximizing your ROI means getting the greatest Return On Investment - using those special items on which you splurged!

Maximize Your ROI: Leopard Flats

Maximize Your ROI: Black and White Houndstooth Check Flats

Maximize Your ROI: Orange Boots

How to Wear Black and Brown Together, or

How to Incorporate an Expensive Garment into The Common Wardrobe

love,

Janice

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My Favorite Posts: Flowers

As autumn truly sets in, it's a good time flash back to some of my favorite posts that started with flowers!

Start with Flowers: Delphiniums

Start with Flowers: Daffodils

This is actually fabric, and not real flowers, but I think it fits here!

Start with Art: Flowers from Rosablue - a Four Pack for Business

Start with Flowers: Cherry Blossoms

love from vacation,

Janice ... View the Post

My Favorite Posts: Packing with Camel

October 10, 2015 I'm not sure exactly why I love these so much, because I never wear camel! But I really love the way the richness of the color works so beautifully with deep jewel tones, or soft pastels. If I had the coloring to look gorgeous in camel, I'd be ALL over it...

Four Pack: Camel and Burgundy

How to Pack for a Long Weekend: Teal and Camel

How to Pack for a Long Weekend: Navy and Camel

How to Pack for a Long Weekend: Camel and Wine love, Janice ... View the Post

My Favorite Posts: Building a Capsule Wardrobe by Starting with Art

Who am I kidding? I've loved all of these posts, and they are going to continue to be the core of what I do on The Vivienne Files. Getting dressed might be as close to art in our lives as some of us get, and I'm going to make sure that we enjoy it!

This might be my single favorite wardrobe EVER (the tassel on the tote bag was a stroke of GENIUS):

Start with Art: Version 2 The Apparition by Gustave Moreau

Start with Art: Winter at the Convent by Margaret Loxton

Start with Art: Rose by Ansel Adams

Start with Art: The Shoe Shop by Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones

love,

Janice ... View the Post

My Favorite Posts: Dresses

October 8, 2015 Not many people wear dresses as often as I do, and I think that's a shame; dresses are amazingly versatile, and super-easy to wear. I've written about how to accessorize dresses a lot in the past, and I hope to do so more in the future.

"Dressing Up" A Simple Dress

More "Dressing Up" A Simple Dress

One dress, six ways: A Diane Von Furstenberg wrap dress

Another DVF dress; 1 dress, 6 ways love, Janice ... View the Post

My Favorite Posts: Choosing a Scarf

October 7, 2015 If you're going to spend money on a scarf, you want to make sure that it's right! I've addressed this question a lot, and fully hope to work on it a lot more in the future.

Choosing a Scarf to Wear with Navy

How to Choose an Hermes Scarf: Post-Valentine's Day Gift Edition

How to Choose an Etro Paisley Scarf

How to Choose an Hermes Scarf: Sous l'Egide de Mars

How to Choose an Hermes Scarf: La Songe a la Licorne love, Janice ... View the Post

My Favorite Posts: Whatever’s Clean

October 6, 2015 I've done a lot of these, but choosing my favorites wasn't difficult. There's nothing I can put my finger on - sometimes the colors, or a specific garment. Individual preference is what makes us all so wonderfully different, of course! Start with Art: Joan of Arc by Jules Bastien-Lepage

"Whatever's Clean 13" in LEOPARD, Navy and Beige

How to Pack Light: Yellow and Black "Whatever's Clean 13" for warm weather

How to Pack Light: Uncertain Weather, and the "Whatever's Clean 13" love, Janice ... View the Post