40s Fashion Calendar: January

If you haven't noticed, the theme for this week is something along the lines of oh, wait, it's February already? Guess I should post the rest of my January things!! So here's my January 40s Fashion Calendar entry.

Last week, the hubby and I took an impromptu day trip to St. Augustine, FL. I had just finished my crafting adventures for the January project so I decided to wear them out.

The January project involved making two faux flower brooches-one for your winter coat and one for your purse. It was chilly but not cold enough for a winter jacket so I just wore my pin with my "suit".

We were also supposed to accessorize with a pair of gloves. While it would have been easy to go with a safe neutral or even a green pair, I decided to coordinate with the lavender flowers in my brooch and go with a light purple pair.

And I wore my green hat! I adore the fact that this outfit is basically red and green but does not read Christmas at all! I guess it's all of the pretty flowers.

I was a bit nervous about this brooch making. I'm not usually good with anything that is "crafty" in nature. Sewing yes, crafty no. But it turned out really great!

But it turned out really great! And this outfit turned out amazing! I seriously doubt I would have put it together on my own but it was so much fun.

Since I don't own an actual suit, I don't usually go for the suit look but this turned out great. The sweater and skirt don't quite match in color and that's something that normally drives me bonkers but once I actually put the outfit on, you really can't tell. And it didn't bother me at all the entire day.

I didn't have a cloth purse to pin the second brooch on but I just pinned it to the decorative tassel and called it a day.

I got tons of compliments on my outfit! And it made me remember how much I adore wearing gloves and a hat. Accessories are so important to an outfit.

All of the pieces I'm wearing are solid basics but the interest is in the accessories and combinations of colors. 

 Are you participating in the 40s Fashion Calendar? What's your favorite attention grabbing accessory?

My 40s Fashion Calendar

I am so excited about the 40s Fashion Calendar project hosted by Brittany of Va-Voom Vintage. It goes along so well with my "less is more" motto for 2015 plus goes so well with the make do and mend mentality of the war era 40s. If you haven't heard of the project, pop over to Brittany's blog and check it out. Then come back and I'll show you my wardrobe for the project.

1. Winter Coat

Ok, so I have winter coats but I don't really need them much in Florida so I'll just leave this one blank for now.

2. A Suit

I don't have a 1940s suit so I'm using this red sweater and skirt combo. Red is not a traditional neutral but it goes with loads of other colors and it's the closest thing I have to a suit.

The skirt I just made from Simplicity 1659. I have plans to make a matching suit jacket using Simplicity 4013. It's technically from 1939 but a resourceful lady would use this great suit pattern anyways.

3. A Small Brimmed Hat

 Hat! I just adore this green hat. It's one of the first vintage hats I ever bought and it doesn't get worn enough.

4. A Dark Bolero

I also adore this knitted bolero. Plus read and blue are the perfect combo.

5. Pillbox Hat

Brittany's promised to have a tutorial for this so I'm waiting on it.

6. A Basic Dress in a Solid

So I'm kind of cheating on this one. I have a great pink solid dress but I'm thinking one of the month's challenge is going to be wear the suit jacket with your dress and pink and red really don't work together unless it's Valentine's Day. Of course, red and green screams Christmas so...

7. One or Two Pair of Simple Shoes

Check! I have tons of simple shoes.

And here's a sneak peak at the January Challenge which will go up on the blog latter this week.