Modish Matrons #20: Simply Red

Hello, my dear friends and readers, and welcome to the month of February with MODISH MATRONS! This time, Beate of the Little Railroad Keeper's House offered a theme, and we played with the title for a while, until we came up with Simply Red, remembering the music band (back in the early 1990s, I was a huge fan of MTV, exotic to post-Soviet Russia, and Simply Red was one of the most memorable groups then). Anyway, the idea behind the theme was wearing lots of red at once, and if Beate wouldn't have emphasized it from the beginning, I'd probably settle on one, maximum two red items. But since her thought was to play with red in abundance, I took all the red things out of my closet to see what combinations could work, and came up with this one. I must say I love the result and once again I'm thankful to my style buddies for ideas that help me grow!

Please visit my dear blogging friends BEATE und TINA to see their imagination at work - I'm sure you'll draw lots of inspiration from these skillful ladies, just as I do!

To create a monochromatic outfit, I played with different shades of red, different fabrics and textures, adding just a bit of pattern and other colors in my accessories to create the sense of depth - and the rest is proportions and layers.

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My glass chandelier earrings are the heaviest in my collection, and the most striking ones too 

(ha, they better be!). I would suffer for a couple of hours, otherwise I'd just skip them or add simple loops or something like it.

This is a new-to-me vintage clutch (the same vintage brand as my brown purse HERE - Harry Levine, USA). I love the texture it adds, and I really can stuff surprisingly many things in this little number!

Lacy tights add so much charm! Bought on sale for just under $6. I wear them with my trusty waterproof genuine suede booties by Aquatalia, perfect for our rainy winter - but of course, would be even prettier with fancy heels or, on the contrary, with chunky boots...just some ideas for the future.

The sheer blouse is probably the prettiest in my entire wardrobe (previously shown in NOVEMBER 2017). The pleated skirt successfully pretended to be a dress in my APRIL 2017 post.

You probably remember my new fake leather moto jacket from the recent post HERE. Goodwill happens to be a good source for brollies (this is a brand new one for $10), which are my favorite way to add another interest to an outfit, and 100% useful in our climate!

In my younger years I used to think red was too much for me. I wore red, but very infrequently, as it seemed "too loud" (I wrote about my life-long relationship with the color red in my DECEMBER 2013 post, including some old pictures of me). I don't feel this way any longer, but with this outfit I definitely stepped up my game wearing red practically head to toe. What could be a better occasion than a dreary month of February when the sun doesn't spoil us with its appearance too often? Besides, how gorgeous is red for a romantic date with your sweetie on a Valentine's Day? He'll never forget...

All items are remixed from my closet

Faux leather coat - Eloquii (still available on their site)

Blouse - ASOS Curve

Skirt - Glamour X Lane Bryant (old)

Lacy tights - Lane Bryant (sale)

Boots - Aquatalia (old)

Umbrella - via Goodwill

Purse - vintage

Earrings - Chico's (old)

Linked up with Visible Monday at Patti's!

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