Sunday, November 22, 2009

Sequins and Animal Print

Lately I keep finding myself wearing outfits in the same colors and just adding different accessories such as scarves, chunky necklaces, big rings, and different bags. I tend to stick to pretty neutral colors with a few fun ones mixed in. Here is my basic color palette, black (duh), grey (both steel and heathered), navy, camel, and for a bit of color, pale pink (a la SJP), hot pink, red, purple and of course animal print (although my friend Kim once posed the idea that this may be a neutral). Of course I have to throw in some metallics. For me this is usually silver given all the black and grey but occasionally I like to mix it up with some gold. I saw some copper accessories in the JCrew catalog that I am dying over though. For some more pops of interest, I like to throw in a refined sequin. I have more sequins in my closet than I care to admit and have before this whole sequin craze that is currently sweeping the fashion world. As Rachel Zoe once said, you know I love a sequin. I personally have rarely met a sequin I didn't like. Unless of course, it is on a Christmas or any other type of tacky holiday sweater! I am pretty sure I should have been born a gay man so I could be a fabulous drag queen where sequins and glitter are the rule, not the exception.