Ever since Anne was so brilliant to combine red with turquoise, I have really wanted to try myself. It's a combo I would have never considered on my own in a zillion years, but it looks so amazing on her, and I fell in love with the idea.

Today I finally got around to trying it myself:

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without cardi
http://s386.photobucket.com/al.....uly026.jpg

This is an ATL dress I bought in the beginning of the summer. When it was rainy and chilly in June, I wore it with black cropped leggings, silver flats, silver jewelry, white cami, and a black cardigan... unfortunately I never took a photo to capture that outfit. (But you can imagine!)

Today was hot, humid, terribly muggy... awful! The cardi was really only needed for indoors in the AC. A cami would've been too hot as well. I got inspired to add the turquoise necklace as a pop of color... then that led me to add the cardi and go all out to channel Anne!

Only nit about this outfit: the necklace is actually silver, as is the (scant) hardware on the purse, and the sandals (which are my only ones at the moment) have gold accents. This would work fine with the KC pewter wedges, since the silver of the necklace is very muted and not too shiny, but I needed practical flat shoes today, so I went ahead and mixed anyway. What do you think?

Thanks Anne for the inspiration! I hope I did you justice!