Taking Ornella's challenge to heart - WIW jacket week

On the spur of the moment I decided to take Ornella's challenge and wear jackets all week. I have to say that was not as easy as I thought - not because I am not used to wear jackets - quite the contrary! However I found it challenging to wear a jacket every day because it limited my options and variety.
Anyway here I am wearing a jacket every day of the work week for your viewing pleasure. More than that: I am going to continue the theme into Saturday and wear a jacket to Toronto get together tomorrow!
As I mentioned on another thread today I have total of 6 jackets and 3 denim jackets for the fall to spring season: most of them got worn this week
#1 Cream thrifted cord jacket with a thrifted sleeveless sheath, Gap leans and SM boots from NAS. I am still trying to figure out how to style these combat boots, this is a new style for me so all comments welcome. You cannot see it well but I am wearing a sparkly long spider pendant here.
#2-3 Another thrifted jacket with teal silk Le Chateau tunic, CJ skinnies and black Clarks booties. I wore a leather jacket on top (pic 3): do you think it is OK when this tunic is so much longer?
#4 Inspired by Celia and Aida - camel Trouve jacket with black tunic and skinnies and animal print scarf. I decided that camel and animal print just beg for red shoes!
#5 I decided to challenge myself to wear my black flared skirt - I still struggle to style it. Somehow it turned into a variation of Chanel formula here!
#6-7 I think that anticipation of tomorrow Toronto meet up put me into festive mood today! Anyway yellow and red combo felt just right! I decided to try styling my combat boots with this pencil skirt and lacy hose. I am not sure it worked but somehow it felt good. Bonus picture of outdoor jacket - I quite liked this one too. However if I am completely off the mark wearing these boots and that skirt together - please tell me! Don't let me embarrass myself again!

That was my jacket week - thanks for the game, Ornella!

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nancylee

Veteran

Wow. Love all these looks, Sveta, and especially #2-3. You have a sleek, confident style, and I always love looking at your posts!

Aida

Very creative and cleverly remixed outfits Sveta! I can see why your coworker thought you never duplicate I LOVE your blazer in #1, and I like the sleek outfit paired with the rugged boots. I think the layering in #3 works nicely (cropped over long, if you remember your InStyle layering post!). #4 is so fun with the red shoes! I totally feel your sentiment to add red: I wore a variation of that outfit yesterday and added my red bag hehe. The full skirt looks cute with the Chanel-esque jacket and formula, makes it a bit more refined feeling. And #7 is so sassy, love it!

Also an interesting note regarding colors. From just the thumbnails you can see that you have good color variety, and you also mix them well together: white, gray, black, teal, brown, camel, yellow; white/gray, brown/teal, camel/black, black/white, brown/yellow/teal, black/red/yellow. This is a fantastic way to make it look like you own more than you do.

Jonesy

Great week! My fave is that blue tunic--I just love that color and silhouette on you!

Kyle

I'm with Jonesy. I love the color and shape of the tunic. You are looking more chic than ever, Sveta. I also really enjoy your outfits with the tan leather jacket.

Amy

(website)

Sveta, you look so beautiful in all of these outfits. #2 is just amazing. The bold color of blue is stunning with your complexion. #4 appeals to me a lot too. It's such an elegant outfit. You are totally "schooling" me with the combination in #5. We wore almost identical outfits this week, but yours somehow looks classier. I think it may be the killer shoes you have on there!

Joy

It looks like you had fun doing this challenge and the outfits look great. I lovelovelove #5!

MsMaven

Love #4. I loved it before I noticed the red shoes--they are the perfect touch. Elegant, classy, yet with a spark of color that gives it an original twist. Great job all week.

sopranomom

Active Member

I really enjoyed the way you integrated the combat boots into the sleeker elements. I think it helps that the boots aren't overly chunky. At any rate, I enjoyed all the outfits very much and love the yellow pencil skirt.

Deborah

Sveta, what a fabulous week. All outfits are gorgeous but I am crazy for #5. So elegant and stylish... I just love the Chanel "flavor" here...I NEED to copy this look.

Ornella

WOW! I have to run and will be back to comment more later in the day, but I am so amazed with the creativeness on show.

Sveta, you seriously rock my style world! I am beyond impressed. I want to copy everything always. Every single outfit you post has FUN FUN FUN stamped all over it.

Have a great time at the get together - take many photos please.

Jjsloane

Great looks for the week! I especially like 2-4, but all are just a little different (which is hard when using one same element like a jacket) I must take notes on your superb poses as well. You always look like a model.

sarah

Great outfits, Sveta. I really am enjoying how you are playing around with juxtapositions of different textures in these outfits. They are so fresh and interesting. I love them all. Have a GREAT time with the Toronto meet-up! I can't wait to hear all about it.

Lisa

You rocked this challenge. And you are a master at remixing. You have gathered a really cohesive wardrobe that is stellar on you. Nice job!

I'm back to feast my eyes on this round. I just love it Sveta. I did not follow your style journey from the beginning, I believe you found YLF before me, but I used to recognize the same sort of dilemmas in your threads as I used to have. AND I know it's not easy to dress long, tall body and we're both Team Logical when it comes to dressing (at least we were, I guess we're moving towards Team Instictive a bit more?).

#1 I always loved the clever new patterned lining of that jacket. And it looks perfect for wintery outfit too. About boots, you may open separate thread for ideas how to style them?

#2-3 I like the type of collars your blouse has, but struggle with them when they are layered under some the jacket. Great idea to lift the collar, I'll try that. And pretty necklace that freshens everything up. Re. the jacket over it, it works to my eye.

#4 Of course the red shoes were the obvious choice with this outfit. I like how you tied the scarf here.

#5 Another great look, this is how I wear my flared navy skirt and my chanelesque jacket The belt looks great and look at the cute tiny polkadots on the hose!

#6 Red + yellow = I DO need something yellow, pronto! Another fab patterned hose. Either jacket looks fantastic. I'm surprised that combats seem to work here to my eye as well, but take this with a grain of salt as that style is unknown territory to me.

Thanks for posting these!

Sveta

Sorry it got me so long to post a replies for your lovely comments. Yesterday was all spent in Toronto and today was a catch up with errands and chores...
Nancylee, Joy, Deborah, Jjsloane - thanks!
Aida, you know I love colors, right? Usually I tend to swing between colorful and neutral outfits almost daily - it gives me a sense of more variety.
Jonesy / Kyle, I love that teal color too! I could not believe my luck whan I saw this tunic in this color and this shape and this length and made of silk and on sale!
Amy, I think it also can be a skirt shape. Mine is very fitted down to mid-thigh and then flares from there. Is yours full from the waist?
Sarah, I am not even sure I can pronounce "juxtaposition" correctly (I am afraid my English is a bit limited) but thanks anyway!:-)
Lisa, remixing makes it more fun for me.
Ornella, you are right, long bodies are hard to dress in the "average" world...:-(
The blouse in #2 does not have a collar really, just this slit with a trim and it is hard to layer over. In the ideal world it would have a real collar but I love this color so much I just have to make it work!
MsMaven, red with camel just make me happy!
Sopranomom, thanks, I am still learning to incorporate these combat boots into my style - good to know it was not a complete fiasco!
Deborah

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