---Fluevog Notting Hill riding boots---
"Right in so many ways, but the little wrongs" make them not help build outfits I'd thought would be no-brainers, and a lot of work to find and try styles that work with them. They were my first clothing purchase after moving here with just a backpack, and I'd thought snippets of years-ago casual style would fit whatever my lifestyle would be here.
Didn't have any skirts, didn't think to check shaft height on my leg. They come to an unflattering point on my upper calf. When I find opaque tights, I'll post pictures. The ankle is gorgeous, the toe is timeless almond. But the truth is, that height will always bother me.
---Worse than bought: made by bf, to my specifications: a shirt-dress of brown raw silk---
Part snippet of long-past casual style, part admiration of bf's shirts, I had it in my head that shirt-dresses could become my new uniform here. (What. Was. I. Thinking?) Gave him a picture, asked for the hem to be straight and knee-length, and when he drew the sides straight down, asked for more room even though my chest is bigger than my hips.
It's really, really comfortable.
It looks really, really "comfortable."
Wore it with the boots once, because he'd finished it for a wedding and that was the plan. Frumptastic. I just hope I was wearing one of my standard (Prima Donna Twist) bras underneath, because in the pics for the first WIW I posted here, wearing a more festive set, Marlies Dekkers' handiwork was clearly insufficiently supportive *and* produced VCL (visible upper edge of cups).
Maybe a tailor can redeem it, but by bf's own assertion he doesn't know how to fit womenswear, so the way he added curve room to (a narrower version of) his standard shirt pattern might be too much work to modify. Maybe just accepting the billowy middle, shortening/curving hem to tunic length and wearing it with leggings and those boots. Or maybe just let it go.
