Almost Pyjamas

I have to say it - while I love winter, it also makes me kind of miserable. And a hermit. The fact that I have been putting myself under a lot of stress lately does not help, of course. But I would prefer to blame the mercury.

This leads to a lot of outfits that are as close to pyjamas as I can bring myself to wear in public. I'm talking bed jackets, petticoats, leggings, leotards. Stretch cotton and lace. Long socks and vintage lingerie.

This first outfit is what I am wearing today. The shorts are actually a nylon garter belt from the sixties or seventies. I modeled the colour palette after one of my matryoshka dolls:



And the scarf, a fringed silk one from the 1940s, is also printed with nesting dolls:

I know. i look impressed, don't I?!





Wearing:

• American Apparel leotard.
• Black stirrup leggings.
• 1980's Charles David boots, eBay.
• 1940's fringe scarf, eBay.
• Vintage yellow nylon crepe tap shorts, eBay.
• Necklaces - Diva and gift from my mum.
• Vintage duck egg blue bed cape, eBay.
• Rings, from my mum.




This second outfit is warmer, more layered. I am wearing the slips I usually wear to bed, along with a recent acquisition, a H&M Garden Collection rosette jacket.



Details.


Wearing:

• 1940's accordian pleat slip.
• 1960's white lace slip.
• Black stirrup leggings.
• 1980's Charles David boots.
• H&M Garden Collection jacket, eBay.
• Black patent belt.
• Rings, from my mum.
• Necklaces - Diva and gift from my mum.


Winter days can be nice, though, when you have hours and hours to yourself - allowing very little responsibility besides small, quiet domestic things, listening to Van Morrison and drinking endless cups of coffee, the windowsills stained with brown rings. Yes, Winter definitely has its moments.