ONE DRESS, TWO LOOKS

I love and prefer clothes that are easy to combine with different kinds of pieces of clothing and accessories to get different outfits and looks. I never want to buy or make a piece of clothing just so that I would use it once. Here are two different outfits / looks with the same dress. I didn't have camera with me in either of events so photos taken with phone this time :)

I made this dress for my friends' wedding in August. I wanted to make a beautiful, simple and timeless dress that I could use later on as well. For the wedding I accessorized the dress with green Minna Parikka shoes and green clutch bag. Or actually I had the shoes first and then I chose the fabric for dress to go nicely with them. My friend made a braid to my hair and I kept the make up pretty simple. The wedding look was outright quite sweet, summery and some how fairy look-a-like, I think.

Last Saturday I got a new chance to use this dress. I had a student dinner "sittning" (suom. sitsit) where the dress code was "jacket", that meant suit jacket for men and dresses for women. I wanted to create something totally different out of the dress that I had on the wedding and to make the look more autumn. I chose really dark burgundy for earrings, lipstick, and nails and otherwise black accessories. Hair I just fixed back and kept my make up simple excluding lipstick. This look was edgier and more rough comparing to the wedding look.

I really could not wait to combine the dress next with heavy cardigan and ankle boots. But now I would love to hear which one you like the best? The wedding look or the sittning look? Feel free to leave a comment (in english/finnish/swedish) :)

xo, Viivi