Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Fashion: Sweater Vest & Fear of Matchy-Matchy fashion



I'm a little weird about matching.  I actually really don't like it.  At all.  I think the phobia stems from a fear of looking like one particular woman who used to work at my local Kroger.  She always matched, and she frequently had a theme to her outfits as well.  A purple shirt with purple flowers, purple flower earrings, a purple scrunchie, purple eye-makeup, purple shoes, purple nails, purplepurplepurple!  It was horrible.  And my fear only increased after I became a teacher.  I've seen one too many grown women wearing holiday-themed outfits better suited to kindergarten classrooms than the real world.  Extreme matching just seems so old-fashioned; I feel as if I'm dressed as a caricature of an old-woman.

The perfect match of this sweater vest to my skirt and blouse made me a little nervous today.  I got this sweater vest at The Limited over the weekend for $10!  I only realized how perfectly it matched my other The Limited pieces when I got it home.  I couldn't resist how pulled together the whole look felt.  I think I avoided looking too perfectly matched by choosing neutral shoes and my leopard watch, or at least I hope I did.

What do you think?  Is this outfit too matched? 



Outfit Details: The Limited top, sweater vest, & skirt; Seychelles wedges; Timex watch

1 comments:

TaraMixandMatch said...

Not too matched at all...you have pattern and other color thrown in there to break it up...I think it's an adorable look!