RuBe’s Closet - Modest Fashion and Lifestyle: full skirt trend

Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Spree AW2014 OOTD Lookpost

Hello readers!

My previous post was dedicated to the actual Spreecoza event, the beautiful evening and all their stunning outfits. In today’s post I would like to focus on the outfit I chose to wear to the event.

I am not really good at planning outfits, I will usually have an idea of what I’d like to wear and at the time I’m getting ready, inevitably change my mind. At the last moment I will change the entire ensemble and leave my walk-in closet in a state!

The same happened with my outfit for the Spree event and finally settled on a full leather skirt made by none other than… ME! It was the first time I had worn this skirt and was rather pleased with the outcome. I paired it with a Diesel t-shirt, my metallic silver pumps and a short denim bolero.

Outfit details:

Leather skirt made by ME

Woolworths RE: denim bolero

Diesel logo t-shirt

Country Road Belt

Falke net stockings

Shutz metallic heel by Stylemology

Accessorise clutch

Scarfstop scarf

Pearls (old)

The Next 48HOURS covered the event, and here’s my 30 sec clip. (Aired on DSTV, Thursday eve channel 263) It was really strange to see and hear myself on TV though eek!

Ciao for now,

RuBe xoxo

Princess Berry #MakoyaStyle Challenge (week 4)

Hello lovelies!

This is my last post in the Makoya Brands Challenge, and I have had so much fun coming up with all these looks. As I indicated in my first post it was intimidating embarking on this project, but it has turned out to be awesome just to be included in something which gets my creative juices flowing.

Aside from the first look I shot, the rest of them were shot in really dreary weather. My outfits were centred around Autumn and were chosen specifically to reveal the different facets of my fashion personality. I love trying different looks, and putting together something original while still being trendy.

Today’s look was chosen to embody my girly side, the side who loves dressing up and looking like a princess - with an original twist. The full skirt trend has really caught my attention and I could not wait to include it in a lookpost. I have paired an old full skirt red dress with my princess skirt for extra volume. A little embellished shrug, and of course the berry beauties finish off the look.

It may seem unusual to pair red and purple, but these two colours have been paired rather successfully on the runway in recent shows - so I took the leap and, in my opinion, it worked!

Voting will start soon, I’m holding thumbs - May the best gal win!