ALL WHITE OUTFIT WITH PINK STRIPE SHIRT FOR A HOT SUMMER DAY

Hello dear friends, how are you all?

The last couple of weeks were extremely hot, even by Australian standards and having learnt the hard way about skin cancer, protecting my skin from the damage of the sun has become absolutely paramount.   

These days I am not only slathering myself with 50+ sunblock (it was 15+ when I landed in Sydney 30 years ago, lol) but I seldom leave the house without carrying with me some sort of cover, whether it is a scarf, a blazer or in this case, a linen shirt).

Thanks to the fashion designers who care about our skin and focus on designing for us all these bright, attractive, adorable oversized blouses and shirts of all colours of the rainbow so we not only are protected but look good too.  

Case in point, this cheerful bright pink and white stripped oversized shirt from on-line retailer ICONIC that my older daughter who works in the fashion industry and knows exactly what is on trend at any given moment bought for me.   She also knows that her mother loves wearing pink colours so here we are.

If it wasn’t for her, I would have bought it myself in exactly the same colour hue.  First of all, I think it suits my complexion and the colour looks great against tanned skin and secondly I love reinforcing this hue by also wearing oversized hoops in a lighter shade.

I kept the other elements of my outfit plain and simple; a white denim skirt and a white linen sleeveless top.  Here is the short story about this skirt.  If my memory serves me right, the last you saw me wearing it was back in 2017 when we were on holidays in Sorrento and were on a boat excursion to view the Blue Grotto off the island of Capri. 

We all had to climb over the side of the boat to get into a small dingy in order to get inside the Blue Grotto.  You can only imagine what a sight it was when I was trying to swing my legs over the rim while trying to keep my skirt from hiking up.  I was so humiliated from that experience that I promised to myself never to wear it again.

But as the saying goes: "Time is the best remedy" so the skirt is back on rotation.

Hope this funny story has made you smile 😀. 

Until then,

 Anna

xoxoxo