An elegant affair

 

 

I have never been a major fashionista and  I have always been drawn to a more classic "look" than anything very trendy and bold. A good friend of mine, has always joked that I prefer to tailor the colour choices of my outfits to match my interiors and that she knows that I prefer her to visit me in tones that match my lounge rather than her wonderful, sparkling personality.... I can not argue ( however, gold, sequence and leopard print are where I deviate from the afore mentioned palette). 

 

Any "style savvy" that I might have, I attribute to me ever glamorous mother and her mother, my late Grandmother, Valerie. Amongst many of her beautiful traits, my grandmother never deviated form her Chanel No.5 perfume and had most of her beautiful outfits personally tailored by a seamstress in town, whom, I  remember visiting with her and being told to busy myself by finding buttons on her sewing room floor, a  fond childhood memory of mine.

My grandmother wore beautiful rings, smoked like a lady, sipped gin and tonics, she had cupboards of furs, pearls and Chantilly lace dresses.

In a move that my family is going through at the moment, many an old and wonderful photo has been re-discovered and emerged. This is my beautiful grandmother's wedding album, where she wore a gown, I would have loved to have worn, even today. She had brides-maids in white and she rocked the most beautiful and elegant collar! I think she looks just beautiful and so chic. Today I am thinking of her and remembering her beautiful elegance.