Photos by Drew
Blouse: thrift store
Skirt: Secret Squirrel Camellia Skirt
Necklace: Madewell
Bag: Etsy
’70s sandals: Ebay
Sunglasses: Karen Walker Number One
So I haven’t been doing the normal outfit posts as much lately because, honestly, I’ve been wearing the same sun dress and sandals and sunglasses outfit all summer and it’s kind of boring. But I did like this outfit and feel comfortable enough in it, so Drew snapped a few photos when we were out on a Southerly adventure at the Swan House.
We stayed around Atlanta this weekend. Hung out with friends a little, went hunting around for a new couch. Made salad for dinner, blueberry pancakes for breakfast, made with a handful of those blueberries we picked last week. I read a little; finished rereading Their Eyes Were Watching God, which I first read back in high school for an assignment. Back then I didn’t like it, but then again I didn’t like most American novels (I was an Angophile snob). This time I really enjoyed it. Especially Zora Neale Hurston’s writing: now I want to go back to the library to track down her autobiography and also go on a Southerly adventure to Eatonville, Florida to see where she lived.
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Oh you and your perfect sandals!
I hope you do put together a Zora Neale Hurston post on the Southerly! I loved studying Their Eyes Were Watching God!!!!
Thanks, Meaghan! Well, I lucked out on these sandals and am always expecting them to break, but they’ve held up so far!
And I really, really want to go to Eatonville. Makes me sad that we drove right past it when we went to Florida a few years ago.
Can you post a link to your southerly blog above the shop link, or somewhere in the sidebar? I like to look at it but I wish it were more accesible from here other than finding the blog post about it.
Drew just put one up! :)
Didn’t know black and brown would work so well together.
The skirt is sort of a bronze color in real life, but I do love black and brown together. Problem is that I just don’t look any good in brown. : )
Awesome outfit! And Zora Neale Hurston is a fascinating lady, her autobiography is completely absorbing.
Thanks, Kat!
I just got her autobiography from the library yesterday and can’t believe how good it is. The writing seems so modern too–I keep having to remind myself that Zora wrote it in the ’40s.
Oh I love this combo! The blouse is great, I really need to go thrifting for more blouses, I have practically none. And I definitely need to read Their Eyes Were Watching God, it’s been on my list forever and I’ve somehow managed to still not tackle it.
Hi Rhiannon,
Lovely post & as always, it makes me miss GA. :)
I enthusiastically recommend Alice Walker’s essay about Zora Neale Hurston and searching for her grave in “In Search of our Mother’s Gardens.” Ms. Walker was a big fan of Ms. Hurston & that essay, and many of the others, have a very strong sense of place.