Katie Daily Style – Literary Inspiration

Grey dress – thrifted
Blue cardigan – Target
Blue, cream and tan belt – thrifted
Blue and cream silk scarf – thrifted
Blue and white silk scarf – thrifted
Blue ballet flats – Old Navy
Turquoise “coral” earrings – World Market

Using literary sources for style inspiration is something I’ve done on the blog before (check out my hypothetical outfits a la Pippi Longstocking, Anne Shirley, Elizabeth Bennet and Charles Darwin) but when E. of academichic issued the invitation to be inspired by a book’s cover I jumped at the chance. Any excuse to be nerdy, eh?

The sources of my textual inspiration?

Ancient Denvers: Scenes from the Past 300 Million Years of the Colorado Front Range, Kirk Johnson
No Great Mischief, Alistair MacLeod

One book is for work, the other for pleasure, but both are captivating my imagination. And what perfect pieces for inspiration: the soft blues, greys and creams of the oceans on each cover are calm and cool and make an appropriate palate for the rainy days we’ve been having. If only I had some pteranodon jewelry…

I colored myself in grey and blue, added turqouise earrings that look like coral, and draped on silk scarves whose patterns and material move like water. Then I found some actual water and alternated between imagining I was a) standing on the rocky beaches of Cape Breton, NS overlooking the Atlantic and b) atop slowly respiring mounds of stromatolites rising out of the shallow sea of the Denver Basin.

I also realized that, back in November, I dressed like one of my old Entomology text books.