My Love Is Ever Blazin'

This Fall, my wardrobe solution for the plummeting mercury has become the Blazer. It's like a whole new world to me- a fitted, lightweight-yet-warm piece of clothing that can make you look semi-Serious when you need to meet a potential landlord or drop your car off at the mechanic and appear like a person who won't have the wool pulled over their eyes. Someone sort of... business-like. As in, "I Mean Business". Especially if the rest of your outfit screams "flaming hippie".

Blazer, thrifted; dress, Gina Michele Vintage on Etsy; super high black ribbed stocking, Sock Dreams; necklace, Flaming Hag Folkwear, Sacramento; beret and boots, Freestyle Clothing Exchange, Roseville

Some of you have known about blazers for years, it seems. You have been rocking them as Mods, as Preppies, and as that kind of Casually Elegant person that I have seen eating at fancy restaurants in big cities. The blazers seem to have been working for you. Can I join your club? 

I did actually have a blazer once, in high school. It was an oversized black men's blazer. The look was completed by cut-off jean shorts with writing all over them, ironed hair that was bleached with Sun-In, and my Morrissey t-shirt for Viva Hate. I wore that thing everywhere... and then, I guess, I got Total Blazer Amnesia.

Chris, for his part, has been trying to get me into them for years. We even had a joke that his "other wife" wore blazers, since he would invariably always find one and show it to me excitedly when we went shopping together... only to be met with a blank stare again and again. I never took the bait, for some reason.

I don't know if it is because this wardrobe staple has re-entered the collective unconscious by being particularly popular this year, but somehow the Blazer now seems like the only logical way to keep warm in Autumn weather. When it is too cold to go without a solid over-layer, but too warm for a jacket: well, you get the idea.

Blazer, thrifted; dress, Freestyle Clothing Exchange, Roseville; gloves, a gift from my mom

The funny thing is that blazers are seemingly magnetized towards me... so I have plenty of extras that I have put in my shop for you, should you get struck with the fever:

The "Peabody House" tiny fit wool blazer in neutral brown

The "Advisory Board" maroon corduroy blazer

The "Horses Are On The Track" tweed blazer

The "London Calling" plaid blazer

The "Pendleton" plaid blazer

(...there are even more in the shop, too, and another half dozen lined up to go in there ASAP, in shades of navy and dark brown!)

Blaze on, my friends. 

Comments

[sally]

i've always been intimidated by blazers for some reason and have avoided them like you did! don't know why! i like the way they look. maybe i have never found the right one? or they seem so official and i am so casual? but you look great and are an inspiration! :)

[cynthia]

Blazers are totally rad! Welcome to this Blazin world!!!

[Rebekah]

I think you look super cute in the blazers. You are definitely rockin a Anais Nin vibe with the blazer and hat combo. Looks good on you.
Side note: I think Viva Hate may have been all I listened to for a 6 month period back in my own highschool days.

[Sandra Witt]

I wore a black pinstripe men's blazer everywhere during 1st year university (probably that's when you were in highschool!) Anyway, I love them! You get that English savoir faire plus a place to put your keys in you don't have a purse!!!

[Mousevox]

Jeff and I were listening to Sean Paul while we were rolling into Nevada City and one of the first things I thought when I saw you was, "Sasha's blazer is glorious!". Obviously, you and blazers were meant to be.

[Grant]

You look stunning in a Blazer darling, welcome to the club!

I love my Blazers, though I really think I ought to do a cull in the near future - as they have a habit of multiplying in my wardrobe...

Xx

[Love Boutique]

Love this photos ... gorgeous!