Today’s Vintage Treasure: April 12, 2010

{Fuchsia can be a tricky cool to pull off successfully (especially if you’re a fair skinned redhead like yours truly!), but it’s such an engagingly upbeat hue that it really deserves a spot in every woman’s wardrobe. If, like me, you’re not one to don head-to-toe fuchsia, the solution lies (naturally enough) in accessories and shoes featuring this vibrantly gorgeous colour. To my mind fuchsia is synonymous with the warmer months; its ruddy mix of crimson and violet has always struck me as a colour that was plucked right out of a lush spring or summer garden.

Though fuchsia is a commanding colour, it can also be surprisingly delicate when employed with gentler mediums, as in the case of these sophisticated lace kitten heel pumps. Almost architectural-like beauty seems to exude from this chic pair of heels, their open-weave design permitting the wearer’s bare skin (or stocking covered foot) to peak through alluringly from between the swirls of lace. A modest two inch heel means that this is a pair of shoes you could likely spend more than a few minutes in before your feet started to scream. Sized to fit a woman’s 8.5, these beautiful 1950s shoes are roomier in the length department than many vintage pairs that surface nowadays. Should these darling fuchsia heels be calling your name, they can be had for the not-too-rough-on-the-pocketbook price of $35.00 US from etsy seller Capricious Traveler.}


While the temperatures haven’t quite reached full-on balmy spring here, at least the sun – rich, soothing, yellow daffodil hued sun – is shinning with quite a fair bit of might this afternoon. I know it’s hardly uncommon for one to feel this way, but I really do sense that the sun is bolstering my energy levels, which is such a welcome treat indeed.

I really hope that each and every one of your weeks is off to a similarly beautiful – and sunshine laden – start, and that you all had marvellous weekend! (I’d love to hear about it, if you did!)