My Kind of Nautical

Well, hello! Happy August to you!

How did you spend the Civic Holiday/Heritage Day/B.C. Day/New Brunswick Day/Saskatchewan Day/Natal Day, and more (depending on location - phew, that holiday has too many names) long weekend?

To start off this month, I thought I'd post an outfit from a couple of weeks ago. It was in the midst of Mosquito-gate (also mentioned here, please don't judge me based on that outfit alone. Dire times called for dire measures...)

It was during this dark period of my life that I wore pants every single day that week, even though the temperature was 25C+ each and every day... if that's not sartorial torture than I don't know what is. 

Because I don't own a ton of summery work appropriate pants I caved and I splurged on a pair of cropped pants and went for a colour-blocking nautical theme. (Okay, the pants were 50% off - how could I pass that up?! I actually bought two pairs. You'll be meeting their grey cousins very soon I expect) 

 I love how crisp the white look and how the blue pops against the pants.

It's a miracle I made it through the day without staining them in some way or another.

Tank - SmartSet; Shirt - ines; Pants - Jacob; Shoes - Aldo

Plus, it didn't aggravate the uber-sensitive mosquito bites.

The only thing I didn't love about the outfit were the shoes; they didn't blend as well as I was hoping. Oh well, live and learn... and I guess I'll just have to go and buy a new, blue pair of shoes for next time ;)