HAPPY BIRTHDAY OVERDRESSED!

Today Overdressed turns one!

We celebrate this overdressed occasion by wearing our favorite dress in the world, Rumina, from Erdem's fall/winter 2008.

It's a been a beautiful year for which we are grateful, and we would like to thank all our fans and followers for their continuous love and support.

There's much more high fashion coming your way so stay tuned, because the best is yet to come...

Love always,

Overdressed

Chain Reaction

For months we've been looking for polka dot tights, and none other than the reliable Shopbop had them ready to ship from Missouri to Bahrain in a day! Efficiency is greatly appreciated.

So, we brought out what we've been dying to wear with polka dots, namely, a scarlet coloured tulip skirt by Erdem and Bottega Veneta boots.

Yet somehow when you get the bottom half right the top half just does not want to work. And no matter how many times you keep changing, it's a chain reaction and will never work!

The thought of chains reminds us of one black Chanel jacket-with chains! Not only does it work, it also gives off a totally urban New York look, all the while keeping it feminine with vintage pearl Chanel earrings.

Too bad the way to JFK is snowed under...

Colour, colour-in, colouring

One of the pleasures of being a little girl was having dolls, doll houses, doll clothes...the list goes on.

Not now though...now little girls get sketches of art deco designed stage costumes by Erte to colour in! 

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Not just that, Hermes has followed suit to prep the chicest little girls for the future world of Hermes by this coloring book: Hermes 4 Mondes.

Go ahead, colour away!

Stained glass

Mindful to those who have the misfortune of not being able to wear cruise until you board an eastbound plane and fly for 7 whole hours, for us its which cruise dress, and when?

And speaking of east, this Erdem dress has quiet the Middle Eastern feel to it with its stained glass colours in red, blue and black.

 

The colours make us think of domes and bazaars so it's only right to add more East with turquoise beads, and coincidentally, a screen of arabesque geometric shapes makes it all the more vibrant.

Now we want to carry around  the iron screen to complete the look...

Rock n Rolla

Leather always seemed to be too tough to be elegant, until the pink of this Prada dress proved to be one sugar cubes too many and needed roughing up!

Enter chained leather and exaggerated shoulder Lou de Beauregard jacket. The jacket, is beautiful enough in its own right, but paired with red suede Louboutin shoes and an ebony cuff, gives the dress that rock n roll kick it needs to make us properly Overdressed for the grit and grim of a Rolling Stones concert!

 

We decided then, that as a standalone leather is not the most elegant material, but chained leather and wavy hair in just the right doses can be Overdressed enough...

Red Velvet

We heard someone say that red is the new black, and frankly we can't agree more. Now imagine red on velvet done by the master of the colour red, Valentino,  who turns to the darker shade of the colour.

The dress, featuring a floppy front bow applique and velvet trimmings makes it both fun and festive. No doubt that with crazy shoes, and giant earrings anything in red velvet will solve an "I don't have anything to wear" statement.

 

So with that, Christmas and our national day just around the corner, red is definitely the new black!

Dress by Valentino Red available at Sufana Boutique Moda Mall

Grey Gray

The colour grey has a bad reputation in England, yet there is something quiet intriguing about it. Perhaps it's the fact that grey makes other colours pop out, making it a cooler than white canvas.

Also, grey doesn't belong to a season, so wearing it in December will not shock. It is probably why most designers' cruise collections feature it...like this Erdem dress.

So with December and its countless occasions here in full swing, dressing up is a must. We took to combining cruise with a dose of hard winter by adding a grey Pellissimo rabbit skin stole to the mix with a pink Angela Caputi necklace and grey Dior shoes.

Now, the question arises, which one of the December occasions does this look belong to?

Pellissimo rabbit skin stole available at Sufana Moda Mall