How to Wear Yellow | With Black, White and Orange #iwillwearwhatilike

This week’s #iwillwearwhatilike theme is yellow – not an easy colour to pull off but I adore it.

Of course I’m drawn to anything bright, and in the winter I wore this yellow coat with aubergine and lilac, so I went a little simpler this time. Black and white really showed off the yellow, and another punch of warm colour from the orange tote bag tied it together.

I can remember wearing black and yellow to a wedding in the mid 1980s in my teens: A black roll neck and black bolero jacket(!) with a full yellow and black polka dot skirt. And probably a yellow ribbon in my ponytail. I seem to remember the 50s having a big influence on fashions at the time (I guess it’s what you’d call the Back to the Future effect) – I find it amazing that I remember so distinctly things I wore on certain occasions 30 years ago yet I can’t recall what I did yesterday.

My love of the colour yellow extends into summer dresses – one of my favourite dresses ever is my yellow Grace Kelly-style dress which I can’t wait to wear again once the weather’s much warmer. If I had to choose just one colour to wear in dresses, it’d be yellow. (Blame that one on Sandy’s dress in Grease.)

However the star of this show is undoubtedly that yellow umbrella – sadly no longer available, I’ll be honest and say I bought it a couple of years ago because I thought it would look good in outfit photos (and keep the rain off). It’s never appeared on the blog because it either hasn’t rained or I’d forgotten to take it when I did need it. It’s by Fulton but I’m pretty sure it was an Orla Kiely pattern, so Orla Kiely + yellow + umbrella = no brainer for me. And what better time to showcase it for the first time than when the theme is yellow…?!

So get linking up your yellow clothes, shoes or accessories – and everything else too of course (the theme is optional). You may be featured next week if you’ve linked up something yellow though – and don’t forget to add a link please to be kind (and to be featured)!

ARE YOU A YELLOW FAN – IF SO, WHAT TYPE OF YELLOW (LEMON, SUNSHINE, MUSTARD)? AND CAN YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU WORE ON PARTICULAR OCCASIONS FROM YEARS AGO LIKE ME…? TELL ME IN THE COMMENTS!