Barrel jeans with a red and cream striped topThese jeans are the second pair I bought last month, together with the baggy ones. I like this style and I am tall, so no problem. As they are high-waisted, I combined them with a red and cream striped top, completely tucked in. The top was already in my wardrobe for at least a year. I bought it specifically for wide jeans, only realising afterwards that the jeans needed to be wide at the hips as well and not just at the hem.

The red belt is to elongate my short upper body and the boots are a favourite pair of Fly London. I can wear the jeans long with high heels, turn them up a bit as I did in this post or turn them up much more with flat shoes. It all looks stylish.

There is only one inconvenience to these barrel jeans. Because they are high-waisted and I use a tight belt, they are no longer comfortable in the evening after dinner. So I either then change into something more comfortable or I open the fly and the button (charming sight as you can imagine).

Below: My friend Lia was my photographer and we were in a town called Maassluis. I would call it a village because of its size (small) but apparently in February 1814 it got the right to call itself a town. You can read more about Maassluis if you click the link.

Barrel jeans with a red and cream striped top

Below: I admit, it is an old town with some beautiful buildings, bridges and such but not as many as for instance Amsterdam or Delft to name only two.

Barrel jeans with a red and cream striped top

Below: We took a few photos and then had coffee in a nearby restaurant (Monsieur Paul).

Barrel jeans with a red and cream striped top

Below: Lia in front of the restaurant. She is the sweetest woman and my friend since we were 16. This is her natural hair colour. No grey hair… How is that possible?

Lia

Below: After drinking our coffee, we left my coat and tote at the restaurant and headed out again for some more photos before it would start to rain.
I think this is a particularly cute photo. Usually I don’t look like this LOL.

Barrel jeans with a red and cream striped top

Below: The jeans don’t even look too bad at the back, giving my hips a bit more shape because of the barrel cut.

Barrel jeans with a red and cream striped top

Below: Not too bad from the side either, as in not too much belly showing.

Barrel jeans with a red and cream striped top

Below: We discovered steps and doors. I am laughing because of the comment of someone passing.

Barrel jeans with a red and cream striped top

Below: Close-up so you can see the earrings by Lara Design.

Barrel jeans with a red and cream striped top

We decided to photograph doors instead of buildings. If you get bored, just scroll further down.

Below: Lia with the camera, demonstrating how low this front door is by standing next to it.

Lia photographing

Below: Door number 2 with fish carved out (in the green part).

Beautiful old door in the Netherlands

Below: Two doors with interesting glass and an ornament above. Looking at the brickwork on both sides of the door and the arch above them, I wonder whether this has been 1 door/house in the old days. Big old houses were often split into two houses in later days.
Ron discovered there is no letterbox on the left door, so perhaps the people who live there now, have reunited the split houses and made it one again.

Beautiful old door in the Netherlands

Below: A more modern door but still old with stained glass above it.

Beautiful old door in the Netherlands

Below: A door with squares, diamond and rectangles. In the middle you can see small bars. That means there is a little window behind it, which you can open to see who is at the door without actually opening the door.

Beautiful old door in the Netherlands

Below: Magnificent door made in two parts with a light in the window above. Such a shame they haven’t maintained it well.

Beautiful old door in the Netherlands

We got back to the restaurant quickly and were in time to avoid another rain shower.

Below: Later, as we headed back to Lia’s house, it was dry again and we took photos of my spring (autumn?) jacket. You saw it before in this post (scroll down a bit).

Short cream coat

Below: As I said in spring, I had the tailor add another button and buttonhole at the top, much warmer for a bike ride.

Short cream coat

Below: The back of the jacket. I suppose the jacket looks best over slim leg trousers but I don’t think it looks too bad over these barrel jeans either.
The creases are from sitting on the jacket in the car. I should have taken it off.

Short cream coat

What happened in my life this week

On Saturday Ron and I planned to prepare our trip to Paris for 4 days, leaving Tuesday. Do you know the story of those people who went to Paris? They didn’t.
Ron had a serious cold, I had dizzy spells and our dogsitter was ill as well, so we just postponed the train fares, cancelled the hotel and eased back. We will try again in March.
Ron and I are fine again but our dogsitter is still ill, poor woman.

I received digital copies of old photos, found in my mum’s box with photos and would like to share them with you.

Below: My father (on the right), his brother and two sisters. Too cute. I think my father is wearing sock-suspenders.

Dad (right) and his siblings

Below: Mum and dad in 1950 on holiday by the sea. Dad was 34 and mum was 22. Even more adorable than the photo above.

Mum and dad at sea in 1950

Below: I saw my friend Katrien who was over from South Africa. She managed to squeeze in a lot of appointments with family and friends in the short period she was here. Glad to have been one of them. Sweet, kind and very intelligent woman. She takes the most incredible photos, especially when she is in SA. Here is the link to her Instagram account.

Katrien

Below: When Katrien and I met, it was a real outing for me, so I dressed up. Wearing my red suit with tigers. (Link to original post.)

Red suit with tigers

Had a day with many financial shenanigans but Loes came for coffee which brought some fun to the day.
Below: Vague photo of Loes (my fault), I checked the photo without my reading glasses on…

Loes

Marcella and I met up for coffee. She was wearing a new design earrings and greedy as I am, I asked her to leave the earring with me as I wanted to buy them LOL. You will see them in a couple of weeks.
Below: Doesn’t she look splendid?

Marcella

Ron’s creative juices flowed again. He thought up a story for our granddaughter Zoë’s birthday. He made little figures and took photos of them to create a booklet.
I did the technical part, downloaded the photos and placed them in a digital album to be printed as a little booklet. Some simple text and it was done (late in the evening).
Below: Here are two characters from the booklet, Cat (with balloons and a cake) and Little Brush (doing the decorating).

Cat

Little brush

Marjolein and I roamed the city of The Hague once again to document a skirt for the blog. And have fun of course. I took so much with me that I had to carry quite a lot of weight walking through town. Marjolein offered to carry some too, but I was balanced with equal weight on both sides. Seemed better. Besides, it’s my stuff, I decide to bring it, she shouldn’t be bothered with it.

Greetje

No Fear of Fashion

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