A Pumpkin Cardigan and Chambray

One of the things I love about style challenges is that is inspires you to try something that you would never wear otherwise. For example, I don't wear orange. It's not a color I gravitate toward, and I work for a university where orange and blue are traitor colors.

All that aside, for some reason I do own an orange cardigan. I went through a phase where I wanted one of every color of Loft's boyfriend cardigans so picked up orange along with magenta, garnet, dark plum - basically all the fall colors. Which came in handy last week when the Instagram #wearwhatwhereoctober style prompt was "Orange You Savvy."  So I put my reservations aside, threw on my one orange item of clothing, and hoped for the best. Though I was pretty sure I was going to hate it.

Confession: I actually ended up loving this outfit. The pumpkin color goes great with chambray and navy blue. I felt like a rebel rocking my blue and orange at work, but I got some real-life complements, so I'll count it as a victory. Plus polka dots, you can never go wrong with polka dots.

Loft cardigan: (similar)

Maurices chambray: (similar)

The Limited pants: (similar)

Payless shoes: (want this upgrade)

Baublebar necklace: (exact)

Fossil watch: (almost identical)

Baublebar earrings: (very similar)

// Today I'm linking up with The Pleated Poppy for What I Wore.  //