{"id":11739,"date":"2013-02-17T08:30:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T00:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/?p=11739"},"modified":"2013-02-15T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T10:17:00","slug":"what-i-wore-vol-3-a-touch-of-red-for-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2013\/02\/what-i-wore-vol-3-a-touch-of-red-for-chinese-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Wore Vol. 3 : A Touch of Red for Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11740\" alt=\"cny dress\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cny_dress3.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cny_dress3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cny_dress3-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A caveat if you will &#8211; I&#8217;m no fashion blogger and never will be, so this is one of the rare &#8220;What I Wore&#8221; posts I&#8217;m doing because I&#8217;m in the mood for some fun \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m clearly still in the Chinese New Year mood (it officially runs for 15 days woohoo!) and this year, I left my new year shopping till very late and horrors of horrors, found nothing red that caught my eye.<\/p>\n<p>It is tradition for me to wear something red on the 1st day of the Lunar New Year because red = luck and what would be a better way to herald the arrival of luck than to entice it with a red outfit? Instead, I had to make do with a simple burgundy shift which happened to be new. But I hope the red clutch (not new) more than made up for it \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The dress was a very simple one I picked up on the sale rack at Dorothy Perkins and bought it for a lark because it wasn&#8217;t very expensive and it reminded me of the mod 60&#8217;s style shifts. Its just a very casual simple dress with 2 funny patch pockets on the front and a contrast leather-look patch on the shoulder and collar. \u00a0I go through funny fashion phases and this was one of them \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11743\" alt=\"cny outfit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cny_dress4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cny_dress4.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cny_dress4-170x300.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ooh err&#8230; knobbly knees! LOL! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>I broke out my <a title=\"Unintentionally Well Heeled down in the Bargain Basement\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2012\/11\/unintentionally-well-heeled-down-in-the-bargain-basement\/\" target=\"_blank\">deep green shoes with the interesting heel<\/a>\u00a0for footwear and have also worn this with black flats. I think the length of the dress allows me to get away with wearing flats with it which is great because ever since finding comfortable flats, that look cute, I have been wearing flats a lot for casual days. Just needed a decent sort of dress to go with it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11742\" alt=\"clutch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cny_dress.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cny_dress.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cny_dress-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Naturally the clutch had to be a big one. I mean, I needed somewhere handy and roomy to put all the ang pows (lucky red envelopes) that I was collecting, didn&#8217;t I? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<h4>Did you wear something red this Chinese New Year? What is your favourite red accessory\/clothing that you own?<\/h4>\n<p>This clutch\/bag has been one of my best purchases to date. I wore it with a black dress for a wedding dinner recently, and it set it off very nicely, so I&#8217;m very pleased with it. It also fits my big camera (I know, surprise!) and also my essentials = win! And I just realised that everything I was wearing was bought on sale. Tells me a lot about my shopping habits LOL! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Paris B<\/p>\n<p><em>Dress: Dorothy Perkins sale rack | Clutch: Rebecca Minkoff Beau Embossed Clutch from shopbop.com | Shoes: Sergio Rossi | Lipstick: Revlon Colorburst True Red<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A caveat if you will &#8211; I&#8217;m no fashion blogger and never will be, so this is one of the rare &#8220;What I Wore&#8221; posts I&#8217;m doing because I&#8217;m in the mood for some fun \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m clearly still in the Chinese New Year mood (it officially runs for 15 days woohoo!) and this year,<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2013\/02\/what-i-wore-vol-3-a-touch-of-red-for-chinese-new-year\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,38,35],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What I Wore Vol. 3 : A Touch of Red for Chinese New Year - My Women Stuff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2013\/02\/what-i-wore-vol-3-a-touch-of-red-for-chinese-new-year\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What I Wore Vol. 3 : A Touch of Red for Chinese New Year - My Women Stuff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A caveat if you will &#8211; 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