How to Wear a Stealth Sweater Vest

In a Brown Study -- Wednesday, 1/21/15

I am unaccountably in love with these pants.  Maybe because they look like the ones worn by David Tennant's (I always want to call him David Tarrant) Doctor Who.  Now if only I had a pair of beige Converse All Stars...

But lacking the sneakers, the matching suit jacket, or the general panache of Doctor Who, I put together yet another brown and beige outfit with these pants.  Oh, and I wore Chelsea boots -- invented for Queen Victoria, popularized by the Beatles.  So if the quintessential British science fiction guy can wear classic American sneakers, this American can wear classic British boots.  It all balances out in the end.

Brown crinkly button up shirt (thrifted, Kohls)
*Brown sweater vest (thrifted, August Silk)
Brown pinstripe pants (thrifted, Chaps)
Beige knit blazer (Nordstrom)
Brown ankle boots by LifeStrides
Gold/clear collar necklace (already forgot!)

Oy, you say, I can't see a sweater vest in your photo.  Ah, that's because it's a stealth sweater vest, in a shade of brown that matches the button up shirt so well that you basically can't tell it's there, except for how a bit of the crinkly shirt fabric extends from the hem of it.

The stealth effect is enhanced with the placement of the necklace at the point where the vest and shirt meet at the neck.