Today's Look: Early 90's Marks & Spencer Blazer

today i wore a vintage, marks and spencer blazer to work. it boasts the m & s gold buttons with crossed-rifle insignia and a long, slim line. i've had it for about two years and found it at the mmrc. it's the first time i step out in it, as it had been stored for my shop during all this time. i recently decided that it should be mine, after all. i tried to find a photo of it online, in order to create a collage depicting today's outfit but it is nowhere to be found.

if the three blazers in the following collage had a bastard love-child, it would look like the blazer i'm wearing. the rest of the outfit is pretty spot on.

my searching did lead me to an article written by pauline weston thomas, for fashion-era.com, in which she says:







"The classic blazer, a late 80s early 90s fashion, remained popular with women over thirty five, especially with subdued worsted wool straight trousers. One blazer sold by Marks and Spencer rumoured to have been designed by Armani was voted a best buy by a national magazine. Many UK women owned at least one of the colours it came in, which ranged over a 10 year era from navy, bottle green, camel, black, wine, red, saxe blue and several dulled tartans.

By mid decade, with its gold finish buttons, now a leftover sign from the 80s, it began to look quite dated, even though the shoulder line was softened and narrowed. Still available it is worn mostly now by generations over sixty."

this may have made sense to someone of a certain age, about ten years ago but times have changed and old is now new (again). i got three compliments on my blazer today and all before two p.m. so if it's not shaped like a box and its shoulder pads aren't so high as to mess with your peripheral vision, then i say rock that late 80's/early 90's blazer, girl!

(i'll take a photo of the blazer this week-end, when i get to see the light of day!)

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