OOTD: When life gives you lemons...

I always struggle to name OOTD posts.  I feel like they are expected to be somewhat clever and informative, but nothing so boring like "Yellow and grey striped sweater with blue pants".  At least today I have a reason behind the title.

See these pants?  These creamy, light blue pants?  Guess what color they were online?  Lavender.  Lilac.  Whatever.

NOT BLUE.

I loved the color online - a nice, light purple.  So imagine my surprise when they showed up and they are blue.  Because these are definitely blue.  I looked at them in fluorescent and natural light, at my apartment and in hotels, in the morning and in the evening.  And they are always blue.

I thought about returning them.  Were they too '70s?  What would I wear with them?  But in the end, laziness won out and then I stumbled across this sweater in my closet, which I haven't worn in a long time.  It's a long, very thin cardigan that I don't wear often because it's rather delicate and I usually push up my sleeves and that would make the sleeves stretch out.

And imagine how the lightbulb went off in my head when I realized that the grey in the sweater was a very good match to the blue in the pants.  I wore a basic black V-neck underneath, and there we go.  The pants are a keeper!