You know what I love most about Australian fashion? Since their seasons are opposite ours, everything I want is always on sale. They're clearing out all their corduroys and long sleeves just at the time I'm on the prowl for some. It's brilliant.
My favorite Aussie companies are Sunny Girl which makes lots of cute dresses and Princess Highway which carries lots of lovely floral and novelty prints and from whom I got this adorable Rainy Day print corduroy skirt.
It always puts me in mind of our time in the Pacific Northwest. Not just because this skirt accurately describes our years there, i.e. constant rain, but also because when all the chain stores were putting their winter things on clearance, we were due for a restock on winter things. There wasn't really such a thing as summer, just High Winter and Low Winter.
It also, in the spirit of the season, makes me quite thankful. I am thankful for more sunny days than rainy ones, and I am thankful to live in a place with four distinct seasons. I suppose that all sounds rather like a trivial thing to be thankful for, but after so many years of cold gray gloom the sunshine is a glorious thing which I will never take for granted again.
The older I get the more I think life lessons are really very simple things. They mostly involve learning to daily appreciate the little things as much as the big things and take nothing for granted.
I wish it didn't take hardships to get us silly humans to open our eyes to such simple truths, but unfortunately it nearly always does. So, even in hard times, I try not to balk too much, because I know I will emerge from them a kinder, more thoughtful, and ultimately more grateful person.
So, thank you, Australia for your opposite seasons and wonderful sales, because they made one of my new favorite autumn outfits possible at a very reasonable price.
Shopping Info: Top from: SHEIN, Rainy Day Pinny or Trousers from Princess Highway
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