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Songful Style Link Party | “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” by Nancy Sinatra

February 28, 2022 / 54 Comments
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, leopard coat, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, leopard coat, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, leopard coat, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, leopard coat, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, leopard coat, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, leopard coat, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, leopard coat, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, leopard coat, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, leopard coat, thrifted style

I am so excited to kick off this first edition of Songful Style with Anne, Marsha, Michelle, and Suzy!

Songful Style is a new ageless style challenge series hosted by Suzy of The Grey Brunette, Shelbee of Shelbee on the Edge, Michelle of My Bijou Life, Marsha of Marsha in the Middle, and Anne of Spy Girl. 

Each month we will share a song with the lyrics and video and we invite you to use whatever aspect of the song that inspires you to create an outfit. 

It is similar to Style Imitating Art where we use artwork to inspire our outfit creations. Except Songful Style gives you lyrics, music, video, and album artwork to inspire your fashion creativity. You may even find inspiration in a memory triggered by the selected song. It is all open to your own personal interpretation and just a fun way to discover new music and get a little bit more creative with your wardrobe.

Anyone is welcome to join us on a permanent basis or you can just play along without any obligation to do anything other than feel inspired. We are flexible and fun and just want to find more ways to play dress up because it’s what we enjoy doing! 

We will be posting on the last Monday of each month and will announce our song choice for the following month at the end of each post.

Suzy chose this month’s song, “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” by Nancy Sinatra. You can find the lyrics, the official music video, and multiple album covers for style inspiration in this post.

I had initially styled my new off white combat boots for this challenge but then we started adding more cohosts and extended our deadline so I decided to redo my outfit. I had quickly styled boots without really looking at all the inspiration that I shared. So I revisited more than just the song lyrics and found myself really drawn to Nancy’s outfit on this particular album cover.

Nancy Sinatra Boots

Her combination of striped tights and striped turtleneck with a dark red mini skirt and tall red pirate boots is totally within my style wheelhouse so I decided I was going to pull out some fun striped tights to style into a contemporary version of Ms. Sinatra’s super cool 1960s outfit.

leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, thrifted style

This burgundy leather mini skirt was a preloved find that I featured in The Thrifty Six in Fool’s Gold and my leopard coat was a consignment store purchase that has made many previous appearances here as well. I did not have a striped turtleneck like Nancy’s so I went for this gray space dyed cowl neck sweater that has a stripey pattern. Our BFF Adam gave me this Express sweater for Christmas about 6 years ago and it has remained in constant rotation since. Then I dug out some really old striped tights in burgundies and browns that were perfect with my Shoe Dazzle over the knee platform boots. I have worn these boots many times here as well. I threw in a little pattern mix with my maroon herringbone gloves that I recently added to my glove collection.

leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, thrifted style
leather mini skirt, platform boots, otk boots, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Shelbee on the Edge, thrifted style

I think these boots were definitely made for walkin’ in the way that Nancy Sinatra intended in the song. But I will be the first to admit that they are definitely not the most comfortable boots for actual walkin’! They are what Nancy Baten and I would refer to as sittin’ shoes. But they are sassy AF and I love to wear them! How did I do interpreting this song into style?

Please go check out how songfully sartorial my sassy sisters were with this style challenge…just click their blog links for more songful style inspiration!

The next song for our March 28, 2022, post is “Leather and Lace” by Stevie Nicks and Don Henley. Tomorrow I am going to share more details including lyrics, video, and other inspirations that I can find relating to the song as well as the reason I chose it. It is a very special song to me! If you are interested in joining us, you are welcome to begin styling now or check back tomorrow for additional inspiration relating to the song. Happy styling!

Feel free to link up your posts below especially if you have a Songful Style post or any post related to fashion and/or music.

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Keeping it on the edge,

Shelbee

Outfit Details: Coat and Skirt-Thrifted / Sweater-Express (gifted) / Boots-Shoe Dazzle / Gloves-Wona Trading / Tights and Jewelry-Old

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I am a midlife woman, wife, and stay-at-home mother of 2 boys and 2 cats. I have a passion for helping other women feel fabulous in the midst of this crazy, beautiful life.

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