“Tying Her Shoe” by Walter Westley Russell | Style Imitating Art

Won’t you join us for a fun game of dress up?

About Style Imitating Art

Style Imitating Art is hosted by Salazar of 14 Shades of Grey, Shelbee of Shelbee on the Edge, and Marsha of Marsha in the Middle. Style Imitating Art challenges us to draw style inspiration from pieces of art. Every other Monday, one of the hosts, acting as presenter, selects an inspiration image that they will each post on their blogs. The following Monday, each host shares her art inspired outfit. Participants are invited to submit their art inspired outfits to the presenter by 10:00 p.m. EST on the Tuesday following the hosts’ art inspired outfit posts. The following day, Wednesday, the presenter will share all of the submissions on her blog.

You don’t have to be a blogger to join either! In fact, you don’t even have to join but you can still use the art to inspire an outfit just for the sake of trying something different. If you want to share your inspired outfit, we invite you do so on Instagram or any other social media platform that you prefer. Just be sure to tag Salazar, Shelbee, or Marsha or use #TeamLOTSStyle and #StyleImitatingArt so the hosts know you have joined. Go have some fun in your closets and join the SIA challenge next week!

This Week’s Presenter

Salazar chose this week’s artwork. While the color palette is a bit summery, it is still stupidly hot where Salazar lives so she wasn’t feeling fall colors quite yet. Because Salazar’s art picks for recent SIA challenges have been a bit trickier to interpret into an outfit, she wanted to make this round a little simpler for us. We can easily just copy the lady’s outfit. Perhaps I will do just that. Perhaps I won’t. You’ll have to stop by next Monday to see!

The Artwork

“Tying Her Shoe” by Walter Westley Russell

If you would like to join us with your own outfit inspired by this painting and have it featured in Salazar’s review post on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, please be sure to send your photos to 14shadesofgreyblog@gmail.com by 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.

Happy styling! 

Keeping it on the edge, 

Shelbee