All Laced Up Part 2

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Dress: Brigid McLaughlin

Jacket: Emerson leopard print brocade

Wedges: Emerson suede

Bag: Unknown

Bronze Bangles: Tree of Life

Bronze & Woven Bangle: Witchery

Bronze Leopard Ring: Diva

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Dress: Montique

Sequinned Bolero: Belle Curve

Ankle Strap Wedges: Emerson

Bag: Vera May

Hat: Jendi wool cloche

Cuff: Wallace Bishop silver

L-O-V-E Bangle: Adorne

Ring: Equip

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Dress: Monsoon

Jacket: Just Jeans leather

Platforms: Emerson leopard suede

Bag: Sportsgirl suede & leopard

Hat: Morgan & Taylor felt cloche

Bangles: Tree of Life

Ring: Equip

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Dress: French & Jones

Capelet: Vuios velvet

Heels: Bon Bons glitter

Bag: Vera May

Cuff: Adorne beaded suede

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Dress: OPM

Vest: Liz Jordan leather

Booties: Waldlaufer patent with fur trim

Bag: Sportsgirl

Brooch: Erstwilder 

Bangles: Jean & Joyce

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Another selection of funky lace ensembles, this time including some coloured lace options to brighten up bleak winter days... 

All this talk of lace reminds me of one of my all-time favourite movies, the 1944 Frank Capra classic Arsenic and Old Lace. Popular when it was first released, the black comedy still elicits chuckles today & has the added bonus of the eye-candy that is the gorgeous Cary Grant... 

Despite having written books ridiculing marriage as an "old fashioned superstition," author Mortimer Brewster marries his sweetheart Elaine on Halloween & decides to take her home to meet the eccentric but lovable relatives that raised him: elderly aunts Abby & Martha & brother Teddy, who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt. 

Mortimer finds a corpse hidden under the window seat & assumes that Teddy has committed murder under some delusion, but his aunts explain in the most innocent of terms that they are responsible for ending the presumed suffering of lonely old bachelors with elderberry wine spiked with arsenic & just a pinch of cyanide. The bodies are then buried by Teddy, who believes he is burying yellow fever victims at the Panama Canal. 

Complicating matters further is the arrival of Mortimer's OTHER brother, Jonathan, who arrives with his accomplice, plastic surgeon Dr. Herman Einstein. Jonathan (who bares a striking resemblance to Frankenstein as a result of a botched operation by the alcoholic Einstein) is a murderer trying to evade the police and find a place to dispose of his latest victim, one Mr. Spelanzo. Upon discovery of his aunt's secrets, Jonathan decides to bury Spelanzo in the cellar - an idea they are vehemently opposed to as all of their victims "were nice gentlemen and Mr. Spelanzo is a stranger" - & in turn, he plans to kill Mortimer, as the is the only one would could "rat him out" to the authorities. 

While Elaine waits for Mortimer to take her on a honeymoon, he frantically tries to stay on top of the situation, attempting multiple times to alert the bumbling local authorities to the threat Jonathan poses whilst simultaneously trying to complete the paperwork that will result in Teddy being declared legally insane & committed to an asylum (preventing his aunts from committing more murders as they will have no-one to bury the bodies). Mortimer also worries that he will go insane like the rest of the Brewster clan as, "insanity runs in my family, practically gallops!" 

SPOILER ALERT: Eventually Jonathan is arrested & Teddy safely consigned to an asylum where his two aunts have insisted on joining him. Best of all, Abby and Martha have admitted to Mortimer that he isn't biologically related to the Brewster family at all - his mother was once their cook & his father was a chef on a steamship - so he isn't likely to become a murderer or go insane. As he gleefully exclaims to Elaine he FINALLY whisks her away to their tropical honeymoon destination: "I'm not a Brewster, I'm a son of a sea cook!"

Trust me, it's well worth watching...