Making you squeal

Shhh... Stop it. Don't. Just don't. Put down whatever you're doing. Just put it down and look.

There. Are. No. Words.

How often in your daily life do you encounter a true mystery? Think about it. We live in a world where answers are a sneeze away via the interweb. But you can't Google Selina's style, can you? You can't reduce Selina to an algorithm.

Look at the detail above. Can you guess what it is? Can you even guess where it comes from? OK so you're viewing it on a blog about Selina's style, but does that really get you any closer to the truth? It's all too elusive. But don't worry, we'll come back to that.

The real story today is ORANGE and TEAL. Because orange and teal will make you squeal. Alright, alright, calm down, we know what you're thinking. It's been done before. It's old.   And you're right. Orange and teal is a tad yesteryear. But did you realise that Selina has been dying her hair orange SINCE 1983? That was the year that Israel withdrew from Lebanon for crying out loud. The year that....urgh... what's that?... Is it the sinking realisation that Selina may have been copying someone?

Thatcher was re-elected in 1983, the same year
that Selina first cracked open the orange dye

Ahem, let's not even go there.

Back to orange and teal. We've agreed the combination is not really news, but it's still a story. And boy was Selina telling it well today: it was like one big circuitous relay, like beacons aflame on hilltops in succession, like Chinese whispers, like, well, like orange and teal on a style icon. Orange hair nodded to a long-sleeved teal t-shirt, which nodded to teal tights and then on to orange shoes, and right back up again to teal eyelids. Selina just knows how to make a colour combo rollick, ripple and multiply.

The t-shirt is teal, it just came out sort of blue in the photo

The eyes have it

Can you even have square-toed-winklepicker-brothel-creepers?
I don't know, but I know that Selina can.

And just in case you thought her t-shirt was plain, how's about a butcher's at this watermark. Crafty, eh?

Why be plain when you can be bubbly?

My goodness we're almost getting out of breath with this survey of Selina's style today. We feel like we've been punched in the stomach. "Punched?", you say? Maybe by a great chunk of unpolished malachite, entrapped in a silver ring setting by a French Ivoirienne called Veronique?

A chunk like this, perhaps?

Biff!

And in case you're wondering about the cowrie shells, well they're from Ghana and THEY USED TO BE MONEY.

Well, that's almost a wrap of our Selina style write-up today. We hope you readers appreciate what goes into these in-depth studies because we're more exhausted right now than a cartographer mapping Norway's fjords. We say 'almost' a wrap because there's still the mystery left over from the opening image. Did you guess? Of course - you're right. It can only be a detail of Selina's trousers:

This is the view you get when bowing down at the altar of Selina

Who else would own a pair of Aztec-Zebra-Ndebele mashup leggings? For it's leggings like these that bring us all to this blog. Forget 'who else would own.' Let's start with 'who else would wear?' Or, better, 'who else could rock?' Because rock them she does.

We asked: "How much thought went into assembling your outfit this morning?"

SELINA SAYS: "Oh, absolutely none."

We're still lying on the floor in shock.

If you like 'What's Selina Wearing' why not leave us a comment? Perhaps you have something you'd like to ask Selina yourself. You may not get the answer you want, but you'll surely get the answer you need.