The JCrew Tissue Ruffle Cardigan in Slate: Styling Ideas

Last week I wanted to write a post on the ruffle tissue cardigan, that I love and own in two colors (slate and dark charcoal), but everything had already been said in this post by Gigiofca. I thought that the world and in particular the small world of the JCAs could happily live without another post on the subject.
Today however, I was going through my summer clothes trying to find candidates to wear with the slate one and I thought that it would be fun to take some pics of my findings to share with you.
In particular I was looking for colors other than white to wear it with. And at the same time I was targeting clothes that I haven't worn in a while (pre-baby) to check if they still fitted. So, what you are going to see are tentatives and not "outfits". Still, they could give you some ideas.

Let's start with the more obvious choice, the white. I didn't bother trying it with white pants or capris because I KNOW that it's going to look good.
Instead, I tried it with an old pair of striped cropped pants from a French brand (one of my favorite actually, but I couldn't wear them in a very long time due to baby fat) that happen to have the same shade of gray. Yahoo, they fit! And I like them with this cardi!



Then I tried them with a white pencil skirt:



Even better with a belt. This is the skinny leather belt in silver that I bought last Saturday and it still has the tags attached because I wanted to make sure that the size was OK (BTW, I'm going to get the golden too):



OK, enough of white, that was easy.
I don't like it with navy or black but another shade of gray for a "total gray look" should work. Instead of trying one of the many gray pants that populate my closet, I tried it with a skirt. I'm sorry, I don't remember how this was called, it's from last year, came out in August (you have to imagine it with another pair of shoes, even if I'm pretty sure that they styled it with flip-flops in the catalog because they always do with this kind of skirt):



Not that great, period.
A color that turned out to go great with slate is citron. Boy, these old cropped pants from the Gap are supertight and I don't know if they will ever see the light again, so I'm posting the pic just to show you the two colors together:



I don't have many pink bottoms, but pink is another option to wear with slate if you own some (especially the JCrew "shell").
But, wait a minute, one of my favorite summer knit dresses is in a dark hue of pink and I never know what to wear with it. It has a ruffle around the scoop, but it could work:



And belted (the color of the belt doesn't work well though):



All in all, I'm pretty satisfied of this fitting session. I found at least one color other than white that I really like with slate and I hadn't think of before (the citron). And I found out that I can reintegrate two items in my "active" closet (the striped cropped pants and the pencil skirt). So worth the time, hopefully for you too.