Two OOTD (Ribbons and Stripes + Mustard Overdose) and Another Movie Recommendation

I have two outfits that I want to show you today, the one that I am wearing today and one that I wore last week to do last-minute Xmas shopping. The thing that they have in common is that they are a bit over the top but it is holiday season after all.

Let's start with the one that I am wearing. This would make Gayle and Tom proud because I dared pairing bows and stripes and it kind of worked. See, I read the "style guide"! I can mix patterns! I picked up a Saint James Galathee tee last week in store for a crazy price (like $20) and I couldn't wait to wear it. Because the stripes in this tee are green and navy I thought that I would try it with my ribbon bow toothpicks in the same colors and see if the patterns would mix well together. I actually really like the result. The green in the tee is a bit lighter than the green in the pants but it is the same shade and the navy stripes attenuate the difference (I tried the pants with a vintage kelly solid top and I found the color too light for the pants).
The tee is a XS. I remember trying it in another color last year and not liking the fit at all, but I liked it this time around and I don't think it is only because of the price. I find it less boxy than I remembered, maybe sizing up makes a difference? Or maybe I just warmed up to the fit. Anyway, this is the oufit:

The other outfit features one of my favorite skirts, in fact the only pencil skirt that I really wear in wintertime, the Sunnie from two years ago (I could donate all my other pencil and wool skirts and it wouldn't make a lot of difference in the way I dress, to be honest). A few weeks ago I picked up this Joe Fresh sweater to wear with the skirt and in fact it is a perfect match of the yellow in the skirt (it was very cheap and it is very soft but doesn't contain a single gram of wool). Where I went over the top is that I also wore mustard-y tights. Admittedly it is a lot of mustard-y yellow and much more than a lot of people can bear to wear or even look at but as you know it is one of my favorite colors, clothes-wise.

Luckily I don't have mustardy shoes or I don't know if could have helped myself from wearing them. Instead I wore my Chalet boots and my cloud puffer:

And now... time for another movie recommendation. So this one is a French movie called "Beloved" by French director Christophe Honore and it is a weird movie. I recommend it to those of you who 1) must see every movie starring Catherine Deneuve or 2) have loved "Love songs" from the same director or love "French musicals" in general (which are very different from American musicals!) or 3) don't mind sitting through an hour of what seems to be some very light-hearted and silly French commedy before the movie gets on a deeper level and rewards you with the feeling that you have been the witness of a woman's life. I find the way the movie achieve this a bit odd, with some choices in the storyline (especially one!) and characters development difficult to understand. I read some reviews after watching it because I am always interested in the reaction of the american reviewers and audience to French movies and I have to disagree with those who say that the songs' lyrics are trite and don't add anything to the movie. I really enjoyed the songs (probably because the lyrics make more sense in French) and I find them helpful in revealing the inner thoughts of the characters, especially the duet sang by Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve at the train station. I read an interview with Christophe Honore where he said that he learned from his previous movies that you have to "train" the audience to listen to the songs during a musical because they are not used to pay attention and that's why the first songs in a movie should be quite easy and catchy and without a major impact on what's going on. That's why the songs have much more depht towards the end. In any case I think that watching Catherine Deneuve, this living legend of French cinema, play with real-life daughter Chiara Mastroianni (not my favorite actress I must say) is a treat in itself and she really is extraordinary at the end of the movie. I don't think it is a masterpiece but it is very enjoyable if you love French movies and you don't mind some oddities in the screenplay.

Do you like my stripes and bows mix? How much mustard is too much mustard? Anybody who has seen "Beloved" or "Love Songs" by Christophe Honore?