Navy Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Blazers (and any other kind of suit-ish kind of structured jacket) and I have a fairly difficult relationship - that is to say, I don't like them and they don't like me and so I just about never buy them or wear them. They never fit my narrow shoulders, and if they do then they don't fit the rest of me, and my already oblong torso seems to get even more blockish and brick-shaped when there's a blazer about. So regardless of their ubiquity in the blogosphere I have stayed more or less away, until for some unfathomable reason I picked up this nineties navy linen jacket off the one dollar rack at my new (and somewhat less than stellar) local op-shop.



I think I was feeling a nostalgic fondness for a little unstructured/deconstructed navy linen suit jacket which I owned back in the mid-nineties, that's about all I can think of to explain my lapse (of course the one dollar factor can't be ignored either). Still, I put it on and push up the sleeves and think that maybe there's something going for it - and then I change my mind again and shove it back into the back of the wardrobe. Which is, of course, where you lot come in and tell me - should it stay or should it go?



Stay?
- Are the nineties back yet?
- Kind of a nautical vibe which is quite appropriate here in the land of marinas, canals, man-made lakes and white shoes.
- Simple, minimal cut theoretically equals timeless classic.
- Cool and crisp navy linen can (perhaps) toughen up my girly outfits without making me hot and bothered in the summer heat.



Go?
- Since I was already a fully-fledged adult in the nineties, I do worry that people won't think I'm on the nineties revival bandwagon, they'll just think I've never moved on from the glory days of my youth.


This is what I'd be wearing if I was still clinging desperately to my glory days.

- Blazers and structured jackets are played out, dude.
- Don't I sort of look like I should be renting you a hire car at the airport, or maybe on the microphone at the front of a tour bus pointing out the sights to a bus load of half asleep retirees?
- Eh.

So once again I ask the eternal question - should it stay or should it go (and if I'm looking for nineties "vintage" should I ditch the navy linen and just go straight to the harlequin catsuit department)? Your opinions are required!

xx
Skye
PS. I had some grand plans for my post today - including about a million photos and my very first poll - but I put up christmas decorations instead of blogging so now I only have time for this. The poll and the pictures and all of that folderol will have to wait for another day...