Yay! We have another guest-blogger today! It’s the uber-hip Heather from the very addicting Tango Pirates and Absinthe! Mad props! We love her cheeky writing style and impeccable taste in clothing and music. Here she is, in all her stylish glory.

Film is a great place to go for fashion inspiration in my book. So many actresses coined iconic looks–take Diane Keaton in Annie Hall, or Gwyneth Paltrow in the Royal Tenenbaums (maybe that’s just me though.) Even Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz gets a nod sometimes!

However, inspiration struck me the other day upon viewing another iconic film, Mike Nichol’s 1967 adaptation of a post-collegiate’s first novel… can you guess?

So the Graduate was a well-written, well-acted, Oscar-winning legend–if we can all just put Rumor Has It out of our minds. But what really stole the show for me was Katharine Ross, who played Elaine. There is something about her style that strikes me as everything that was good about the 60s, with a lot of suprisingly modern elements. She took the fresh-faced All-American-Girl-of-the-60s look and ran with it, with her crisp white coats, miniskirts, and lovely big Bardot hair.

Check out her oversized sweater here, with white skinny jeans and roomy bag. If I’m correct, she’s also wearing some great riding boots in this scene, my obsession this winter.

I also have a thing for period wedding dresses… I’d lose the veil and wear something like that to a formal holiday party if such things really existed!

How to apply to everyday life:

Top, American Apparel

Dress, Forever 21

Coat, Urban Outfitters

boots, Frye

Who’s your unexpected movie style icon?