The misanthropic scribbler known as Betty Bunny has been assessing the past year's attempt to fit her cottontail self into the Eiffel-Tower-inspired wardrobe on the Vivienne Files website. As she does still like navy and green, and also brown (though it can clash with her fur), she decides to continue with a similar plan for this year. She is shifting her artistic inspiration to this print by the Canadian artist A. J. Casson.
Betty waa hoping not to have to buy much this year, but even old favourite clothes get worn out, or just need a refresher. As her burrow has been snowed in over the bunny holidays, she decides to do a little online shopping from her favourite store, Rabbit Reflections, which is having a great sale. This is what she orders:
* A pair of dark-wash, wide-leg jeans to replace her standby medium-wash straight-leg pair, which are starting to look not so great. She has a pair of stretchy ight-wash jeans that she is also going to keep wearing.
* A navy pullover-style shirt to replace another navy shirt that always makes her feel wrinkled. (New shirt shown with a striped t-shirt underneath.)
* A muted green cotton shirt to match a long-sleeved t-shirt she bought last fall. The store calls this shade Classic Blue, but since the other top turned out to be green, she would have been more surprised if this one had turned out to be blue. But it wasn't, and she feels very clever to have cracked their bizarre labelling code. (Maybe if she orders something in Leafy Green, it will turn out to be blue.)
* Some pretty socks in her favourite colours.
And one day when the snow has melted a bit and the bunnies are hopping around, Betty gets a visit from her cousin, Freeda Frugal.
Freeda tells Betty that there is a new charity shop in town, helping out rabbits who are a bit down on their tails, so the two of them decide to get some tea and pie, and then do some thrifting.
The shop is quite crowded. But it does provide live entertainment.
Betty has noticed that the Fluffy-fashionistas have recently been tying old-style slippery scarves around their necks, instead of the big blanket ones they were wrapping themselves in a couple of years ago. She and Freeda find a few inexpensive scarves at the shop to play around with.
A cowboy bandana looks like fun.
This is one of those long skinny scarves. Freeda picks it out for Betty because of the pretty green colour.
Betty also picks up a few navy and white things: a polka-dot skirt (not shown), which she'll probably wear more towards the spring; a striped blouse, which she thinks will go well with her navy cords; and a striped sweater.
She does have a navy striped sweater, but it always makes her feel like Jimmy Stewart wearing the football uniform in It's a Wonderful Life. Something about the size of the stripes, maybe. This one is more congenial.
Just before the holidays, Betty had stopped in at her friend Harry Hare's shop, Consarn It Consignment.
On her first visit, Harry talked her into buying a pair of taupe faux-suede trousers, which went well with an off-white cabled sweater she already had, and also with an off-white long-sleeved top.
The second time Betty visited Harry's shop, she went home with a lovely navy turtleneck sweater and a taupe suede tote bag. Obviously nobunny is going to wear that kind of sweater after about February. But in the meantime she's wearing it as much as she can.
When Betty was doing her decluttering, she almost got rid of a couple of close-fitting button-up cardigans; but she has noticed that (along with the scarves) they're back in style for now., This one isn't exactly navy--it has more of a teal tone to it, which she sort of likes--nobody wants to feel like everything they own was sold by a uniform shop, you know?
So, Betty's current wardrobe looks something like this:
Long-sleeved off-white top
Long-sleeved navy t-shirt (not shown)
Muted green long-sleeved t-shirt
Long-sleeved brown t-shirt (not shown)
Navy and white striped pullover
Off-white cable-knit pullover
Muted green pullover sweater (shown with blazer)
Navy turtleneck pullover
Navy and white striped blouse
Muted green cotton shirt
Navy pullover shirt
Vintage navy check flannel shirt (not shown)
Dark blue button-up cardigan
Floral print vintage blazer (shown with tote bag)
Taupe faux-suede trousers
Dark-wash wide-leg jeans
Light-wash jeans
Navy cords (not shown)
Navy polka-dot skirt (not shown)
Dark teal jersey skirt (not shown)
Denim skirt (not shown)
Which comes out to about what the Vivienne Files used to call a Garde-Robe du Mois: 21 clothing items that pretty much go together and suit the current happenings and weather.
So Betty feels pretty much good to go for 2026.
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