The Sea Lady (outfit post) / Morska žena (odjevna objava), Split city, Zenta Marine

Yesterday I wore this polka dress  in a casual way, promising to show you how to dress it up today. We must keep our promises, right? Well, the easiest way to dress up just about anything is by choosing a nice pair of high heels. This time I opted for orange sandals with very high heels that matched the colour of the sunset (not that I was planning it).

 In case anyone is interested, the location were the photographs were taken is Zenta in Split city, Croatia. I loved hanging out here when I was a little girl, dreaming that some day one of these boats would be mine. 

Speaking about the longing for the sea, I have a reading recommendations for you. I'm finished The Sea Lady by Margaret Drabble and it is absolutely brilliant. If you are interested, I might share a review.

Jučer sam nosila ovu haljinicu na točkice  u ležeroj kombinaciji, a obećala sam vam danas pokazati sređeniju verziju danas. Svojih obećanja se moramo držati, zar ne? Najlakši način za učiniti svaku kombinaciju sređenijom je odabrati lijep par visokih peta. Ovaj put  sam izabrala narančaste sandale s jako visokom petom koje su se slagale s bojom zalaska sunca ( mada nisam to planirala). 

Mjesto snimanja je Zenta u Splitu (ako nekoga zanima). Kada sam bila mala, voljela sam tu provoditi vrijeme i sanjariti da će jedan od ovih brodova jednog dana biti moj.

 Kada već pričamo o čežnji za morem, imam preporuku za vas. Upravo završavam s romanom Margaret Drabble The Sea Lady (ne znam je li još preveden kod nas) i oduševljena sam s njim. Ukoliko vas zanima, napravila bi i ogled.

As I said, I really enjoyed the novel The Sea Lady.

Here is a quote that stayed with me. 

“We cannot unweave, and remake. For chance and choice happen. They coincide, they coalesce, they mix, and then their joint outcome grows as hard and as fixed as cement. Like a fossil in stone, it hardens, in its own indissoluble, immutable shape.”

Margaret Drabble, The Sea Lady

In case you want to know more, here is a bit more information about this author. 

Quoted from Britannica:

Margaret Drabble (born June 5, 1939, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England) is an English writer of novels that are skillfully modulated variations on the theme of a girl’s development toward maturity through her experiences of love, marriage, and motherhood.

Drabble began writing after leaving the University of Cambridge. The central characters of her novels, although widely different in character and circumstance, are shown in situations of tension and stress that are the necessary conditions for their moral growth. Drabble was concerned with the individual’s attempt to define the self, but she was also interested in social change. She wrote in the tradition of such authors as George Eliot, Henry James, and Arnold Bennett.

Drabble’s early novels included A Summer Bird Cage (1962), about a woman unsure of her life’s direction after dropping out of graduate school, and The Millstone (1965), the story of a woman who eventually sees her illegitimate child as both a burden and a blessing. 

Drabble won the E.M. Forster Award for The Needle’s Eye (1972), which explores questions of religion and morality. Her trilogy comprising The Radiant Way (1987), A Natural Curiosity (1989), and The Gates of Ivory (1991) follows the lives of three women who met at Cambridge during the 1950s. In The Peppered Moth (2000) Drabble detailed four generations of mothers and daughters in a Yorkshire family. The Sea Lady (2007) traces the relationship of a man and a woman who met as children before either became famous—he as a marine biologist and she as a feminist—and ends with their reunion. The Pure Gold Baby (2013) centres on a young single woman in the 1960s who must give up her aspiration to be an anthropologist in order to raise her developmentally disabled daughter. Aging and mortality are the themes of The Dark Flood Rises (2016), which focuses on a 70-something woman and her friends.

In addition to her novels, Drabble wrote several books on the general subject of literature, as well as journal articles and screenplays. The relatively few short stories she wrote in the 20th century were collected in A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman (2011). She also edited the Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985, 2000).

In 1982 Drabble married her second husband, British biographer Michael Holroyd. Her sister was acclaimed writer A.S. Byatt. Drabble was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1980 and advanced to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2008.

This is the summary of the novel (taken from the Internet). Have a look and let me know would you like to read a proper review!

   

Book Summary

This is the story of Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman, who spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. As they journey back to Ornemouth to receive honorary degrees from a new university there—Humphrey on the train, Ailsa flying—they take stock of their lives over the past thirty years, their careers, and their shared personal entanglements. Humphrey is a successful marine biologist, happiest under water, but now retired; Ailsa, scholar and feminist, is celebrated for her pioneering studies of gender and for her gift for lucid and dramatic exposition. The memories of their lives unfold as Margaret Drabble exquisitely details the social life in England in the second half of the last century.

                  

               

POST UPDATE 2025: MORE POSTS FROM SPLIT CITY 

A SUSTAINABLE BACK TO SCHOOL- A SUMMER DRESS IN SPLIT 2025

FRIDAY FASHION ILLUSTRATION IN SPLIT 2025

I have actually illustrated this place and you can see my painting by following the link below:

 ZENTA MARINE, SPLIT CITY (CROATIA)

Other places I illustrated in Split city include: 

 / ŽNJAN BEACH, SPLIT CITY (CROATIA) // A SEAVIEW FROM A PARK (SPLIT, CROATIA) // PHOTODIARY: EN PLEIN AIR SKETCH// OIL PASTELS VS. WATERCOLOUR PENCILS (SPLIT, FIRULE ) // FASHION AND LOCATION ILLUSTRATION (SPLIT) 

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HOW TO FIND PHOTO WORTHY LOCATIONS IN SPLIT CITY?

 VISITING SPLIT CITY IN WINTER TIME

 A FLORAL DRESS FOR SIGHTSEEING SPLIT CITY

RESTAURANT ASIA, SPLIT CITY 

 WHAT TO DO IN SPLIT CITY IN AUTUMN?

FEMININE STYLING & SUNSET IN SPLIT CITY

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SPLIT CITY

IS SPRING A GOOD TIME TO VISIT SPLIT CITY?

STROLLING SPLIT 3

WHERE THE SEA IS CRYSTAL CLEAR...

 STREET STYLE PHOTOGRAPHY SPLITSUNSET IN SPLIT CITY

WHAT TO WEAR FOR SIGHTSEEING SPLIT CITY?

 IS DOMINUS CATHEDRAL TOWER WORTH THE CLIMB?

 SUMMER ISN'T OVER YET IN SPLIT CITY

WHY VISITING SPLIT IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA?

WINTER IN SPLIT CITY, CROATIA

 MUSTARD DRESS AND UNIVERSITY CAMPUS IN SPLIT

 SPLIT CITY CENTRE AND A MIDI DRESS

SPLIT CITY SPRING STYLE 2021

SPLIT CITY SUMMER 2021

SPLIT CITY RESTAURANT DALMATINO 2021

             

 SPLIT CITY, SEPTEMBER 2021

I LOVE SPLIT CITY (TWO OUTFITS)

 PURPLE AND RED IN SPLIT CITY

 SPRING IN SPLIT CITY

 

             

dress/ haljina: collab heels/pete: no name/ nisu markirane
scarf/šal: no name/ nije markiran