Have you ever gotten a song stuck in your head for days?  It might not even be a particularly good song or one that you know all the words to, but a couple of lines or a whole stanza can haunt you when you’re in the car or brushing your teeth or, God forbid, trying to concentrate.  There’s this bartender at one of my after-work happy hour places who makes a cocktail called “The Rose,” and if anyone orders it, I’m stuck with that Bette Midler tune (“Some say love, it is a river”) for at least 24 hours.  Ugh.  And when I was in Thailand, my inability to recall anything more than, “One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster,” but have it go through my head a gazillion times, drove me so crazy that I ended up finding a computer café (this was back in 2003) so I could look up the song and familiarize myself with more of the lyrics.

So what ended up happening to me when Dolce & Gabbana rolled out their banana-leaf print this season?  As soon as I saw it, “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” by Harry Belafonte got totally stuck in my head.  The only words I know to that song besides “Day-O” are “Daylight come and me wanna go home,” but thankfully that line is repeated, like, twenty times.

It should come as no surprise that with this constant reminder of the banana-leaf print in my head, I ended up ordering two of the pieces.  This blouse and skirt combo I got from MatchesFashion (http://www.matchesfashion.com).  Dolce & Gabbana always does an incredibly lady-like and flattering cut, and these pieces are no exception.  The shoulders of the blouse are slightly puffed and then fall to an elbow-length sleeve, which provides a nice shape to offset the midi-length pencil skirt.  And the color is incredible.  It’s such a vivid green that’s highlighted all the more by the black band of the skirt.  Dolce & Gabbana has done a lot in the banana-leaf print this season, but this was one of my favorite looks.

Of course, when I wear it, I still think of “Day-O,” which is a little annoying.  And after this post, you may too.  If it drives you crazy, I’m sorry.  But better than “The Rose,” right?