Regular Everyday Stylin'

You know how everyday, you get up, and you go to work? And when at work, you wear very specific similar things? Well this is what i've been wearing on my daily trek to workville, plain and simple, basic colours, classic sort of look. It's a nice change from my usual crazyness.

And most importantly DENIM JACKET!

So im wearing leather Adidas Superstars, Levi Jeans (i forget the model, but ive taken the seams in to make them skinnies), Ralph Loren Polo shirt, RVCA Hoodie, my new favourite thing some no name, op-shopped, denim jacket, and my clubmasters.

Supermarkets and Umbrellas and Bleach

Oh my.



This is what I wore to go to the supermarket to buy hair dye and toner. It was freezing and grey as I walked there, raining hard when I left (so I bought a black umbrella), a windy sunshower halfway through my walk home and a bright, sunny cloudless day when I arrived home. The whole trip didn't take me more than half an hour. What the hell. I added vintage gloves before I left, and I'm glad I did - baby, it's cold outside. Autumn has definitely set in. Which is fantastic where I live, because the trees near my house all seem to go a bright, perfect shade of lipstick red. It's beautiful.




I'm wearing:

• 1950's pink cotton shirtwaist dress with a neck bow by 'L'Aiglon'. I have had it for a year and have never worn it because it was almost full length. Last weekend my mother was a doll and took it up for me. Now I'm going to wear it as much as I can! This dress and I have so much lost time to make up for!
• Beige lambswool cardigan by Basque, bought years ago.
• Black patent belt, 'Cue'.
• Black bamboo tights, which are incredible. If you happen to be a strict vegan (i.e. living a life sans wool) & are looking for a warm pair of tights, bamboo's the business, I'm tellin' ya.
• Black painting boots.
• Half-shaved hair that desperately needs retouching. To the Bleachmobile!!

Dress and glove detail:

It Was All Yellow

This is what I wore to go and paint yesterday - this dress has paint threaded throughout the lace, which makes me very happy!


Wearing:

• Spotted short-sleeve cardigan, from a cheapie shop a couple of of years ago.
• Mustard stockings, a specialty sock shop a few years ago.
• 70's lace dress, shortened and the sleeves cut off, eBay.
• Painting boots, 1970's/80's, eBay.


Also I am selling this pair of 1950's cat eye sunglasses on eBay to try to compensate for buying a pair of tortoiseshell wayfarers ... if this auction goes well, I'll list some others in the coming weeks. I am a sunglasses fiend. I get ridiculously attached to every pair, but it's time to let some of them go ...

The Butterfly Tiara

Step 1: Purchase a children's plastic tiara (or like me, find one from your adolescence in your bedside drawer) and a bag of craft butterflies on wires.

Step 2: Wrap the butterflies around the tiara until they cluster together and cover the tiara.

Step 3: Go out wearing it and make everyone's day.

Booty and Souvenirs

Just as I promised ... a lil bit of my latest opshopping booty!







I got this puff-sleeved, pearl-studded cardigan for $5.00, this beautiful 60s or 70's wool jacket that makes me feel like Maria Schneider in Last Tango in Paris for $15.00, and this fitted brown riding jacket, which needs re-hemming, for $4.00. I got another black wool riding jacket, which fits me perfectly and is lined in red silk, but it didn't photograph properly.

The other, black, riding jacket had a little tag on it that said "$80.00" - since it was a beautifully tailored jacket and in perfect condition (and I've been living in Canberra too damn long) I assumed this was the price the ladies had put on it. I went up to them, and just barely choked out the words, "Is this really eighty dollars?" I was expecting a lecture on how it was worth the price, like I do in Canberra ... instead I got a shocked look and a "No! No ... let's see, it's a ladies jacket, ladies jackets are ... hmm ... four dollars."

I bought it.

I also scored a pair of deadstock 1970's men's sporting shorts that look like pin-up shorts on my figure. Too bad it's getting so much colder now.

While I was traveling about on the weekend, after I left the glorious opshopping mecca that is my hometown, I picked up a multicoloured silk scarf, and three different-coloured cactuses, named Alpha, Beta and Epsilon, respectively. My mad scientist mother suggested the names. I love buying something small wherever I go - I love my memories of a place to be crystallised in a tiny thing that I can carry with me and wear on my body (I am, of course, not talking about the cactuses. Ouch.)

Monsters, Aliens and Red Shoes

This is what I wore the other night when going to see Monsters vs. Aliens in 3D.


Hehe, knock knock!





I was wearing:
• Red 1940's beret, eBay.
• 1960's jacket, opshopped for $15 last week.
• Grey 'Cue' dress, a gift from my mother.
• My old, tortured ballet stockings.
• Red patent flats I found in a suitcase a couple of weeks ago. I thought I'd thrown them out - I'm really glad I didn't! They're pretty thrashed, but I love them.





And this is my daily outfit picture from last week, after I went opshopping with Pink. It was taken in a part of my mother's garden.

Pony and Pink Go OpShopping

Last Friday, Pink and I went opshopping in our hometown. I haven't gone opshopping in months, convinced that all of the opshop employees in Canberra are funding hardcore blue rinse habits with their jacked-up clothing prices. So I was relieved to find that back home, I can still find some fantastic stuff for a few dollars each. I'll post some pictures of my finds later!

Til then, here are two pictures of your humble bloggers waiting outside an awesomely old-school fish and chip shop for fried potato goodness:


Pink wore:

• Van Classics.
• Shorts by Fletcher Jones, opshopped.
• Shirt by NY Yankees/Warner Bros.
• Vintage Hebrew Coke Cap.
• And the sunglasses that should be put on a shrine with a halo behind them - Ray-ban 1980s Clubmasters.


I wore:

• Black and white check dress, purchased at H&M in Vienna, 2006.
• Black diamante-studded beret, eQuip.
• Black stirrup leggings, Myer.
• I was wearing cream and black quilted ballet flats, but they were killing me, so ... barefoot!
• My weird falling-apart filing cabinet of a handbag.

Grunge Revival for Vintage Enthusiasts

Well, in terms of fashion, the 90's have been back for quite a while. Pink has obviously embraced this for some time now, but I've been a little more reticent. But in the last few weeks, I've finally been able to admit: I really, really love the 90's. I love flannelette shirts and combat boots (Drew Barrymore in Mad Love, anyone?) I spent a good portion of last night looking at grunge music videos. I become a warm-fuzzy-gushing-nightmare whenever anyone mentions those horrible flower hats worn by any and all members of Girlfriend.

I think my problem has been that I couldn't figure out a way to slice my nostalgia-laden love of the 90's with my super-feminine vintage wardrobe in a way that truly worked.

Thank the Easter Bunny I've got Polyvore. Otherwise I would never know the pleasure of mixing sequinned Converse with lucite handbags.

There are just two things that I may never understand:

1. Denim jackets. I hate them. I'm not the biggest denim-girl in general, though, so this might be a matter of taste.

2. Whatever the HELL Linda Perry was wearing in her "What's Up" video. Linda, honey ... the Lucky Charms leprechaun wants his hat back.

Polyvore Recipe for Sad Days

Also Known As: Some Days All I Want to Do is Drink Whiskey in a Tipi Wearing a Tulle Dress and Some Face Paint.

Why Oh Why

I love lace. I love circle skirts, babydoll nightgowns in pale powder shades, bows, crinolines, wasp-waist jackets, wearing foundation garments ... clothes so pretty they're almost sickly sweet.

So why oh why can't I stop thinking about skull rings?



Turquoise, yellow gold, diamond and lacquer skull ring by Christian Dior, Fall 2006

I want a crystal-encrusted, huge, sparkly skull ring - nothing that screams "I-still-listen-to-Metallica-without-the-slightest-hint-of-irony", or "Tim-Burton-is-my-kitsch-bitch" - but something closer to wearing a piece of Damien Hirst on my middle finger. Which seems about right, really.

Wishlist For Autumn (Full of Things I Can Never Own)

Does anyone else love putting together lists of things they might never be able to afford or justify? I find that daydreaming about pieces of clothing beyond my means gets me thinking about the clothes I already own in strange new ways ...

That said, I'd really like:

• Cashmere leggings, to curl up in.

• A bowler hat. Which is one of those things that's really hard to pull off without looking like Rayanne Graff or like I'm an ultra-violence-lovin' thug.

• Black patent boots.

• Soft, interesting t-shirts. T-shirts are something I really just don't own.

• A military jacket. I've been searching for the perfect one for two or three years now, and I'm getting impatient!

• Winklepickers. In Australia, they seem to be available for men, but not for women. And my feet are too small to wear men's footwear!

• Strange accessories. The eye brooch made for Rodarte reminds me of something out of Lift-Off, but I think it would be great - especially as an art student - if my lapels were returning the Gaze.


(And yes, the bird is there because I'd really like a pet bird - a peacock would be ideal, but I'll settle for a canary!)

The Sick Outfits

Or: What I Wear When Forced To Leave My Cave.



Wearing:
• Black 'Cue' long sleeve trapeze dress, bought at a Myer sale ages ago.
• 'Voodoo' herringbone cream wool tights, a gift from my mother.
• Black 1970's boots, eBay.







At least at this point I was dancing around. This is what I wore to buy neon green paint and plywood. EXCITING!!

Wearing:
• Grey oversize singlet from a Landfill Shop.
• Pink lace camisole, opshopped when I was fourteen.
• Tube bra, for modesty.
• Opshopped pearls.
• 1960's nylon floral skirt, eBay.
• Pink socks, sockdreams.com
• Painting boots!
• Navy and white pearl-buttoned cardigan, also a gift from my mother.

Spicy Sports and Short Shorts

I know that i'm the less frequent poster here, but if you've ever paid attention to my occasional offerings to blogdom, you'll sure have noticed that my fashion sense is all too often influenced by that illusive and great creature, SPORT.

I, somewhat ironically, am basically completely useless on a field of any kind, with any sort of inflatable/projectile/WMD that some vindictive referee has devised to be put in/over/through a hoop/goal/line. But i am, Regardless, completely and utterly at the mercy of sporting fashion, particularly of the vintage variety.

From, jersys to shorts, to socks to shoes, from golfing to baseball to american football to croquet, i have a penchant for that special flair that uniform helps pull together. maybe its the colour matcher in me coming out, who knows, all i know is that i love sporting clothes, and heres a few sly examples of me mixing it up, these range from the casual addition of a shirt to an ordinary outfit to attempts at Otaku style recreation.

Enjoy.
So this is my recreation of the classic 70s P.E. Teacher look, sadly minus the moooostache im wearing, Nike Dunks on my feet from Footage in sydney, Opshopped Adidas Running Shorts, an op shopped Jersey an a really really awesome AFL Kangaroos Starter cap.


This is just pretty much an attempt at that "Fresh Prince of Bel' air" circa 1991 look, im wearing, Puma clydes on my feet, opshopped Redpoint jeans, and that awesome Vintage Pheonix Suns shirt if By Starter.


Not such a sporty look, but most of the clothes im in are sporting in nature. Stolen bowling shoes (ask pony about that one), those op shop redpoints again, vintage Disneyland Baseball shirt, and a classic 5 panel baseball meshcap, which i think was given to me at somepoint.


This final outfit, just a bit of an attempt at the classic runners outfit, running shorts by Stubbies (which is a fiercly australian brand by the way) Adidas ZX runners, and a nice light shirt by Wrangler, which im wearing inside out, cuz i dont like the print.

-Pink

Stand Up

This is what I wore to go and see Dylan Moran last night, despite a thriving head cold:





Sorry I look so haggard. I was practically unconscious. Not aided by the fact that it was raining heavily when we got out, and I walked in the rain a couple of blocks to get to the car. Silly girl.

I'm wearing:

• 1940's 'Toni Todd' plaid dress, eBay. It's delicate so I don't wear it much.
• A 1950's plum silk taffeta jacket with velvet collar, eBay. The rain left some marks, I'll have to see if they dryclean out?
• Black checkered stockings, bought in the supermarket.
• 1950's repro spectators, bought when I was seventeen and couldn't find any anywhere (if only I'd waited!)

Like I said, I love this dress, but the cotton is so fine, I'm afraid of destroying it, so as a consequence it doesn't get much wear. The last time I wore it was a year ago!


Ah, natural hair colour ... I don't miss you much.

Hope you're all well, and not suffering from the same cold everyone seems to have!

Vintage Prom Dresses + Bathtubs

A few of my favourites - they look pretty all together, all pastel ruffles and translucent tulle. One day I want to live in a place big enough so that I can just hang my favourite pieces of clothing on the walls, and pluck them off the hook when I want to wear them.











Front to back: Blue 1950's tulle dress, eBay; Pink 1950's tulle dress, eBay; Sequin, tulle and rhinestone 1960's prom dress, vintage market in Canberra; 1950's coral ruffle dress, eBay; white 1950's ruffle embroidered dress, eBay.

Styling Prom Dresses For Colder Weather

One of the worst things about being sick in bed is the boredom. After being cocky and claiming last week that I haven't been sick in a year, the inevitable happened - I came down with whatever cold/flu/bug everyone else has. Bleh. Yuck. The upside is, of course, that I can blog in between long stretches of sleep!

I spent part of last night dying a faded 50's prom dress a bright aqua in the bathtub. Which got me thinking about how I could wear this scanty piece of tulle right through winter - and not get cold or sick (again). If you are desperate to wear your sundresses or rompers or what have you right through Winter, maybe these lil Polyvore concoctions will give you some ideas:














I really, really want the pink, grey and navy outfit - Although I'd have to resort to thievery (some sort of bank heist, maybe?) to get my little mitts on those Chanel gloves ...