Style Resolutions for 2009

Steven Meisel - "Vogue Patterns" - Vogue Italia Diciembre 2007, originally uploaded by destevenmeisel.

This editorial reminds me: learn to mix patterns beautifully.

• Throw out the pieces I loved (and thrashed).
This includes a pair of battered metallic ballet flats, black worn-out skinny jeans that I replaced with another pair but can’t seem to part with, several pairs of stockings so trashed I’ve cut the feet off and turned them into leggings, and a red hoodie I’ve had since I was fifteen. They look awful – faded, patchy and threadbare. So it’s time to find new pieces to love to death.


• Give away and sell anything ill-fitting, unflattering or unworn.
I have several beautiful vintage dresses that look awkward or wrong on me. The bust is too large, or the shoulders are too wide, or the colour washes me out. I also have several ecru-coloured, beaded and embroidered Australian designer formal dresses I bought aged 17 or 18. They’re gorgeous, but really – I don’t wear modern formal dresses. Their pale colours make me look like death. And I haven’t worn them more than once in the four or five years I’ve owned them.

These are the kinds of pieces that I want to go to a good home, though, so they’ll most likely be sold.


• Wear the shoes I always find excuses not to wear.
Oh, I’ll be doing a lot of walking today. Oh, I’ll be driving. Oh, it’s raining. Oh, I have to get down the stairs of my apartment block. Oh, these are too crazy/formal/bright for everyday wear.

You know the excuses. This year I will WEAR MY SHOES. And not stick to boring crappy flats. Flats that I justify on the grounds that they are more “comfortable”, even though they have no arch support and give me blisters.


• Always, always, dress in clothes I love, whether I’m going out for carousel rides, painting in the studio or lounging around in bed playing Solitaire.
That is: This year I will stop selling myself short by refusing to get out of pyjamas, or by wearing a pilling woollen dress that gives me no joy.


• Get any dresses that are an unflattering length tailored to fit.
I have a lot of dresses in this category. But this year I will tackle that pile. I can’t hem at all – my hand-sewing skills are a joke – but I might bribe my mother with money or cake.


• Don’t buy any more vintage from eBay unless:
It is EXACTLY the right measurements, it is undamaged or able to be fixed, and I am IN LOVE WITH IT. Heathcliff and Cathy love. I’ll-wait-on-the-threshold-of-some-shadowy-spiritual-nirvana-til-you’re-pushing-up-the-daisies-too love.


• Downsize wardrobe by the end of the year or risk the most hellish moving-out ever.
By the end of the year, I only want clothes that I love, that flatter me, and that suit my lifestyle. If you have any tips on how to achieve this magical downsizing, let me know! I am a life-long packrat, and the thought of getting rid of my belongings makes me want to cry.


• Make grey my new neutral.
I am too clumsy to wear white. Last night’s attempt at eating soup (by attempt, read: disaster) is testament to this! And I always feel terribly lazy for wearing black (though I love it, yes I do). I am particularly interested in getting a matte grey manicure.


• Improve posture.
I must have thought at some point during my teens that a slight hunch was quite cute. I am paying for it now. To myself, I say: Stand up straight!!


• If I have to wear a flannelette shirt/raincoat/painting jeans, at least wear a scarf and red lipstick too.


• And, lastly, take more risks!
Fuck the neighbours! Fuck the Joneses, whoever they are! Fuck dress codes, beige underwear, drab suits, social uniforms and feeling insecure! The world is already flooded with the dull and the bland. Be an ark.


So, lovelies, what are your style resolutions for 2009?

Yesterday's Outfit

This photograph was taken before my ISP decided to eat my internet connection! A simple outfit - it was another ridiculously hot day.



And this is a detail of the shoes:



I'm wearing:
• 1950's red floral dress, eBay.
• Red and cream shoes by 'Scooter'.

C'est tout!

It's All White

Today the sum of my accomplishments is doing my laundry, baking some biscuits, and making the title of this entry a really bad pun. And I haven't even hung out the laundry yet.

So my outfit is appropriately low-key today. Low key for me.

Anyway, you have to cut a girl some slack. It's a million degrees outside. Who wants to wear layers?



I'm wearing:
• Lace leggings I made a few weeks ago.
• 'Bardot' bloomer-style shorts, a gift from my mother. I haven't owned shorts since mid-high school!
• White American Apparel deep V-neck tee, a few inches hacked off the hem.
• Cheapie black thongs (that's flip-flops, you!)
• 80's striped wayfarers, eBay.

Scents & Birthdays

Well, my next birthday is coming up. In three weeks, to be exact. And one thing I’d really like is a set of Demeter perfumes. The combination of Thunderstorm, Lilac and Riding Crop sounds to me to be intense and delicious – earthy, floral, leathery and a little dirty. Perfect.

I also concocted a little outfit on Polyvore that I think would suit these three fragrances. I definitely like the idea of pops of bright lavender and turquoise in amongst the black almost-fetish-wear. Not to mention that the whole ruffled prom dress with lace-up boots look is about the only mid-90’s aesthetic I ever liked – think 1995’s Mad Love.




Also, if a quasi-Victorian ruffled umbrella like the above ever found its way to me, I’d be a very very happy little Pony.

Home Again, Home Again

No Sunday Obsessional post today - I've just driven the five hours back home, to my little shoebox-sized flat with feathered masks and paper birds on the walls, and herbs on the balcony. I'm happy to be home. I was away visiting my parents in a place with spotty internet access and a lot of distractions, but now I can start posting again, properly, with any luck.

That is, after I have a long nap.

I hope your Christmases and holidays were spectacular. And that you're currently playing with your new toys!

Tip of The Day

In lieu of an actual entry!

Make gingerbread, cut it out into several different sized stars. Make a pile, beginning with the largest stars at the bottom, and "glue" each layer together with icing. When finished, dust with icing sugar. Ta da! A christmas tree you can scoff until you feel ill.

This recipe for gingerbread is fantastic, and vegan.

Merry holidays, however you spend them and celebrate them. I'll be the one clutching the beer in the 40 degree heat.

xo

The Page Girl

Oh, Bettie. The woman who (unwittingly) launched a thousand tacky leopard-print repro dresses died last week, aged 85. I won’t talk about her chequered later life, nor her legacy as a bondage pin-up. That's all been discussed time and time again.

And while Stop Staring isn't my thing at all, I did put together these outfits as a little homage to the glowing, hilariously cheeky woman in Irving Klaw’s photographs.

The Sunday Obsessional

Images from RU Glamour and babyteeth.

This week, the objects of my affection are:


• Latex stockings. Not those tawdry black and red things, that make me feel as though I should be named DominatrixX. I mean stockings in unexpected colours, like pale blue, or white. Or a nymphy forest green. I think they'd be amazing with a silk pleated skirt, like this one, oxfords, and a thin cotton tank. Or with an antique silk teddy worn as a playsuit.

• 40s and 50s eyeglasses. Worn in the picture above by a beautiful Ms Meredith. Honestly, I think I've wanted to wear horn rim glasses even when I was a little girl with perfect vision. This was back in the days when I read Babysitters' Club books and probably thought it would look really cool. And now here I am again. The Babysitters' Club has a lot to answer for, sartorially speaking.

• Corsages. Clearly. I love wearing jewellery on my wrists, but wearing huge stacks of bangles really isn't comfortable for me for long stretches of time. I think that making corsages and wearing them might be an answer to this.

• Jean Harlow. Smoky eyes, penciled eyebrows ... sigh. She makes me want to bleach my hair white and wear silver lame all day long.

The Tulle and Nylon Corsage

About a month ago, I mentioned wanting to do a DIY project with tulle pom poms. While I'm still working on the neck ruff idea, I made this corsage with some red tulle and nude-coloured nylon I found in my mother's cupboard. The tulle ties in a bow around the wrist. I really love it - and it's something I really think I'll wear regularly.

It Was The Pinkest of Times

Well, you may not know this, but Pink and I have lived in the same city as one another (not the same city the whole time, mind) since we were but wee bairns. Well, not quite wee bairns, but you get the idea. And last night was his farewell. He is leaving this fair city. We are now doomed to a friendship made of email and blogspot.com.

These are the photographs I took at his farewell party last night, sparkly hat and all.



Clockwise from left: Ricki Sparkles; If you're wondering why I'm not in this picture it's because I was dancing like an idiot at the time and the horror of my other eye cannot ever be witnessed by another living person; We love Myspace - apparently.



So cheers, Monsieur Pink. Love the Rubik's Cube.

Of Girls

Girly Girls!

Pony's article got me thinking about girls whos style I really dig, and somewhat ironically, I, much like pony, came to the realisation that I like girls dressing in a more boyish way (her being the opposite, prefering boys in girlier clothes). I want sneakers, caps, matching glasses, bright tights! Big boys shirts as dresses (especially sports shirts!), hoodies! and WIGS please more wigs!

The best outfits, as always, take elements from everywhere, making what would usually seem dissonant suddenly cohesive. Check MIA here, blue tights, matching wig, with a police cap on top (who wears a wig with a hat? awesome!), shiny silver boaty neckish top, and that purple skirt? hey? but its all pulled together with little details like the patterned scarf wrapped around the hat matching the silver of her shirt and even the top of her glasses, and that red lipstick just blasting through it all!

And now people like this girl! Carrie Mundane or Cassette Playa, i'm not totally convinced about her fashion label (even though she does dress MIA and lots of my favourite musos occasionally :P), but I am very into the way she dresses herself, all the same things are appearing! look at her, all black and white, even her hair matching her outfit, my favourite part of this one, again, the little things, the gold trim on her chanel ring and also her glasses. Spectacular.

And finally, and also I spose somewhat predictably considering my taste for late 80s/90s fashion, we have salt n pepper, dressing pretty much like they were extras from The Fresh Prince.

I cant even say anything about this one, just, wow.

From The Cold To The Heat

I bought this deadstock two-piece rose-patterned halter dress set (excuse the mouthful!) back in March. The top was, sadly too small for me at the time, but due to some kind of magic, it now fits!

This is how I wore the skirt in April, when the temperature was starting to drop:



And here's how I wore it today, while mooching around listening to Prince, The Smiths and N.E.R.D:



I'm wearing:
• The dress set!
• 'Novo' kitten heels
• Black fabric belt worn wrapped around my head.


And without further adieu, I have to go and keep packing for my visit to my parents' house, while dancing to the falsetto vocal stylings of Morrissey.

Headdress Plans

My friend Chely recently gave me a Christmas present that is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about in this article. She's been listening to me yearning after headdresses for a while now,and so her present to me this year was a box of found feathers in black, white, and coral pink.

So I've been drawing up ideas of how I want my little DIY project to look. I am thinking about attaching the feathers to a tiara, a hair comb ... or even backing them with a length of gathered and ruffled black chiffon. We'll see. And yes, my plans did include frilly heart-patterned underwear. No, I don't know why.

More Pink - Because All You Need Is Pink ...

Another outfit, from yesterday's opshop expedition, with an inappropriately sombre face:



I do really hate the shoes I'm wearing though, so maybe that's why I look less-than-pleased. After this photograph, I vowed to give the pink monstrosities to charity.

I'm wearing:
• Raspberry pink 1940s dress from eBay.
• 'I ♥ Billy' shoes, given to me when I was seventeen. Dusty from lack of use.
• White 'Diesel' glasses, and
• Various bracelets from new age stores.

Bracelet detail:





And I picked up a vintage circle skirt while op-shopping. It hangs beautifully and fits me perfectly. I haggled the shop lady down two dollars, though - mostly out of principle. Seriously, why are op-shops charging chain store prices now? When did this happen? Are the ladies running these shops trying to fund octogenarian crack habits?

Anyway, tiny rant aside. More importantly, the skirt:

Current Things

• I sold three paintings last week. Hello, sudden ascension out of the red!

• A combination of Chanel Pre-Fall 2009 and seeing The Red Shoes, based on the 1948 film, has instilled in me a longing to channel elements of late 19th century Russian decadence, in the years before its destruction and decay. Excessive jewels, ushankas, gilded headpieces, punctuating my native language with French phrases. And somehow incorporate these into my clothing without suffering heat exhaustion. Or saying the wrong French phrase.

• I went to a dinner party the other night in a black and white 50’s organdy dress, black sequinned jacket by MinkPink, black and white shoes and a coral Rosie the Riveter-esque do-rag. I forgot to photograph it. I was thoroughly distracted by vegan mango pudding and cheap beer. And then wine. And then cheap wine. And then skipping and stumbling home and crawling into bed.

• I really miss painting already. I have to find a way to paint in my kitchen … or something.

• Current desires include: sequinned berets, velvet breeches, and this chili recipe.

• I am also rereading Sark’s ‘How To Live Without Money’, as well as Simon Doonan’s Eccentric Glamour, which gives me the giggles, but ends on a sweet note about the “nice, good-natured trout”, Isabella Blow:

The best way to honour the memory of this fallen heroine is to keep the flame alive. Unfurl the banner of eccentric glamour every single day of your life, and … wave it at the neighbours until the neighbours start waving back.

Simon Doonan, Eccentric Glamour.

Wardrobe Remixers To Whom I'd Like to Give A Swimming Pool Full of Jelly Babies

graffiti, originally uploaded by keikolynnsogreat.

This girl's outfit has the most unusual palette I've seen in a while. I love the way she continues colours through her outfit so none of them seem out of place. I also love that she doesn't accessorise around one spectacular piece of clothing, but rather, layers and puts together fairly ordinary pieces of clothing so beautifully that the entire ensemble is fantastic.

And I would do some very illegal deeds for that belt. It's amazing.

Have A Green Holiday, originally uploaded by joulesstar.

This outfit is amazing - I love people who fearlessly mix patterns and pieces of clothing. Is that crochet around her neck? With a thrifted fur vest? Who has that kind of ingenuity? I can't really do these things myself - yet. But this fabulous woman manages to pull it all together in a way that echoes all the best eccentrics of the 1960s and yet is still entirely her own look.

Not to mention how much I love that vest.

Sunday Obsessional

Images from lqart.com and etsy.com


• Ostriches. Really. While I was away in a house by the sea last week, I went through a little zoo. And I saw ostriches. I love their long eyelashes, feathered wings and the way they walk - like slow burlesque dancers. I made a note to replicate these kinds of key things in an outfit at some point.

• Animal jewellery. This was brought on by the flying pig ring in one of the previous Polyvore outfits. Add swarovski poodles, pug cameo brooches, plastic animal rings and horse necklaces to the mix, and there you have it: a wild menagerie of accessories. I do love a bit of kitsch!

• Neck ruffs. I've probably mentioned this before, but I've been looking for the perfect Jacobean-esque neck ruff for quite a while now. The one pictured just might be it. Except that the loss of $69.00 might make my bank account weep hot, salty tears right now. Time to DIY, maybe?

Three Polyvore Outfits

These are how I'd mix my own style with a teeny tiny bit of androgyny, or at least some gentlemanly accessories. Though I have to admit, I'd make the campest, most unashamedly fabulous man. Most likely a cross between Simon Doonan and Patrick Wolf. Skinny, pale and with a penchant for women's clothing.

Male Style

It’s no small secret – especially now I splash it all over this little blog – that I’m partial to lace. Bows. Pearls. Pink. Pastels. Typically feminine clothing. I haven’t always loved such girly things. I have a dark history - a tomboyish childhood, and a patchouli-laced hippie adolescence. But these days, I have a love of clothing and accessories so sweet that Strawberry Shortcake would probably gag.

And yet I’m becoming more and more attracted to masculinity, androgyny, and to long, sleek silhouettes.

Most of my style icons, as it happens, are men. When I say I’m attracted to androgyny, I don’t mean I’m about to go out and buy cut-off jeans and Von Dutch caps. Bleurgh. No! I’m talking more about the play between masculine and feminine found in creatures like 18th century French dandies, all lavender and powder; or the dancers in a lesbian bar found in Henry and June, wearing tuxedos and clutching slim cigarettes.

Basically, I’m attracted to contrast. I’ve never really been interested in a single aesthetic. And so for that reason, lately I’ve been looking at the personal styles of certain men more and more, to see how I can mix their rakish, extravagant style with my own frills and cocktail rings.

Men like Devendra Banhart:



He’s slightly insane – but I like that in an outfit (or a man, for that matter). I like the way he throws together old jeans and headdresses, or girl’s pea coats and sunglasses. He thinks laterally, and his outfits border on costumes.

Jimi Hendrix is also worth mentioning.



My obsession with him probably stems from the tie-dyed teenage years I mentioned before. His outfits, again, are so opulent and layered they are almost costume-y, but I think there’s something incredible about how piled on and excessive his clothes were. And yet he wore them, absolutely – his clothes never overpowered him. But as a five-foot-two girl, there’s no way I pull off that kind of excessive dressing.



Noel Fielding (above) is incredibly trendy, which I don't normally like. But the man looks good in ladies coats! And who am I to argue with that? Not to mention his World War II transvestite look, which should be imitated the world over.

And, of course, John Galliano, pictured with a satin-clad Ms. Theron:



Hmm. Maybe I should just admit I like men who look theatrical!



Whose style do you admire of the opposite sex?

Oh, Karl

You make me swoon. But really. How rude of you to revive an ornate, old world Russian aesthetic while I'm stuck in sweltering heat.

Farewell Oh Me

So my DJ alias is Ricki Sparkles, and I am leaving Canberratown, and I am having a party, and If you are around you should drop in and say hi! And wear your sparkles, oh please!


But back into it! This is something I wore the other afternoon that I managed to get a picture of, I was originally rocking my top 2 buttons undone but this is later and it was getting unseasonably cold, so I did them up for warmth! I was going for a sorta country boy look, which is technically what I am I guess...

Anywho, what I'm wearin is...

-Bowling shoes that i bought from the alley in my hometown in highschool!
-Levi Blacks
-Op Shopped shirt
-My trusty nintendo side bag
-49ers cap with broken brim, beastie boys stylin

How To Make Vintage Bathing Suits (Almost) Look Like Normal Clothing

tattoo man- vintage bathing suit, originally uploaded by Mimi K.

For men - the tattooed strongman look is awaiting a revival. Hop to it!


• Wear matching false eyelashes. If the bathing suit is pink gingham, buy pink feather eyelashes.

• Wear a belt to cinch in the waist. Something wide and satin, maybe a bow belt. In lieu of this buy a length of grosgrain ribbon and tie it in a bow around your waist.

• Wear opaque stockings underneath, or lace leggings. This is the easiest way to make your bathing suit look like a plain ol’ playsuit. Add buckle boots or ballet flats and you’re set!

• Wear the bathing suit with a vintage headband. You know the ones. They’re adorned with gilded leaves and velvet. They’re completely over-the-top, and create a strange, gorgeous juxtaposition with swimwear.

• Wear pearls. I think that somewhere in every post, I advise people to wear pearls (by the way, boys in pearls are beyond awesome. Seriously, there’s very little I wouldn’t do for a boy who wore pearls!) I may have a veritable pearl obsession. Feel free to translate this suggestion to read, “stacks of enamel cuffs”, or “a pile of anatomical necklaces from Paraphernalia”.

• For the particularly daring: Wear a satin turban. If you like comments from total strangers to be kept to a minimum, I don’t recommend donning a turban. Actually, I take that back. Wear the turban anyway, and if anyone yells at you out of the window of their 1983 sedan, smile winningly at them, because really – you’re wearing a turban. They’re not. You win.

10 Deep the New Sheet

i sorta feel like Ren after that title, and if you dont get that then thats your fault.

Fear and WHAT!

so with my current obsession with Hunter S fasion, i thought that this super dope awesome mixtape would be slightly applicable...

even if you score it for free and only listen to the first track which samples underworlds own Born Slippy.

also ive been really really getting into the new U God Mix tape and i guess if you like the Wu then youll be heaps into this (like me) but otherwise maybe give it a miss? its all im doing tho.

really.


also what am i wearing today?

well shiiii... its summer so sue me...

\so what im wearing!

My Original Rayban clubmasters (sunglasses, duh)
Bonds singlet
Bonds undies!
Levi 501s, cut off by me!
DC thongs

Things To Do That Don't Cost Much!

warelephant, originally uploaded by yyellowbird.

I recently read an article in the Times about Recession Chic. I found the difference between the former lifestyles of the credit-debt-addicted, and the “new” lifestyle of elegant frugality really interesting, especially as I’ve never really experienced the former. As a student, the recession really only affects me in so far as it affects the financial situation of my university. Personally, I am on the same borderline-ramen-eating budget as usual. However, because I am an obsessive list-making girl, I’ve made a list of things to do this summer (or winter, come to think of it) that cost nothing - or almost nothing, at least!

• Watch a movie from your childhood. I suggest Sleeping Beauty, Hook, Laurence Olivier's Wuthering Heights and Mary Poppins.

• Buy some balloons. Take all the ones out of the packet that are your favourite colour. Blow them up and attach them to strings. Take a camera, a friend, and take your balloons for a walk. Photograph the walk. Dress to match the balloons!

• Fly a kite. It’s an underrated pleasure. Don’t have one? Try to make one.

• Sell any vintage clothing you no longer want on Ebay and pay your bills with the proceeds (I do this a lot!)

• Go to Asian supermarkets and buy spices (to make your inexpensive food taste better) and bizarre sweets (to chew while watching films) … and plum wine (do I need a reason? Does anyone need a reason?)

• Get old scraps of silk from the offcut bins at fabric stores. Use them as scarves and headbands.

• Invite all your friends over with their last vestiges of alcohol, juice and various cordials, and make collective cocktails with what you have. Photograph the end of the night, for purposes of entertainment on Facebook or future blackmail!!

• Library card. Get one. The price of books is ridiculous, at least in Australia.

• Dye any and all boring underwear you own a rich hue, like scarlet, sapphire, emerald, mustard or fuchsia. You can wear beige lingerie when you’re dead, okay?!! Use your various (rudimentary to amazing) sewing skills to attach sequins or diamantés. That goes for men too.

• Find old gloves at op-shops. Paint polka-dots on them. If you do it with regular acrylic paint and let it dry, they’ll never come off.

• Ride your bicycle around the prettiest part of your city when the light is low, either early evening or early morning.

• Give yourself a haircut – it’s only hair! Or make your nearest and dearest give you a haircut in exchange for cleanskin wine (Tip: Horrible unlabeled wine is improved – slightly - by mulling it with cloves, cinnamon, sugar and squeezed oranges).




I hope I’ve helped stave off your budgeting-induced boredom for a little while. If you have any ideas, list them in the comments! I’d love to know what fun things you do when money is an issue.

And on that note, I'll be back on Thursday, sandy and sunburned!

The Beach

I'm off for a few days to the coast. I'm hoping for a few thunderstorms, long desolate beaches and some nymphy frolicking in the forest.

Here's what I would take with me, were I a more affluent girl:



At any rate, I'm packing a lot of 1950's playsuits, black leotards, slouchy old paint-splattered jeans, some tattered books and my camera. The coast is also known as The Godforsaken Land Of No Internet or Mobile Phone Service, so I will have to bottle up all of my blogging fervour for when I get back on Thursday.

xoxo!

What I Wore To My Grad Show

Okay, so I didn't get a photograph of this outfit before I left my house on Friday night, due to the general flurry of activity going on. I did, however, recreate the outfit for you this morning, minus the headband covered in rainbow sprinkles, which sadly deteriorated over the course of the night. I was unable to recreate this outfit yesterday, because I was spending a much-needed hangover day watching Disney films and eating toast.

I did match my paintings - the stockings and scarf are the colours of the skies in my work, the patent shoes match the glossy ink silhouettes, and the dress is the colour of both my enamel and acrylic underpainting.

Thus I cement my role as the nerdiest little clothes-pony you ever did see.

And I'm wearing:

• 1950's pink ruffled prom dress, eBay.
• Black patent booties, another gift from my mother.
• Royal blue stockings, welovecolors.com
• Blue scarf, opshopped.
• A very silly pose.



In this photograph I was mid-silly pose when I discovered a butterfly on my floor. Unfortunately, there may have to be a butterfly burial in my pot of petunias later on.



And here are les new shoes! I am so excited - I walked in them for about eight hours on Friday night, and all I need is a set of insoles for them and they'll be perfect. Whereas most girls had band-aids on their feet by midnight, I was still prancing along happily. That said, I didn't feel that walking the five kilometres home was an intelligent idea. So I took a pumpkin-cum-carriage (well, a taxi) back to my little flat.

The Second Outfit of the Day - Oh My!

This is my extremely pink ballet outfit. I'm not wearing my hair like this, I just pinned it out of my face while I did the dishes!

I feel SO HAPPY in this dress! It's truly insane!



I'm wearing:

• Pink 60's ombre trapeze dress. There's a bow at the back of the neck, too.
• Pink crochet tights, from Claire's via eBay.
• Brown Scooter shoe boots.

And here's a detail of the tights and shoes:

The First Outfit of the Day

This is what I wore to my Honours interview this morning. I think my professors/interviewers were suitably entertained!



I'm wearing:

• Pink and grey striped 50's silk dress, found on eBay.
• Black and white striped wedges, eBay.
• Black and white striped 1980's wayfarers, eBay.
• Geomatric scarf, opshop.
• One of my bling rings! Given to me by my mother.

This is also one of the dresses I wore which is now immortalised (ha!) in What I Wore Today, by Graffito Books, which I will review as soon as I get my grubby little hooves on a copy!

Here are le detail shots of the glasses, scarf, ring, and me looking incredibly silly:





And now I am going to change into something else to go to the ballet with a very obliging boy on my arm!



P.S. I hope nobody is confused by the sudden reappearance of my co-conspirator, Pink. There are two of us, and he represents the Hunter S. Thompson-loving male contingent!!