girly grunge

This is kinda grunge right? It is more dark than my usual fare, so I will call it grunge. Plus look at the dumpsters in the background, if that isn't grunge I don't know what is!

Hat: thrift; shirt: free; skirt: so old I don't remember; suspenders: thrift; shoes: thrift. Um, yeah, I like thrifting.

So, this day, actually, this picture was a few seconds before the worst torential downpour I've experienced in Philly. Guys, that one with hail, right?! I got stuck walking my gorgeous ass from Rittenhouse to the Italian Market in the middle of this awful stormfest and took shelter in a nearby CVS. I tried to chat up some drenched sporty chicks, but they were having none of it :/  c'est la vie

what to do in the summer?

 So, if you haven't figured out by now, I like to do things on my own, my own way. I messed up the length of these Goodwill mom-pants-to-shorts and decided to make up for it by dip bleach dyeing them. Granted, this is one of my more funkier outfits. Only wear it when I'm feeling especially confident and brave b/c wow does it get strange looks on the street!

I'm not such a fan of actually dressing in the summer. There have been points in my life where I wore nothing but a swim suit of some variety all day during the summer, and I'm not from California. Cut-off shorts and a bra. that is my summer uniform. of course things like internships and jobs get in the way of that. gotta look respectable I s'pose.

I thought I left the creepy guys in Italia....

Just a pencil skirt and v-neck top and I get so many stares and "You're looking really good today" in the streets. And by stares I mean, glares... from old women. Jesus christo, I didn't know a pencil skirt, albeit a little hiked up because I have a long stride and that tends to make skirts ride up, would have this affect on street life. If all it takes to get creepy reactions on the street is to wear a pencil skirt, then I have no hope for humanity.

OOooops, another re-wear

 I was going to try to make this style tank out of a thrifted menswear shirt, but I caved and just bought this one from H&M. I feel like a sell out. Nah, I'll use this one as a pattern for the other one!

I like this pic. It looks so random, right? I totally didn't stand with my hand on the camera for like, ten seconds to get this weird angle... no. Look at my hair, though. Would you believe me if I said I wake up looking like that?

Ombre and D to the P

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I know color dying ombre is so overplayed by now (bleach is the new thing now fyi), but I couldn't help sharing my attempt. I think it went all right. It definitely would have gone better had I been using a container with a flat edge instead of a bucket with a curved edge, hence the cone/mountain/roller coaster shape on the front of my chest there. trial and error, trial and error. This shirt I bought as fundraiser from my college's feminist newspaper "The College News" and if you are a wonderful person you might go check out their site! D2P peeps.

 slightly embarrassing, I know you'll judge. but hey, this blog is embarrassing enough! the back is worth reading! I AM A FEMINIST.

Out of my room! Finally!

 They finally let me out! I'm free! JK. My wonderful friend and I went to see the Van Gogh exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art one Saturday and what a perfect opportunity to shine! I decided to go as my hipster best and wore something that looks an awful lot like what I normally wear. oh well, it looks good.

 Oh yeah, see all those people checkin' me out? Maybe they were just looking at my gorgeous photographer ;)

Back in my room. Had to show the look sans jacket and backpack. Come to find out my mom really hates my belt... and boots... and style in general. I tried to explain the concept of androgyny to her, but she just kept calling me "a butch". Well, that aint a bad look either. Maybe with time I'll win her over!

A little out there

 I've noticed detachable collars are all the rage this spring, but worn with girly dresses. Never one to conform, I wore it with my grungey shredded shirt! I think I am either going to stud this collar or glitter it! I just cut it off a men's shirt. Easy.

 My hair was SUPER curly that day too. Love when that happens.

Heehee, love this one. I look like a coked up wanna be synth dj or sumthing

I didn't like this outfit, so I'll just post pics of my hair

... or the side of my face. So, when I last got my hair cut I told the girl I probs wouldn't be getting it cut for another 3 months. Yos, the last time I got my hair cut was when I started this blog. While not quite 3 months ago, it's still a damn long time for someone with short hair. Ergo, why I have been wearing a bandana around. But not just any bandana! Of course I had to go and make my own!

So, the last time I was at JoAnn's I had the forsight to buy a plain white bandana knowing full well that an opportunity to tie-dye was coming up. I just did up some simple stripes (vertical or horizontal, it's a square!) in black, red, yellow, red, black pattern with a lot of overlap, and wha-la! I know it's not for everybody and I kinda wear it as my junky bandana headband to keep my overgrown locks out of my face, but I still think it's awesome.

Androgynous hipster guy

Well, this outfit was inspired by my insatiable urge to wear my royal blue blazer with my navy blue pants and a white shirt. A combo I have regrettably already worn and will probably wear again. I hate re-wearing outfits. I absolutely LOVE re-wearing clothes, but not outfits.

As I watched a friend scroll through my entire blog in 2 minutes without reading my descriptions, I realized most people visiting my blog are probably not reading the stuff I type around the pictures.(i love my friend and am flattered that after those 2 min. she turned to ask if that was all. I only started this 2 monthes ago give me a break!) It is a shame no one reads my comments because I am clearly a clever, witty comic genius. They are missing out and I will spend the rest of this post talking nonsense cuz, hey! no one reads it anyway! Oohpa!

Pinapple penguins slept in the pond before sunrise. Titles escaped the gold embossing to become antique. I love thinking of random words, but putting them in sentences together to make sense is harder. Panties. Such an awkward word. Probs cuz only my grandmother and UO and every critic of the navajo panties uses the word. Seriously, did no one else feel awkward reading about that minor scandal just b/c of "panties"? I think American Apparel calls them panties too. They would. FUCKING UNDERWEAR OR UNDIES, HOW HARD IS THAT? Doesn't that pic look like I'm pooping a glowing red thing? I took other pics to correct it, but alas, my swagger was strongest in this one. and I just spent a paragraph talking about panties, so why not? OH YOLO.

Oh hot dang girl, bite that lip. sexxxay! The shirt is my club's motto! Aren't we the cutest?!

Snazzay

So sassy! Look at that pout!

Well, this is another thrifted top. It's a nice outfit, but for some reason I'm not getting the feeling that I liked it very much. I think I was having a bad day. I love this top very very much though. It's not super flattering, but it feels so cool to wear, it almost stands up by itself it's so stiff. that's...what...she said? no.

Super cool vintage earrings I got in Florence! Wooo! (they're clip-ons, and some people think that is weird and un-cool, but those people are wrong:)

Vaudeville chic

Please ignore the half eaten chocolate covered marshmallow egg in my hand, this was the best pic. That distant blank stare was too much to resist...jk.

Well, I recently got the shirt at what is marketed as a thrift store, but is actually, weirdly enough some stomping ground of super hip store clerks and some average joes hoping to find sorta trendy stuff at cheaper than in-store prices. Anybody been to Buffalo Exchange? kinda pricey for my taste, but some good things can be found there. I hate naming any thing by name, but even if you don't go to buy anything there, just go to see what the staff is wearing. I am also wearing my gold Miu Miu look-a-like sparkle shoes which I've featured on here before, but didn't show them with an outfit.

Okay, so let's talk about the shirt ensemble: The cream one I got at Buffalo Exchange, where it was before that, I do not know. But! The day I got it, I was shopping with my friend that dreads shopping as a favor and a way to get off campus and swore up and down I wasn't going to buy anything. Well, what if I didn't find everything that I had put in the back of my head to look for! 1. A cream chiffon blouse 2. round sunglasses 3. spandex bustier crop top thing- I found them all! I wore the third thing under the first and it was beautiful and I didn't feel like a super slut wearing only my bra under a very see-thru shirt! Yay! win! no more super slut until summer when I just don't wear anything!

Another outfit inspired by a friend

So, again I was awake at 4 am with some friends and lacking in inspiration for my next day's outfit. So, I asked my "I don't care what people think yet obsessively pick out just the perfectly derelict pieces to wear in everyday of my life" friend (love her!)to tell me what to wear. She's such a perv, she told me to wear an outfit that I wore to a sex pos party that is not going to be seen in public and def not in a classroom... ever. Well, I just threw on a shirt to that outfit and wore it pretty much as was.

Oh haaaiii

I don't know how to wear a maxi skirt!

I think I got it right? Sorry I haven't posted in a while, just got done with what felt like hell week of college. But now I have time to post my glorious outfits that I've been wearing in the mean time!

So, I usually don't wear maxi skirts because I have for some reason always thought they looked bad on me... even though I never tried them on or ever wore them. So, when my mom sent me this skirt in the mail, I thought "Challenge accepted!" and went about creating an outfit to wear with it.

BUNNY BELT! I found this gem in the local thrift store that I usually find absolutely nothing in. Actually found it 2 years ago before I started thrifting for real. I've always been this cool ;) I have such a hard time wearing it with stuff though. The color of the belt matches nothing and the bunnies are so eye catching I should really wear them with plainer stuff. The top I've worn before, I cut and sewed it up myself! The colors matched perfectly, all navy!

RaWR

I later scratched the "NIKE" symbol off the shirt, so hopefully it will look less like someone's old work out shirt... which it is... shhhhh.

Sometimes my mom has good taste...

My mom mailed me this dress for Easter. She mailed me some other stuff too, but I will wear that stuff later. Don't tell her, but I'm not a big fan of the print itself, but I think it makes for an interesting, chill dress.

Nyway. It is sorta typical and mall-ish, but still looks bangin'. This non-cropped jean jacket I have had since freshman year of high school... weird huh? I'm just surprised it still fits. The beauty of denim. I had to wear tights. Ideally, I wouldn't have, but it was colder than what would have been appropriate to wear it without them. The necklace is from a sketchy street dealer at Parc Guell in Barcelona. 3 euro, I was ripped off.

Coolest sunglasses, right?! I wish they were perfectly round, but they would be less practical/wearable if they were.

Sometimes I just wear strange stuff

I found this shirt at a wicked vintage/thrift store in Philly. That is all I'm going to say. I don't want too many people finding out about my sources. Anyway, I think it was supposed to be 70s, but I think it is more 80s. I am by no means an expert though, so don't trust/ judge me.

I love when people wear long sleeved shirts with short shorts. It looks better with tight fitting black top with short shorts. This was fine though. The boots always look good.

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Uh, I don't think I need to explain this one. The jeans are a dark purple/ plum color that you can't really see here. I always get compliments on them, either because of the color or because my butt looks good in them.

I layered two tanks, the flowery slinky one and a lace one. I think the effect was better than I was expecting.

Canadian Tuxedo

I wore this wonderful bow tie (THAT I MADE!) over the weekend with an outfit that I can't post on the interet in case I become famous (it looked wicked awesome, be sad that you can't see it). well, I was dying to wear it with something "normal", "conventionally appropriate". Yeah, so a Canadian Tuxedo was what I came up with :)

The first time I heard this term was when I was trying to party it up in Barcelona and this Aussie was teasing me that I was wearing a "canadian tuxedo" because I was wearing black jeans and a blue jean jacket. I think he was subtly trying to tell me he could see through me and knew I was a lesbian. Anywhooo, this outfit is truly a Canadian Tuxedo, and quite intentionally so.

Blue jeans, blue jean shirt, quite ugly brown lesbo shoes, and a wonderful, fantastic deep red velvet bow tie I made my self and is really just a pin. ;)

Hipster Central

*I'm not smiling in any of these pics because I wanted to look like the uber hipster I was trying to be. I was smiling all day, wearing this outfit was so much fun! The skirt billows in the wind and makes me feel like a fashion princess cascading down the path.

I haven't shown off this wonderful vintage find yet on my blog. This wonderful skirt I found in a Florentine vintage shop that was having a sort of open house and I had been asked to hang around the store in some of the vintage clothes. Sounds hard right? So much fun! Anyway, while I was waiting for someone else to change, I was thumbing through clothes and literally threw this from the rack. I was that excited, I dropped it. I dropped that chiffon breeze of perfection on the floor.

Nevermind my clumsiness. The important part is that I found the skirt. I had been seeing pleats and see throughness online for a while and had been thinking, "wow, it'd be great to find a see-through pleated maxi skirt!" combo of all things good and in fashion at the moment. Well duh, I'd find such an item in Firenze, Italia! A bit pricey, but so worth it.

Anyway, this particular bit of fashion godliness is bound to go out of fashion after next fall, so I got to wear it as much as I can now!

I also stenciled the tank top underneath myself. I am a softie for sugar skulls, as previously stated, and stenciling one on an already derelict tank seemed perfect.

And what makes every outfit better, even if it was already .1% away from perfection?! THE CROPPED JEAN JACKET, DUH! Now it is 100% perfection.