Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts

Sunday, 8 June 2014

The Slouch

The sudden onset of summer weather has me reaching for the slouchy stuff.
I'm glad to say that the pants and the shirt (read its story here) are both vintage.




shirt: vintage, customized / pants: vintage / shoes: Graceland / bag: OASAP (gift)

Saturday, 28 December 2013

The Colors

This is me wearing colors (and attempting to be witty).

Winter has been nice to us so far - these days feel more like early spring, so my light coat is back in the game, along with a sweater that used to be my boyfriend's. I've been wanting a soft, just slightly oversized grey sweater since the beginning of fall; turns out a perfect one was sitting in his closet all along, and he actually wanted to get rid of it. I just love it when the stars align like this.
 










coat: vintage / sweater: Topman / skirt: New Look / wedges: H&M / tights: random / clutch: Zara / necklace: via eBay

Thursday, 19 December 2013

The Winter Edition

It's been cold and I'm bundling up ('cause there aren't many things as idiotic as bloggers sporting bare legs or wearing sandals outside when it's freezing).






coat: vintage / sweater: Wallis / pants: no name / ankle boots: ASOS / bag: OASAP (gift) / rings: H&M

Tuesday, 26 November 2013

The Find

Just when I thought I had robbed my grandma of all her vintage treasures already, I stumbled upon this coat in her basement and grabbed it without much hesitation. Granted, the color is not my favorite (what is this called anyway, taupe, greige, tan?), but the coat was too good not to give it a try (and hey, at least it's not pink). The moment I put it on, a few associations came to mind, the most notable being "the executive" (fellow die-hard Seinfeld fans will know what I'm talking about) and "the exhibitionist" (no further explanation needed, I reckon). The way I wore it here, it's giving off a bit of an androgynous vibe; on another occasion, I might try it belted, with a skirt and over the knee boots.






  
coat: vintage / turtleneck, pants, bag: no name / shoes: ASOS

Sunday, 8 September 2013

Transitioning

Autumn is upon us, whether I want it or not (I don't). As always, I'm not ready to part with summer dresses and sandals, so I'm pairing them with jackets or sweaters to counter the evening chill. I'm gladly jumping on the pinstripe bandwagon with this vintage blazer I got a couple of years ago, not because pinstripe is supposed to be an autumn trend or whatever, but because I've always had a penchant for it. I just hope it doesn't get too popular (or is it too late already?), that's usually quite a turn off for me.

 









shirt dress: Vero Moda / blazer: vintage / sandals: Jean Paul Gaultier x Melissa / bracelet: H&M / sunglasses: no name

Wednesday, 7 August 2013

Casual Summer

While the fashion world is raving about Birkenstock sandals, I decided to invest into a new pair of flip-flops to go with casual summer outfits like this one. Everything else I'm wearing here is recycled in a way. I've had this shirt and these shorts for several years, but I haven't been wearing them recently because I wasn't very keen on their golden buttons. Finally, I replaced the small vintage buttons on the shirt with these white ones that give it a cleaner, somewhat clinical look, and the tacky, plastic ones on the shorts with regular black ones. I adopted the bag from my grandma's closet and it has hardly left my side since (as seen here and here).


 
 shirt: vintage, customized / shorts: H&M, customized / flip-flops: Nike / earrings: vintage / bag, sunglasses: no name

Saturday, 1 June 2013

Flared White Jeans

Does it make any sense to say I had to have these flared white jeans just because they were so out of character for me? (Flared? White? Jeans? Certainly not what I'd usually go for.) I noticed them in a heap of clothes at Vintage Vikend swap party and for reasons unknown, they instantly grabbed my attention. (I'm pretty sure I'd walk straight past them in a store.) I picked them up, had a quick look at them, and put them back onto the pile ... just to pick them up again and take another look, a little longer this time. After repeating this procedure and making sure in my mind that I'm not interested just because they're free, I took them to the ladies' room, put them on, looked in the mirror, thought "high five" to myself, received an instant compliment, and, well, bagged them to take them with me to their new home.
















top: vintage / pants: Drykorn, second hand / blazer: Zara / bag, shoes: ASOS / sunglasses: via eBay / "ring": a broken bracelet from India

Friday, 17 May 2013

Team Blue

This was bound to happen sooner or later, it was really just a matter of time. I don't think I would mind wearing all blue all day, every day.
(Look at me hardly keeping my eyes open because of the weird sunlight, ha ha.)






shirt, shoes: ASOS / pants: vintage / bag: IKEA laptop case / ring: Angie Gooderham

Any similarity with the photo below is purely coincidental ... or is it? (Now that's the kind of stuff I'd put in "inspo posts" if I did that shit!)

photo source: kaysuniforms.com

Note: I've given my Tumblr account a revamp and rediscovered the joy of "tumbling" (i.e., hoarding appealing images). Should this kind of stuff be relevant to your interests, click here.

Sunday, 18 November 2012

Don't Worry, I'm From The Internet

Somehow I felt pretty Kill Bill-ish in this recently thrifted yellow-ish dress (even more so in the evening when I added a black belt and switched the wedges for my favorite white and black ankle boots). Enter the sunglasses (I swear it hit me they were a Margiela knock-off only after I got them - I wouldn't have otherwise, I'm anti-fakes) and suddenly the vibe turned quite futuristic, which provided me with an opportunity to meaningfully use one of the coolest phrases ever: "I'm from the internet."










dress: vintage / shoes: ASOS / clutch: via eBay / sunglasses: OASAP (gift)/ cube ring: via eBay / other ring: a random object