Outfit: all hipster in her chunky gold chains and double denim, she looks like she is going to see live music and drink beer from big arse bottles and take photos for the street-press.

Chambray Shirt: Thrifted

Singlet/ Tank: um Kmart?

Denim Skirt: Thrifted

Headscarf: Thrifted

Necklace: Fake gold chain from craft shop

Glasses: Zenni Optical

I have been away, not going to apologise (that's how we spell it here is OZ)  for it cos I ain't done nothing wrong.

The Outfit.. ooh how I loves me this shirt on my way home from getting a Colonoscopy / Endoscopy Double bill procedure and still doped up I swung by an Op Shop and saw this giant Chambray shirt for $5.00 I know how lucky am I? I mean most people regret the things on the day they have randoms shoving shit up your arse but not I.

When I'm wearing it out and about people (jealous co-workers and friends) having been referring to it as my art smock (as untied it goes down to my knees) but I prefer to refer to it as "the gem I found after my colonoscopy"

Shit I need to sort out my bookshelves.

Oh and the necklace was half a metre of $3.00 per metre gold chain from Lincraft with a clasp added. It burns when I wear it but "beauty is pain" or some other generic quote about beauty.

Outfit: Black, like my cold dead heart

Jacket: beth Ditto for Evans

Shirt: traded some magic beans for it

Skirt: My Size

Opaques: I hvae no idea

Boots: Evans 

Scarf: Made it myself.

It's getting cold in Ye Olde Sydney Towne and the layers start a piling on, It becomes my least coourful period as most of my winter clothes are black (a result of my previous career as a make-up artist and their ability to be used as a tax deduction) Anyway yeah my colourful self will become a shivering monotone shell of a being by June and the colour in my ensembles will only be provided by spilled beverages, jokes about penises oh and accessories of course.

Speaking of which, I have been churning out cheap-and-slightly-nasty scarves from cotton, knit jersey just buy a few metres and sew or pin into a loop if you want a circle scarf or cut up into bits and knot if you want a necklush  

I might even churn out some instructions this weekend; it's scarily easy and minimal if any sewing is required and each scarf usually costs about $5- $10 to make.

It's late I go sleep now

Outfit: of the Big Day Out Music festival

 

headscarf: thrifted

t-shirt: kmart shredded by me 

bra: kmart 

vest: an old waterfall cardigan I hacked the sleeves off from kmart

sunglassed: karen walker

boyfriend: mine: in t-shirt :as you see it art 

no full shots, of my outfit for the Big Day Out they were just some throwaway crap jegging things, but the bra was bitchin' and in line with my everything in red polka dot dreams and I was super comfy for the whole day which is al that counts.

P.S. Shredding your own t-shirts whilst fundamentally easy   takes ages and is kinda fiddly, takes ages, and can really hurt yo hands and if you are working with  a white t-shirt remember to keep your hands clean.

 

Diy kiki? Why?: Bright Yellow, Leopard print something or Rather

I cannot for the life of me find my camera so noting outfitwise to report except it is a shame because my outfits have been EPIC!
They actually have been clusterfuckeriffic but alas no documentation. so as far as you the reader is concerned they don't exist or have never existed. Le Sigh now I know how that guy who like had discovered that major cure/invention/mythical race of unicorn men and forgot to take his digital camera with him totally like feels.

Oh yeah I have an Iphone but I'm nto going to to go that far for outfit pictures.

Anyways I have been working on many mystery DIY projects most of them involve repairing torn clothes and using Selleys Gap filler to repair my beloved grandpa shoes until I can get them to a cobbler.

I don't mind the leopard print, it's gaudy, it's a little raunchy, it appeals to my caveman need to cover myself in animal hide (or polyester printed to look like it)
anyways it's everywhere now and apparently can now be considered a neutral...blah

I have however been liking the Dolce and Gabanna take on it in unusual colours,

 

Dolce and Gabbana Cardigan available at Bergdorf Goodman (like i'll be shopping there anytime soon)

and Oh My Gawd look at this one

Oscar De la Renta: Leopard Sheath Dress also at Bergdorf Goodman

Oh my god I love the simplification of the leopard print so it's completely tribal looking,

anyways I like leopard print but unique and unusual version, not so far removed as to be fluro green smudges on grey marle (every teenage-targeted chain store on earth I is looking at you) but not as naff as those hideous generic polyester tan and beige leopard prints (that can be found at every chain store marketing to 40+  four wheel driving women) Well anyway I saw a few pieces that appealed to me in Betsey Johnson's S/S2010 collection (watch the video and drools) that made me go Wooo, so i decided to do me some web trawling on her website and I saw me this lovely item

 

 Betsey Johnson Leopard Print Cotton Lycra Asymetrical Dress

And I did some maths, namely I don't have enough money + I have too much arse = a very bad purchasing decision if I were to buy it, so I stupidly decided I will make me something that a) fits b) is cheap and c) is unique

  

Considering all this information I came up with a formula for a unique leopard print item 

easy huh?

so I started I stole some permanent markers and bought a second hand yellow shirt and started drawing, and drawing and drawing .

It's been a week so far and I'm up to here

I'm totally getting baked by the Sharpie fumes , and the spots are swimming before my eyes  heres hoping I don't get too wasted and start drawing tiger stripes.

Here's hoping it works out I'm planning it to be my top/ tunic for a music festival this Friday's Big Day Out

fingers crossed.

Hapy New Year!

Picture taken of Crowd at Field Day

I didn't got out on New Years Eve, I stayed at home happily watching Shaun Micallef and dreaming of our future life together and the variety of sex we would have, also I stayed at home in preparation for Field Day 2010 my first music festival for the Year.

You will most likely be seeing many more festival pictures over the next few weeks I have The Big Day Out In just over a fortnight, Good Vibrations in mid Februrary, and various Sydney festival shows over the next few weeks.

Gosh I love Sydney in Summer

What I Wore to Field Day, the knees down edition

Being a young hip thing into today's modern "electricified music" means I often like to these "electric artists" live in concert, but being a young hip thing means also I will have to contend with ten thousand other hip, young things in park, standing up for extended periods of time.

This is where my steel toe tradesmen boots come in handy, they are black which is as I have been told is this season "the new black" and also are comfortable to wear, slip resistant, waterproof, and with a steel toe it makes it much more pleasant when fake tanned, supre bandaid and fake wayfarer wearing skanks step on my feet to push themselves in front of me, also steel toe boots are brilliant at crushing cans to throw at the heads of said fake wayfarer wearing skanks when they sit on the shoulders of shirtless douches in front of me...

Or so I have been told

Anyway the Boots, the boots are standard traddie issue steel cap boots the chains and shit are a belt I got from Supre for $5 cut in half, they did the job they looked intimidating, I only had my Iphone with me so no complete outfit shots but my head looked like this

My Brother and I cam whoring in the crowd waiting for Lyrics Born.

Yes they are my new Karen Walker Sunglasses, I was stopped twice with offers of cash for them.

It was a great day, I love music festivals

DIY Projects to make in time for A/W 2010

This tutorial from blogger Anywho looks simple enough even in Danish, I think this would be quite rocking a little bit longer in a charcoal jersey knit epecially for Autumn/Winter,  Style Hurricane has done a very cute version too!

If I start this now it might be ready for winter 2012, I like the simplicity of this pattern ( if I make it longer I think it would make a rocking dress too) , and I would most likely do it in a charcoal/ maybe heather grey too, because the cables would be lost in black and I'm sick of red.

 

Something Fringed; this tutorial for Phillip Lim's 2 in 1 fringed dress is speaking to me, and it's saying "make me, and while you are at it make me a friend it's so lonely being a DIY rip off of a designer dress from two years ago"

and speaking of 2008 A/W trends I want to copy in 2010

Something Rodarte inspired in Mohair and cobwebby and scribbly, I'm thinking some stockings with some chunky needles I dare say they'd take a weekend to make, and maybe in some different colours

Headscarf: Tied 'Rhoda' Style : Thrifted

Necklace: Diva

Sweater: Ments Kmart black acrylic jumper with neckband removed and worn backwards

Jeans: 1626 thrifted.

The Boy really does not like these jeans and so everytime I put these babies on he visibly winces and questions my intentions of leaving the house. He'll um and ahh and question my choice of arse coverings. Usually in order to determine if an outfit is suitable I'll ask the question "am I rootable?" (it's an Australian thing Root = Sex... well the penetration bit, so Rootable means fuckable) any 99.9 percent of the time it's a yes, but these jeans... these jeans have magic contraceptive abilities that cause all desire in my boyfriend to shirivel up and die... oh well it means more time for me to eat chocoalte and buy stuff online.

I mean come on they aren't that bad are they? a little baggy by thats the style! I'm a hipster into the fashion and the young people stuff.

Where did my arse go?

Oh well whatever! I still like the jeans like this with a long jumper they are comfy so very comfy.

Yeah the Sweater thingy, it's literally a mens V neck jumper that I cut the neck out of hemmed the bastard and wear it backwards, I got he jumper off the sale rack at k-mart for about $7 and the con is it pills like buggery but any cold day it's my go to item and I do look cute in a boatneck

It didn't fit.

Green thing: Kirrily Johnston loves Maxshop

Black singlet: kmart

Skirt: My Size

Belt: came with a dress

The samurai dress came and of course it didn't fit ok one specific tube secotion of the dress but alas a pair of scissors and 30 seconds and I now own a fancy green silk cape, it needs a bit of a pressing but it was lovely breezy and light and the colour in person is to die for (no photos can catch this colour), and there are many silky nooks and crannies to fiddle around with when you are bored. I love it as a cape (and the boy seems to like it) and that's all that matters.

Kirrily Johnston is probably rolling over in her grave or her Egyptian cotton sheets (or whatever fashion designers roll in nowadays) seeing this fat chick bastardise her lovley blousy unstructured creations but whatever! whatever! I do what I want

One of my other favourite things in this outfit today is the ring I made it myself last week by sewing some turquoise chip beads sewn onto a ring of underwear elastic, I think I'll churn out a few more of these they are comfy and surprisingly work with a variety of outfits and despite being massive the elastic makes it super comfy