BackPackPart1

University is back for the year. I'd rather be doing this -

(circa 1997. Hairstyle - exactly the same)

But I have to pretend to be a grown up. jk I study film making.

Here's the sorry tale: I study in the city and live in the country. The travelling is quite a pain so I stay in the big smoke with friends when I need to be at uni. ('Why not move out?' is a situation I will refrain from whinging about right now) So - I live out of a backpack for many days of the week. 

It kinda sucks but I figured I could make a gift for my fellow commuting freaks by offering this:

How To Make More Outfits From Fewer Clothes

Clothes of the week - Princess dress, cable knit jumper, oversized silk man shirt, Ruby's American Apparel leggings and that fluffy headband you can maybe see in the middle? 

Lasted: Monday to Thursday

Treasured Backpack. Day 1.

Day 2. 

(I always feel like such a wanker posting this pose-y shite)

This dress is ma favvvorite. 'Angelic' and 'etherial' were the words of the day. As was the statement 'You look like my mum at her wedding'.

Day 3

'Oh hi there fellow student!' Taking photos in 'empty' university rooms can be strange. Also - look at my lovely eye! Del Kathryn Barton x Romance Was Born (I think)

Day 4

Farewell for now. Already behind on my homework. xxx

Little Lusting Lusts

I just really want a little lace veil attached to a headband without the Maison Michel price tag attached. (Ears Optional). Like a lacy sex bunny, with none of the sex appeal (dressing for the other sex is wrong and Must Be Avoided).

~Enquire within for gift giving~

They're not real! When excitement is followed by harsh reality at etsy.

Oh Little Plastic Karl - won't you in your acrylic wisdom watch over me? Much like the real Karl I imagine them both to withstand age and assault in the same way - to sneer - all cold and hard and fabulous.

Oscar the Grouch

Dear Cate

Thank you for being stylish.

Wearing Givenchy Couture where everyone else is too dull. Doesn't she look stately? Don't you wish she was your mother?

The stiff shoulders, the smattering of yellow against virginal white - spewing pearls from a cut-out mystery love disk. Little tentacles reaching down to frame her vagina. 

Like some elegant child of Neptune brought down to make us reconsider 'hot' - 

I mean, this gal looks 'hot' but anyone with a figure like that can look good in a Red Singlet, but there's no Style. 
"Hey boyz - look Boobies" meh

gimme velvet clad vampire tits any day

I will salute that flag. Helena you're still my Queen.

...But the Oscars are an event to showcase the film industry, not to facilitate your Petty Bitching. That gal in the red may be a superb actor and all you can say is that she should be shamed for flaunting her figure,  you should be remarking upon her talents...
trust me, I do that too 
~I'm Pretentiously Critical about Everything~

Freedom for the Lobes

Oh Heck!

look at these Danielle Scutt FREEDOM at Topshop hair earrings

A week or so ago I trimmed my fringe and with the left over hair made an earring (resourceful Always).

My 13 year old sister thought it disgusting - "but you're a Freak! You're making a hair earring! Using Your Own Hair"

SHUSH LITTLE ONE I say now

shush indeed

~Fierce~

Squishy Package

What happens when you send an love letter envelope to a lava lamp inspired acid party in the 1970s?

Christopher Kane's gel clutch at New York f/w11 happens.

I think it can be my new boyfriend. We'll go on long walks together, stylishly holding (figurative) hands. After a romantic dinner for two we'll cuddle up and watch Boardwalk Empire in bed. Our tastes will be oh-so compatible
And We Will Be Inseparable!

Never Gonna Fall For Modern Love

When I remembered today was Valentine's day I considered changing into something covered in hearts and flowers, but then I realised that my outfit was already dedicated to my one true love. 

Cue Outfit Post

 "What is my poochie doing" face

embracing of all cultures

Two posts in one day Wharrrt??

I will conform to the stereotypes Thank You Very Much

Sometimes I think about how absurdly predictably kitsch I am, and that maybe it is silly - and then I realise - it's actually Fabulous.

I used to work in a tea-room-and-gift-shop that was PINK. Everything kitsch and floral, and PINK. At work I would sit like an oversized lacy pink cupcake surrounded by an army of lacy pink trinkets. 

Some girls can't stand it, but I am all GIRL and I love PINK.

When looking at the Irregular Choice website I was constantly aware of how great being a girl is. Ruby sent me the link, but I'm not sure how she found the website originally. Now however my girliness is all up in arms.

All girl. All silly. The shapes are gorgeous and they're all so surprisingly cheap.

With adorable names too- there is one pair of heels called Tickling Loris - do you think they are referring to That Adorable Slow Loris that we must all love for ever and ever??

It's all about fat soles at the moment for me, and while all these are on the purchasing shortlist...

.... the true lust lies in these Amazing sneakers. They are too adorable. Do you ever reach that point when admiring goods when you realise you don't Want [it], you Need [it]? These are Needs.

bananas B-A-N-A-N-A-S

This is the best collection campaign I think I have ever seen.

Admittedly I am hugely susceptible to advertising (and would definitely have joined the Peoples Temple in the early days because I am easily persuaded by song and dance)

but this clip makes me feel like

I just NEED to WEAR PRADA all the time

and

DANCE to RATATAT all the TIME

and wear MINIMALIST BAROQUE sunglasses 

(because my favourite pair Blew Out The Car Window Last Week And It Was Shit)

I still don't get that Miu Miu collection, but oh baby Miuccia's Prada s/s 2011- all bananas and block colours and monkeys - I think I need to dance my excitement off.

A Clash Far Greater Than Any Horrible 3-D Titans

I'm a simple gal with simple desires. All I want is to wear clashing prints, clashing colours and lush textures.

And Marni Pre Fall 2011 striped tights.

The whole collection feels embracing of the 'new minimalism' movement while keeping true to the unique Marni stylings. Utilitarian shapes with flashes of violent colour.

If I ever become a business babe who needs to wear business attire, this will be it. Also if I become an high school English teacher.

I find the beige tone ruffles there a wee bit suggestive, no?

Stay funky young funks

(dick - by Ruby)