Sunday, February 23, 2014

sometimes no. 4












having entered the home stretch of winter, with no sign of the cold winter weather letting up, i can't overstate how tired i am of this winter. and being tired of this winter, i really feel the cold ... more than i normally would. and feeling the cold as much as i am, i want to wear nothing but layers of wool and plaid, my idea of perfect winter attire. so here i am indulging in some perfect winter attire (from years past).

photo no. 1: i am wearing an old navy shirt with an h&m tie, a jacket by susan harris design, a bustle skirt by bunny and pear and hue jeggings. my boots are the buxton boot (swordfish family) by john fluevog.

photo nos. 2 to 5: here i am wearing an outfit with enough layers to keep me warm in the coldest parts of the building where i work, just the number of layers necessary to keep me comfortably dressed in the most over-heated parts of the building where i work and everything in between: a gap shirt with an h&m tie, a woollen shrug and vest by paper people clothing, a jacket and skirt from h&m and hue jeggings. my boots are the surrealist pizza boot (swordfish family) by john fluevog.

photo nos. 6 and 7: i am wearing a shirt from urban outfitters with an h&m tie, a woollen shrug by paper people clothing, a vest by susan harris design, a skirt from h&m and hue jeggings. my boots are the malcolm boot (living family) by john fluevog.

photo nos. 8 and 9: sometimes i can wear the same piece of clothing numerous times before it attracts some comment (not, incidentally, that i wear the piece even once for the purposes of eliciting comments -- if you have been reading the blog for a while, even for a little while, you have probably picked up that i wear clothes for no other reason than to please myself and because i like them). case in point: this jacket. this outing of the jacket proved the jacket to be quite a conversation piece. particularly noteworthy were the crest on the front and the number on the back.

photo nos. 10 and 11: with the exception of the cardi, everything that i am wearing here is old. the cardi is from the most recent preloved a/w collection. i had no idea, when i was buying the cardi, that it would one of my last preloved purchases. preloved recently shut its retail doors, opting to go wholesale. just as i have decided to turn away from the mass market in favour of small-scale independent (and even local) designers. i wonder if it is true that when one door closes another door opens. i guess i will find out.

3 comments:

GoodyWeaver said...

LOVE how you're standing exactly the same way with the same expression in every photo! You look like a paper doll!!!

wardrobetales said...

GoodyWeaver: you put a smile on my face! thanks!

Jessica said...

Love the pink in the first outfit! You had got very good by this point at creating outfits somehow in keeping with the mood of the kaliyana outfits, even without kaliyana pieces. Impressive. And I too am impressed with your superlative posing powers.