This could be the type of thing you’d wear sailing.
But with these bad boys I’d never get my sea legs.
Don’t you think heels make boyfriend jeans much more ladylike?
Around my wrist I wrapped a necklace I made using trade silver beads.
Feels very summery to me. And perfect for drinks on a dock.
Sonja, for example, modified these earrings by putting beads and bells on loops.
Then putting the loops on hoops.
For just the right amount of razzle dazzle. Speaking of Sonja’s razzly dazzly jewelry, take a look at her rings.
I think you (not me) could take this loopy idea and use it to make a really pretty bracelet. Maybe stringing the loops on a thin strip of leather and then wrapping the leather around your wrist a few times? Just a thought.
If you could have anyone’s wardrobe — alive or otherwise, fictional or not — whose would it be? My friend Briony would chose the Queen of England.
For two reasons: one, she figures she’d still have all her clothes from the past eight decades; and two, she wouldn’t mind having the crown jewels.
I’m having trouble picking one person’s. I’d love my sister’s wardrobe, and all my girlfriends’ too.
Briony made her necklace by stringing antique keys and a pendant on a piece of leather. So simple, so cute.
Her bag is vintage.
Think about it. If you could pick anyone’s wardrobe whose would you chose? Jacqueline Kennedy’s? Jane Aldridge’s? Carine Roitfeld’s?
Last week I went to see the WZRDZ at Lucky Bar in Victoria. Their drummer is my baby brother (the student and sometimes model) so my sister and I rocked wizard capes (obviously), but these two wore something just as magical.
Kim and Megan crafted their ensembles from the same vintage dress. They found the original piece at the Patch in Victoria, then shortened it to create a dress and used the leftover pieces to sew a skirt.
My scraps usually get scrapped, but this is sheer genius.
I plan to steal their idea. Isn’t it just brilliant?
Take two bright, bold vintage pieces, add them together and what do you get?
An outfit fit for a BBQ.
The blouse is a silk vintage Ralph Lauren number (as if the golf buttons weren’t enough, it used to have shoulder pads before I took a pair of scissors to them).
All that red and all that gold — there’s nothing subtle about it.
What could be more fun than tacky on top of tacky?
Spent forever on my friend’s sunny patio. And now I have the most wicked forearm tan.
Love that this sweater is sparkly gold (and glitters like a disco ball when it catches the light).
It’s straight out of the eighties (hard to believe, I know).
The belt is the one I wore on the Style Spy.
My favourite part of the sweater isn’t the razzle-dazzle glitter, though. It’s the batwing sleeves. How can you not want to flap your arms wildly in something like this?
to what it was before, this dress is now something I’d wear out of the house.
To brunch, to lunch, to dinner, wherever.
It’s sweet, but not too sugary sweet.
What did my husband say when he saw the transformation?
“It’s so short.”
You can’t win, can you?
When she’s not wearing custom-made dresses and vintage pieces, my sister Larissa is mixing menswear with accessories from everywhere.
So comfy, cozy and casual, and so much more interesting than a t-shirt and jeans.
Her hat’s from Bondi Beach, Australia.
She’s wearing a men’s Polo Ralph Lauren shirt.
Her sandals were custom made in Hoi An, Vietnam, where she also had her Indian teal dress and leather boots made.
Leroy’s a fan. Clearly.
and insist that my sis keep this vintage dress exactly as it is.
She picked it up on her travels with the intention of shortening it. But frolicking in fields isn’t the same in a short dress. And this is a frolicking kind of dress.
She thinks it will just sit in her closet if she leaves it long. But I think in ten years when she finds that perfect event to wear it to, she’ll be happy she kept it floor-length.
There has been speculation that this was actually a bridesmaid’s dress in its day (the brooch is her own).
What do you think? Do you vote to keep it long and risk rarely wearing it? Or do you vote to cut it short so it’s more wearable?
