black and not blue

thrifted silk dress, AA mesh dress, stripper store thigh highs, UO legwarmers, Frye boots, Movado watch, special series Ray Ban Metro Wayfarer

Sorry again about the overexposed pictures... I should probably photoshop them but I'm way too lazy.

So here are a few of my favorite things in my wardrobe:

This dress, which is soo gorgeous and I got for like $15 (worth so much more than that!!). I love it's pieced diamond racerback and flowy feel, I often wear it with a waist belt to give it more definition. I'm kind of obsessed with racerback looks. The last photo is not even close to cute but I wanted to include a detail of the back.

Thigh highs instead of full tights (see second photo)... when I walk the dress sways really beautifully and the thigh highs are visible. I just think it gives any dress a little something extra, and its like a fun surprise (or secret, if the dress is long enough). Plus, I haven't been able to afford a gorgeous pair of thigh-high boots (especially now with holidays coming up), so I'm just wearing anything thigh-high to make up for it.

These new special series wayfarers... a New York subway map is printed on the inside of them. So cute! I've been wearing them every single day.

And of course my dad's watch and car.

I was in a kind of mood last night where I was totally over my whole appearance and self, which eventually boiled down to being sick of having bleached/blue hair... so I dyed the blue bits black. I also made the rest of my hair a bit darker so its hard to see it in these photos, its obviously a lot more subtle than bright blue! But I'm digging it for now.

I'm headed back out to California for Thanksgiving this week to spend it with one of my favorite people and her big Italian family. Looking forward to playing bocce for the first time and just generally being highly entertained. I love huge family get-togethers for the holidays, and since we've moved to Dallas, the family holidays have kind of disbanded. So I'm being adopted for the day. Actually like, the week, since that's how long I'm staying. Yay!

oh p.s. Thanks to Maria at Chicisimo for the feature on her blog today :)

revival

bdg jacket, AA skinnies and turtleneck dress worn as a tunic, F21 waist belt, Michael Kors suede boots

soo I'm back. Finally. With unfortunately bad photos, but my, erm, photographer was having some issues with the exposure and whatnot. More lessons have to take place. I was feeling super nostalgic today so I wore what was my unofficial "uniform" from back at school (actually now that I think about it, my very first outfit post was almost exactly the same outfit. Now I'm embarrassed). And when I say uniform, I mean, the go-to outfit I'd choose blurry-eyed at 7 in the morning for work. But anyway, I even wore the same perfume that I wore last year (Kenzo Peace) and everything.

Its been quite fall-ish here around Dallas, which has been allowing me full use of my tights-tall socks-jackets section of my closet. Better outfits and photos soon.

its halloween and I'm dead

vintage hat with netting, Crypt victorian corset, F21 skirt, VS garter belt, random back-seam thigh-highs, vintage rosary, Makeup Forever makeup & MAC eyelashes

Happy Halloween! Just doing a quick post while waiting around for Jason to wake up from his disco nap so we can go out... being as obsessed with dressing up as I am, I got ready earlier today (including doing a full face of pale pale makeup and fake eyelashes at Sephora... they really will let you do your makeup with those testers, haha). Currently sipping on sweet tea vodka + lemonade and enjoying the surprisingly warm Denver weather after the three-day snowstorm.

I got this corset yesterday... after searching practically the country for a 20" corset that wasn't ridiculously expensive, I found this beauty (with steel boning!) for well within my price range. Since inexpensive corset sizing starts at about 32", you can imagine my joy when I found it. Its not even laced as tight as it can go (in these photos), when I tried it on in the store yesterday I had like a the smallest waist ever. Even the doll who laced it up for me in the store said "dammmmn girl" haha. It was love at first cinch, and out came the Visa.

Also I have to talk about this hat... I think I might hear the stirrings of J... so I'll just say its one of my most favorite vintage hats I've ever found... and I have a lot.

I hope everyone else is having a wickedly fun Halloween!

p.s. I promise to return all the love soon! The internet we have here sucks big time and after uploading photos and trying to get them on here, I kind of want to kill Safari. But love will come :)

snow leopard

H&M funnel neck coat & leopard gloves, Zara chunky knit scarf, F21 knit hat, Banana Republic cardigan, AA layered tees, UO "pash" scarf, J Brand skinnies, Frye boots

Looking at this blog, its kind of ridiculous how much stuff I've done in the past two months and how little I've documented it. It makes me kind of sad... I guess there's the factor that a lot of the photos we've taken have nothing to do with fashion or the like, and I just don't think they'd be that interesting to other people. And as one person put it, "the first amendment doesn't apply to whorish fashion blogs." Anyway. I'm going home next week, which makes these particular set of photos even more fun (snow!!!)

If you couldn't tell, I'm currently in Denver. I can't believe how much its snowing (and its not even Halloween yet!) but its the perfect excuse to wear lots of knits and my new coats. Since I don't have my actual warm coats (down filled puffy jackets with faux fur lined hoods! toasty! Remember I'm from Ohio. Freeeezing there in the winter), layering is a must. You can't really tell, but I'm wearing like four layers under that coat. The coat is a new purchase from H&M... while on the west coast, I kind of went bananas at H&M since I know that it will be completely unavailable once I go home to Dallas. I got a really pretty faux fur coat that I'm really pumped to finally take photos of and post :) Its soo "inherited from grandmother", and I like wearing it with big chunky sparkly jewelry for such a dress-up feel.

I definitely plan on changing the buttons up on this red jacket... I want to find some cool vintage style buttons, or black ones with skulls or something. There's an eBay search waiting to happen.

So Halloween is in a couple days and I currently have no costume. I think I'm just going to be "dead" haha. Like with intense makeup, essentially... I just wish I had some white-out contacts! What is everyone else planning on?

not quite fashion related

So I know there's really no fashion in this post, but I just wanted to post some of the photos Keith and I shot while on our road trip up through Oregon and Washington. The Pacific Northwest is a really beautiful place, and Portland and Seattle have quickly become my new favorite cities.

1.

At the top of the water tower in Volunteer Park in Seattle. Made from really gorgeous stone and cool iron gates, its the highest point in the city and you can see everything from the top. We found out about the spot from some really cool guys working at Three Girls Bakery in Pike Place Market downtown. People in Seattle are so nice.

2.

The fiery trees up north reminded me how much I love and miss fall weather and changing leaves. I'm pretty sure this was from where we camped someplace in Oregon. It wasn't a total legitimate camping experience since we got to the site at like 2 in the morning, but we got to sleep in Keith's tent, which was something he wouldn't shut up about the whole trip. I love this picture especially because it kind of reminds me of a scene in The Ring for some reason (and I majorly love that movie).

3.

I love bridges, and there's a lot of them in Washington it seems. I was telling Keith that I don't like taking shots out of moving vehicles, that if I see something I want to photograph, I will stop the car and get out and get the right angle and everything in the frame how I want it (side note, I think digital cameras are like cheating with all the editing you can do. If I take a shot, I leave it exactly how it is). So just as I was telling him this, I took a couple of shots out of the sunroof of his car, and this is one of my most favorite shots I've ever taken. Go figure.

4.

Taken riding across the ferry to Seattle. Keith actually took this one, I love it with the boat and the wake. The first couple days we were in Seattle it was super sunny and nice out, which was weird because I heard it always rained there. The last day we were there, it got overcast and "typical" Seattle weather. I still loved it. While we were there, I got to hang out with one of my most favorite people in the world, DB. We went to this bar called the Alibi Room that was kind of under Pike Place... downtown has some weird levels that has something to do with the city burning down in the 1800s or something... Anyway we walked in and the upstairs is this really chill bar that I loved immediately because they were playing the entire Turn On the Bright Lights album by Interpol (my favorite currently-performing-making-music band), and the downstairs is this crazy dance club. It was pretty awesome. DB and his friend John successfully convinced me to move to the city after I go back home and get my stuff together. Besides the 9.6% sales tax, I'm all in.

5.

The cove in Seaside, OR. Its this cute little surf town on the coast of Oregon with the most amazing sand ever. Its like velvet. This shot was obviously not of the beach (I didn't want surfers and tourists in my photos, although see if you can spy little Keithy on the rocks). The beaches are huge though, as in, from the walkway to the water its like a quarter of a mile.

6.

Silhouettes of trees in Portland at sunset. I love Portland. Its so bike-friendly, people are the nicest people I've ever met, the city is beautiful... Keith and I were both so tired and we hung out at this coffee place on the comfiest couch ever for hours. We went to Voodoo Doughnuts, where they have a huge assortment of vegan doughnuts, as well as non-vegan doughnuts with bacon on top (idk). I was instructed to go to Vita Cafe, but I was so sick the day we went back through that we didn't really do much of anything.

We're back in San Francisco now, we went to Treasure Island music festival yesterday. I did like my outfit, wish I got some photos of it (besides the ten photo booth sessions I took)... big faux fur coat and a huge crazy sparkly Otazu necklace. I kind of felt like I was dressing up in my grandma's clothes. Someone also told me that I look exactly like Greta Garbo and that I should take some photos "as her". I was pretty flattered. I guess I'll have to try it :)

Just to add something fashion-y, I reeeeeeeeally want this coat:

Please, momma? Its so cute on! I wasn't convinced that I liked animal print until I put it on, and now I'm obsessed, thank you very much.

image from UO.com