Frocks & Frou Frou: aussie sox

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Buttons and Bows

Long Sleeve top: Giordano

Short Sleeve top: Dorothy Perkins

Skirt: City Chic

Socks: Aussie Sox

Necklace: City Chic

Shoes: Zensu

It's insanely cold at the moment in Melbourne, so you could be forgiven for thinking that I'm mad for venturing out with bare knees, but there's just something about this necklace that smacks of short skirts and knee socks.

Actually I'm wearing pantihose under the socks, which does double duty of providing a bit of extra coverage, and helping the socks themselves stay up.

The necklace is another impulse buy from City Chic, along with the bow belt from a few posts back, and the polkdaot jacket which I'm yet to blog.

Wandering past today (on the hunt for non-trashy looking Maneke Nekos) I spotted another very cute looking piece in their window:

Heart Cardigan

I have to say - this has been one of my favourite seasons from City Chic in a long while!

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Wanderland

Cardigan: Target

Dress: Now @ Kmart

Hat: Morgan & Taylor

Socks: Aussie Sox

Shoes: Chie Mihara (via ebay)

I have a confession to make. I have a Great Big Fashion Crush on Emily from Some Girls Wander. Her style is gorgeously feminine and retro, and she manages to pull off hats, fingerless gloves and knee-high socks with an aplomb that I can only dream about.

Some Girls Wander is the only straight size fashion blog that I read with any kind of regularity, and it always leaves me feeling like diving headfirst into an op-shop, embracing red lipstick and dusting off those hats that I keep buying and never wearing. The last one being a kind of somewhat more discreet version of Aretha Franklin's famous inauguration hat.

I loved the hat. I think I realised at the time that there wasn't much of a chance I would ever wear the hat, but I loved it, so I bought it.

Sure enough it sat on my dresser being neglected, until I picked it up and realised that at some point during the months since I had bought it Suki had made short work of the little veil.

This, combined with a recent post that J over at Fatshionable did on hats, inspired me to finally muster the courage to pay homage to my favourite fashion blogger and take my own foray in Wanderland.