Boy Shorts and BLK DNM Leather Jacket

Sometimes I get to assessing the way that I come up with my outfit concoctions, and it always just ends up with: just throw some more leather on. I’m leather on leather on leather today with my BLK DNM leather jacket and vintage leather shorts, topped off with my Proenza Schouler PS11 and Jessica Buurman

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Thrift of the Week – Bathrobe Worn as Jacket

Thrift of the Week posts are generally where I try to make a full outfit from second hand items purchased at op-shops. This week, though, I guess I just wanted to talk about one of my favourite op-shop purchases of late. The story goes like this. Girl sees bathrobe at an opshop one day. Girl thinks, ‘this

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Closet Voyage x Front Row Shop – Neoprene on Neoprene

The first time I was introduced to neoprene outside of a wetsuit shop was at the They Lied! We Can Fly! runway show at Canberra Fashion Festival 2012. It was the first time I had a serious look at this fabric in a non-water-sport related context, but I couldn’t help but fall in love with it immediately. It’s the curious way

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Teddy Girl

I love all things 1950’s, especially the men’s fashion of the day – which fits pretty well perfectly with my dress-like-a-man thing right now. I love how they used to wear tailored jackets but then roll up their pant legs, and brogues with everything, and that devil-may-care attitude towards fashion rules (which then of course became the rule).

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BEDROOM LACE

I don’t know what happened but now all the shorts I have are trimmed with lace. This pair, surprisingly, came from the sleepwear section of my local charity shop. I guess I can’t fault the shop staff for thinking it was a pair of bed shorts, what with the bedroom lace. And as for why

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THE VIRGIN BY WND.LND

 “The Virgin” Sweatshirt by WND.LND (Canberra) Vintage Perforated Leather Skirt from Opshoppers Medium 3.1 Phillip Lim Pashli in Mixed Media (here or here) “Baillie” Convertible Thigh High Boots (here) c/o Jessica Buurman Zoe Brown’s show at FASHFEST earlier this year already had me planning outfits even though I knew that she had not gone into

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