CANNOT BELIEVE I HIT 20,000 VIEWS TODAY THIS IS TOO CRAZY!!
Since I started this blog about 4 months ago the support from friends family etc has been unbelievable, and I love you all for that!! I am sooo proud of myself for not abandoning this haha. Without sounding too moist, it honestly is the best thing I've ever started and my thank you to you all is extremely heartfelt!!
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My brother's girlfriend left this mac when she left to go back to LA this summer and since then I have pretty much lived in it, who said pale people can't wear yellow!? I've decided to start embracing colour into my wardrobe, however flattering black is, no-one can deny its lack of diversity, so here I am embracing colour in our beautifully bleak English summer. I pretty much lived in my white reeboks all summer so I went absolutely wild, pushed the boat out and bought a green lo-top pair from eBay, which were £10 including postage, basically brand new. Madness.
If anyone wants these 'mom' jeans I am thinking of selling them as I'm not sure they suit me, so let me know either by email - ellie.misner@gmail.com, twitter - @elliemisner or I guess instagram? @elsmikaela
They're a 26 waist and either 30/32" leg so GET IN TOUCH
I didn't want to ramble but it seems I have..............
So um,
THANKS n BYE BABIEZ X O X O
So I decided to research a little into fashion, the models, people, and styles of one of my favourite era's. But in particular the people that fully embraced the New Romantic age, the 80's. In terms of style it rejected the austerity and anti-fashion stance of punk. Both sexes dressed in counter-sexual clothing and wore a lot of eyeliner and lipstick. 'Gender Blending' was the nickname given to it, which perfectly ties in with my previous blog post on drag queens, which you can read here.
Enjoy!
To start, I chose Grace Jones as she is the ultimate woman.
She was born in May 1948 and was an actress, singer and model, but her modelling is the bit I've focused on. She is the most striking person I think I've ever seen, and I absolutely adore her. First noticed from her appearance in the Bond movie; A View to a Kill, I have been in awe of her ever since. Although not a technically a true new romantic, her look supports that style, bold make up and grungy dress sense.
*queen*
My next inspo is David Bowie. Bowie, apart from coming out with some brilliant tracks was basically a shapeshifter. He went from normal looking kid to punk to new romantic to rocker. Obviously his new romantic phase was his most fabulous, when he came out with tracks such as Ashes to Ashes.
Bowie became a fashion inspiration for huge designers such as Jean-Paul Gaultier and Alexander McQueen, I've put a few pics in at the end of this post as he featured other people, but the designs are amazing.
Look at this swag pls.
Next, Boy George. The man of New Romanticism...He is an English singer-songwriter, who was part of the New-Ro movement, his music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, which is influenced by R&b and Reggae, but not the kind of R&b that Beyonce sings, more Al Green and Aretha Franklin sort of blues. He made the most beautiful man-woman.
So this is a little of Jean Paul Gaultier's SS 13 'ready to wear' collection based on the 80's, some of the inspirations are really obvious so I'll just let you decided who's who.
My favourite late designer in the world Alexander McQueen also made a Resort range in 2013, which looks like it's based on his previous work with Bowie, androgynous yet fab!
I am aware that I look like an American 'football' player on their day off, a very standard leggins and shirt sort of day. Not saying that footballers wear leggins, it's just the whole 'backwards hat vibe' going on.
I feel like I may never take this jacket off, it is the comfiest thing with the most strategically placed pockets for concealing ones hands, that are actually big enough to fit a phone, keys and purse in. So thats fab. It even fits perfectly over every single item of clothing I own, although not in the 'Joey in Chandlers' sense; from another jacket (double whammy) to one or two hoodies, not that I need them in this weather. Although if you've been to Herts Uni Library, it gets pretty chilly in there. Anyway I've gone completely off topic, I can never decide if I'm a 'leggin's' person or a tights person. but revision calls for elasticated waists (If you know what I mean) so these do me fine in my slouchy moments. Although I feel that 'fashion' is something one should always pride yourself on, it's just impossible to look good during exam season, stress affects skin, everyone is eating three times their body weight because its a fab way to procrastinate.. or procrastin-eat (ha) and we're all in that awkward in-between stage of when it's acceptable to whip your ever-so-pasty legs out for the general public.
Shoes-wise though, creepers are wonderful. Not necessarily a 'flattering' shoe.. but the platform does give me that cheeky extra inch and a half that brings me to the normal height of 5'5" (I'm lying, way closer to 5'4") But anyway, in a classic black suede they go with baaaaaaaasically everything, except brown but I don't own brown. These are the kind of shoe that I will keep in my cupboard and rediscover in 4 years and start wearing again. I am a major hoarder and I hate throwing anything away, but this is the kind of shoe that is so simple that they can't really be out of style so I don't feel any guilt in hoarding these.
It probably isn't legit, but I've decided that having light eyes makes them more sensitive, hence why I am permanently wearing sunglasses or else I look like I'm screwfacing the camera, not a good look. These are what I like to call my "throwaway pair" originally bought for lovebox festival last year, they are brought out every time I'm going somewhere where they will probably be snapped in half. And for £1.50 I don't feel too distressed by that option.
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Tie-Dye T - DIY Cropped (you can tell) but used to be GAP (cool)
Shorts - Champion Tennis Shorts... Mens
Bodychain - eBay
Sunglasses - Primark
Necklace - Israel
I've been noticing a lot of 'androgynous' outfits recently and I thought I would jump on the bandwagon and post about one of my own. Androgynous, literally meaning a male with female characteristics and vice versa, has always been present on the catwalk, but is recently becoming part of high street fashion. The Style goes both ways, with Burberry recently flaunting the more chiseledmasculine look of Nina Porter on the runway whilst using the extremely feminine Rosie Huntington-Whitely in their beauty campaigns.
Even Vivienne Westwood played with the idea, by putting red lipstick on all her male models at Milan Fashion week. H&M too, decided to launch a unisex 'Fashion Against AIDS' campaign, showing how the disease affects both sexes. Other brands include Wild Fang, one of the 'Top 10 Androgynous Clothing Lines' and Boohoo who made a video to promote theirs:
Anyway, this post was actually inspired by a Blogger called Mika Francis, who posted on a similar topic. (click on her name to see her post) and my friend Ruby, and her blog 'Rubyccino'
But aside from the feminism inspo, feminism, cross dressing and unisex styling is something designers and high street makes have always taken interest in. And now me.
I wouldn't say I am especially interested in Politics as a whole, but after reading so much about women's politics and rights around the time of the local elections I have become much more involved. In particular, the issue of/surrounding feminism. One article I read that was on a group of 16-18 girls really shocked me, it is quite disgusting that in the 21st Century people still don't think its acceptable for women to voice their opinions on matters such as rights and sexuality, worth a read- (feminism). The twitter trending hashtag #yesallwomen opened my eyes to very mundane things women worldwide do that belittles themselves and women around them to satisfy peers and male attention. Like covering up to avoid wold whistles, or telling someone that you have a boyfriend, because everyone knows a man will respect another male's "possesion" more than they respect the woman's disinterest in them.
So anyway, as I casually chilled in this the other day. I thought to myself; this outfit is so 'summer androgynous' and I think it's almost acceptable to wear out, although maybe more beachwear than dining. I know the shorts aren't unisex, they are just men's, but they are so comfy and the perfect balance of boys for girls. This body-chain will be my muse for the summer, it is so tacky n I love it, eBay sell them from china for like £1, you can actually make them yourself, but when they're that cheap it seems pointless to waste time trying to DIY it.
Although I am all for 'dressing for yourself', when wearing something baggy and 'androgynous' I think it will always work best with something dainty and cute, like this crop. I know the sewing looks messy but it actually isn't, I hemmed it and everything. You know when you wear something and it stretches and then looks 'off' well that's what happened, but after wearing this outfit all day I didn't it was worth washing purely for the post, soz.
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So Danie and I made our way up to Great Portland Street at 10am yesterday morning, which by the way wasn't early enough and we ended up queuing for an hour and a half. But finally we got in, and among the other jumble of 16-18 year old girls, we started to fling through what looked like my room, a floordrobe. Due to the lack of changing rooms, it was a complete madness, but we searched and eventually found a few items we wanted. I did mean to take pictures when I was there but it was too busy and small, and taking pictures of semi naked girls wasn't really what I set out to do. So alas, no pictures of the actual sale, but take my word for it, if you've been to a Kilo Sale before, that's what it looked like.
Anyway, another faux-pas I made was wearing this above outfit... When there aren't any fitting rooms, and only one mirror, wearing an oversized tee with tights was extremely inconvenient. If I had any sense, I would have worn jeans/leggins with a vest, easy changing, no nudity. Alas, no. But anyway, re-discovering this tee was the best moment of my winter, I am aware it's technically summer, but I was cold. And ye, it is lined with fleece, so basically it is perfect. Trainers, standard. Plaits, obviously and hoops, well I didn't want to let Vicky Pollard down. My dog, Archie, decided to get in loads of these pictures... so I decided to dress him up, but he slyly loved it anyway.
The Jacket-
SO
As well as the Motel Rocks Sample Sale, they had a 'Pop-Up' Vintage Shop going on too. This is where I found this jacket, and it was dirt cheap. They had some gorgeous playsuits in reds and purples, but I'm not really the playsuit type so just stuck with the jacket. Denim Jackets are one of those things that never seem to go out of fashion, whether they're tight and small or over-sized like this one. So I basically decided 'why not' and got it. As a girl notorious for 'borrowing' people's clothes, I can't mind when people borrow mine back, however after showing this "unisex" jacket to my Dad, he's decided he likes it and will borrow it... so he will continue to rock the double denim combinations that he is so fond of, good.
But hey! Good news, the sale does actually continue today so if you didn't get a chance to go today and decide that revision just isn't worth the hassle, pop down it's open till 7pm.
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