Don't forget who you are.

This is Laura, she's a girl after my own heart and someone i consider a style icon as she has completely her own distinctive thing going on. One of the reasons I love her look is that it's completely different from mine, if we are out together she ends up looking like a Bondage witch, and me a floral vintage dream. We are an odd pair but all the more inspiring because of our creative differences. And that's why style over fashion interests me more. It's real people doing there day to day things and rocking something that is personal and approachable. So lets embrace each others differences and juxtapose each other. It makes the streets more visually interesting.

Product of surroundings.

Check me out, yesterday on the beach, no make up, hair down, wearing my homemade clothes. A weekend spent working at a cute little festival has brought out my inner chilled clearly. About time too since I spent the whole time totally stressing about EVERYTHING. Anyway it's interesting how any new surrounding affects your creative flow, much more than we realise and a tinge of inspiration can find us months later from a hint of a memory we have. This however is just me have a rare day off and actually not caring as much. Makes a change! Don't forget just because its an off day doesn't mean that you still can't look just as interesting. Just a more relaxed version! 

Comfort blanket.

WOW grumpy today, nerves always put me in a bad mood, some kind of coping strategy. Anyway at least I can waft around looking like an Edwardian ghost in her nightie who has travelled to Asia and now owns a kimono?! That's a look right?! There is always comfort in wallowing clothes that make you smile, giggle or remind you of happier times and that is another reason I adore them.

Dress dangerously, life's too short to look a bore.

Monday morning, off to work like the rest of the world, wearing a tried and tested home made two piece with vintage kimono and forties style hair. YAWN. Lol I'm running a pop up shop at Bimble Bamdada this coming weekend, and I've realised that I have no idea of what to wear?! The thing is when you get to a festival everyone ups there game, they turn to novelty, fancy dress, drink induced combinations that fulfil crazy stylistic dreams! I spend everyday dressing like this, minus the booze of course. Why do people have to be far away from there friends, family, jobs and real life to feel free to express themselves visually? Understandably there is some social etiquette that plays into it but if the people around you are going to laugh or look down on your choices, then maybe they are not the best people to have in your life! Expressing yourself in this way is a way of enjoying something you have to endure everyday,of adding humour to a potential chore, making an artistic decision every day of your life?! How exciting does that sound? You can even re invent yourself everyday if you please. dress dangerously, life is too short to look a bore!  

Practical dress?!

I've realised I'm starting to dress to be practical! Shock horror, what a realisation haha! I'm joking, ofcourse practicality lays a part in everyone's daily routine of self expression-the art of getting dressed.  However with the current stunning summer weather we are enjoying, I have realised how all my clothes are pretty much based around keeping warm, that and being so in love with an item that I want to marry it! I have never been a fan of faff, even though I love the details of a piece, I'm not one for jewellery that gets in the way and sleeves that dangle in your dinner. So is this practical dressing for the Heat dumming down my look? Or is it just pushing me into something new and fresh due the constraints? What do you reckon? 

The new summer essential.

I give you........ The floral bra lol! Styled in a multitude of different ways! We have the fifties pin up vibe, complete with bloomers, 1960's bed jacket and forties hat. Then the more everyday 90's summer vibe with vintage cut offs, felt hat and two different kimono's made by my own fair hand! Coming to snoopers attic soon! 

Photography-Charley Mountney

We are family.

Have you seen this kimono??! People keep asking me if I'd made it, I wish I had its fifties I think, I've had it a few weeks and I'm so in love with it. I think tonight I'm going to make some tie die kimono's as a nod to current street trends. Since I'm visiting home I'm using the opportunity to focus on my sis's look, she has been doing the 90's grunge thing since she was about three, in my eyes she is the true originator of this look, fuck hipster shoreditch! She does it in such a gentle, casual way. There is no sense of trying or being affected and that in my eyes is truly what makes a person have natural style and be actually cool. 

Up with different!

Here I am with my gorgeous sis both rocking very different looks. Thats what is  so great about other people's style- it's never going to be the same as yours and that is just so inspiring! It's so great to look at other people, know its not your thing but still bloody love it, or see something that you want to emulate but because its you wearing it it will be your own spin on that look. So keep doing what your doing diversity is what makes the world exciting, up with the different down with the mundane! And be proud of whatever look your rocking as there is no one else in the world looking quite like you today. 

Fantasy dressing......?

The heat is stunning right? But there are so many times that I can wear my limited amount of summer dresses and not be bored, I mean Its even been to hot to accessorise!!! I an currently on the train back to visit my parents for a well deserved break. However as I want to go buying for materials I have had to travel light, which I despise. It made me realise how much I like my wardrobe to be dressing up box of fantasies. That's how I get dressed in the mornings. This morning I was a slightly 50's American school girl! What were you?

Scissors and Boredom.

 

 

I'm back after nearly a week, this amazing heat wave has been playing havoc with my creative flow, what does one wear in this weather? Any interesting layering, irritating. Anything with sleeves, too much. Even accessories just anger me at the moment and I'm left looking like a complete bore! Today I took the scissors to a ugly old dress, cut it from knee length to mid length cut the arms off, added slits to make a cool arm effect and cut the high neck into a lower one. I still feel like I look like a bore, but on the upside know one in the world has the exact dress. So get customising people and lets fight the boring clone like trends with scissors and a needle and thread! Even if we feel dull.

 

Yesterday Alanna tricked me into having a day off, we needed to go up to her mums to pick some furniture for our pop up shop which will be at Bimble Bandada. Anyway when I got there she got me out loads of cushions made me a cup of tea and told me to go put my bikini on so we could go for a swim in her mums pool. Hilariously we still wore our sunglasses in the pool.