Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Birthday shenanigans

OK, I try to avoid blatant vanity shots, but this outfit was just too good. The idea was to mix up contemporary goth with dolly kei. Today's my birthday (26, if you're keeping track), so why not mix two of my favorite things? We got a little silly. Well, you'll see that in a sec.



The dress is from Target. It's my favorite kind of LBD, because it's just so customizable! I don't remember where I got the tights. I've had them forever. I wore the dress over a thrifted black henley T, because it was FREEZING on this day! The gloves are thrifted, the armwarmers are so old I don't remember where I got them, the hat is from Hot Topic (Yeah, I know, shush), and we'll get to the necklaces in a little bit. And surely you recognize the Betsey Johnson belt.


Continuing with a mighty she-woman roar!


Closer up to show off the gloves.


And the necklaces! I love these. I made the tassel-bottle necklace. I thrifted this random bottle of flower seeds, and I bought one UGLY table runner to get the tassel. Good thing it was only two dollars. There's a little blue cross, a bit obscured by the tassel, that came from a necklace I got in, like, 7th grade.

The key is something I fell in love with at Cactus Flower in Bloomington.


I wore the hat backwards. The veil in front just seemed like a little much, and I LOVE the asymmetrical, swooping line created by the feathers.


Yeah, yeah, gothy-wothy, soul of doomy darkness, blah blah blah.


Finis!

3 comments:

  1. Looks like a grand time was had... In style!
    I dig those boots.

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  2. Oh wow, love the necklaces!

    xx.
    Judy

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  3. Thanks! C. Stern, thanks for the visit from Twitterland, my friend. You wouldn't believe how truly comfy these platform boots are.

    Judy: THANK you for the compliment on the necklaces! It was so fun putting together the tassel one. I'll just have to make some more. I'm working ever-so-slowly on getting an online shop started. ETA is May, since I've got so much going on with school until then. I'll keep you posted, and I'll try to create something similar you'd like.

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