97; Outer Space, it's a Lovely Place

Top: Topshop ☯ Pants: American Apparel ☯ Creepers: Demonia via eBay ☯ Earrings c/o Vanessa Mooney ☯ Choker: Spencer's Gifts ☯ Crescent: Waloosi's Emporium ☯ Bracelet: Wasteland

First Fashion Week outfit. Figured it looked appropriately preppy and accidentally kinda goth-y since the requirement was "wear all black." It was incredibly difficult to find all of my black pieces and make a coherent outfit, because I never wear all one color in an outfit.

Damn, I feel like I keep doing something wrong lately. I typically don't focus on things like how many followers I have or how many hypes my outfits get, because whatever, it doesn't mean a whole lot. That's not the point of fashion blogging. It never bugged me...until I noticed that once I stopped being a major slacker and started posting to this thing again, and noticed that my response is significantly lacking compared to what it used to be. Do my outfits suck? Do I not say interesting things? Are people just opening accounts and dropping them the moment they log off? (There are a lot of dead accounts on Lookbook...) It's just a little disheartening to see some amount of "success" fizzle out so quickly. I know they're just numbers, but they tell me how well I'm received. Lately it seems to be not great, and it makes me sad. Everyone else seems to be climbing the ladder, and I appear to be descending it. Eh, I've just been feeling kind of insecure about quite a few things lately, I guess.

But I'm just going to do what I've been doing: appreciating what I get, and keep posting...because that's why I'm here. And I do have to note that what little response I do get seems to be overwhelming support. That keeps me going.

I can't make a truly sensible post tonight. I have tiramisu waiting in the fridge and my fianceé waiting in bed for one-on-one time. Later, gators. ♥

Song title ref:

49; Green Leaves of Summer

Top: Fiancée's • Bell bottoms: Delia's • Belt: Etsy • Litas: Jeffrey Campbell • Shades: Newbury Comics • Jewelery: Om necklace (Asian import store in California), Peace earrings (Claire's -- don't judge), garnet fringe ring (India import store in New Hampshire. Yeah, I have a thing for those kinds of stores.)

I kind of disappeared, huh? I've been working a ton -- I realise this is usually my excuse reason, but when you're working at Dunkin' Donuts four or five days a week, you become kind of too exhausted to do anything, especially if you have to walk there and walk home. (I realise most people work six or seven days a week, but that's just not my thing. I need to have days during the week where I can do less shameful things than what I have to do at work.)

So, not a very exciting outfit. I just really like these pants; unfortunately I'm very much too short for them and my Litas make me...slightly too short for them. I'll probably hem them, even if it's going to kind of negate the 'bell bottom' part. At least they'll look like flare cut jeans in the end?


At the same store, Kathryn bought the most adorable flower printed skirt, and since she refuses to use her Lookbook, Chictopia, or Facebook to post photos of herself, so I'm going to do it here for her!

You might recognise the top as being mine! This is the first time I've ever seen her wear a skirt (dresses not included; I've only seen her in a dress about five times?) and she claims this is the first skirt she's bought in about six years. She blames me for it, too, which I just accept as a 'thank you'. Doesn't she look lovely though? (I bullied her into wearing some very cute gold sandals with this, but she ended up ditching them, but that's all right. ♥) I may post photos of her here periodically in the future, in hopes that she may utilise her Lookbook or something!


And one last note, my best friend in the whole wide world (no, really -- like, except for Kathryn) Memai (sometimes known as Amanda, or Daisy) who has been a fashionista since before I met her an astounding five years ago, has finally started her own fashion blog! I really hope you'll check it out. She's only made one post so far, but maybe add her to your Bookmarks and check her out once in a while? She's honestly a really fierce lady: SELTSAM. (She has a few more looks on her Lookbook and Chictopia, as well!)


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