cultivate my own sense of style

This goal and everything about it are stressing me out to no end. It doesn’t help that I’m feeling fat and frumpy, and my clothes don’t fit properly, and I have zero budget to shop – not that I would know what to buy if I did. I don’t know how to determine what I like, and how things go together—or even if they do.

Living in NYC and commuting to my office on Fashion Avenue every day does NOT help.

• I have a pair of dark red, round-toe, wedge heel shoes that always make me smile
• My favorite bag is an unstructured pouch with outer button pockets and a pair of handles that cinch the bag closed—it totally makes me smile, and feels like the right size for me a) to carry as a 6’ tall girl and b) as a new yorker who needs to lug stuff around.

If I could figure out how to dress my shape so I didn’t feel like mister potato-head, that might help with the whole clothing thing.

I’m a grown-up, I should be able to figure this out, right?

out in Glebe and Newtown. Two or three weeks ago I went shopping at the Salvos shop on the corner of Glebe pt rd and I bought a great dress and floral skirt which I today cut up. It was really long, but the pattern was great and it was kind of pleated, but really small pleats all the way round. So I cut it off to just above the knee and wore it with boots tights and a top today. Was good.

I’ve been putting off going through my old clothes for forever. But I did it. I went through every single piece of clothing I own and put them into 3 stacks. I kept a few of my absolute favorite things even though they don’t fit right now, as motivation to lose weight and I ended up donating 3 45-gallon bags full of old clothes. My closet is practically empty and I’m pretty proud of myself.

I’ve allowed highschool to beat me down in many ways. I’ve let dumb people make me feel like they can say whatever the want to me. It’s scared me out of wearing the clothes I like. For the past 4 years I’ve been in a self-imposed uniform of loose-fitting jeans, t-shirts, sweatshirt, and Vans. Don’t get me wrong, I love all of these things. But it’d be nice to not feel fat in clothes that fit. And I can’t ignore the fact that they aren’t all of me. I like more. I am more.

hey, at least I am figuring out what suits me. I’m sticking mainly to basics. I think I wear too many t-shirts. Will try not to buy any more, and go through the ones I have.
My recent purchases, a top, scarf, belt, dress, necklace have all been awesome, with special details or patterns or something that makes them interesting.
At least I am helping to recycle!

my individuality has vanished since ive come home – I keep buying new clothes from shops, not markets or 2nd hand places. But at least I am concious of what suits me, meaning that I do sort of keep to a “style”. I think i looked hot last saturday night going out in the city anyway! :) And I’m not just buying for brands or specific trends – I evaluate each piece I encounter, and it seems that I can usually pick out a few things that suit and look good instead of the disappointing shopping trips i used to have

What makes me sad is that the style I cultivated in Greenland and Denmark does not work at all in Australia.
I liked especially to layer, but right now it is amazingly hot so I can´t.
I´ve bought a lot of dresses, but I feel very mainstream again – I still refuse to buy things that advertise brands – but even so. It must be because I haven´t been into an op shop in more than a month now (I´ve been buying things at normal shops, and have as a consequence seen people in clothes I´ve liked). I like the unusual and the unexpected.

I’ve been looking at 50s fashion – seems that there was a trend for a figure, an hourglass one, like mine kind of is, not all this stick-ness…

and i love the dresses! and all the accessories, the gloves, the coiffures … the shoes, but the heels were too chunky.

am very jealous of my grandmother and will be raiding her cupboards when i get back to sydney just to check if she still has anything from back then… who knows? Plus the op shops/vintage shops… should be fun. Also would love to make my own in the future.

Once my hair has grown a bit I’ll try some of the old hairstyles, but after the research will also try to be kempt at all times – in any case when I’m out.

A great site is http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fifties.htm

I have a pattern for this dress. I think it’s great and I want to make it.

Could be hard, as I’m not the world’s best sewer – I have actually had projects from cushion covers to a skirt before and finished them without too many problems.

But the pattern would require some tweaking as my waist is smaller than they have, but bust and hips are a little larger. And I don’t have anyone here who can sew. Plus there’s the material issue.

But I’ll have a look around – there is a material shop in Nuuk, so this could happen!

Homecomming was last week and I didn’t have a date. So I pulled out a emerald green suit and whore it with a purple shirt under it. I looked like the riddeler from batman. My friend went too and he wore this bananna yellow suit. The funny this is, Im 6’5’’ so I am kinda hard to miss. So the next day of school everyone was like ‘hey are you the green suit kid’ And these random people would talk to me cuz they thought it was so funny. But truthfully I looked good in that suit and I think I will make it something to wear more often.