Faux Playsuit

THERE'S PROBABLY NOTHING in this world I despise more than wearing a romper and then needing to use the loo.

Shimmying awkwardly out of one's clothes in a germ-infested bathroom stall isn't exactly how I envision things when I am purchasing said romper. 

To be really honest, I'm usually only imagining myself wearing said romper and suddenly being discovered by fashion heavyweight Karl Lagerfeld, who greatly admires my style panache when he comes across me lounging in a nondescript coffee shop ... (how exactly he will discover me on the island of Borneo is irrelevant - the point is, I am suddenly discovered and rapidly catapulted to fame).

Top - AUD $229 [HERE]

Pants - AUD $299 [HERE]

Which brings me to my point.

These are two separate pieces by Tluxe in the same print. Pair them up and you get to trick the unassuming eye into thinking you have on a romper!

No more awkward shimmies in the toilet stall.

Win.


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Gettin' Shifty

£35.00 [HERE]

ASOS IS A terrible place to default to on the Internet when you're bored but trying not to shop (as anybody with a pulse will tell you, the minute you say no to doing something, it suddenly becomes imperative that you get to do it ... immediately).

So here I am, barely fifteen days into the new lunar year and already I've found something to covet.

This dress is all slinky jersey with a whiff of muscle-tee cool, and then BAM! suddenly there's that ridiculously compelling metallic hem.

Couple of super important questions though: What is that hem doing there? And why do I like it so much?

Add another thing onto the list of stuff I like that will send rivulets of fear streaking through my mother's heart.




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They're Better Off Dead

MY LOVE FOR graphic tees just won't go away.

I mean ... what's not to love about a juiced-up plain tee?

Better Off Dead CC BDSM Shirt, USD 45 [HERE]

Better Off Dead St Yves BDSM shirt, USD 45 [HERE]

These aren't real but that doesn't make them any less desirable to me.

[edit] Just so we're clear - when I say they aren't real, I mean they weren't produced by either Chanel or YSL. In case there was any confusion over that.

Superhero Fantasies

ph. oaknyc

USD $222.50 [here]

IF I WERE a superhero, this is exactly what I'd like to be immortalized in.

I haven't decided what I'd like my superhero powers to be yet, but flying probably shouldn't be on the list if this is what I'm going to be wearing.

... Unless I find a bad-ass pair of leather leggings to go under this because it really seems like leather is one of those things you REALLY need to wear to be considered a legit superhero, and I don't want to be left out.

90's Flashback

WHO WOULD BE the first person you'd think of if I should chance to scream, "DUNGAREES!" in your face?

People with a genetic predisposition for coolness would most likely think any of the following things:

• Kate Moss, in that issue of Harper's Bazaar.
• Carrie Bradshaw, in that episode of Sex and the City where she talks about sex.
• Alexa Chung, just being Alexa Chung.
• Rachel Bilson, because I'm pretty sure she's done overalls sometime in her awesome petite life. 

I, however, thought none of these things, which cements me in a place that is not on the barometer of cool. 

In fact, I'm probably not even anywhere too near it, because the first thing that popped into my head was Larisa Oleynik in her role as that mutant teenager Alex in The Secret World of Alex Mack. 

As I recall it, she was kind of always in overalls.

Is it just me, or does it look like she's wearing the same pair of overalls in about three of these photos?

Granted, nobody has taken the time to upload too many images from this long-dead series (one can only imagine why), so I really only have these three stills and two promotional photos to tack together in the world's ugliest collage - all in the name of proving my pretty unreliable point, which is that Alex Mack practically lived in dungarees ... and beanies, but that's a whole 'nuther discussion. 

Anyway.

The real point of this post was that I happened to stumble across these on ASOS, and I fell in love.

£45.00 [here]

Doesn't the model look unbelievably cute in these? She looks like she could either be headed for a hoe-down in the barn, or to a fancy cafe on Rodeo Drive to pretend to be a friend of Nicole Richie's. Or maybe she's going to do both, who really knows for sure?

Things get wild and unpredictable when you're wearing dungarees. Now if only I hadn't chosen to draw links between them and Alex Mack, this post could have gotten away with a larger quotient of coolness.

What do you think? Would you ever be caught dead in dungarees? Tell me in the comments below.