Alice McCall House of Dolls dress - Vogue forum ($60? $80 I've forgotten, and too lazy to look it up because it's pretend Sunday)
Fluro pink eighties swimsuit - 50cents op-shop
Tan plaited seventies belt - $1 op-shop
Tan leather gladiators - $40 Sportsgirl sale
We're still caught in a time warp over here - this outfit and most of this post is from last Sunday (and it might be a tiny bit...perfunctory in the way that Sunday posts often are). Next post I promise all new of-the-moment-right-here-and-now type material!
I've come to realise that without the winter tights and layers I'm used to wearing with this dress, it is rather:
a. transparent,
and
b. short.
The fluro swimmers underneath were my way of grappling with the see-through situation, but I didn't know just how short it really was until I was walking along the main street and some dude in a passing ute yelled out "I can see your undies!" with a big gleeful cackle and a thumbs up.
Admittedly no one openly checked out my short skirt at the organic market, a car boot sale down the road, or the beach (duh), but supermarket shopping at a local suburban mall felt a bit like running the gauntlet of leering elderly gents, and had me walking around holding my hem down with both hands. One old codger gave me so many trying-to-be-covert-but-failing-dismally leering looks that his equally ancient wife was forced to elbow him in the ribs to get him to stop. Heaven only knows how these old guys get through the day without blowing a gasket though, since the combination of hot climate and proximity to the beach here means that there are a lot of women walking around in not a lot of clothing...
Ah well, a lesson learnt! A lesson I have apparently not learnt yet is that if you leave three pairs of sandals in the cupboard unsupervised they'll mate and you'll end up with ten pairs within three short months. At the beginning of spring I had three pairs, and I realised today that I now have ten - at this rate there'll soon be no room for anything else in this house but sandals, and soon after that they'll have taken over the entire planet.
(check out the worn in foot marks on those black suede ones, it looks like ET has been borrowing my shoes again)
Those tan Sportsgirl gladiators are the latest addition to the tribe, and I'm going to try and keep it that way for a while at least. Although it has to be said that as we have at least four more months of hardcore sandal-wearing weather ahead of us I'm pretty sure they'll all get worn until they are just pitiful little shreds of leather held together with a few buckles and studs.
I think I have finally reined in my tan bag addiction though, I put two back on the rack at an op-shop last weekend, and finally bought a black leather bag ($3) this week. I haven't had a black bag for years and years, and even then it just for work, but I do quite often wish I had one - so hopefully this frilly fellow will fit the bill. It's squishy and slouchy enough for me to cram all my little-dude related cargo into it, so that's a promising start.
I've had a few requests for shack pictures, so I'm slowly sneaking them in here and there. The other day you saw our glamorous new sofa bed covered in my mother's old Mexican bedspread - today I'm giving you a little peek at the Mexican oil cloth my mother sent us from the UK as a shackwarming present.
It's actually a really vibrant aqua/turquoise colour, the camera washed it out a bit unfortunately. You can get a better idea of the real shade here (pretty sure this is where mum ordered it from). The oil cloth will look absolutely gorgeous covering up the fugly old plastic table on our verandah, definitely a step up from the cheap and cheerful pvc tablecloth there at the moment which is looking a bit worse for wear since the little dude (channeling his inner puppy) bit a great big hole in it.
The magnificent Hammie bestowed her self-made blog award upon me long, long ago and I've finally found a moment to tell you about it. When she first invented the award I was secretly hoping I'd get one, and I was inordinately thrilled when I actually did. Hammie is another deadset legend and a blogosphere national living treasure (perhaps the Blogosphere National Living Treasure award will be my self-made blog award, if I ever get round to self-making one) and an award from her is one worth getting indeed.
The rules for this as created by the inaugural winner The Seeker:
1. The nominated person can put the picture on their blog.
2. Share the love and link back to both the person who awarded you and back to the person who founded the award, that would be me.
3. Give it to two bloggers and link to them. Tell us in detail why they are beautiful.
4. Leave a message on those people's blogs to make them aware that they're nominated.
5. You are free to pass it on again, when you are "inspired" by a beautiful post or a beautiful blog.
I shall be nominating two beautiful bloggers in the next week, because this is one tag which really should be passed on far and wide.
xx
Skye
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20 comments:
that's a good looking tribe. I haven't got any. I should at least get a pair..soon. Maybe this weekend.
The brick wall is now a distant memory. I'm already getting used to the wooden board wall.
Your thrift fairy must be still with you then. The leather bag looks great. Gosh.. I should tag along to those places you go.
All I can think about is hanging out with you, both in short dresses and drinking cocktails on the veranda with the oil cloth - perfect!
I love that dress with the swimsuit underneath. Old leerers be damned! And, where could you wear it that it would be more appropriate than in a beach town? Great photos, S. You know how I love the accessory porn :-)
I definitely don't think your dress is too short for you, especially in a hot climate.
Hi there-what a great post, poor you with these leery old men, LOL!! I love the fluoro pink cossy underneath, I had all these in the 80s as well! the white dress is just simply gorgeous! have a great weekend my dear!
I love that outfit. I fear that going to the bathroom would be far too much work though!
xx
That is certainly a vast collection of sandals!
With legs like that, I think you're sort of obligated to wear brilliantly short dresses like that! You look beautiful, Skye, and let the old sticks get elbowed, tough darts for them!
LOL @ your heckler...
I LOVE that bag! I went through a phase last winter where all I ever carried was a black hobo bag.
The dress looks wonderful, and only YOU would be able to wear a fluoro pink swimsuit underneath and still look brilliant!
Hahha, I SO thought that I was the only one who had the tan bag syndrome.
I have 23904823 black shoes, and hardly any black bags.
Yet I have 23049320 tan bags, and only a few pairs of tan shoes.
I just can't seem to stop buying tan bags. They're so pretty!
I bow down to you. Its not easy saying no to a tan bag. Not many people can do it.
The black one is great! Its hard to find a good one.
That dress is so gorgeous and the hint of pink underneath is really cute. It doesn't look too short in the photos.
I would think it would be important to have lots of sandal options when living on the beach in the summertime, so I'd say you're in perfect shape! Love the oilcloth and that nice leather ruffle around the edge of your bag :)
Your award is well deserved, because your blog has got even more beautiful. Looking forward to seeing an accessory tree soon.
That dress is gorgeous, but I confess I might wear bikeshorts or big white boxers as knickers underneath.
And I am very jealous of your sandies. Better sandies than thongs hey.
Hope little dude doesnt chew anything else.
xx
Ah - I think that you may have put your finger on the sudden proliferation of ankle boots in my cupboard lately.
The proper boots and the ballet flats have obviously been up to no good behind closed doors.
I think what the obnoxious male creature meant was that your dress was sheer and thus he could see your underwear and not perhaps that it was too short?
I for one do not believe it is too short, certainly not from the photo's anyway.
Hammie should get an award for being Hammie! I think the belt makes that outfit cool; No one but you would have thought of it.
It doesn't look that short were you bending over scratching around for loose change in your purse?
What heaven (and thoughtful) present for mother to send. Missing you at le moment...now I have a spare second. With the fridge sorted I'll try and give you a tingle tomorrow.
Dude, the swimmers underneath are genius. And it's not too short at all, you'd look possibly medieval compared to the chicks at the local Supre store. It's a 'flirty' length.
it's not too short with flats!!! It's cute!
I love your little white flowy dress!! I want one just like that!
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