Filed under: clothes clothes clothes, online stores, style | Tags: boots, fabrics, threads
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the girlz in the hood are always hard.*
*…or like to look it, at least.
{all the pics in this post click through to the really awesome store/blog/etc. that I borrowed them from}
Whilst many stylish men for a minute have gotten it into their heads to dress up as precocious little English boys on holiday with Mummy in Provence:
The ladies are kicking out into a different direction.
They wear their leather just so, as if to say my heart is ice, my guts are steel. Just try and touch me through all these studs, just try and look me in the eyes with my 5-inch heels on, my parents don’t love me and i had whiskey and fruit loops for breakfast.
That’s why my jeans are ripped. That’s why I’m wearing all these chains.
There’s a certain essential vulnerability to it.
But her eyes say she knows how to destroy you.
stylestalker‘s version is the “Runaway” look. It seems to say, I’m 15, but I say I’m 24. Don’t ask questions, just go with it. Perhaps this has the added jailbait appeal/risk. I bet your mother don’t know you can spit like that.
But the look might go a little more mature, less sweet &innocent. It’s about looking dangerous and hard, but like you maybe sometimes want someone to save you just a little.
KEY
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chains, studs, spikes
this looks very edgy.
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leather & denim
hangs around biker bars, but doesn’t go inside.
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buckles & zippers
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Big Bad BOOTS
via models.com
knowin nothin in life but to be legit.
Filed under: clothes clothes clothes, Favorites of Fashion, style, travels, vintage | Tags: boots, corset, dresses, en route, fabrics, jewels, threads, vienna, wien, wien museum
you may all wonder where I’ve been these past few weeks; the full answer is diverse, complex and boring.
what you need to know: i was in austria, jogging up mountainsides, rowing a little boat across crystal lakes, and illegally photographing exhibits of turn-of-the-century viennese society-wear. (Wien Museum am Karlsplatz – “Grosser Auftritt: Mode der Ringstrassenzeit” 10.6 bis 1.11.2009)
you enjoy the fruits.
the shoes above belong only in one century: the one i’m in.
here is more:
while we’re on the shoe theme, these riding boots i WANT with a painful intensity:
& I promise I’ve never gotten wide- and watery-eyed at the sight of a wedding dress before, but there’s a first time for everything:
&why is it that you have to set ur timemachine back over a hundred years to find a really money bike-riding outfit?
but don’t be fooled, women back then were not about maximum comfort.
SHIT
(not pictured is a scale model of a liver SEVERED by lifelong tootight corset wear)
and JEWELSJEWELS
this is a partyfavor. yea i want an invite to that ball
and more sparkles
unrelated to the fashion exhibit, this fascinating lamp lowered outside as part of a separate installation, demanding to be photographed:
and even vienna’s modernday boutiques have a pretty bauble or two to catch the eye:
but no colors manmade can compete with austrian flowers
not to be outdone by any common field variety, the blueribbon beauties of my omi’s garden get the last word:
