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  • April28th

    For Maria & Tanya

    Posted in: Malaysia, Travel, What I Wore

    Saba silk blouse, scalloped skirt from JJ markets, Zara belt, Mulberry ‘Margaret’ bag, jewellery from India. Shot outside the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center.

    As I await the immiment departure for dinner at Foveaux tonight, I look outside at the depressingly frigid weather, so dark and slightly sinister, engulfing the pedestrians into an intangible haze.

    Then I get a facebook reminder on my phone. Maria tells me she misses my posts and it makes me feel quite guilty for slacking off. Then Tanya, my effervescent fact checker and fellow future departee from the bank (baby in the bun) looks at me from the counter facing right opposite me. She agrees. I’ve been ever so tardy on the blogosphere. I can only concur and start to rummage through the very limited media library I’m able to access from work to see if I can string something together in the next 26 minutes. Now it’s 25.

    We took the above shots towards the end of our trip early this year and I’m quite chuffed that you can’t tell how badly butchered my hair got from a hairdressing session in Pattaya. Needless to say, whatever type of perm they gave me did not yield the loose waves I have been used to in past treatments and envisioned dramatisations. I felt so fobby with frizzled, dry, almost burnt hair. Thankfully, with all the product and careful tossling in the world, you can’t tell and four months on, it’s almost recovered.

    That little nightmare memory aside, I’m excited. Tomorrow is my last day at work and I’ve been carefully putting together arrangements for my overseas trip which looks likely to include a detour to Vietnam for lots of wet marketing and sweets consumption. It’s the perfect working holiday, if you can really term it that. The prospects feel too fun to be work.

    Before I race off, I want to do a quick shoutout to the two friends I’ve mentioned previously. My two loyal readers who always remind me they like what I’m doing even if I neglect to give them reason sometimes. One from Peru and the other from the other side of the room.

    Maria and Tanya, the closest thing I have to a fan club. Love you.

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  • April23rd

    The Black Dress & Red Leaves

    Posted in: NSW, Travel, What I Wore

    An Ode to No One silk dress, Tristan Blair booties, earrings, bangle and beads from India. Shot in Katoomba and Bullaburra.

    Ten days without posting feels a little like a lifetime in blogging years. If I had more followers, I’d be expecting emails to confirm my dead/alive status.

    That being said, everything is going just dandy in the real world. I’m drawing to close on my final weeks at work, have booked an overseas trip to test some waters and hopefully kick start the business plan I’ve hatched in the past few months. I leave for BKK in less than four weeks! Very excited but just that little bit nervous. Yet as always, there’s something about being in Asia that excites me to no end. It has all the earthiness I love in life and is cost effectively rewarding to boot.

    Drawing my mind back to present adventures on home turf, we kicked off the extended long long (not a typo) weekend with a trip up (direction west, altitude north) to the Blue Mountains with relaxing and equally chilly pitt stops in Leura and Katoomba. The former is gentrified and old school whereas the latter is rugged with breathtaking views from the famous Echo Point. For me, the most memorable part of it was the vividness of the red leaves that line Leura Mall and some of the quaint residential strips not far from the Sisters. There’s something so romantic in framing streets, parks, and reserves with that outburst of colour, as if to invigorate both life and warmth into the small towns.

    With an obvious theme going on, we felt it only right to continue to colour worship by feasting lunch at The Red Door Cafe. Even today, I’m still feeling the decadence of their French toast, made with croissant “bread”, sour strawberries and little over a gallon of maple syrup.

    Coming back to black, I’ve been meaning to shoot this dress for a while and have even gone to the trouble of wearing it a couple of times in the past few weeks only to have rainfall rock up as the an accessory. This time, I was unwilling to let 12 degrees weather, chilled winds and imprinted reminders from the previous outfit stop me. The results are imperfect but like this dress, absolutely beautiful when looking back.

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  • April13th

    Dungeons and Dragons

    Posted in: India, Travel, What I Wore

    Witchery scalloped silk blouse, Wayne Cooper velvet skirt, silk scarf from India, pearl bracelet and earrings and sapphire bracelet from Hyderabad

    During our Indian trip last summer, we intended but never made it to the Taj Mahal. It would have been my second time and the Boy’s first. We did however, visit the Golkonda Fort during our brief Christmas visit to Hyderabad and it became the only touristy sight we visited made it out to see.

    As can be predicted when exploring historial ruins, I left behind the heels (surprisingly, I found ways to avoid doing so during the rest of the trip – blisters – 1, practicality – 0!) for havaianas which remain uncaptured in the photos because they always made me feel extremely midgety. I’m above average (caucasian) height, dammit!

    Anyways, that little note aside, we had a wonderful trek about the entire site and even made it to the sound and light show, braving both cooler tempartures and vicious mosquitos to learn of the fate of the Kakatiya and Mughal kings. I’m not much of a historian but I will pretty much site through anything narrated by Amitabh Bachchan.

    Though not much of an international tourist joint, it was worth it to make it out to the ‘City of Pearls’ and give the Boy an excuse to splurge on precious stones and consume copious amounts of biriyani, as only a true Hyderabi would. Mmm… on that note, it’s for my dinner date at Subsolo!

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  • April9th

    The Black Dress: Edition 1

    Posted in: Projects, What I Wore

    Wayne Cooper dress, David Lawrence belt, Guess by Marciano heels, ck sunnies, pearls from Chantal B

    I know I’ve gone a bit colour crazy recently but there’s no denying that I love my black dresses. All 50 of them to be exact. With such outrageous numbers, I was quite amazed scrolling through my post history that I have, up until now, only featured two on this site: here and here (excluding my shonky attempts to pass shirts/jumpers off as dresses here and here).

    So to give them a little bit more spotlight, I’m going to endeavour t0 feature some of these in future posts and showcase the wonderful things that make special little black dresses go va va voom. You know what I’m talking about. The dresses that when put on, make other dresses shy away into a little boring dress-wallflower corner.

    Already in my head, I can think of a dozen of my go-to black dresses that never disappoint. The reliable ones that you can put on a million times and time and time again will turn heads. The dresses that have an ego of their own.

    This Wayne Cooper number is one such dress that I’ve worn a handful of times (that counts as fairly frequently in my books). It’s got a beautiful velvet finish with animal textures woven through, slight shoulder pads for extra ferocity and a wonderful cut with modest length but killer fit. What’s there not to love?

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  • April8th

    The Painted Veil

    Posted in: New Zealand, Travel, What I Wore

    Camilla and Marc top, vintage leather skirt, Wittner patent pumps, vintage Bally handbag, ck sunglasses, earrings from Chantal B, beads from India. Shot in Auckland.

    Happiness comes in three forms; luxurious silk, delicate lace and a frickin’ awesome golden zip.

    Enough said.

    Happy Friday everyone!

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