Daily Outfit -- 12th May 2007 (& Some Homeware)
[ 13 May 2007 ]
Teased hair, for the first time in ages!
American Apparel California Fleece Pullover Raglan Hoody Dress — longest name ever!
Black leggings
New Rock boots
I thought I would write a review of the American Apparel dress, for anyone who is interested. I’ll be reviewing the rest of the stuff I ordered from them throughout the week, so stay tuned!
The colour is ‘slate’, which in the photo looks grey, but in real life it’s not a particularly nice grey. It’s more like a faded blue than anything, kind of an in-between colour. This miffs me. if I could go back & do it again, I would have picked another colour (like cranberry or purple). Also, this dress is a medium, which is the only size it comes in. Bigger girls, beware — I usually wear an XS or XXS & this is a tight fight on me, especially when I’m trying to get my arms into it. It’s also not very long — I’m 169cm (5’5”) tall & it hits just underneath my booty. Cor blimey!
Okay, complaints aside! It is REALLY toasty warm & the fabric is lovely. It is very comfortable & I enjoy wearing it a lot. It looked mad cute with my super-teased hair & big sunglasses, I actually got stared at quite a lot when I had the impression I was going slightly incognito.
One comment I received was that it is “not very flattering” — they followed it up by saying that it showed off my legs but not my figure, per say. I suppose that’s true, but it’s not really meant to be a tight slinky little number. Also, this is about the most ‘athletic’ look I have ever sported in my entire life.
Yesterday’s purchases!
Cupcake cups from Adairs.
How adorable are these? Wahhhh I love them! $6.95 from Adairs. They make me very happy.
Morgan & Finch bedspread
This is a bedspread I have been lusting after for… umm… months now. We finally bought it. I adore the colours, it marks the beginning of my psychedelic grandma motif! $139.95 from Bed Bath & Table.
A candle.
It was only $2.95 (from Bay Swiss) & I like the illustration. We also bought some little Japanese lanterns strung onto fairy lights, but they have yet to go up. Whee!
Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala
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american apparel…i get to do some stock ordering for the shop i work at…and it seems the slate i receive in the tees is much darker that what’s pictured above.
my recent favorite from aa is the sheer rib sleeveless v-neck. it looks pretty skanky on the website, what with the oversexxed models without bras or pants…but it works quite well as a light ‘sweater-vest’ over button-downs and polos. perfect for the summer in nyc, though it is cooling down in australia.
i’m interested to see what else you’ve ordered from the website! there’s some good stuff there.
Katie — Yeah, it’s such a weird colour, not what I was expecting at all. I almost feel like it needs some screenprinting on the front, just to break up the colour a bit.
Your hair is beautiful!
Ahhh…I didn’t know they sold clothes in xxs!
Oh, thank you! I’ve missed having big nutty hair. & re: XXS — they don’t always! It’s a bit of a misnomer, what is one label’s XXS is another’s S.
oh my, those mugs!! they are so wonderful as well as that bedspread. good finds my dear!
I think the hoodie dress looks very cute on you, especially with the leggings and boots. Re: American Apparel, their stuff runs insanely small. No one believed me that I’d need an XL when we ordered team hoodies from them recently, but when I zipped mine up, it was a bit on the tight side (better with short sleeves underneath than with long). Always order up one size at least!
Lori — Yeah, the sizing is totally bunk. I bought pants in a medium (knowing they’d shrink in the wash) & thank god they have a drawstring, or they’d fall off. I don’t understand how one company can have so many different definitions of “medium”!
Definitely one of your more minimalist daily outfits – I love it! That dress looks great – but it would better and certainly more worthy of the name ‘dress’ if it was just a leetle bit longer.
Those cups are amazing! Cupcakes are possibly the happiest things ever.
Your hair looks great like that, by the way.
I like it, it’s kinda a “I rolled out of bed looking fabulous” look. The hoody dress looks really comfy to roam around the house in during winter!
Merci beaucoup! It’s like “cool casual” or something, which I have never embraced before but I like it. I also discovered last night that substituting the New Rock boots for long black legwarmers & jandals/flip-flops/thongs looks adorable! Kind of like a monster, especially with the big hair.
I’ve got some New Rock boots which I also bought in my goth phase, and I would love to wear them in a less goth way…unfortunately they’re the ones with big red flames on them! So I think they will always just look goth….any suggestions?
Nadia — Black leather dye! There will still be the outline of a flame, but it’ll be black, so I’m sure it will be barely noticeable. I think you can probably buy leather dye from shoe repair places, etc. If not, maybe you could unpick the stitching & remove the flames completely? (That would be my second suggestion since I have no idea what it would look like underneath or how successful it would be.)
you look lovely – you suit the slightly casual look! your hair looks especially good teased.
xo
The hoodie looks ace – I can feel the cosy-comfiness from here!
I find American Apparal can be a bit hit-n-miss though – they have a physical store here and a few of their tops felt really flimsy, like they’d fall apart after a workout or a machine wash. My outfits like it rough!
i LOVE the top’s colour. it’s such a comfortable look; stuff doesn’t have to be tight to be cute. btw, has anyone ever told you that you resemble ava gardner? & i agree w/ everyone else…the hair style’s nice. it’s fluffy & casual & doesn’t look artificial.
cupcake mugs=delish.
[a} — No! No one has ever said that before. I think maybe I only look like her in these pictures, I’m all kind of squinty & serious, haha. I was having a good day but I look angry!
I’ve heard AA’s sizes run really small—that’s why Threadless started making their own tees rather than screenprinting on AAs. The hoodie dress looks seriously cute, as does your hair.
ha ha i see you got your coveted covering !!
....and awsomeness to you on the adorn feature!
lovelove
xxcrayzemonsta
ps i woke up with robert smith hair today….. and kept it! ha
i think you’re after “per se”.
Gah. I mniss Morgan and Fitch – not available in the UK :( They really need to come over here!! Or at least have a website!