These Boots Were Made For…

Me. These boots were destined for me. Buff coloured nappa leather, over-the-knee lace-ups. Sexy, but stern. They mean business (in a Diana-the-Huntress kind of way, not the Elvira-the-Dominatrix way that the black version implied).

I spied them in a shop window last weekend, and the very sight of them made my heart palpitate. I promptly forgot about them – until yesterday. I panicked: the shop was having a close-out sale, and I feared they had sold out, or they wouldn’t have my size. Would fate fail me after all? But no, these beauties would be mine!

And amusingly, it was cheaper to buy two pairs of shoes (spend $150 get $40 off). The second pair? Harmless flat white summer slides, the complete antithesis of the boots.

A Room Like a Wedding Cake

Locked in the back room of a Greville Street vintage boutique ostensibly to try on a dress that lamentably proves too marred by rust stains to purchase, I snap furiously at all these gorgeous vintage textiles.

A Chinese silk robe singing with flowers and herons; a nineteenth century French chemise trimmed with hand-crocheted lace; a sari embroidered in metallic thread; a 50s seafoam green taffeta dress trimmed with sprigs of hyacinths; a 60s sheath encrusted with guipure lace thick like swirls of marzipan in robin’s egg blue; and finally a red wool hat swathed in tattered net.

It’s just like being inside a wedding cake.

The owner knocks and opens the door; I barely have a chance to hide my phone. She asks how I’m going. I smile sweetly and answer, just as though I have not secretly been stealing the souls of her dresses. I leave with my hands empty but my spirit full. 

A Breath of Norwegian Air

This is my cousin Naughty Amelia-Jane. Here she is cheekily modelling an adorable pom-pommed hoody scarf that she scored on eBay for $11. It is like a breath of fresh Norwegian air that is keeping her cosy this icy Melbourne winter.

I didn’t know what to exclaim over first. The Scandinavian pattern*? The gorgeous colours; the hoody? The POM-POMS! (I do like a pom-pom.)

Amelia-Jane states she is very satisfied with her purchase.

I would be too.

*Ooooo – don’t forget to look at the link. Lots of pictures to drool over!

Real Time

When did fobwatches come back into fashion? This time round it’s the girls wearing them, not fusty old men in nineteenth century suits. Still, this wind-up fobwatch (no battery – how quaint!) from Mimco looks like the real deal – and it actually keeps time.

About 5cm in diamater, it’s suspended on an adjustable necklace made from silver chain and a string of black and silver beads. Pretty and practical!

Worn to work by Cupcake in South Melbourne today.

Two-Trick Pony

A few weeks ago whilst browsing in a boutique with a friend, I stopped to assess the array of accessories on a table. “Ooo, look at this nice cuff,” I said to her, reaching out to pick up a pony-hair cuff that was worn wound around the wrist…

“Oh. It’s a belt.” It had been rolled up artistically for display.

“It looks good as a cuff!” she replied.

I remembered I already owned a pony-hair belt, and when I arrived home I pulled it out of a drawer and wrapped it round my wrist thus. This is no one-trick pony belt.

New pony-hair belt from Lion in Love: $80
Vintage pony-hair belt from my drawer: $0