heard you want to beat me up

Seriously, this week will be beautiful regardless of the rain.The fact that I can officially whip out my collection of stupid summer floral print dresses is so exciting!

Dressed stupidly to run mothers day errands, bought out the basil at the Windy City to make what is promised to be some badass pesto for my adoptive mother.

dress, perfect vest and double wrap stud belt - thrifted, navy blue tights that have been through shit - walmart (I think, I've had these for 3 years)

indentured ocelot on a leash

The weather this week has been amazing. I can't even explain the relief I feel now that I no longer have to wear my winter coat or my docs. I love both, but damn, a bitch just wants to wear a jean jacket and some normal shoes.

I wore this yesterday. I recently bought this leopard print skirt from the thrift store and I was really hesitant about it. I don't really like skirts too much because I am just really really lazy and I hate trying to figure out what to wear on top and bottom. My day to day uniform usually just involves all black or leggings and a shirt. I felt a little snazzy because it was 60 yesterday so I decided to fuck the bullshit. Also, if I buy an article of clothing, I have to at least wear it once. Since I no longer had to wear my winter coat, I felt that it was an appropriate time to whip out this cute lil skirt. The shirt that I'm wearing I bought a while ago. It was a men's long sleeve button down, but the sleeves looked ridiculous so I cut them off. This shirt has once been described as saying "HEY! I like A Tribe Called Quest" and I'm completely content with that. I don't wear this shirt often mostly because it's not black and it looks silly with cardigans. I know that a lot of people consider it a faux-pas to mix prints but I don't care. I wear so much leopard print that I pretty much consider it the 8th hue in the visible spectrum. It goes something like ROY G BIVL.

leopard print skirt - thrifted, shirt - thrfited, gap denim jacket - thrfited, tights - target

slick little girl

This is what I wore yesterday. Black on Black on Black with a little bit of denim. The vest is made from a denim jacket that I've had for about three years now and I like it a lot because the collar is leopard print. Over the years I've gotten sick of it and this past summer I got a better denim jacket so since I have a hard time parting with my clothes I turned into a vest. It was an ugly coat and now it's an ugly vest, cool.

The shirt that I'm wearing as a dress I got from the american apparel street sale in evanston two years ago. It's a tissue tee, but really, it's so shear that it's hard to wear during the day time. This shirt is so long that it doesn't make sense to wear pants, honestly anyway you try to style it this shirt looks slutty. I like to push the boundaries of slutty and dykey, so this is the perfect match!
I paired the vest with a fur collared cardigan because I have to watch how much leopard print I wear on a day to day basis. My winter coat has a leopard print lapel so I have to be sure not overdose or else I might turn into the great Panthera Pardus.

denim jacket converted to a vest - thrifted, american apparel shear t-shirt/dress, fur collar cardigan -thrifted, black skirt - h&m, tights from target, american apparel thigh highs