sick heart, sweat body part

Today is my grandparents' 60th anniversary party. It still amazes me that they've been married for 60 years and haven't gotten sick of each other. Marriage was supposed to be a bond for life but in our current society it's perceived in a different light. I'm very happy that my grandparents have been together for ages and still seem to love each other.

My grandparents were married on St. Patrick's day. All of their children have Irish-Catholic names even though they are asian. I like my grandparents a lot because they don't ask a lot of questions. I'm really awkward with my family and I feel like a lot of times they are super intrusive so I like that my grandparents act as if they don't care what I'm doing with my life. As long as I'm in school, being nice to my dad and not breaking the expensive laptop they bought me, it's allll good.

Sometimes the hardest part of my day is getting dressed, especially when I'm in sleep mode. I ended up throwing together this outfit which I thought was appropriate for a family get together. The dress is actually this american apparel skirt that I borrowed from my friend like 6 months ago. I've never worn it before because it's too long. Being short is a burden sometimes but today I realized that I could wear it as a dress! I also very rarely wear white because I'm too dirty for white clothes but today seems like a good day to look pure. I really love how this skirt drapes and it's slightly shorter in the front so I have to wear a skirt or I'll be pulling a Britney.

I don't really know how to describe this top. It's kind of like a long shear jacket thing. I'm not even sure, but I didn't feel like belting this skirt so I just tied this jacket thing in front to nip my waist. I like this top a lot because it's shear,sequined and navy blue. I don't wear very much navy blue and since it's almost spring I've been trying to wear a lot more color. I've only worn this top once before so I'm glad I found another way to style it.

see that cat

I'm not one to get very stressed out. I've been dealing with midterms and last minute assignments before spring break. I had a 7 page paper due on wednesday that I'm supposed to be turning in tomorrow that I haven't even started yet. No biggie, I got this, right?

This is what I wore yesterday. In short, black button down, booty shorts, tights, and thigh highs. I LOVE this shirt. I always seem to buy black because honestly putting together an outfit is 50x easier if everything you have is in the same color pallet. After a period of buying black basics I realized I had to mix it up a bit. This shirt is shear but has a really cool pattern similar to buffalo plaid that involves using different opacities of polyester. I loathe polyester so I generally only wear this shirt in winter.

I wore this with high-wasted booty shorts, which basically means I wore a pair of underwear over my tights. It was chilly yesterday so thigh-high socks were kind of necessary and I also really love them because I don't feel like wearing leggings or multiple pairs of tights every day.

To top everything off I wore this with these new red suede shoes that I got at the thrift store last weekend. I'm all about form following function and I generally only wear sneakers or boots. As a stray cat, I never know where I'm going to end up so I need to be mostly prepared for all situations.

button down - thrifted, miscellaneous shorts, tights - target, thigh-highs - american apparel, shoes -thrifted.

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