I would of course prefer to own the real thing, but it’ll probably be years before I can afford it (if ever), so check out these at Shop-Suey Boutique. They are some decent looking knock offs compared to what you usually find out there and they are really affordable too. The Stam bag knock off is only $52. They’re not real leather and I guess that’s the downside to them. They look nice on the pictures though, at least the “Stam” bag. Via Vintage Amore Forum.

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So I was trying to study but my heart kept pounding really hard. The dress wouldn’t get out of my mind. And you know how people get super strengths once there’s a crisis? Well, I’m like that when it comes to clothes. In other words; I managed to get the money…

It’s not even that the dress is that nice. It’s in a pretty low quality cotton, but I kind of figured the poor quality fabric would go with the childish innocence it has. I haven’t been shopping for so long - I get pretty good at making excuses. I’m a true shopaholic.

I got to test the shoes on a long walk today. It was fine for quite a while. Then I got a serious craving for the Turkish drink Ayran and I had to walk all over town to get it. After a couple of hours of walking I had to pull up a pair of flip flops I had in the purse. I guess I should continue to bring flip flops with me just in case…

A smart thing I did quite unintendedly was that I tied a silk scarf at my purse for decoration. When I was about to sit on a bench in my white dress I took the scarf off and used it to sit on. Morality is: Always bring comfortable shoes and a silk scarf.

People were staring a lot at me today. First my boyfriend thought it was that I am taller than him - you can imagine us together when I am wearing 5″ shoes. But when I wasn’t walking next to him, people kept staring. I just have to take it as a compliment. My dress isn’t see through, is it?

Dress: Cubus
Necklace: H&M
Shoes: Secondhand (eBay)

I also wore a pair of oversized sunglasses in the same color as the necklace. The dress actually reaches me below the knees, it’s just my boyfriend who insists on always taking the pictures from down and up.

Update: I added a head scarf when I went out again and it felt really nice. (Although I think people stared even more at me…)

After posting outfit pictures for a while I started thinking more about the way I dress…

I love to dress up. Especially when I’m not doing anything special I like to put on a dress and heels. At school I only wear jeans and t-shirts. Not even my nice jeans or nice t-shirts, but the most washed out crap I have. After school on the other hand… Life’s just too short. All those party outfits I have in mind will just die away if I don’t wear them. There are too few parties to go to and too little time and it’s my duty to give the outfits life. It’s almost like my life is measured by how I dress - as long as I dress up as much as possible my life is at it’s best. When I don’t dress up I put everything else on hold too.

I’m not very critical to what I wear. I almost never think about what shapes look good to my figure or what combinations are the most flattering. In the end I dress for myself and as long as I feel good I imagine I look good. When I see someting I like on the runway or in magazines I don’t feel like toning it down much. Why shouldn’t I be able to dress like them!? It has often been painful to have to see my outfits on photos cause it looks so different from what it looks in my mind. After posting the pictures I never look at them again. I can only think of two outfits that I have dared to look at after they were posted and they are the only two I felt looked better on photos in reality - usually it’s the other way around. Still, it hasn’t changed my style - something I was afraid it would do.

I suck at dressing casual. It’s often all or nothing with me. It may have something to do with that I mostly buy dresses and heels. Pants, flats and nice sweaters are almost non-excisiting in my closet. It makes me realize that I can’t look at life like a never ending party - I need to focus on everything else as well. I want to be one of those people that dress up their school clothes with a nice necklace or pretty shoes. I need to change. The on/off switch has to go. I have been trying a little extra after I started posting the pictures, but now that the weather is nice it’s too tempting to wear dresses anyway!

I have a very eclectic style. When I do dress casual without giving up style completely I keep falling back to the rock chick in me. Converse, band t-shirts, studded belts, chain necklaces, skulls… I have posted very little of this. I dress in different characters and this is probably the reason for my eclectic style. One day I want to be the sweet girl, the other the punk rocker, or the spy, or a film noir inspired lady, or the grumpy teenager, or the housewife… It’s goes on and on. Sometimes I’m mad at myself for not having a style - it looks so great to have a specfic style and it would be so much easier to go shopping! At the same time I have a lot of fun with my clothes. I have tried to choose styles before and it totally killed my joy of shopping and getting dressed. I guess I just have to come to terms with who I am… (Which is about a thousand different people.)

Even though I hope to develop my style by sharing it with you, I won’t be able to change the big lines. I guess I just have to learn to make the best out of it…