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Style: New Haircut & Firmoo Glasses

posted on October 7, 2014

So I chopped off my hair.

As usual, I started out subtle, just a couple of inches off, nothing much. But it was boring, and I was bored. So I cut off some more, hollowed out some bits, layered some others, and because my hair curls in a very forgiving way, nothing went terribly wrong that I could see.

(I’ve been cutting my own hair for about six, seven years now. My self-esteem does funny things when I go to a salon, and I used to be really serious and specific about my hair. Cutting it myself allowed me a sense of freedom and flexibility that made a huge difference, and also saved me money. Win win.)

Then I flipped my part, and this is what I look like now.

Or, okay, this is what I looked like on Sunday after pulling an all-nighter, still sick — note the chapped lips — and wearing my new (ish) glasses c/o Firmoo.

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Wearing: Paisley Linen Tunic, Flapper Dress Style

posted on September 4, 2014

Oh Sunny Sunny Day

Tunic: c/o Joe Browns (here) | Black flats: old (similar: one & two) | Belt: my sister’s (similar: one & two) | Glasses: c/o SpecsPost | Necklace: Resity

You may recognize this outfit and a couple of the shots from the sewing machine giveaway I ran back in early August. I said the outfit post would show up the week after — my bad. But it’s here now! This is the one-size (plus-size one-size? So says the listing, but I gave my size rather than purchasing it straight out, so I don’t think it was my fault!) tunic I held together with bobby pins. I really love how the skirt looks in particular — the white net detail isn’t super noticeable in the product photos, and bunching it together around my tiny hips makes it stand out. It’s a fun touch.

I shot these with Christine Cherry in the garden of Keats House. It was my first shoot there of a few that will show up on the blog over the course of the next month. I still haven’t gone inside the actual house, and now that it’s within walking distance but not basically on my doorstep anymore, I… am actually more interested in doing that. One day!

Right now I’ve got a lot of work to do and a new room to adapt to. I forgot it always takes me a good half week at minimum to get used to a new place. Today is my first day properly working at my desk, and I got my landlady to switch out the chair that was here for an office chair of her daughter’s, who just moved out, and I’m starting to feel truly, genuinely, the-kind-that-leads-to-productivity-and-reduced-stress comfortable. I’m a little overwhelmed by pending work, but every now and again a little ray of optimism peeks through. It’s lovely. You’re going to see a lot more of me and my work and my writing from now on. Hope you’re ready! ;)

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Wearing: New Look Red Maxi Dress

posted on August 5, 2014

A Change of Scenery

maxi dress: c/o New Look (here, on sale now!) | shoes: a boutique in Ciudad Real, Spain (similar styles: Modcloth / Sam Edelman / Tory Burch) | sunglasses/shades: c/o SpecsPost | earrings: Promethean Design (similar styles: Macy’s / Kate Spade / Kohl’s) | clutch: Southern Twisted Bags (similar)

Photography: Christine Cherry
Location: Hampstead Heath

A few weeks ago I had the chance to work with a fellow portrait photographer, Christine Cherry, and had a blast doing a bit of modeling for her — frankly my favorite modeling thing to date, and it was my first and I didn’t get paid for it. Not sure where everything went wrong. Men, probably.

One of the things we shot was this outfit featuring a gorgeous red maxi dress from New Look. The sunglasses were Christine’s idea, and I found myself more comfortable wearing them than I expected. The dress was a soft, light cotton and really comfortable, too. I’m still weird about maxi dresses, but in terms of comfort I’d definitely choose this one over the blue paisley one, even though I think the blue one is slightly prettier. But I don’t have to choose (unless I decide to get rid of one of them to make room in my luggage… let’s just not talk about moving, I already would quite like to crawl into a hole and die), so hey. ;)

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Outfit Post: New Look Maxi & Taking Selfies At Train Stations

posted on June 11, 2014

OVERFLOWING

Look, it’s an outfit post!

So, Saturday: I woke up relatively early for me, got up, and spent far longer than I care to admit trying to figure out the best and most inexpensive way to get from here to Bethnal Green, where I’d agreed to meet Sarah at 1 PM. That turned into 1:30 PM and once I actually got on the buses, 2 PM due to delays and traffic. Sarah was actually leaving when I finally found her!

But the story has a happy, if awfully warm, ending. We walked around East London, which she really loves and I don’t quite see the charm of, and got to know each other (it was our first time meeting!) as we walked through various crowded markets in the area. She got some lovely peonies and we took pictures of each other’s outfits — as planned — “just off Brick Lane,” she says, and I’ll have to believe her because I have no idea. Spitalfields Market was just on the other end of the street, though, if I recall correctly, and she walked with me to Liverpool Street Station before going on to a Jack the Ripper tour that I may have to take myself sometime, when I get a chance to reread The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson and maybe even start The Madness Underneath. It’s all about YA for me, y’all. Always.

Like I mentioned above, it was a very hot day, so I took the opportunity to wear one of two maxi dresses I received from New Look last week. I’ve never worn a maxi dress before, and I was worried I may fall over my feet at some point — I stepped on the hem on the staircase in the flat I’m living in when I first put it on, so not an unreasonable worry! — but it turned out to be very comfortable and breezy, and what actually hurt me was the sockless shoes.

I needed to do some food shopping before I got home, so I spent a bit of time going around Liverpool Street Station and, before changing trains, Kings Cross, where I found out that W.H. Smith has (some) food. I had twenty whole minutes to kill before my train to Harringay left, though, so I also took a number of selfies just outside the station, two of which you can see above.

My (current) (temporary) flatmate was on the same train I was, and I walked back home with her and her sister, and then she made roast chicken and I ate a lot and had to have a lie-down, and then I ate a whole bar of chocolate and felt a little sick after that, too. I need to work on my self-control. But it was pretty awesome and it was great to meet someone new-that-I-already-knew, if that makes any sense.

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Outfit Post: Flower Crown and Tortoiseshell Glasses

posted on April 28, 2014

As this post reaches your screens, I am probably on a plane, catching up on design work or writing or snapping photos out the window. Or I may be napping, seeing as I had to catch a train at 6:45 AM and I didn’t bother with the whole night sleep thing. I took these pictures with my mom as my assistant last Thursday; hope you like!

Mighty Aphrodite

Do I or do I not look like a neurotic modern-day Greek goddess? Because I love it. Mighty Aphrodite is a Woody Allen movie I love that occasionally has a Greek chorus pop up to talk about the story, and my mind went straight to it when I looked back at the shots of my face. (My feelings on Woody Allen can be summed up like so: love his work + he should never work again and should probably go to jail. Somehow one does not affect the other, which is unusual for me, but I guess his work speaks to me that much.)

There’s a lot of Canada here. The necklace, the dress-worn-as-top and the crown all come from independent Canadian designers who have Etsy storefronts. The ring and the earrings come from jewelry makers in California and Arizona respectively. The shoes and jeans I bought locally, the glasses came from England, and the socks I bought in England — no idea where each of those was manufactured, though.

I took this at the park (full of graffiti, by the way; thanks for ruining my flower ceiling shots, assholes) that covers the distance between a supermarket in the outer part of my city and the train station. Went to get a train ticket to Madrid for Monday and look at suitcases — though I didn’t like what they had in stock and ended up buying the suitcase I saw in a store smack in the middle of town on Tuesday. Actually wore that leather jacket on top of the dress this time, too, because it was cold, and a bag I handed off to my mom because I’m down to two bags that are both not broken and big enough to hold my DSLR, and neither of them went with this outfit.

The dark side of fashion blogging, here on A Classic Notion! Transparency: 1; aura of mystery: 0. Greek goddess regardless.

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Outfit Post: Leather Jacket And Persuasion Scarf

posted on April 24, 2014

I am half agony, half hope

Phew. Haven’t done an outfit post in a while, mainly because I don’t go out much and if I don’t go out, I go for comfortable and boring over photographable. But on Tuesday I was out of clean comfortable clothes, put on a dress, shaved my legs, realized I was freezing, and changed into a pair of jeans my sister handed down to me because she didn’t like them anymore. Or something. Maybe her ass got too big? Of all the skinny jeans I’ve tried on — which admittedly haven’t been many — these are by far the most skintight, and compared to my sister, I am a stick.

I’m actually really happy with how this all turned out. I was surprisingly comfortable in my skin — I felt good in the outfit and I felt good in the clothes themselves — and I feel like all I’ve learned in the past several months shows in these photos. Some are a little overexposed because I only did the one lighting test with my mom as a model and the sun kept coming and going, but I’m very, very pleased.

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5 Ways to Wear A Silk Scarf | ft. “Adrift” from LHP Collection

posted on February 28, 2014

So I made this pretty scarf. I ordered the fabric in November for a customer, and it never arrived, and it had to be reprinted, so it was quite a while before I could get my hands on it, but eventually it was here, and it was gorgeous, and I made a scarf with it. I spent two days fighting unruly thread and learning my way through hand-rolling a hem.

I was thrilled with the result, and was ready to model and photograph it before mailing it out. (The entire reasoning behind building this collection on preorders is that I can’t afford (nor have room) to make up things and hope they sell.) So I spread it in front of me…

…and I realized I didn’t have the faintest idea how you’re supposed to wear a silk scarf. A square silk scarf, to be specific. Actually, a square cotton silk scarf, but the problem was the square bit. I have plenty of long, mostly knit and crochet, scarves that I can do super crazy things with (that I also learned on the Internet), but I’m not a silk scarf person — I wear scarves to keep warm and silk has always felt weirdly in between — too warm and too cool at the same time.

I have to say, though, after researching it? I could be into silk scarves as neckties. Every other way I included here, though, is just for show.

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Outfit Post: Roll Out Your Maps And Papers

posted on October 24, 2013

I love how these pictures turned out. Apparently the trick is to shoot in the morning, before the sun starts hitting, in the shade, and on manual mode with a low aperture. I knew these things in theory but I didn’t realize they’d work so well given my mom’s lack of skill (and enthusiasm) as a photographer.

Really happy with the outfit, too! It was really comfortable but it didn’t feel boring or incomplete. The teal leather jacket makes a splash and the accessories made me feel a bit like a reporter, especially when I held up my camera in front of the mirror.

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Outfit Post: Grays & Bows

posted on October 16, 2013

These pictures are awful and grainy and this outfit is very simple, but I’m posting anyway because the hat is adorable. Big bow! Which you may recognize from my sidebar picture, among other social media profiles. Comfiest, prettiest, most wonderfully fitting hat that it is. I put it on and I feel complete.

…look, I’ve had a weird day, I’m allowed to wax poetic about my cloche for a bit.

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Outfit Post: Still My Heart Has Wings

posted on October 9, 2013

Don’t let the sunlight fool you: I froze my little shins off. I may or may not have been holed up for over a week (this is not even a record) and I didn’t believe my mom when she said I should put on an actual jacket. It was nowhere near as bad as the time I went out to shoot a blue knit dress — with jeans under it and my coat on — last January, but my Raynaud’s syndrome did rear its ugly little head a bit.

Anyway, yay, outfit post! Yay, four outfits down and still twenty-six (ha ha ha) to go on that 30×30 challenge I wanted to be done with by the end of October. Ah well, I have multiple pairs of jeans on the list. And leg warmers in my sock drawer. I’ll deal.

The standout piece in this outfit is obviously the black and white rose-patterned dress by Gina Louise, which can be found on her website or here on Etsy. It’s a lovely, super flattering dress made in a slightly stretchy heavy cotton fabric, and it slips on like a glove.

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