mouse

rat

hissy hissy little snakey

this is clearly the year that slytherin will win the house cup.

why does my face look like that?

i will never know.
bracelet - gift

necklaces - coyote vertebra and chain, deathly hallows symbol from hot topic around $18. no longer listed.

shirt - wizarding world of harry potter, way too fucking expensive. cut at the neck. i can't wear t-shirts unless i cut them

skirt - faux leather, don't remember where i bought it

boots - 20-eye doc martens, $145 from zappos

tights - american apparel - $16 - here

american apparel tights are expensive, but so, so worth it. tons of stretch, durable, and they don't itch.

title - harry potter and the deathly hallows:

hissy hissy, little snakey, slither on the floor

you'll be good to morfin or he'll nail you to the door.

dvf considers leopard print a neutral.

a woman after my own heart, clearly.

hello darlings i'm sorry i've been not posting so well lately. things will resume shortly.

if wellness is this, what in hell's name is sickness?

i need a leopard print and black lace intervention. those are two things i will always, always, always buy.

and before you ask, yes, ''scared rabbit'' is the face i always adopt in photographs.
vertebra necklace - it's not handmade because i just put a thing on another thing, but last seen here (where i did not credit it as part of my outfit. oops)

"chanel" necklace: ridiculously gaudy and i love it. picked up for $5 at a wonderful store on 6th av. (between 11th and 12th) where everything is either $2, $5, or $10. my favourite sunglasses came from there, but i broke them. both pairs. :c

skirt - $18 from search and destroy.

sweater - $1 from a charity shop. cut the neck off (did quite a poor job at keeping things even). very soft. don't remember what the tag said.

bracelet - gift

tights - drugstore

title: from runs in the family by amanda palmer

street harassment/the perils of living in new york city?

there is very rarely a day in which i go outside for any period of time and do not end up getting hit on/whistled at/ogled/harassed by someone.

this happens no matter what i'm wearing - whether i'm dressed up, in a t-shirt and skirt, going to class, going to party, bundled up or baring skin.

and i will admit - sometimes it's flattering. other times it makes me feel sick. worthless, objectified, marginalized.

and yes, sometimes i do dress in a marginally outrageous fashion, and i'd be lying if i said i didn't at least expect some attention to go with it. but when someone treats me - and other girls - like objects, no matter what we are wearing or doing or where we are going, it sucks.

and it has to stop.

i don't know what i can do by myself, but there's a wonderful movement called hollaback (where both of these images are sourced from!) that is working for truth, justice, and the american way.

well, i might have confused them with superman, but you get the picture.

the point is, whether i dress provocatively or conservatively, whether i am influenced on a particular day by alexander mcqueen or zee from dmz or lady gaga or the basket case, i'm not doing it so i can get shouted at and "checked out" by men i don't know.

lick your cigarette and then kiss me

this is a pretty good view of how much my hair has faded since i dyed it almost a month ago. i'm pretty impressed, actually - manic panic fades a lot faster, and into something a lot more orange than pink. i'm kind of into the pink but i definitely think i need a redye soon.

for some reason i always get that weird halo of lighter colour around my head when my hair dye starts to fade... like a gradient, it's darker close to my scalp, then there's a ring of paler pink, then the rest of my hair is darker. weird...?
the sun is deceptive. it is FUCKING COLD. tights are from somewhere in london, camden town is likely, donno how much they were.
belt - h&m, $10ish, last seen here

sweater - search and destroy, $18. last seen here

dress - charlotte russe, on sale a yearish ago for around $10, last seen here

hairclip - probably like $5 for a set of 2, h&m

i think i need more sweaters/sweatshirts/hoodies in my life, because i have this one gross one that i wear to bed and i always just want to wear it out (sometimes i do) under my jacket but it's boring and grey, and i grew out of my hoodie phase midway through high school.

this one's good, though, because it has sparkles and sometimes if i'm bored in class and stop focusing my eyes it looks like a galaxy.

bracelet (hidden by sweater) - gift
confession: i have too many clothes. seriously, too many clothes to fit in my closet. (see that little tardis-shaped thing behind me with the black mesh box on top of it? that's my closet. i'll take a picture of the insides for you someday, but trust me, it is not fucking pretty. things are mashed in there all haphazardly and it looks about to explode.)

i need to go to the container store and buy some boxes for the clothes i don't wear as much.

also maybe i should stop buying them?

but that seems so...

boring.

i dream of moving out of the dorms and keeping my clothes on a freestanding clothes rack like any true fabric junkie. i want to be able to see them all and touch them all before i decide what to wear, and honestly recently i've been sort of doing what i can because i don't want to be closet-spelunking at 6:45 a.m. when i have to get up for class.

i'm going to stop typing now before i start sounding too much like carrie bradshaw (scary bradshaw?) but not before i tell you that the title of this post comes from no you girls by franz ferdinand.

(i'm thinking of changing the name of my blog but my major problem is to what? i hate what it is right now it seems kind of pretentious i am not really a fashionista or a punk i just have red hair and like to talk about clothes. i dunno. i'll ponder it while i'm in class.)

i might join your century, but only as a doubtful ghost

i'm double-posting today (if i can get it together before i have to run to class) and i'm coming up with ideas for non-outfit-documenting posts too, like things about nail polish etc. i am no expert but i like what i like

i wore this on monday, took pictures, forgot to post it. bleah

this is pretty basic but i'm posting it here because it is simply one of my favourite outfits of all time. if not my number one favourite. i wear this combination like once a month.

it never fails to give me a little bit of confidence. if i wake up in a bad mood i put on either this dress or these tights and i feel better.
dress - h&m ages ago for like $20. last seen here (but i wear it a lot more than this blog lets on)

thigh highs - $9 from here. i love this website, i seriously would spend all my money there if i could. the tights are one of the few things i have brought with me from my fits of high school-related fashion madness. the striped tights are (or rather, were) an amanda palmer thing (she's moved on from wearing them, i think, but i'm still stuck on them... probably will be forever) and yes i am six feet tall and yes i do have long legs but THEY COULD ALWAYS LOOK LONGER DAMMIT.

necklace - coyote vertebra on really old chain

bracelet - gift

title - from girl anachronism by the dresden dolls - the striped tights are in this video. and love. true love.