And after thirty outfit posts, here is my last outfit for Restyle! I'm not going to lie, I'm really sad that this challenge is over. Thank you all so much for your lovely comments, tweets and emails about Restyle - I hope it's inspired you to do a little op-shopping of your own! And of course a huge thanks to Renee, Perth Fashion Festival, Lotterywest, my fellow Restyle bloggers, and all of the wonderful people at Good Sammys, the Salvos, Drug Arm WA, Save the Children, and Vinnies!

Well, before this turns into a Gwyneth Paltrow at the Oscars speech, I'll just shut up and tell you about the outfit. The dress is one that I gave you a sneaky peek of in this outfit post, and the jacket... oh the jacket. I was saving it for a special post, and what's more special than the last day of Restyle (and my last day of being 22)?

It's an amazing Liz Davenport jacket that was a little on the expensive side, but LOOK AT IT. It's like a unicorn and a mermaid got together and had a baby and the baby manifested as this jacket. It's a swirly pastel jacquard piece of awesome.





Unlike the bag I posted about yesterday, this bag is actual glomesh! I was so surprised when it was only eight bucks. I've seen the price go as high as $50 (at Good Sammys, for this beautiful rose-gold version) to $100 (at the antique shop I posted about, for an original purse still in the box). The strap has broken on this since I bought it, but I don't mind it as a clutch! Albeit a very large clutch that's still too thin to fit anything in.

Well, I am off to make some tacos and try not to peek into the room where Aidan's hiding my present. So tempting...


Goodnight!

Hello! I can't believe this is my second last Restyle outfit :( but don't worry, I have a pretty fantastic outfit planned for tomorrow...

This was just an easy work outfit, but I still worry that this dress is too short for me! I always forget to bring it out in winter, but there ain't no way this dress is getting worn without tights. I do love it though. And I'm still not over wearing my headscarf! I should figure out how else I can wear it because you can't really see the beautiful print when it's all wrapped up like this.



Scarf, Salvation Army, $9.99 // Heels, Drug Arm WA, $5 // Bracelet, Good Sammys, $5 // Bag (looks like Glomesh but is a Glomesh knock-off, if such a thing exists), Save the Children, $8 // Vintage dress via The Velvet Bow // Black tights // Pigeonhole Aztec studs

Today was a good day. I had a few busy rushes at work, which is always good, but in between I was busy re-merching and putting out all our lovely new stock! I don't know if you remember but my shop is in the Windows In The City competition... our wonderful stylist Hannah and I re-did our window on Sunday and I LOVE IT! I'm going to have to take some better photos, all I have is one poorly lit Instagram shot. We also got in some peach (PEACH!) Diana Minis, but my camera collection is already getting a little bit out of hand... I have a Mr Pink Diana, a Fujifilm Instax, and a Polaroid coming for my birthday (THIS FRIDAY ldksjhqfkjhfk), so I don't think I can justify another one quite yet...

Anyway, I hope all your weeks are going splendidly! This week (well, month, really) has flown by for me - usually I spend all of August waiting for my birthday, but this month I've had the quite wonderful distraction of Restyle! I haven't even organised any kind of birthday gathering yet, so this year will probably be very low-key. Having such a invalid boyfriend this week has taken the wind out of my sails somewhat.

Don't you hate it when you're rocking an (in your mind) awesome outfit, and then you look down and think, "Well dang, I've accidentally dressed as Terry Richardson"? I mean, this is the first time this has happened to me, but it put a little bit of a dampener on the outfit. Please consider this a "No, I didn't voluntarily dress up as a creepy photographer" disclosure.

Anyway, stay tuned for my second outfit post coming up soon!

{Hello lovely readers! I was struck down with an awful case of food poisoning this weekend and wasn't really in a position to take outfit photos and write up posts, so there's going to be a few Restyle posts over the next couple of days. Hope you don't mind!}

Hello again! This is one of my easiest Restyle outfits. Something about the striped shirt and pleated black skirt just felt so effortless, but also put-together. Not just my average slobbing around outfit! This is actually what I wore when I went to get my hair coloured, but I loved the outfit so much I wore it two days afterwards as well.




I'm still getting used to seeing my purple hair in photos! It's weird because it feels a lot more 'natural' to me than the red hair I tried for a while. The night I got my hair dyed red I cried for about two hours, considered running out to buy brown hair dye, and sobbed on the phone to my boyfriend at the time... there was nothing WRONG with it, it was just such a huge change! At least it set me up for the time this year I got a disastrous cut and colour. I've had compliments from the most unexpected of people with this colour - little old ladies and very young children especially!

Well, I guess the title of this post is a little bit off... thanks to my newly purple hair, I'm not totally monochrome! I got it done by the beautiful Teagan-Marie at Peggy Sue's Studio and I LOVE IT! I've been thinking of doing an all-over colour for a while but yesterday I just decided to go for it. It's kind of a 23rd birthday present to myself (last year it was a tattoo). Do I even need to mention it's next week? I think I've inadvertently done a countdown in my posts for the last month. I JUST LIKE BIRTHDAYS OKAY.

I bought this dress a little while ago in the ASOS sale. I think that the package - which also included another dress and two tops - arrived just before or just after the Restyle challenge started, so it was nice to have some new things to play with without breaking the 'buy nothing new' part of the challenge! This dress in particular is one of my new favourites. It's quite short but it's a skater skirt and quite a loose style, so it doesn't feel too short. Does that make sense? I also love the little piping Peter Pan collar.




I still love this blazer. I think it still kind of screams "EIGHTIES!!!" but I'm kind of okay with that. One of the good things about this challenge is that it's been pushing my personal style a bit. I guess there's only so many vintage '50s/'60s dresses that I can wear! I did want to quickly say a huge thanks to LotteryWest and Perth Fashion Festival for putting on such a great challenge. Incidentally, the PFF website launched on Tuesday and it looks like there's some great events! I really want to go to the Student Runway and the Evening with Flannel sounds divine.

Well, that is it for me today! I'm working on a lot of new posts like my (hideously late) Groupon review, my Firmoo glasses review and my usual Instagram spam, so please keep an eye out for them amongst all the Restylin' up in here!

I'm actually so, so bummed that Restyle is nearly over. It's been so much fun! I managed to save a couple of awesome pieces for the last week; I was worried that I would be running out of steam at the tail end of the challenge. While I am excited to wear my whole wardrobe again, it's been a very fun challenge! But the day after the challenge finishes it's MY BIRTHDAY WOO YEAH PARTY TIME so at least there's that to distract me.

Today I paired a skirt I bought a few weeks ago with a blouse that I bought YEARS ago. As I mentioned last night, my style has been a lot more demure during Restyle (not that I was walking around in booty shorts and crop tops, but even an extra few centimetres on a hemline makes me feel much more prim and proper!). I did love this outfit very much, though. The blouse is amazing, but it's that kind of cheap polyester that smells like B.O after about five minutes.

Skirt, Good Sammys, $10 // Blouse, Anglicare, $6 // Heels, Good Sammys, $4 // Ring, Good Sammys, $5 // Rose gold pyramid studs from Pigeonhole


I think I already mentioned that I have a hair appointment today... eep! I am planning a big change but I will see what my hairdresser has to say about that. Last time I made a huge change (and went red!), I cried for hours the first night and then absolutely loved it. So we'll see how I go. Looking at my fringe in these photos makes me want to hack at it myself! Argh!

I called this post 'InstaGran' because a) I saw the joke in a Cyanide & Happiness comic and have wanted to use it for something ever since, and b) I feel it's appropriate for my style recently. The op-shop skirts and dresses are usually at a much longer length than what I'm used to, and so I feel very demure most days! This dress actually looks amazingly 1950s housewife-y with the sleeves rolled up and a headscarf on, but I realise this is probably a look also loved by a granny or two. The Hush Puppy loafers don't really help either, haha! But I fully embrace a bit of nana style every now and then.

Okay, now I really am off to watch some Bryan Cranston. Is it weird I have a little crush on him? Only as Walter White though? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN.

Eep! I'm a little bit late with my Restyle round-up this week but these ladies have been coming up with such amazing outfits, I hope you can forgive me!

First off, I couldn't go past Ally's amazing look from Sunday. She looks like a '50s movie star!

Lisa found this sweet Blondie shirt on her op-shop travels. SO JELLY.

I just loved L's whole outfit from Monday. She can pull off stuff I can only dream about!

JUST LOOK at Kim's (faux) fur and sequins outfit. LOOK AT IT IT'S SO SHINY

I loved S's pearl-trim mini over at Le Fanciulle this week. Those girls are still rocking those DIYs! How do you do it, ladies?!

Shell looks gorgeous in her op-shopped pants. I have tried to get some pants for this challenge but I just cannot wear pants without looking like a clown! I LOVE how she styled these ones.

Heidy's 'Old Hollywood' themed outfit is stunning! I love the photography on her blog too. What a babe.

Bonnie's overalls are way too cute. Plus I'm planning to steal that Batman tee right off her.

And finally, I loved this yellow coat over at Sass and Spice. That striped dress is adorable!

Well, that's it from me for now. I'm listening to Johnny Cash's Live At Folsom Prison album... the songs are beautiful, but so sad! I mean, Give My Love To Rose? It almost makes me tear up (so it's not a great album to play at work...). I've become a little bit obsessed with Johnny Cash lately. I actually want to read Cash by Johnny Cash - which I only know the name of because of one of Rob's many little speeches in High Fidelity.

Anyway! That was quite a little tangent. I'll be back later today with my Restyle outfit for today... it's a good'un!

I found this beautifully printed blouse on a rainy day in Salvos... even though it was a size 18 I figured I could make it work as a jacket. And I love it! Even better, when I took it to the counter it turned out that it was half price for some reason. That's one of my favourite things about op-shopping - if something's a bit of a gamble, at least it only costs a couple of bucks to try it out. And then at least your money is going somewhere useful, rather than spending $20 on a chain store piece.

Anyway, I paired it with one of my favourite vintage dresses (that I also wore to Groovin' the Moo and on my birthday last year!).

I know I only just featured this shirt, but it's so ridiculously comfortable that I couldn't resist wearing it again (even though the humidity today was crazy). I spent most of today re-merchandising things at work and then helping with Pigeonhole's window displays for the Windows in the City competition! All of the windows look so, so good. I might have to do a cheeky post before the competition starts ;D exciting stuff!

And then I came home, changed into this, did some MORE cleaning (WHAT) and made some gourmet hot dogs for dinner. Which I ate while watching Curb Your Enthusiasm. Ah Larry David, ya cray.