Inspirationally fabulous

This is Welle: Erdball, a synth/chiptune group from Germany. Their first album came out in 1994 and they're still going strong today.

Fall Attire

Hi everyone! Long time no post.

I'm officially in Japan now and am officially buying Japanese clothes. Cheap cheap Japanese clothes!

Today was a fairly warm day and I had to bike out in crazy winds, so I pulled my hair back and decided to try to finally wear the pinky girly wannabe lumberjack shirt I bought at Uniqlo a million months ago. I kind of like wearing patterns and colors that aren't suited for the season I'm in. (Clearly I'm highly rebellious with my pink pink pink clothes in the fall.)



Do any of you guys dress with a particular season in mind? You know, pastels/florals in the spring, bright colors in the summer, etc?

Oita mountain simplicity

Top: Michael Kors
Jeggings: Who knows, from Kohls
Wool trench: Zara
Brogues: Shimamura
Glasses: Kokuraya

Letting off some steam

So, yeah. I never really dress up or have a really good sense of fashion in all honesty, but tonight I'm going out and this was the outfit I concocted. It'd be all black if I didn't add at least that belt that reminds me of home in Texas and the necklace that kinda pops it out as well. 

Those "tights" are actually the heat tech stuff from Uniqlo. I'm hoping they do me justice since I'll be riding my bike to my destination. I'll see how this goes. 

I am in love with my new boots though. These things would cost me a ton more in Austin than here. Thank god for Japanese women's obsession with shoes. Sometimes, it actually brings down the cost. 

Layers

Different shoes in each shot, all brand new.

summer comfort

Jinbei for a summer festival. Vest and patchwork/paisley skirt as swimsuit coverup. Obnoxiously large aviators.

Jinbei bottoms, linen striped top, farmer straw hat, aviators as a final touch.

ahhhhh clothes!

Hi everyone! I have a toooon of stuff to share so I'll try to be concise. I'm trying to figure out some work clothes (and more specifically, suit stuff to wear for the JET Tokyo Orientation) so any insight would be appreciated! Also, sorry for the weird cluttered awkwardly-posed photos! It's hard to take pictures of yourself, idk.



Here's suit number one. I prefer it unbuttoned:



And I prefer it even more with tights:





My worry with this suit is that the skirt is too short. Is it? Will I get in trouble? :( I feel like anything I find in my size is super short -- be it pants or a skirt. Apparently petite people usually have short legs!

My second suit option I can't even show fully because the pants are currently at the tailors! I only have my ~Daisy Fuentes~ too-tight trousers to wear with the jacket currently:



I think it's better than the first suit, but most people disagree with me, so I don't know if I should even bother bringing it to TO...

I also have a pencil skirt that I think might work for school, but my mother thinks it's too "fashionable" to wear for work clothes:



Ahhhh I don't even know what I'm doing, haha. What do you guys wear to school? Is anything a big no-no?

I also have some non-work clothes that I bought for running around Tokyo, but I'll share those next time! Thanks everyone!

look ma no black

monotonous work clothes

So, I went out and bought some more work clothes which have to be "nice" blouses and things of that nature. I'm kind of out my element when it comes to clothing in this dept. So, my stuff may be kind of yawn inducing. I bought some $9.50 shoes to go out in yesterday that I thought were a steal. I'm not exactly a fashionista, so if they are ugly, please say so that I don't go out and have everyone point and laugh at my ugly shoes. 

Shoes:

My favorite necklace is a necklace passed down to me from my great-great grandmother. It was made in about 1860 or so and is edelweiss. I love it dearly.

New Blouse:

Me in all of the above: (you can't see the shoes)

Those are new jeans as well from American Eagle outfitters. I had to find at least 2 new pairs of pants to accommodate my hips and butt considering that Japan does not cater to either. 

Curse you girls who can wear whatever jeans you want. It takes me hundreds of pairs to find one pair that doesn't fit really funny. Especially since I'm 5'3'' and it's impossible to find normal length jeans.

magic engrish!

Found the shirt in my closet. Think it belongs to a friend, but I'm gonna wait and see if he ever asks about it... :D

t-shirt: magic closet
cardigan: uniqlo
zebra skirt: jusco
gold boots: OPA Osaka Shinsaibashi
red bag: target
white watch: jusco
glasses: jins
XX chromosome necklace: xtina slater
black/white bracelets: they're hair elastics :)

Sharing some quality blogs post

Fashion Chu Hi

All This Happiness

Cheapskate Chic

Style Salvage (mens!)

Semi-hit, almost a near-miss.

I'm not good at this style thing (fashion is for girls, style is for guys), so I'll occasionally throw up something for everyone to judge harshly so I can learn more.

I'm very much a tshirt and jeans kinda person, but I'm also somewhat more 'chunky' than I probably should be to make jeans & tshirts panties-removingly sexy, so I'm attempting to resolve that and actually think about what I wear.

I can promise that the thinking won't always work - if at all.

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I had to go to a large work function, so I decided I wanted a jacket, but didn't want a button up short because they make me look old. That also ruled out a tie.

Bright tshirts would look tacky, so I decided to find something in muted, darker colours. You can't really see it, but that t-shirt has a Neon Genesis Evangelion print thing on it. It's black print on a purply-grey, so it suited.

Also got some new jeans which are special because they're the first 38's I've fitted (just) in since just after high school. Amazing. Shoes were just a pair of black leather lace-ups, woo.

It's amazing the extra confidence a pair of tighter-yet-not-so-tight-that-my-keys-draw-blood jeans can give you. Or give me. Either one.

The problem I see with what I wore is that I need to get the jacket tailored. I bought it as part of a suit, back when I was at least 15kg heavier. I've also discovered that everyone should get their suit adjusted as soon as they buy it because off-the-rack almost always never fit correctly, so yeah. Interesting to note.

On a typical day

My name is Danica and I'll be coming to Japan in less than a month now to start working for ECC. I was with JET for a very short time period, but even then, I got a taste of the Japan life. Now I'm back for more. 

This is a very typical outfit for me. Jeans and a tee. But, I know in the coming months, these clothes will be replaced with my oh-so-awesome work clothes. sigh. 

Thanks to Krampus, I can hopefully start contributing to this site.

I ain't Nobody's fool.

On the lighter side of things, I love vintage clothing. Especially vintage dresses. Here's my favorite dress that I usually wear to formal occasions. It's a 70's sheer split sleeve dress.

I don't have any weird philosophies about what women should wear or how to wear things. I think you should wear what makes you comfortable and what you feel best fits your personality. I, for one, don't have legs to parade around in short skirts and shorts. You may be blinded by the reflection of the sun off these stumps of legs. So, you can count I'm usually in something below the knee. I'm also allergic to pastel. Anything lime green and vomit orange should be burned. I guess those are philosophies aren't they? 

maxi dresses

I gave in. ¥1000 at a cheap store. Like it so much I think I'll wear it to my violin recital thing on Saturday.