Golden Week Treasures

Outfits nicely done everyone!

I haven't been posting comments but have really enjoyed everyone's posts!

Over GW here in Japan and I've been travelling around the country and shopping up a storm.

Here are some of the treasures I've found in Toyohashi, Hamamatsu and Harajuku:

Accessories galore!!!

I do love my hairbands and own about a gazillion of them. On this GW, I have 4 new additions to my collection :)

I haven't seen Alice in Wonderland yet but I absolutely love the Alice theme from white rabbits, teapots to ticking clocks. I am in love with this new watch- It even has a mini teapot charm hanging off it <3

Because the sales have been so crazy over GW, I have also bought about six dresses!

I shouldn't have brought any clothes with me in this trip and just wear what I buy around the country!

Here are just two of what I bought:

This dress is the Liberty Shirt dress from Earth Music and Ecology. It needs a belt around the waist to give it a bit of shape, I've also worn green tights with it.

Outfit #2. Dress from Toyohashi worn with dark orange stockings. Old Steve Madden ballet flats.

I particularly liked the detailing around the straps/shoulders. Gives the dress character :)

Spring into Florals

IT IS SPRING!

But still sitting below 10 degrees celcius in my end of the country and there is zero sakura bloomage. :(

I love Spring fashion as it usually means we can wear less bulky coats, more colours and of course FLORALS!

After this never ending winter, the country seems to be going nuts for anything floral! From shirts to hats to shoes to shorts! You can find any item of clothing in florals!

While florals are really pretty, wearing them incorrectly can look grandma like.

Keeping this print to one item of clothing at a time is always the best bet =]

Here I am in a floral skirt with purple tights.

Since Alice in Wonderland is coming to the big screens, I have also been inspired to go Alice and added a light blue bow headband.

HAPPY SPRINGING EVERYONE!

Quirky Boater Hat

It has been a while since I've posted! It has been too cold in my end of the island to go about my usual prancing around the house and trying on different outfits so I have completely neglected any posts since it got cold. :(

Temperatures have finally risen to double digits today!

Anyway my latest obsession is this:

A boater hat or a カンカン帽子. This one is from LOWRYS FARM.

It is so fun and quirky, I love it! The only problem is, I don't have a particularly good eye for style so I've been trying it with random outfits.

This is a polyvore collage the lovely Miss_igirisu made in honor of my hat!

http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/set?id=16063005

This is how I wore it to work today:

Because the weather was so nice, I could finally bare some knees in these checked shorts and knee high socks!

This one is a white one I bought locally.

Tee hee hee!

Dead and Gone.

Two weeks back at home constantly being under the Aussie sun really damaged my hair.

I came back to Japan with a good bottom half of my hair DEAD. :(

It was sooooo terrible I told the hairdresser I want all the dead bits OFF and GONE.


And my long long past boob length hair has now been reduced to this:

It is a bit too cold to have it this short in my opinion but atleast it will be less of a pain to deal with when I go snow boarding. =]

Posting from Summerland! <3

I have escaped Wintery Japan for the time being and headed south for home =]

So for you folks still in Winter wonderland here are some Summer dresses to freshen things up!

Here are the dresses I bought at the Boxing Day Sales <3 dress

Dress 1) Red Floral Dress <3

Dress 2 and 3) Casual Summer Tank Dress in a lace pattern and leopard print. They were a bargain at $20 for two dresses. Very comfy and casual, ideal for a lazy Summer day of catching up and ice coffee.

Dress 4) Little Black Dress with Zip. I've always wanted to try the zipper look but have found most zipper items to be uncomfortable to wear and some what trashy and provocative but this one- I love it!


The zip doesn't go all the way down so there is no fear that someone could completely unzip my dress and result in it flapping around like a coat (but I guess any sort of unzipping won't look good here either! :) I have red peep toe heels on in this picture.




This shall be my New Years Eve dress to welcome the fab year of 2010!
(unless I find something better! :P )


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Kawyn =)

Kawyn's new coat <3 (and ugly chunky knit dress I can't stop wearing)

I bought ANOTHER new coat recently and I'm in luuuuuurve with it!


I've always wanted a short paddington coat (just like Paddington bear!). As I've mentioned previously, I tend to stay away from too much black and recently I've been loving anything thats navy to replace black basics. I've been raving about it nonstop on itil <333333
I think it goes with almost everything I own for work. Its quite thin so it needs a lot of layering as it gets colder.



Here is the ugly chunky knit dress I always wear and complain about (But I can't seem to stop wearing??). It makes me look and feel like a short stumpy barrel while anything I wear underneath must be smoothed out or I'd look lumpy on top of stumpy.

And here is my white beret from my white tights outfit =]
It has a detatchable furry pompom as you can see me holding up in the picture.

Kawyn's white tights- Hit or Miss?

Tights can do lovely things for your legs- they keep your legs warm while you give dresses and skirts extra fashion milage, can bring out different personalities and they can be very slimming especially when they are in dark colours.

I took a gigantic fashion leap and jumped into the deep end of white tights when I saw them for on sale for 30yen!

I listened to the fashion advice of some ITILers and I managed to put together this look:








I wore the outfit with some cream coloured flat short boots so you can't see my ugly toes! :P


I bought the beret after receiving suggestions from our very own Langus and Miss I :)


So was it a hit or a miss? Did I pull this look off okay?


I had my doubts whether this outfit would work but I got a boost of confidence when I walked out of school today with my boots and beret a group of girls screamed shrilly "KAWAIIIIIIII!!!" then some Japanese jibbrish while following me to my car then waving goodbye. :)
My kids are so cute.



For BennyBoi's sake I should say that I am actually slightly pigeon toed in real life :(

Theme: Trolling for ass on the weekend wear

I never really trolled for ass (I'm assuming thats American lingo for picking up?) because I've always been too lazy to go out clubbing or anything. But when I do go clubbing, the highlight of my night would probably be dressing up for it and once I'm dressed I can't be assed going out :P

When I go to pubs and stuff with girlfriends back at home I would usually wear a fitting little black dress (which I didn't bring here).

I didn't bring most of my nice dresses here as they would probably be too reveling for Japanese standards so this little number with sleaves is the only LBD I brought over with me.

A bit shapeless? Yes, but it is great for going out and eating and drinking beer and eating and drinking beer because the tummy is invisible :)

This second outfit is also a shapeless sack but I tried it with a belt! Unlike most of the contributors here, I actually prefer wearing lighter colours and tend to avoid too much black.

These boots are my new "stylish" rainboots from ABC mart. I'm kinda running out of shoes I can wear inside so don't mind it if it doesn't exactly go with the dress!

Of course I have included a photo with my fluffy rabbit scarf :)

Here I tied in a loose knot.

Don't know how much ass I could get with these assembles but hot asses would be attracted to a confident person and I'm the most confident in something pretty, comfortable and can hide my flaws :)

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Kawyn

This is how I wear my scarf

This is a bit of back track to cold weather/ going out wear and a tribute to Charlotte/ Miss_Igirisu- my baby rabbit scarf buddy.

This post is about my fluffy gray scarf.

I usually like to wear it when I'm in casual stuff like a tee and jeans tucked into boots.

This is my favorite tee at the moment ;)

I bought it in Hong Kong when I went over silver week. I got it at Giordano which is like the Uniqlo of Hong Kong and it was a charity tee for betterment of animal welfare. In this picture, I wore it over many many layers of thermals and a stripey 3/4 sleave tee to keep my cozy.

Anyway back to the scarf, some girls make a loop through and it does look like you don't have a neck but it could work in some elegant Japanese office lady fashion like with a sweater dress or something. :)

Theme: Halloween

Coming from Australia, we never celebrate Halloween so this is my virgin Halloween experience!
Initially I wanted to dress up as Hello Kitty slippers wearing Trashy Inaka Yumi but then I realised I would look so the part that no one would know I was in a costume.

After some careful thinking and planning this is what I came up with:

Behold! Kawyn is Wednesday Addams!

I bought the doll from the 100yen shop and drew scars all over her body and blacked out her eye to make it scarier.

The noose around her neck was very handy as she became a cool accessory I twirled and swang at people on the dancefloor. I was so trashed at the party I lost my Marie Antoinette numerous times but she always found her way back to me :)

I'm naturally pretty pale so all I needed was a bit of foundation, plenty of eye liner and a death like expression to look the part.

Too bad most Japanese people had no idea who the Addams were. Most of them thought I was an angry goth kid.

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Kawyn

Theme: Coats and outer wear

Why wear anything else in Winter when all you need is a nice warm coat and maybe some knee high socks? :)

This coat was quite a splurge from a shopping trip last weekend. It is just so cute I HAD to have it! <3

the back is gathered so it doesn't look like a shapeless sack and its not obvious from the photos but it is actually a dusty pink colour with some nice detailing! :)

Work outfit #2

After some chilly days in my inaka, today finally warmed up to 23 degrees and I wore my favourite sheer gray blouse for possibly the last time this year.




Of course my outfit wouldn't be complete without the mask to save me from influenza ;)

A late first post

Name: Kawyn

Age: 24

Job: Secret genki gaijin

Fasion goal: I love anything cute but practical and often get inspirations from Japanese fashion magazines.

This weekend I'm going to a rock festival and this is what I'll be wearing to it.

What I wore to work today:

Busy week so far so more to come later!