The felt panda pin is another accessory hand-made from Aranzi Aronzo's patterns.
Today Ben, a co-worker, said he was surprised to find out that the tall female stranger he saw in his peripheral vision turned out to be me. He said maybe it was the illusion created by skinny jeans and heels. It must be a pretty powerful illusion because at 5 feet I am, by all standards, extremely petite.
Inspired by this photo from The Sartorialist, I've been wearing cuffed jeans to work quite a lot. Here's my first attempt.
What I like most about this is not the lady-like pleated dress or the soft pink cardigan but the small necklace pendant hanging from a delicate silver chain: a semi-automatic handgun.
This strapless dress from Mango appears to have been frantically dabbed over and over by a brush dipped in black paint. And then repeated with red.
...when you're panic buying at H&M in Hong Kong. Having flown from a country without H&M, I didn't care that this beautiful shirt dress - with puff sleeves and tuxedo top details - was a size too big.
I'm 5 feet tall. This dress, before I shortened it, was just about that measurement as well.
Supposedly, you dress for the job you want and not the job you have. Very luckily, I have the job I want. It is, though, a job that tolerates the wearing of concert tees, sneakers and the occasional flip-flop. Which is great but on this particular day I felt like looking more businessy. What's more businessy than a blazer?
I'd love to stash my battered mobile phone and daily stock of Tiger biscuits in this classy, classy thing on the left. On the right is my 2Dme with my fantasy bag perched on a giant L in a fantasy Louis Vuitton ad.
Manila hasn't seen a lot of sun the past few weeks. So in anticipation of more tropical thunderstorms, today I threw on my new Zara jacket. I didn't get to spend a lot of time outdoors though. Instead of shielding me from the rain, it ended up shielding me from our office's 59 air-conditioning units.
A black drop-waist dress over a gray t-shirt whimsified with felt rabbit pin. I made that fuzzy little doll with patterns and instructions from a book by Aranzi Aronzo. Mighty cute book. It inspires the creation of many felt rabbits. And falling after them through holes as my 2Dme is demonstrating.
That's me on the left. And that's 2D me on the right. Today we're wearing a bubble dress from a Hong Kong sidewalk vendor, a pinstripe vest from my mom's closet, a bag from Topshop and shoes from Landmark Department Store.
