Peekaboo Pups

Posted: January 18, 2023 | Author: Salazar | Filed under: Clothes | Tags: blue, blue button-up, brown, brown corduroy pants, brown loafers, gray, gray patterned vest | Leave a comment

I’m finally on my winter/Lunar New Year break, and it’s quite warm lately, so here’s a casual outfit for lounging around at home. Just kidding, I don’t really lounge. There’s all the preparations for the New Year to be done, and I have a lot of work to finish, plus I’ve started writing again lately (just silly, fanfic stuff, but it’s fun) so I’m quite busy still. Anyway, it’s going to be the Year of the Cat soon, so here are some… puppies? I wasn’t really thinking about it. I would try to put together a cat-themed outfit for the New Year though.

More 1940s Knitwear

Posted: November 11, 2022 | Author: Salazar | Filed under: Clothes | Tags: brown, brown loafers, green, olive culottes, red patterned vest, white, white lace collar blouse | Leave a comment

I’m almost done with Foyle’s War, and after that, it’s on to the latest season of All Creatures Great and Small, which means that I’m nowhere done with 1940s knitwear yet (plus, the cold season in Hanoi has just started.) However, the weather remains annoyingly warm. Sure, it gets a bit crisp in the morning and after sunset, but during the day, it can get quite hot. So I have to resort to my usual tactic – layering, especially with waistcoats, sweater vests, and short-sleeve shirts. It satisfies my craving for cold-weather clothes without making me feel overheated.

Big Old Softy

Posted: November 10, 2021 | Author: Salazar | Filed under: Clothes | Tags: beige, brown, brown cardigan, brown houndstooth skirt, brown loafers, cat collar button-up | 2 Comments

Sometimes, when the stars are all aligned, you find a piece that fits so well with your aesthetic/style that it doesn’t take any thought at all to put an outfit together. This cat shirt is one such piece. It’s the perfect piece for my “crazy cat lady” style, and this outfit just came together effortlessly. It’s what I imagine Miss Marple would wear if she was a twee style blogger in the early 2010s.

P/S: The title refers to Greebo the cat in Discworld. I’ve had too many posts titled “Cat Lady” or “Crazy Cat Lady” already, and the Witches of Discworld are pretty much my role models, so I figured a reference to Greebo would be appropriate.

Embracing The Wrinkles

Posted: July 15, 2020 | Author: Salazar | Filed under: Clothes | Tags: belt, brown, brown loafers, orange, orange linen top, white, white baggy pants | 1 Comment

This linen top is another thrift store find. I’ve been looking for more orange/rust/brown-colored tops (earth tones like those look good on me), and I was drawn to the cute little flowers embroidered on this. Of course, being linen, it wrinkles like crazy (these pants do, too – they wrinkle almost as soon as I put them on) but I’ve learned to just not give a fuck. It’s been so hot lately that I can only tolerate natural, breathable fabrics like cotton and linen. I’d take the wrinkles over sweaty, smelly synthetic fabrics any day.

Thanks, It Has Pockets!

Posted: June 19, 2020 | Author: Salazar | Filed under: Clothes | Tags: brown, brown loafers, tan striped skirt, white, white button-up | 3 Comments

Does anything make a girl more excited than a dress/skirt with pockets? Whenever a girl receives a compliment on her pocketed dress/skirt, she always replies with “Thanks, it has pockets!” and makes a show of putting her hands in them, right? I know I do (I recently saw this meme about it, which makes me laugh out loud.). The appeal of the pockets is so great that when I saw this skirt on sale, I was ready to pass it up per my resolution not to buy anything new, but then I saw that it has pockets, and, well, my fate was sealed.

Also, as pretentious as it sounds, I feel a bit like Carolina Herrera in this outfit. It’s the combination of white button-up shirt and midi skirt, I guess.