top hat and cane...

Today at Hungry Jacks I saw a person in a top hat, punk style leather jacket carrying a cane ordering a jnr whopper.  He asked for lemonade with his meal.  He looked so hardcore, yet his order was so...not hardcore.  It was kind of cute.

He sat down with his assortment of friends and they discussed how cool War of The Worlds was, and how much Tom Cruise sucks.

I dyed a white top purple today, with moderate success.  It took quite a while, the colour didn't come out exactly as I thought it would...but when I compared the final result to the colour on the box, it was almost identical.  I sort of had in mind this quite dark, inky purple...but instead it's a more sedate dark lavender. 

I cannot bring myself to wear white clothes - apart from the fact that I think people who wear white clothes look like they're either going to bowls or that they're glowing, I just feel very "obvious" in white.  But I bought this brown top awhile ago, that is so comfortable and looks so good, that I went back to get another one, and they only had black or white left.  So I bought the black one, and two white ones.  I have dyed one purple, and I'm going to dye the other one navy? or dark green? or maybe even a sort of latte coffee colour. 

I'm sort of really bad with clothes, completely lazy and unimaginative.  If I find something I like and is comfortable for everyday wear, then I just buy a whole bunch of them and wear them until they fall to bits.  I have about 10 black t-shirts, 10 grey t-shirts, 4 of these tops described above, and in winter I just wear jeans, and in summer I wear cargo pants.  The end.  I wear Birkenstock clogs all year round and about 1/2 the time in summer I wear Dr Martens sandals.  I am boring and lazy. 

People in Brisbane don't dress up at all - for anything!  It's been so easy for us to just drop our Melbourne way of dressing and just go "Brisbane" in our dress habits.  I have mixed feelings about it, but continuing to dress as Melbournites really made us stand out in any crowd.  Overdressed, buttoned up, black clothes, accessories, ties, nice shoes that sort of thing.

I wish Trinny and Suzanna would descend upon me and give me the "What Not To Wear" treatment.  Because I'm with the kids at home, I have to be comfortable, but also presentable - I can't lounge around in tracky-daks and ugg boots - the parents would go mental.  I also bought 4 identical dark blue t-shirts, I'm hopeless, there is no hope for me.

posted by: blytheswideshut at July 09, 2005 21:37 | link | comments |

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