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Quick Post: An outfit worn sometime around the birth of the blog. 

Another month passed, again. The fact that this outfit has been pulled from the 'archives' so to speak, at least speaks to the fact that I don't forget about the blog, nor the year long 'project' in between posts. On the contrary, I am thinking about it all the time. Even though it has only been 1 month, 3 weeks exactly, since I stopped buying clothes cold turkey, I am feeling the challenges of ... not having anything to wear. It is so true that a girl feels as though she has nothing to wear, if she has nothing new to wear. This is the challenge I wanted: to find new and interesting combinations of the plethora of pieces already residing in my closet. 

I find that a lot of inspiration has come from seeing blocks of colours beside each other, whether it be sartorially, or just in an image, structure, trinket, or poster in passing. More often than not, I am able to recreate outfits of others, with a slightly different interpretation of the colours. The combination below was seen in a look-book on some fashion website. This has been a great source of inspiration, just focusing on the colours, to come up with new combinations. In the future I will try to include some pictures from which inspiration has ensued.

Colours: cranberry, cyan, asparagus green

Excuse the awkward crouch. Was still using
iphoto at the time. Camera and battery
have been recovered.

This shirt has a story behind it... at point of purchase (which would have been only $2, at Dots), the clerk was unable to remove the security tag. For various reasons she didn't have the proper tool for removing it, and was using a wrench (conveniently stored underneath the counter). Unfortunately she broke it and blue ink started leaking all over the garment. Nooooooooooo! This piece was my favourite one out of the entire haul! Upon inspection, the ink was contained to a small corner on the bottom. She let me take the top for free as I knew I could salvage it. With some excess material used from the 'pseudo-scarf', I was able to patch up the little spot near the bottom on the back. I'll have to add a picture of the patch-job, but you can barely notice the alteration :)

Earrings picked up at a girls-night jewelry trade