"Ladies and gentlemen, whether you like it or not... Hedwig."
I
woke yesterday morning with an over-whelming desire to embrace my inner
Hedwig. This is what I came up with at a moments notice. I think it's Hedwigish.
"Don't you know me? I'm the new Berlin Wall. Try and tear me down!"
Was a gift from a friend, but you can find a similar shirt at Rainbow Shops. This print is also available on two tanks at rainbow.
Boots
I got last year from Iron Fist Clothing. They are no longer in stock, but if you look around sometimes you can find them. Here is a listing for a pair currently on eBay.
Necklace
EILH. I have lots of different Hedwig designs on my Etsy page. I also take custom orders so if you would like me to design you something special just send me a message on Etsy.
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Our theme this month for Ahead of the Curve is Garden Party. I can't say I've ever been to a fancy garden party; I can only imagine a true garden party would be totally classy, with fruity cocktails and ladies in pastel frocks with large hats. Oh, and mini sandwiches of exotic types, lots of mini sandwiches. In Canada, people tend to throw a different type of garden party. There is usually no garden. It's mostly about the fire, burgers, and beer. Today I dressed for the party I want, not the party I've got.
My outfit is mostly a mish-mash of items I've had sitting in my closet, Unfortunately, some of these items are currently unavailable. I am sorry about that, but I still wanted to go with this look; hopefully my outfit will still inspire. The dress I picked up at eShakti last fall; they carry many dresses in this color so you should still be able to find something you love. I had this dress made custom to my measurements (53/50/64). You can get any dress from their site custom fitted for an extra $7. I think they did a pretty bang on jobthough I wish the sleeves were a little shorter and tighterbut, for the most part I'm very happy with the fit.The one thing I do dislike about this dress is the fact it wrinkles so easy. The dress was steamed ten minutes before these photos were taken and you can see in many of them it's already wrinkly. Wrinkles are my arch enemy. My shoes and socks are both from ModCloth. The shoes are sold out, but don't lose hope, ModCloth quite often brings back their popular items. You also can make a request to be notified if they do become available in stock. The dancing on flair socks are currently in stockand I think they are totally adorable. Who doesn't want to wear the same socks they wore the first day of kindergarten? HA! Alright so maybe not everyone, but I'll never grow up.
While I'm sure my red hair would have looked fine with this look, I kind of wanted to sport shorter hair, so I pulled out a black wig my husband wore for Halloween. I thought it looked pretty cute for my fictitious party. Blue Moon lips from Pretty Zombie Cosmetics and my paper doll Divine pin finished off my look. I really love the liquid lip product from PZCbut, I'm on the fence still about the blue color. My husband came home and told me he liked them, but they will take some getting used to. How do you feel about all the new quirky lip colors coming into trend?
So
I'm all dolled up with no real garden party in sight. I think I may
need to bring back the art of the garden party around here. Who want's a
cocktail?
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TheWizard of Oz was one of my favorite movies as a child. It might even be the movie that started my love of everything dark and villainous in this world. While most girls my age were praying Dorthy make it home safe. I just wanted more of the evil green faced witch and her uber creepy slave monkeys. When putting this look together I kept going back to the scene I have posted above. I wanted to incorporate the yellow brick road, wicked witch, monkeys and of course poppies. I needed everything from this stand out scene to tie together my outfit.
A few months ago I discovered Hell Bunny released a poppy skirt and dress. While the dress is super cute it really wasn't going to work for the look I had in mind. I knew I wanted to make the skirt the center piece and work the darkness around it. These poppies really were the perfect excuse to finally buy my first HB skirt. I picked the skirt up at Sweet Echo Plus. Sweet Echo is my go to shop for Hell Bunny. I order a size 4X. I was a little afraid it would not fit. There is no elastic in a Hell Bunny skirt and their size chart only goes up to a 46" waist. My low waist is 50". If I had to wear this skirt on my low waist it would not fit. It works fine for the high waist look I was going for. I actually can only see myself wearing these skirts high waited. I find it to be a good length high waist. If I wore it down lower it would be longer in my legs then I like.
The bright yellow tights I got from My Tights. I was totally trying to find a pair of tights there were more reasonably priced than We Love Colors. I'll admit I was being cheap. WLC ends up costing me $30 for one pair after shipping and I only wanted a pair of yellow. I found My Tights was much cheaper. These were $9 for the tights and only $5 shipping to Canada. That being said the tights took four weeks too arrive. They also are much too short to fit me properly. I'm 5'6" and the only way I could keep them up was to wear Spanx over top. Spanx under a full skirt suck! If you are under 5'6" I would totally recommend that you check these out. You can't beat the price. The tights were good quality and the color was very vibrant. I'm wearing the UK 28/30 for reference.
For a skirt I wanted the classic black and white side shot of the wicked witch. I had a hard time finding exactly what I wanted so I created the shirt I wanted in RedBubble.
Redbubble is fantastic if you have a vision and can't find what you are looking for. This happens to me a lot. I just have to go ahead and make the stuff I visualize. My shirt was ordered in size XL. It is very snug, but I wanted it very fitted.
My creepy monkey minions also were custom made. I made a pin and a matching ring. I kind of wish I had made more. Lots and lots of creepy moneys. Can one ever have too many?
Lastly my shoes came from ASOS. I fell head over heels in love with them. They were so wicked and witchy and made me think of this seasons American Horror Story Coven. I would like to think that The Supreme and the Wicked Witch of the West would have been best buds. Ya know if she hadn't been melted.
Please leave me a comment below and let me know what you thought of today's look. I love getting feedback and answering questions. If there are any items you would like to see me blog about or review let me know.
