Vancouver Eco Fashion Week: Thrift Chic Challenge #EW08

I have been selected as a Top 10 Finalist for Vancouver Eco Fashion Week's Thrift Chic Challenge!  This is very exciting and an amazing opportunity for me.  Basically if I win, I receive a gift certificate to Value Village and will style head to toe thrifty looks to walk down the runway at Eco Fashion Week.  I mean, who better to do that?  However my lovely readers, I need your help!  Whoever's photo gets the most likes in their facebook photo album wins. So pretty please head on over to the link below and show this photo some "liking":

http://on.fb.me/1krK2s0

The Ride:

                                           

Erin Wasson for Free People's March Lookbook The Ride.

Leave it all behind...

I'm having a closet sale!  Keep posted on the link below as I will be adding stuff here and there.  Everything from my recent vintage finds to my once upon a times.

https://www.facebook.com/strippedandbuffed

Love Me Not:

Happy Love Day!  Even though I'm one of those "Every day should be Valentine's Day" believers it is a good reminder to keeps things special.  Having said that, my wardrobe is an all black everything everyday and so I vouch to incorporate more colour in my wardrobe, especially this red cape.  After being hung in my closet for years I decided to dust it off and throw it on just to see how it looked.  Now I remembered why I had bought it in the first place and why I had been holding onto it for all this time.  I had forgotten how special it was and how it made me feel.  Sometimes it takes a little reminding to brighten a love.  Whatever that may be.


(cape: vintage, dress: vintage, necklaces: Wolf Circus, Istanbul, Forever 21, boots: h&m, long stem roses: my everyday special love.)

Lookbook Love: Land of Eternal Spring

For Love and Lemons Spring 2014

Stylist: Ashley Glorioso

Photographer: Zoey Grossman

My favourite duo has done it again!  Ashley and Zoey have come together for the latest lookbook dream from For Love and Lemons.  There were so many amazing looks from this shoot that it was hard for me to narrow it down. Everything about this is smothered with bohemian romance. From the embellished accessories to the sultry lace and tousled hair, I swoon!  Can we talk about the return of gladiator sandals? Yep, I'm sold and ready for spring to awaken.

All That Glitters:

Tis the Season for glitz and glam, indulgence and of course the gift of giving.  I can't afford to indulge in as many ways as I'd like so at least I can look like it when it comes to my wardrobe.  This snazzy dress was a recent find at one of my weekly thrift hunts.  After keeping my eye on it for 3 weeks I declared against the larger marked sizing, and convinced myself to at the very least to try it on.  Even though it was obviously too big, there was something about it that convinced me it was worth buying and taking in to get altered. The next day, I went into my local seamstress with apprehension thinking about the intricate beading and sequins bedazzled all over.  I knew it was either going to be ridiculously expensive or straight up impossible to fix.  Turned out the cost to get it altered would have been 20 times more than what I paid for the dress itself, being that it would have to be done by hand.  Seeing the disappointment on my face, the seamstress took me to the back of the store and taught me how to sew it myself, step by step, as I held onto her every word through her gentle yet distinct Russian accent.  After some patience and a few late nights,  I had transformed this over-sized outdated throwaway into my latest dream dress.  Amazing how a little kindness can go a long way.    


(clutch: H&M, earrings: The Bay. dress, shoes, faux fur jacket and rings: vintage)