bathing in morning light

 dress, button-up (worn as jacket/overcoat) and laced-up ankle boots are all vintage.

I did say this summer was going to go all light in terms of dressing up.This is probably the most consistent I'll be almost all summer long. We'll see in the coming few weeks if I'll stick to this color palette...most likely, I will, one way or another. 

This is probably the third time I've worn this dress and posted of it on this blog. The other two times in the past I did, I'd covered it with a loose t (the Zara 'I'm from LA' graphic/text one) and the other, with a dreamy Emoda top, two of which I own from seasons ago, shipped from Japan thanks to FromJapan. There're really no direct shipping around Asia for things from other countries so proxy shopping sites are the way to go when one wants to get stuff from other Asian countries. I guess it's alright, though. Proxy shopping sites aren't that bad until you end up with sky-high bills due to shipping and handling fees among others. I guess the way around something like this would be to shop wisely. Something I've been doing for the a couple of years or so now.

The dress is perfect for hot sunny days of working from home, a couple of hours or so before leaving to do life stuff...oh and for lounging around when you get home. I feel as cozy in it as I did yesterday's get-up. This just proves when you're in a crazy hot country, less, really light clothing works wonders around the insane high heat temperatures. As for the latter, it's never really reached dessert in the middle east hot but it's come close. Hopefully the heat doesn't get any higher.

Anyway, wearing all vintage shouldn't be a crime, right? Right. Although mixing brands with vintage frequently is more preferable to the fashion- or style-conscious, something so religiously sworn by many fashionistas/fashion experts.  

So apparently, I have a new-old clutch. This bag was never really meant to contain heavy items inside it but I stuff my rose water spray/face refresher on it a lot along with other things including lipbalm, tissues and pens and carry it around when I go out... Well, the end result of heavy items being in the bag numerous times? One strap of it broke. I could've easily got to a shop that repairs bags to fix the damage but I thought it would be faster to use the scissors and snipe off the other end of the long strap so the bag could still be useful as a clutch. I do have very few spacey clutch bags for...well...stuff. I wouldn't mind getting a new-old one like this I could continue to stuff heavy and light things on inside them. Plus, I don't have to actually go out looking for a spacey, larger than usual (oversized) clutch this way. The bag isn't that oversized to begin with, unlike a couple of those messenger ones I own. It's just...I guess, perfect for random errand running here and there.

Here, below is how the bag looked like with one strap off, right before I used the scissors (also captured in said photo) to snipe off its other end

I haven't actually decided what the strap can be used for... I'll think about it...

something simple for today

 t, secondhand. shorts, levis. belt, vintage. pumps, zalora. bag, gifted (by aunt). cross necklace (long), f21.

Something simple today as this Friday late afternoon is for catching up on yesterday's missed UAAP men's football on local TV. ADMU (Ateneo de Manila University) is playing against the Far Eastern University men's football team. A little story about my love story with the men's football games: apart from being of it in the international scene (thank you, World Cup 2002 in Japan/Korea!), I always made sure to cover the university's (CdeO's own Ateneo, Xavier Uni) men's football games during the intramurals/uni sports fest for the student or school paper. This was for the intrams/sports fest issue, of course. There's just something about men's football that gives me thrills inside...although, of course, a small portion of it is just the cute guys on the field. 

As for this outfit...yeah...I don't really prescribe much to the t, shorts and pumps formula...much. Redundant, I know. But yes, I'm the type to swap the pumps with a pair of ankle boots on my way out. This might work for some lunch, coffee or casual dinner date, however. Or maybe a random beach trip which I have yet to do with friend/s or so. Or a movie date but I'd end up covering the legs with some opaque tights beforehand granted the movie theaters does get cold. Speaking of movies...I'm pretty bummed I missed A Cure for Wellness. I'm a mild Dane Dehaan err...admirer. I really, really liked Dane's acting in the last the Amazing Spider Man film I sort of forgot Andrew Garfield existed.   


Funny how similar this outfit is to this, here. This contents of this blog is fast becoming a repetition of things apparently. Which is something easy to figure out as I haven't really bought anything new in what...? About three or so months now? Nope, nothing new since around late last year in the clothing department. By the next few months into this year, I'll have blogged 99% of my closet here and probably would've bought zero things new even then. I'll update the wardrobe some other time, I guess. Clothes just lately seem to be the lowest in my priorities to get as of late. This doesn't, of course mean that I'll abstain from getting basics here and there. I still have a weakness for all things Bench Ph/TM basics.