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May 31 Day Fashion Blogger Challenge: Day 26 – What’s in your bag

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This is the bag I’m currently lugging around and its contents!

 

  • Oyster card
  • Book
  • Make-up bag filled with painkillers, vitamins, etc
  • Make-up bag filled with actual make-up as pictured: Blotting papers (the pink thing top left, don’t know why it’s so far away from the rest!), concealer, clear mascara, white eyeliner (used under concealer to compensate for its orangeness), lip brush (usually used for concealer though), lip liner, lipstick (Revlon ‘Cherries in the Snow’), lip balm, mini Benetint and black mascara (Bourjois Volume Glamour Ultra Care)
  • Purse/wallet/whatever you deign to call it
  • Pens x 2
  • Perfume (just a Next one I got as a gift)
  • Three hair bands
  • Mirror that I’ve had since part way through secondary school – it’s supposed to look like a CD case but I photographed the wrong side
  • Sunglasses (not pictured, but the case is)
  • Tissues
  • Phone (not pictured because I forgot to include it, I didn’t go out on the day I took the photo so it was hanging out on my desk instead)
  • Diary (not pictured, same reason as phone)

Hats and I: A Partial History

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Hats. What would I do without them? Who was I before I discovered the wonder of hats?

A much less flamboyant version of myself, that’s for sure. I discovered the wonder of hats around the same time that I decided to give up blending in and release what Sadye in Dramarama calls her ‘Lurking Bigness’ (I am reading that book at the moment. It is amazeballs). Once upon a time, I would have lusted over the hat from afar. I might have, in a moment of daring silliness, tried on some of the department store formal section offerings. Occasionally, I might have bought one – only to keep it in my cupboard, only wearing woolly hats on the coldest winter days or during the most scalp-burning summer hours and feeling self-conscious all the while.

Par exemple, the one to the right. I took this photo in first or second year of uni (hence the blur), I forget which. I love this hat, but I bought it in Debenhams yonks ago and have hardly worn it. For the first several years, I was too scared to wear it outside the house. Now I have no such fear, but the problem is the print. It doesn’t go with anything! It’s acceptable with a plainish dress, but most of my summer dresses aren’t plain. Also, I can’t find it right now…

I have a couple of regular summer hats that fold up easily and are plain (boring) enough to go with anything. Here’s one, a hand-me-up from my sister. Yes, that’s the Colosseum in the background.

In my last post, I showed you one of my winter hats and the vintage black and grey hat, the latter of which hasn’t been worn out of the house due to lack of occasion. I know! I should make an occasion! Here is another hat that has yet to make its debut into society, apologies for another old blurry bathroom pic:

I just don’t wear blue that much. I have worn it a lot more recently though, so perhaps this hat will have its time soon! I bought it from Prangsta (warning: website will make you drool) – they have, or had, five years ago, a vintage section in the basement. It was £10. It still has the little pink label attached. I think this is the hat that really triggered the obsession. I just couldn’t believe that I had bought something as silly and frivolous as a hat! I loved it. And proceeded to purchase several more hats of varying practicality and wearability.

I’ve gone through phases of obsessive wear with most of my hats – I’ve got a green silk floppy one that I wore practically every day for a fairly long time, and a pale blue and a black one, both similar to the red one in the previous post, that have had a lot of wear. The dark red spiral mesh cap has been worn quite a lot as well, and I haven’t even started telling you about my beret collection – I have four. But it is far too hot to be wearing and photographing berets, so I will leave you with this picture I took of Aprella at an Emilie Autumn concert, wearing a miniature top hat. I have wanted a miniature top hat since the moment I first saw one. One day I will find the perfect one, and actually persuade myself to hand over the funds for it. Shouldn’t be too hard.