Dressember 2011 – part 3

And here we have it – the final days of Dressember 2011.

22 December

Dress: from a clothes swap party
Cardigan: from an op shop in Christchurch
Belt: from a different op shop, in Rangiora
Necklace: Equip (cheap-as chain store)
Shoes: from Banks Shoes
Bag: from another clothes swap party
Hair flower: gift from the lovely Seeks
Sunglasses: Kate Sylvester (New Zealand designer)
Worn: to work, then for a wander around the zoo. Check out those giraffes – aren’t they awesome? (But then, giraffes are always awesome.)

24 December

Dress: from a clothes swap party
Cardigan: either from an op shop or a clothes swap party – I forget which
Necklace: lovebirds by Boh Runga (New Zealand jewellery designer)
Shoes: Adidas
Belt (hidden under cardigan): from an op shop
Worn: around the house, then flying to Dunedin and travelling out to my parent’s place. This photo is in my sister’s old bedroom, where we were staying.

25 December – Christmas!

Dress: me-made Ladies a Plate dress
Cardigan: from an op shop
Shoes: Adidas
Hair ribbon: was around a Christmas present, is now in my hair
Worn: for Christmas Day celebrations at my parent’s house, with my family. My parents own a small lifestyle block (I used to call it a “hobby farm”), and this photo is from one of the paddocks near the top of their section

26 December – Boxing Day!

Dress: me-made Sweetheart Red dress
Belt: from an op shop
Necklace: burnt match necklace by a New Zealand jewellery (Christmas gift from my mummy)
Worn: on a road trip with my family down to Gore for the annual extended-family Christmas BBQ, then back to Dunedin again. This photo was taken in Balclutha, with the (famous-in-southern-NZ) Balclutha Bridge in the background.

27 December

Dress: me-made November dress
Shoes: Adidas
Worn: lazing around my parent’s house for the day. This photo was taken on their balcony.

28 December
Dress: from a clothes swap
Sunglasses: Kate Sylvester (New Zealand designer)
Shoes: Adidas
Necklace: greenstone that Steve gave me for Christmas. It means “Strength, Independence, Unity”.
Worn: around my parent’s house and farm. I gave Steve a kite for Christmas, so we were outside flying it. Fun!

29 December

Dress: me-made Buzzy Bees dress
Bag: from a clothes swap
Sunglasses: Kate Sylvester
Shoes: Adidas
Worn: around the Chinese Gardens in Dunedin (where the photo was taken), then on a walk along the Aramoana Spit

30 December

Dress: me-made Ladies a Plate dress
Cardigan: from an op shop (or perhaps a clothes swap?)
Shoes: Adidas
Bag: from a clothes swap
Jacket (in next photo): from my friend Christina
Worn: on a trip to Oamaru (steampunk capital of New Zealand. Hence the steampunk ray gun), with a side-trip to Shag Point where we saw a whole lot of fur seals. Can you spot them in the picture below?

31 December

Dress: me-made Buzzy Bees dress
Cardigan: from an op shop
Necklace: Origami Crane by a New Zealand designer
Jacket: from my friend Christina
Shoes: Adidas
Worn: around my parent’s place, then flying back to Wellington. Home again!

Dressember 2011 – part 2

Turns out January has snuck up on me quickly this year, and I still have two weeks of posts about Dressember. Rather than doing one super-long post of two weeks of Dressember outfits (dresses), I’m breaking it up into two. Part 3 of Dressember will be along later, either today or tomorrow.

15 December

Dress: me-made June dress
Cardigan: from chain store Glassons
Necklace: bug in resin by a New Zealand jeweller, purchased in Taupo
Worn to work.

16 December

Dress: me-made gingham with cherries, made to wear to my brother’s wedding about 3.5 years ago
Cardigan: from a clothes swap
Necklace: bug in resin, purchased in Taupo
Worn to be a Christmas Angel in Kilbirnie PostShop (they send some of us out from head office to help in the stores during the crazy busy Christmas period). Since I was being a Christmas Angel, I wore Christmas colours – red, green, and cherries!

17 December

Dress: me-made Mod Ascot dress
Cardigan: from an op shop
Long socks: probably from Farmers
Worn to the Christmas bbq for my team at work.

18 December

Dress: from New Zealand designer MAW
Cardigan: from an op shop
Belt: came with the dress
Socks: probably from Farmers
Shoes: Sabrina shoes from Minx
Worn to an early Christmas lunch with Steve’s parents, then out to dinner at Flying Burrito Brothers for a farewell for our flatmate Heather.

19 December

Dress: me-made Unrequited Love dress
Cardigan: me-made
Tights: Farmers
Worn to work.

20 December

Dress: me-made 1950′s Housewife dress
Belt: from Wellington designer Andrea Moore
Tights: NZ brand Columbine, from Farmers
Shoes: Sabrina shoes from NZ shoe makers Minx
Necklace: lovebirds by NZ designer Boh Runga (yes, I try to get locally made things wherever possible)
Worn to work, which today involved flying to Hamilton to do some customer research. So here’s a hotel room photo for you.

21 December

Dress: me-made Floral Forties dress, on it’s first outing. (I finished sewing the blind hem in the hotel room last night.)
Belt: from an op shop
Shoes: purchased in Tauranga
Necklace: lovebirds necklace by NZ jewellery designer Boh Runga
Worn to work, which today started with some research in Hamilton, then progressed on a road trip to central Auckland then Manukau (also for research), then flying back to Wellington. Some days, I love my job.

So there we have it – roughly the third week of December in dresses. Tune in later for the third and final Dressember post!

Dressember 2011

About a week ago, I stumbled upon Dressember – a Facebook group where girls sign up to wear a dress a day for a whole month. Dresses? For a whole month?? Count me in!!

Sadly I was a bit late in my stumbling upon it (via fellow Wellington blogger His Girl Friday) so I missed the first week. I figure I’ll make up for that by wearing a different dress each day for the rest of December. Yes, that’s right – I plan to not wear the same dress twice for the rest of this month!

Here’s how I’m going so far….

8 December

Dress: modified blue floral 1970′s dress
Cardigan: me-made
Tights: Farmers
Shoes: Plimmer shoes
Necklace: Govett Brewster art gallery

9 December

Dress: me-made (and for some reason, no longer anywhere to be found on my blog….)
Belt: Andrea Moore
Necklace: feather from Miss G
Shoes: yellow Adidas sneakers

10 December

Dress: me-made Bookish Willow dress

11 December
No dress today, as it was a clothes swap party day, and dresses don’t work so well when you’re trying on lots of clothes……

12 December

Dress: Deborah Sweeney (Wellington designer)
Cardigan: from an op shop
Necklace: unknown NZ jeweller (it has the bird from the old $5 note on it – yay!)
Shoes: yellow Adidas sneakers (although during the day at work I was wearing tan strappy wedge heels instead)

13 December

Dress: me-made peanut butter dress, after a twirl so the skirt twirls a bit too
Petticoat: from a small Wellington designer (whose name I forget – sorry!)

And just because the sky was awesome that evening, here’s another photo of it….

14 December

Dress: me-made Romantic Tulips dress
Necklace: bug in resin from some NZ jeweller
Shoes: my new red shoes getting their first wear! From Banks Shoes last week

Anyone who does the Wednesday Wardrobe Challenge may pick up that today (14 December) was a Wednesday. The challenge for today was ‘shorts’. Clearly, that dress is not a pair of shorts. I was going to break the Dressember for the previously-committed-to Wardrobe Challenge, but guess what? Turns out I own only one pair of shorts even vaguely suitable for the office, which I have never worn, and which don’t fit me these days. But that’s ok – I’m not really a shorts sort of gal anyway. Gee what a shame – I had to wear a dress after all.