Wednesday 2 October 2013

Day 2:: Frocktober - The Ugly Dress

You know the anti-graffiti upholstery in trains and buses? Well this dress reminds me of that. 

In a deep and dark flea market, when my heart was palpitating like it was nobody's business, I dug up this dress. In hindsight I should have left it there like a buried non-treasure.

But sometimes I get excited and think "YES! This is going to be a winner." And then I get it home and post-purchase euphoria subsides and I think "What the hector was I thinking?!"

So this is it. We made it past $1500 (thank you thank you thank you my kind, generous sponsors!) - and here's my ugly dress. 

A friend described it as this, and she's so bang on correctomondo.



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Dress: Vintage handmade (those hand stitches made me buy this dress)
Belt: Country Road
Shoes: Country Road ($19.95 from the Outlet store - yeeeew!)
Bangles: Gifts from awesome friends and family
Mani: Hello Darling Lobster Shack

5 comments:

Sam Stone @ A Life on Venus said...

Congrats on the $1500 and the ugly dress too.

Emma Bovary said...

Well I think you look really pretty in this! Print is pretty out there but I think you pull it off well :)

ejorpin said...

Hooray for $1500! And no frock looks ugly on you (especially with those shoes!)

Oily Shoes said...

Wish my ugly dresses looked that good!

lindyinbrisbane said...

The dress may not be fantastic, but you would look good in a hessian sack!