Rad House

 So I went to Toronto last week to do bloggy-blog stuff and stumbled upon the most utterly perfect, life-defining dress at Zara. I couldn't afford it but OOPS had to buy it anyway, because it is literally everything I have ever wanted in a dress.

 You get to look at two picture of me and my silly new haircut just because I love this dress so much. I've been wearing it with my H&M cropped cardigan sweater which I basically wear every day because the cut is great and it has elbow patches. I've always been a huge sucker for elbow patches even though that's never been reflected in my wardrobe before.

Also, a huge thank you to the Houndstooth Bunny for drawing such a cute picture of me wearing this outfit! Its super cute and I love it and I hope you keep drawing!

The Model

As subtle as they are, I based today's outfit around the frill ankle socks I am wearing on my feet. But I didn't want to look like I got lost in Candyland (aka Katy Perry's awful video for California Gurls, pardon the repulsive intentional misspelling) so I wore it with my goth jams sequin ribcage dress. Rodarte for Target has got me covered in the 'weird' department, I can clarify that.

I've been obsessively listening to Big Black for the past little while. Steve Albini has done the sound engineering for some of my favourite bands ever (Pixies, Nirvana, PJ Harvey) so its kind of shocking that I hadn't really heard his music before. I like my music to have the intensity of a noise apocalypse and Big Black's drum-machine hardcore sound certainly delivers. Plus, there is no better album title on Earth than 'Songs About Fucking'.

She's Ovulating!!

Roommate: "I feel like its Halloween today."

Yes. Last night in a half-ass attempt to study for my Women's Studies midterm, I watched the movie Ginger Snaps and accidentally stumbled upon the greatest angsty goth girl outfit inspiration of all time. It's a lycanthropy-themed campy Canadian horror movie and the two main sisters Brigitte and Ginger are the ultimate creepy yet awesome examples of teenage ennui. Ginger's style was a little "high school Wiccan" for my tastes while she was busy transforming into a werewolf, but Brigitte's awkward style and twitchy mannerisms were the ultimate inspiration behind this outfit. The plaid skirt is vintage, worn with an American Apparel turtleneck and Blundstone boots.

Why not add a cape for good measure?

VDAY

Happy Valentine's Day! It's very gloomy and wet outside, so the gothic dress and black lace is super appropriate for such a subversive occasion. Perfect for casting witchy love spells and burning Dragon's Blood incense, right?

My neon + black lace legs are sort of channeling an "Edward Gorey-on-hallucinogens" vibe, which is weird but then again, aren't all Hallmark holidays weird enough?

Here are some of my favourite valentine-y cards I've gathered from around the interwebs. And if you want to reminisce, last year's V-Day post was a badass one!

Just When I Think I'm King

 I've been feeling like a nomad lately, relying on the kindness of other to take my outfit pictures for me.  It's kind of at the point where I want to develop my own language of hobo signs. Today's goth jams were captured at American Apparel before the store opened, thanks to a kind co-worker. I'm loving the sexy slouch of the lace raglan, tucked into my chiffon maxi skirt. It took long enough for me to warm up to maxi skirts, but I'm into them full force right now!

If you haven't noticed I finally changed my blog font to Courier, which is probably the font I most relate to. There are new links to my Sponsor page as well as my writing portfolio, so maybe dig my slang and throw out some dollars?

Blooming Cherry Trees

As you can see, I'm getting pretty serious about the goth jams this winter! There's like a foot of snow and it's fun dressing up like a severe existensialist who wears only Comme des Garçons. Plus it's kind of nice juxtaposing all of this white snow with a cloud of black, and I also dressed more colourful than a candy wrapper last night so I have an excuse...

As you can see, I found an evil eye necklace to wear! Maximum protection against evil spirits and also way less tired imagery than inverted crosses or triangles.

Mad World

Every so often, someone sends you a gift that is perfect in every way.  When Sunshine (what a beautiful name!) of Blog Full of Jelly offered to send me what she described as a vintage 'Winona Ryder' dress, I knew I was in for a treat - yet I was still surprised by the utter perfection of this dress. Lace peter pan collar, awkward hem length and fits like a dream. Of course I had to channel Winona Forever by pairing it with my new stomping boots. Thank you so much, Sunshine!!

Collecting pictures of peter pan collar dresses is becoming some sort of fetishistic obsession for me.

 

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Thundering blissfully towards death.

Today is my first official day of 'twenty-somethinghood'. Yep, it's my twenty-first birthday! Or should I say, 'barfday'? I'm officially breaking out the 'adult' today with braided bangs, heirloom jewelery and little black dress. Or should I say, the sad little gothic girl inside is mourning the death of my youth? However you take it, these are the classiest goth jam vibes on the market.

12.25.10

A very merry Grinch-mas to you all! Instead of blogging, I've been spending my time wisely: outdoor ice skating, reading Kurt Vonnegut books, cooking and EATING MY WEIGHT IN CHOCOLATE THRICE OVER. My wonderful mother custom made me this perfect Peter Pan collar dress and I've been parading around in it for hours. For one day a year, goth jams become Grinch jams!!

Handel's Messiah is playing on the radio and I can't wait to hear the Queen's annual Christmas speech. Good day to you all!

Pleiades

Aaaaand I'm off to Ottawa for the weekend! Going to see extended family, visit the Museum of Natural History, watch Arrested Development, be a general hell-raiser etc. The minimal wardrobe I packed is very Goth Jams: Sparkle Edition. I'm really in love with my American Apparel sweater dress, vintage leopard collar and thrifted Doc Martens.

Vibes

So, I thrifted this goth tuxedo shirt ages ago, but haven't worn it until now. The black + asymmetry + ruffles a perfect for goth jams 2010.

Ask; what for?

 Outfit double whammy comin' at ya! Today's outfit it pretty simple. Bichromatic, thrifted old man cardigan with little girl's tutu (H&M) and crazy cult leader shirt (American Apparel). The tutu is so short I have to wear bloomers underneath! I guess that's the price I have to pay for being 15 years too old to shop in the kid's department. My defense: it cost $3.

Yesterday's outfit proves to the world that it is possible to do 'goth jams' without wearing any black! You just have to get the proportions right. Dramatic long maxi skirt, loose cropped shirt, stern square toe loafers and hair in a creepy Wednesday Addams/Prairie Girl braid. Everything American Apparel, Salvatore Ferragamo loafers.

Oh Katrina!

Working on my casual goth jams look today, with my Comme Des Garçons top, American Apparel riding pants and plaid flannel. The asymmetry of the shirt makes this look still kind of romantic, but the plaid flannel makes it much less dramatic than the long skirt-wearing, poetry-reading gothic look that I'm usually trying to channel. It's kind of sad, but I don't think any picture will ever do justice to the true beauty of this top.

Truth Noise

As you can see by the white flecks in the foreground, today (November 5th) happens to be the first snow of the year!! What better way to celebrate this momentous occasion than an outfit picture? I may be stuck in rain boots, but at least I can show off the new vintage leopard print collar I bought off of Etsy! It's absolutely genius. The dress is goth jams at its finest.

I'm almost certain the collar is real mongolian lamb fur and REAL LEOPARD. Kind of disturbing, but I like it.

Long, Long, Long

So the entire week before Halloween is officially "dress-up in costume" at American Apparel. Can you guess what I went as?

YUP. A goth. There was black lipstick involved. Let's just say it's really a good thing I didn't throw out that pyramid stud cuff leftover from my grade nine mall punk days. I also don't own a crucifix necklace, so I went with a Star of David in keeping with the 'subversive religiosity' theme.

Everyone else had the cutest costumes on Monday, so I am sharing some of my favourites.

Jenn as Snow White

Raena as the Tooth Fairy

Joel as a Sea Captain (note the corn cob pipe)

Cass as Tinkerbell