“I’m wearing a top I got in Mexico City, a scarf I thrifted as a skirt, and shoes I thrifted as well. The earrings are from a vendor at a Black Art Matterss event and the rest of the jewelry is from Harlem. My style is inspired by the 60s and 70s and West African funk artists of that time. I’m Cameroonian myself and my dad was wearing outfits you’d see on Soul Train or at the Summer of Soul during that time period but in Cameroon.”
“I thrifted this dress last summer and I immediately I wanted to wear it on the first school day in fall. I like the dress because it is colorful and a but crazy.”
[Video description: A 20 second video showing the process for embroidering a brown wool coat with green to look like it has moss on it. The first shot is the finished product, then a shot showing materials used, and several shots of french knots being pulled tight. The final shots are a wide shot of the finished product, followed by two close up shots of the embroidered areas. The embroidery is two tones of green in a bunch of little knots clustered together. /end video description]
I had such a good time making this. There was some damage to the lapels so I decided to do some visible mending!
An autumnal ootd with this nice linen dress - I altered the neckline to suit me better and added a cute velvet ribbon tie!
Everything but the flowers are thrifted - the dress is pre owned from ebay, the shoes, bag, chain, pendant and tiny gold bracelet are all from local charity shops.
I'm especially pleased with my chain and phaistos disc pendant- found in different places at different times, but both have real gold! Should I do a post of my thrifted jewellery treasures?