Weekly Vlog | Gigs, A Snowstorm, Skiing & Eating

I hope you enjoy watching this fantastic week as much as I loved living it. Apologies for the lack of posts this month - I have been mad busy working and then spending my weekends enjoying life. I might write a little post about it all and I should be much freer from April so please bear with me!

Izzie x

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Three Ways To Wear Gingham Trousers

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What Is Worthy Of Sharing?

SKIRT - VINTAGE | TURTLENECK - VINTAGE | COAT - VINTAGE | BAKER BOY CAP - VINTAGE (SIMILAR VIA ASOS) | BOOTS - DR MARTENS | BAG - COACH* | SUNGLASSES - RAY BAN

Location: Rue Clark, Montréal 

I have been sitting on these photos for a few weeks now, wanting to share them but not being sure what exactly I wanted to write. To any fellow fashion bloggers reading, I don't know about you but I usually plan outfits that I want to shoot and share on here, often having a particular topic or new item in mind that I want to discuss. Well today's outfit is not one of those planned outfits but quite simply an outfit I threw on a few weekends ago when the temperature rose to 5 degrees (a very exciting moment), the sun was shining and I could finally wear a skirt for the first time in months. I liked the outfit so decided to shoot it during a rather delightful Saturday stroll through Le Plateau but I am certainly not wearing anything you haven't seen before - perhaps it's the complimentary colours, silhouette and general look that I think makes it worth sharing. 

"Worth sharing" - it's an interesting thought and a question that I am sure that lots of you reading this will have at the forefront of your mind most days. I guess I questioned whether this look was "share worthy" because it didn't contain any new items, wasn't particularly groundbreaking and doesn't really follow any current trends. But you know what? This is me doing me - mixing grunge elements of the 90s like tartan and Dr Martens boots with 60s shapes of the A-line skirt and fluted sleeved polo neck top - two eras I love combined to make one rather awesome outfit.

In addition, I love these photos as a whole and I think that makes them worth sharing. Outfit photos are actually not just about the outfit you see but also the location that has sometimes been carefully chosen (or in this case luckily stumbled across), the different angles and frames used and the light. They can also be about the occasion - these photos remind me of a time in between two bouts of colds where the sun came out, 5 degrees felt like spring and the Montreal thaw began and if the pure happiness I felt on that day does not justify sharing these photos then I don't know what will. 

Do you plan outfit photos in advance? How do you decide what is worthy of sharing online?

Izzie x

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Retro Primary Colours

DUNGAREES - OLD ZARA (SIMILAR VIA ASOS & ZALANDO | TURTLENECK - VINTAGE (SIMILAR VIA REVOLVE) | NECKSCARF - VINTAGE | SHOES - CONVERSE

Location: Boutique Eva B, Montreal

Hello there!

I apologise for my mini hiatus last week - often I take a little break when I am feeling uninspired but that is not the reason this time. This time, time is the reason (how many times can I say time?!) and that I have not enough of it. I am currently writing this post on the bus home from work after a 10 hour shift. Since December I have been juggling a marketing internship and my new role at the vintage shop and I feel that my work/life/blog balance - or imbalance - has finally caught up with me as I mentioned in a recent INSTAGRAM POST. 

It's frustrating because I am feeling really inspired and I often spend some of the weekend creating content, only to not have the time to edit and post it during the week. So writing posts on the bus might have to be the answer for now but today I'm sharing some photos with you that I had been thinking about for a long time and finally shot this weekend. 

As soon as I moved to Canada, I knew I would struggle with fashion blogging in winter and even though the temperatures have been quite mild recently, I still wanted to try shooting indoors for change - and for the comfort! These photos were taken at BOUTIQUE EVA B - the craziest, most interesting vintage shop I have ever been in. Amongst the (mostly organised) mess, there are some special corners that I knew would lend themselves perfectly to shooting outfits photos, including this awesomely retro wall of old VHS cases. I took to PINTEREST for inspiration for the outfit and this editorial GEEK CHIC photo and this artificially lit RETRO SUPERMARKET SHOOT confirmed my vision that primary colours and a 60/70s silhouette would go well in this setting. 

It certainly was a challenge to shoot indoors (on a dull day) with a mix of natural and artificial light but I think it adds to the aesthetic to the photos and it is the kind of glow I was hoping to achieve. They are certainly not perfect photos but they are pretty good for a first try and I think it's good to also show experimentation on here - and not just the glossy stuff - because I am damn pleased with the result. 

The outfit is simple - I layered a bright red turtleneck (I've recently rediscovered my love for red) under these blue denim kick flare dungarees that I have worn to death on and offline since I got them over a year ago, finishing off the look with a patterned neckscarf which really brings the primary colours together. In an ideal world, those white NIKE CORTEZ with the red tick would have been my footwear of choice but alas, I have not got round to purchasing them yet so I opted Converse instead and they compliment the boyish look perfectly. 

What do you think of these photos? I hope you like this retro inspired shoot!

Izzie x

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