Vertical Stripes

I am a forever lover of black and white.

And vertical stripes in such color combination must not be oversighted.

I'm not alone on this... 

see some of the fashion-savvy strutting this powerful pattern and colors.

 via http://olsensanonymous.blogspot.com/

via http://www.llymlrs.com/

Can you see what I'm holding?

Say hi to my cute buddy:
ALCATEL GLAM 810d
cellphone in Victorian Blush 
(i call it the mature shade of pink)

about the outfit:
satin black blouse (worn as short dress) - sigh's closet / b-w vertical stripe blouse (worn as vest) - sigh's closet / fuchsia-black pointed flats - Mags / watch - Fossil / sunglasses - G.Country Mall / white bowler hat with black band - Chic Vintage

I Call Her Rose

Here's one of my favorite hats from my cyEcle's Limited Edition Hat collection.

I call her ROSE.

 Meet ROSE. She's a white hat, with pink rosettes on her crown.

She's available for sale at cyEcle.

I am so into charms (bracelets and rings) right now because the new year is about to come.

wearing: denim dress - July / velvet rose colored tie-front cardigan - I Dress Up /  peach satin shoes - Mags / rose colored bag - Mags / white watch - Fossil / ROSE hat - cyEcle / charm bracelets - bazaar find / buddha ring - gifted by mom / turtle ring

Playing with my Black and White Hats

Tonight is the last night of the Christmas Nights Bazaar.  Bye for now to my booth partners, don't know when will we meet again.  Rest assured I'm just a text message away.

I'm quite melancholic...  going to the bazaar after work, every night for the last 25 days has been then part of my (our) daily routine.  And now, that routine has ended, drastic culmination and business at the bazaar has put into halt too.  F.y.i. business is going on at the web ... cyEcle is always available online, plus the unveiling of I DRESS UP is scheduled on the first of January 2012. 

I'm sharing here tonight two of the "little" hats, as I love to call them, that were displayed at the booth for sale.  

Meet BLACK (colored black) and WINTER (colored white).

wearing: black long top - random / plaid leggings - random / black patent wedge - MKNY / hats - cyEcle / white watch - Fossil / multi-colored thin bangles - from India gifted by my boss / gray pearl-chain necklace - gifted by my boss / embellished bib necklace - Get Laud gifted by my sister

I'm encouraging you ladies to start your own hat collection!  

Buy your hats from cyEcle! 

My Limited Edition Hats will be posted at cyEcle and in this blog soon! 

Yesterday Was Christmas Day

I do not have a favorite Christmas song, but I sort of wish that someday I can sing this song, when real snow falls down on my head.

Let It Snow! 

( an excerpt )Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne

Oh, the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we've no place to go,
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

Anyway, we spent some hours at the bazaar last night.  Good that it did not rain on Christmas day, and the evening stars were brightly shining, but still no signs of snow, lol.

I tagged along my niece for some picture taking around IT Park.  But I was quite disheartened with my photos,  but then i'm still sharing the grainy output.

I'm sooo loving animal prints!, and this print is trending in the fashion world.

Continued the photo-taking at home. :-P

 wearing: animal print dress top - Island City Mall @ Bohol / black twill shorts underneath the top - random / striped chiffon with chain belt - Genevieve Gozum / black lace vest - thrifted / black platforms with animal print sole - Korean Shoe shop / sunglasses - Forever 21 / white watch - Fossil / black bead bracelet - Aizilym / faux gold rings - 138 / diamond ring - gifted by mom / bag - Guess

What's your Christmas Day soundtrack?

Evolution of The Fashion Advocacy

This blog has been the ultimate outlet to spread the fashion advocacy that I gave birth some 30 months ago.  The advocacy did already exist long before this  blog was created. However, I believe that i dress up and sleep blog may have helped propagate my C.L.E.A.N. Fashion advocacy. 

Now time has come, and fashion evolution had taken place.  I admit I am more open now to fashion astuteness.  I can embrace the diversities and idiosyncrasies.  

Bit by bit, these have paved the re-definition of my fashion advocacy.  This evolution is never a separation from what have been a deeply embedded fashion sense,  but basically an up-scaling of something good to better, minute to large.

So here's what has become to the newly-delineated fashion advocacy.

What is it to be C.L.E.A.N?

Color coordination

Less and More

Experimentation

Art in fashion

Nonchalance

Color coordination is not a monotonous display of colors.  It is the harmonious appropriation of   similar hues and shades from the color palette in one fashionable look. 

I used to appreciate "the lesser, the better" maxim, which is a minimalist outlook.  But as more and more fashion savvy individuals are creatively expressing themselves, I find myself more driven to them.  I tend to appreciate gradually the concept of over-accessorizing and endless layer on layer.  The more the merrier; the bolder, the better.

I believe there is some sort of science in fashion.  Everyday, as we get dressed, the choice of clothes and accessories, the mixing and matching per se is an activity which what we call in science as an experiment. 
One great example of experimentation, which is in contrast to color coordination, is the donning of incongruous colors plus an abundant mix of prints.  It may appear like a mess to those who adhere to color coordination but it is indeed a fashion statement to many.  
2011 is the year that I have been quite audacious enough to take a leap out from my "norms" and step into new and exciting fashion challenges.

Though I am trivialy detouring once in a while from my own fashion tendencies,  but still, I do somehow end up getting back to what has been deeply-rooted into my senses.  See my look above.  My top still has the color on one of the neon hues on my leggings and wearing black wedges that coordinates with the black color of the top (print) and blazer.

If fashion is one form of science, it is more extremely a colossal outlet for the arts.
I live for art and I live with art.  I love colors, hence there is this love for painting - as manifested in my hobby of playing with crayons, paint tubes, etc.  I may not be gifted with the hands of an artist but I can scribble and make simple sketches of clothes.   So there's the line connecting arts to fashion.  
One can actually correlate fashion to both art and science.  If mixing and matching clothes is experimentation, more so it is indeed art.  The ability to effectively able to put up a look - the collective donning of clothes of variable prints and colors and textures - is seriously an expression of the arts.  Our body is a canvass, and ourselves are live mannequins. 

One cool thing to those people who are effortlessly able to impress me and can explicitly be listed to my list of fashionable human beings, is that aside from possessing laudable confidence and daringly able to strut and shout to the world his / her individualism through fashion, these individuals are otherwise nonchalant.  

wearing: 

animal print semi-spandex blazer - I Dress Up / neon long top - thrifted / neon tribal print leggings - Knits and Stripes / peach pink bag - Mags / black patent leather wedges - MKNY / sunglasses - Forever 21 / watch - Fossil (gifted by my sis ) / jade ring and diamond ring - gifted by mom / rocking-horse ring - Aizilym

MERRY CHRISTMAS!