Up on the Roof.

Happy Monday to you all. I love this dress. It was another sweet vintage find( For anyone who is in Toronto I recommend 'I miss You' if you don't mind paying a bit more for really wonderful pieces) It's so easy and I can remix it with so many different belts/shoes/etc. and get a pretty different outcome. I went pretty subdued today on account of my Jem and the Holograms Mani/Pedi!

White Diamonds

You may be wondering why this post involving No white OR diamonds is called 'white diamonds'.

I sometimes put together an entire outfit based on a fragrance.


She's so glamorous I can't even stand it.


My husband brought me home some white diamonds last night. What a sweetie. It's the quintessential 80's fragrance really. I think everyone's mom had it. I have a very strong 'smell memory' if that makes any sense. This scent takes me right back to the 80's and makes me think of 2ND wave feminists with shoulder pads and leopard print wrap blouses under their power suits. It's all very working girl.(Not That kind of working girl-the movie!)




I do happen to have this leopard printed wrap blouse that I thrifted a while back and so I decided to rock it with some jeans and my 'mom glasses'. I spritzed on some white diamonds-and Voila!





Have a stylish weekend!

Nobody puts baby in a corner!

In case you missed it, my last post was all about my love for an 80's meets 50's vibe. After, I posted it, I realized that I forgot the ultimate 80's meets 50's movie: DIRTY DANCING!!! This outfit that I wore on Saturday is actually pretty boring but it is very 'Baby.' I rocked the HELL out of some cut-off jean shorts in the 80's!!!




Here I am doing my best 'Pachonga" or whatever it's called....Please excuse my crazy hair! I set it in pipe cleaners....it made the MOST AMAZING corkscrew curls ever! I am thrilled. Today's outfit is also very 80's meets 50's. It's a lovely little sundress from the 80's but the great full skirt and the length are inspired by the fabulous 50's. I think baby would have worn this outfit for sure!




p.s. I carried a watermelon.

HELLO!!!??!!! McFLY!!???!!!

For a brief magical moment in the 80's everyone was obsessed with the 50's-this gave birth to some of my favorite vintage looks of all time. Think Grease 2, Back to the Future or Joanie loves Chachi! This little ensemble that I've whipped up today is the bees knees! I think it's very 50's meets 80's. I hope everyone has a super stylish weekend!

What a Feeling.

In the Gym Changeroom after a great workout. Feeling rather 'Flashdancian'!

"I'm calling you ugly, I could push your face in some dough and make gorilla cookies."-Fred Sanford

Have a stylish weekend!
Onika

Kiss my Grits.

I am totally in luuurve with this dress. I feel like a waitress in a diner in the 1970's. It was a stupendous thrifting find! The shoes are perfect for it too I think.






These shoes can be a bit 'orthopedic' looking unless they are styled properly but they are just right for slinging hash at Mel's diner all day :)







Order Up!

Zombie at Tiffany's.

I found this picture on a T-shirt online the other day and instantly fell in love with it. Then I saw this woman on the bus wearing cute cropped jeans and all of this somehow translated it to this outfit. Perhaps none of that makes any sense but I'm just letting you all in on my thought process.....oooookay....moving on:

I absolutely adore the details on the cuffs and down the front of this vintage cardigan. None of these pictures are really that great but you kind of get the picture.






P.S. When I was uploading today's photos, I found these pictures that I took last friday that I never posted and I think the top half of my body from that day would have look great with the bottom half of my body from today. I'd still go with the black cat eye glasses though! Anyway people..stay stylish! Love, Onika.

"I'm late for a jean-folding seminar. Let's locomote!" and other 90's tidbits

I was a teenager in the '90's. It was....interesting. Lots of flannel and black eyeliner as I recall......





And Reality Bites!!!!

Vicky Minor and Lelaina Pierce(The two female leads) pretty much sum up who I wanted to be when I grew up. Honestly, to this day, if you put the 90's version of Jeaneane Garofalo in a blender with the 90's version of Winona Ryder....the resulting goo would be my idea of the perfect woman. Lelaina was beautiful and delicate. She wore floral dresses with combat boots and vintage crochet vests. Perfect. Vicky was loud and feminist and wore platform heels and amazing polyester vintage minidresses and oversized sunglasses. Also perfect.



Part of what I love about clothing is that it can allow you to live vicariously. I feel like a Lelaina and Vicky hybrid today and it is making me smile. I'm actually pretty glad that the 90's are super trendy right now. I gives me the chance to re-live the decade without quite so much flannel and eyeliner :)

Inspired....and other pictures featuring the colour blue.

So I am in looooooove with these pictures. My husband is a superstar.

This outfit was completly inspired by this blog post. I love the whole feel of the look she had going and I remembered that I had a lovely vintage top that was reminiscent so I dug it out from the 'never wear' section of my closet and voila! Totally fabulous.

It's funny I used to hate the colour blue on me(yes Americans that is how You spell colour!) But now it's the first colour I go for a lot of the time. I think the important lesson in to never say "never".......in life and espescially when it come to STYLE! I've worn some great blue things in the past few days. Here is my favorite. It's pretty low key but the tone on tone of the T-shirt with the FAB necklace is working really well.

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*Bonus Shot!!! My VERY stylish son- Who clearly also looks great in blue :)

This old thing? Old dress new blog and a great pair of sandals.

Every year around this time, I decide that I'm only going to wear vintage clothing and I go a bit mental with the vintage purchases. This great thing is, I don't even have to feel guilty about it because I could literally get myself a whole new wardrobe every week for about 50 bucks at Goodwill if I wanted to. There have been a billion blog posts devoted to better thrifting so I will spare you but I'm just saying....If you've never done it, give thrifting a try! Soon I'm going to do a whole post on my favorite thrifted pieces but this beauty is m latest find!


I love love love the print of the skirt and the red sash and the length of the skirt is just ladylike. I felt really lovely all night in this. AND it's actually a dress so it's so easy! just put it on and go! Why oh why did women stop wearing dresses everyday? I'll never understand it.

And now for the opposite of old: Brand spanking new double platform sandals! These sandals are so rediculous that they are absolutely perfect. I think I did a great job styling them with a simple black v-neck and distressed jeans. Yay Me.


Anyway my pets I must get going...what do you love abot this time of year? Has anyone else caught the thrifting bug?

The Dress From Heaven

This is such a lovely dress. I love how full the skirt is. I took a risk and rocked it with my fringed moccasins and I think it works. I had a denim jacket on over the whole look which brought everything together but it's really hot in my office right now!

These pictures are crazy. There is a giant window behind me and I think I left the flash on by accident. I actually kind of love the result so I decided against retaking them. I think it makes me look like I'm standing at the pearly gates waiting to get in to Heaven! I think God would say come right in and then ask to borrow my dress! As far as I'm concerned God is a very stylish woman not some creepy guy who needs a shave wearing an ill-fitting robe!

Have a Stylish Weekend!

Oh Duckie, why didn't Andy pick you?!?

I got this shirt a couple of weeks ago at I Miss You vintage. It's vintage Marc Jacobs. Part of the reason I love vintage clothing is that I find these wonderful, well made pieces for the same price as I'd pay for a not so well made not nearly as unique piece at H&M(which I still LOVE but you get my point). Score. I had envisioned it looking a bit more interesting with my rhinestone cat-eye glasses than it actually did but I still love this outfit. I feel like Iona would have worn this to the record store.

and by DIFFERENT I mean.....UGLY.

Hi. I'm' feeling at a bit of a loss for words today.

Hmm.




I'm really into this top. I got it while thrifting. At first, I thought it made me look like I was at a Renaissance fair because of the sleeves-then I changed my mind. I almost never wear my hair up. I always get compliments when I do but I don't really like it. Today I wanted a change and I was in a hurry so voila. When I got to work, my boss took one look at me and started to laugh hysterically and then he said "wow-that's DIFFERENT" Ugh. That's so annoying-when people say something is 'different' when they really want to say 'weird' or 'ugly'. This is from a man who wears purple pleated pants by the way.



Oh Yeah-IT'S FREEZING COLD. I know that Palestinian scarves are "SO TWO YEARS AGO" but there is something about this colour combination that I was loving his morning.


Have a stylish weekend!