Bikini Chatter

Doing the beach or pool in style isn't that easy. As a travelista I thought it would be handy to give out some pointers of how to look original, comfortable and still fashion-savvy in your tiny suit. ..

1. Go shopping out-of-season in sales for a expensive one for a lot of %%% off. Or go to clicktini for a designer brand on sale

Chloë grey & gold polkadot bikini @ clicktini for $70

2. Mix-n-match different pants with tops

Being unmatchy is quite fashionable right now and separate pants/bikinis are often cheaper than buying in in pairs.
You can also vary your bikini wardrobe better like this. Because why would you wear the same bikini for 7 days in a row but could NEVER do that with a dress?

3. Get a cute cheap one, but not one that is too available in your country.
I love British webshops for this reason and there's just one Primark in Rotterdam that is, obviously cheap, but still trendy. However, for this reason I would stay away from H&M because it's so obviously present here that it would be easily recognizable. On the other hand, when I went to Brazil last year there was no H&M to be found so do you research when jetting of to another place. Or, do 4


4. Get your standard and easily available bikini, but alternate it by DIY:

past project: H&M bikini/fabric glue & lucky Brazilian bands

applying studs, applications, feathers, leather, anything you like.


5. Dress for your shape and not only for fashion.
Yeh yeh, fashiongirls know this advise over and over because all the women's magazines preach this one like mad. But it still works...Neon might be all over and last year I saw it on  that-Italian-Salad-girl but when I tried the American Apparel version on in neon-yellow I decided it wouldn't suit me.

6. Classics aren't called classics for nothing. 

Brigitte Bardot in "The Girl in the Bikini" (1952)

  A LBB or red number is priceless.

7. Consider your skintone too:
Back to the neon bikini which didn't do favours for my pale skintone, try to find a bikini for the days you are tanned (if you decided to get tanned) and one for the first couple of days. Red often looks sizzling on any skintone but red also gets lots of attention so consider that as well.

 8. Take a bikini for the kind of activities you are planning

conch-hunting with mr Bond? A sturdy bikini (knife holder optional)

Posing bikinis can be frillier and with less support than the ones you like to get your activity going on.

9. but don't take no 8 too seriously.
Also seen this bathing suit that reminds me of funky surfer girls from H&M?

too bad of that kitchy gold zipper because I kinda liked this one

You don't have to be a surfer to get cool swimming suits like that. brings me to 10

10. Don't underestimate the originality of a one-piece.

Ok, you don't get that tanned as with a bikini (just add your fake tan over the white parts to make up for that) but it can be just the type of swimming wear you are after.

Ok Jim, not everyone should go one-piece

Mum, the style icon

I got this idea from a website called Mumthestyleicon and I wanted to post this picture of her today because it's mother's day!!!

She is dressed in simple but stylish neutrals and had a sassy blonde bob with some bangs: I always thought she reminded me of Agneta from Abba (most people will know their Abba, otherwise link).

The tiny one is me: yeh, you know how people in Holland want to marry off their children as soon as possible...hahaha. No it was actually for Carnaval and I was sick as hell, but she created the whole dress so I had to go. In the picture above you can see she's my stylist...and that's quite nifty for a 3 year old, considering I'm not Suri Cruise of that time.

Happy Mothersday, Mum ♥

Show me...my Theresa

In all essence of holiness it might be blasphemy to declare shopping as a religion, but large groups of people believe in it, and governments are entrenched in the goal of making people consume more, so it's not that farfetched of a thought.

Also, the name of the website where I bought my 'artifact' is Mytheresa.

That name reminds me of a song of Joan Osborne that most of you might not really know because it's from 1996 and not Joan Osborne's most famous song.

But I think it's magical and mesmerizing...

(oh, if you're curious what's inside: use da comment section and I might tell....)

#artofthetrench

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easy DIY: un-standard-ing the Zara Blouse

A while a go I got a Zara silk blouse which, intitially, I was happy having.

However, after a while I got slightly irritated seeing it in my closet because I had seen it on another blogger, and was quite certain it would be a piece that would be too easily recognizable as standard Zara.

I could either donate it or throw it away or had to make it slightly more personal and un-standard it.

First, what to do with the collar?

Would a applique fit the bill?

Well, I decided not to do that because the fabric is made of a slightly inferior and lighter silk and needed something light to keep the collar looking crisp.

I could leave it without the cuffed sides: only a bit of ironing would get it straight:

Eventually, I Biba-ed it up and gave it a butterfly collar!

applied the butterflies with some similar coloured-thread

It's a sweeter & more romantic version that I had earlier, and I do not have to look that standardly Zara either.

Luis Vuitton's Sugar Rush

monochrome is sooo 2012

but I'm a móóódel, so only organic

because it's french and french women don't get fat (??)

retro bubblegum in 'skintone'

I got a bit lame with these below:

And played with the sugar-rush idea of the Luis Vuitton SS advertisement and the idea that models are so thin that they must be perenially hungry all the time. Perhaps they're not but to mix candy with models outside candy-coloured clothes seems quite contrasting.

Freedom Festival - some ramblings & pics

Transwijk Park Utrecht, 5 May 2012

1. Will these daisies survive the festival? Ehm, not quite so...

2. Purse-spiration & pant-spiration galore! Also, I gotta get my redhead-act together and get some more vivid strands.

3. Rainy day: but they're happy together.

4. No festival without portaloos...I should say PortaLouLou??

5. This picture does NOT contain poo, really! Not that it's any fresh stuff but I think they are still relatively clean. My boots are also still clean.

6. Finding HOPE in a portaloo....recycled hope, actually

freedom symbolism

Girl applying makeup @ Vintage stall

waiting in line: looking at that fab blue bag

Bitchin' singer: I have no clue what the band-name was

festival child being happy with her family

'cake makes happy'/'taartjes maken blij': FOOD!

Waste on a stick

Nick & Simon, some Dutch act in fave with young girls & some women (not me, but they were allright)

This festival was my first proper time of fun since 2012: that's actually pretty lousy if you think about that. Best of it that it was as good as free. Something different than my attempts lately to spend too much on fashionable items that do not make me happy in the long run (I still like them, though)