This Dream Child: GAP

ph. Emma McVicar

If you've got it, flaunt it.

This cape fell into my hands and the day became beautiful. How should I pair it? Whimsical or bossy-chic? Definitely the latter, so slide on the cigarette pants, loose white shirt. Side pin the hair, and a bold black liner. Embellished black booties. Pout. for. days.

Sure, it's not the most conventional of outwear, but it's effective at making a statement. Plus the satisfying swish of the cape is extremely empowering.

Walk down the streets, and you feel like a revived Victorian. Quick, grab a pen, do a dance, be artsy. In fact, during my cape-daze I became a playwright.

act 1 by Steffanee Wang

in those silly fantasies i have in my head, you’re sleeping next to me and my eyes flutter open. flutter because our eyelids are synonymous with the quiet beating of butterfly wings. but my eyes flutter open and you’re humming, vibrating, close to me. a warm cocoon. i smile. lean down, and pick up my laptop. or maybe a notebook. which one makes me look artsy-er. you’d think i was living a life of visual art. paying attention to what others will pay attention to. but my fingers are nimble—dancing over the keyboard, notebook, whatever, quick to catch this silent moment of togetherness.

dance because the tips are my nails are ballerinas. i am dainty. so all of my limbs dance. stomp? never stomp. never trudge, or slam, or crush. pound.

pounding heart, in my chest, i’m too overwhelmed to continue.

three things happen:

1. close laptop

2. lay back down.

3. fall in love.

-end act 1-

Then put the books away, take a few photos, and fly off into the wind like the beautiful, winged butterfly you are.

Details: Cape: American Apparel, Top: Zara Bottoms: GAP Boots: F21

Lovelies-- It's been an exciting week for me. Halloween is coming up and I'm really excited about my costume. I am, however, missing a syringe to finish the costume off, so I need to get that. Does CVS sell syringes? Anyways, besides the upcoming parties and the inevitable "turn-ups", I also took a trip to a BDSM museum this weekend. It was very fascinating and I learned a lot about the history of pornography, BDSM, and how sexuality was represented in the past and how that representation changed as time went by. All of you in the Chicago area, go visit it sometime. It's off the Loyola Stop on the Red Line, and it's called the "Leather Archives & Museum" museum..... redundant? But just a word of warning: they hold nothing back, so, if you need to prepare yourselves, do that.

I really enjoyed this set of clothing I picked because it heavily features pink. And though I have had a history of despising the color pink, I've recently come to embrace the color; it's soft, and pretty, and there's definitely a societal message in wearing pink in there somewhere, but I'll leave it to you to try and decipher that. Pair my lovely fluffy pink sweater (that I bought for $5.45, holla to UO 50% off sales) with my fav fav fav Queen Bitch Necklace, and this combination is perfection. Oh, and I wore my Peter Rabbit socks, that I love so much, and I got some killer eye liner going. Ugh, perfect femme, girl power anthem.

My lovely, lovely, friend, Emma, took these photos, and they're wonderful as usual. She the most hilarious person I've ever had the pleasure of meeting and she does a killer Bane impression. Maybe I'll get her to guest blog here....but until then, go check out her blog, it's the funniest thing you'll read today.

Anyways, without further ado check out the photos below, feat. my beautiful campus that is a divine entity in itself and some badass architecture