White Terror featuring Pho Sizzle (Aussie Curves)

The Aussie Curves theme this week is "Fears Exposed", which was actually a bit of a challenge because I've been tackling my 'fashion fears' pretty rigorously this year! In fact, my very first AC post back in March was of this scary dress. And then I met Lime Crime and started wearing lipstick. Over the summer I bought my first fatkini and let someone take photos of me in it! I also started wearing reds and oranges and all the colours a redhead should not dare go near. And, pretty recently, I rocked a crop top and pencil skirt... TOGETHER!

So what's left? WHITE, of course!

Not just white, but HEAD-TO-TOE WHITE.

As somebody who grew up dressing as a borderline goth girl, white is still inherently off-limits to me. I wonder if Jacqui noticed the look of terror in my eye when she handed me a completely white ensemble to wear for the new season Pho Sizzle collection?! Either way, I made it through the shoot unscathed and, looking back on the photos, I looked pretty dang nice! Although my favourites are definitely the white skirt paired with some colourful tops like the Gone Fishing and Smooth Sailing. *swoooooon*

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Exactly a Year Ago, I Was In Burma.

Something a whee bit different on the blog today! It's been exactly a year since I took myself off on a solo adventure travelling through Burma (AKA Myanmar), and I very recently discovered the photos on my computer and realised i'd never posted them anywhere, or actually even shown them to anyone!! Whilst backpacking in the past, i've forced myself to keep a really detailed journal because I was so afraid of forgetting even the smallest detail. But to be honest, that pressure is actually pretty cumbersome. Maybe i'm just mellowing in my "old age"? Either way, I just kept a little notebook on hand and jotted down little things that I wanted to remember but that maybe don't necessarily make a good story to anybody but me and the little people who live in my brain.  Anyway, I'm not really going to say too much because I think the photos tell a thousand stories about this incredible country. The history is rich, and the people are interested and friendly, yet there is an element of shyness and hesitation that I haven't experienced anywhere else in South-East Asia.  If you've been, i'd love to know what you thought?..

Sunset from Mandalay Hill

Takes around an hour to climb the stairs to the top, but totally worth it for the panoramic view.

The Botanical Gardens of Pyin Oo Lwin - an old colonial hilltop town a couple of hours from Mandalay.

Here there was the most extraordinary butterfly museum!

2 days of adventures through Bagan - an ancient city with over 2000 temples still remaining.

Inle Lake - a community of tribes who live on and around the 2nd largest lake in Myanmar.

The women of the Kayan Tribe.

This was a particularly beautiful experience, as my guides had warned me that the Kayan women do not smile.

But when I met them, they were as fascinated by me as I was by them, and we spent 5 minutes or so just laughing and smiling at each other, and playing charades trying to communicate. 

It was extraordinary. 

The Strand Hotel in Yangon - built during the colonial period, it is a decadent step back in time.

Rudyard Kipling, George Orwell and Somerset Maugham used to stay here!!

My favourite meal in Burma - Mandalay Meeshay - noodle salad with coriander and fried onion.

The food in the south (closer to the Delta) is chocked full of fish paste and super intense, especially for breakfast!

I made friends with a Burmese guy who took me on a day trip, just an hour or two outside of Yangon.

We got off the train at the end of the line, and walked into a village that had never seen a white person in real life before.

I hope they don't think all white people look like me! Ha!

Independence Monument, right in the center of Yangon.

Yangon at night is so peaceful, and it's difficult to believe it's a capital city. 

Street lights are sporadic and streets right in the centre of the city have no cars or people during the evening.

A rare vehicle only has to slow down at a red lighted intersection before it drives right through.

Children and women wear "thanaka" on their face - it's a natural sunscreen.

As with most Asian countries, white skin is seen as more beautiful.

Betel leaf with tobacco. Possibly one of the foulest things i've ever put in my mouth.

Shwedagon Pagoda - the most amount of tourists I saw in one place in all of Burma.

But a truly beautiful experience to just sit, reflect and listen to music as the sun goes down over the city. 

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Release The Hounds...tooth (Aussie Curves)

The Aussie Curves theme this week is "favourite piece" and as (probably everyone is commenting) it's SO HARD TO CHOOSE FAVOURITES AMONGST MY CHILDREN! That's why I only have one cat, for goodness sake!

So, my favourite piece right at the second I was getting dressed that day is this divine Diana Dress from Bombshell Vintage. It fits me to perfection, and has the most adorable details like the belt and collar! It's right around this point I should be upfront and say that I was gifted this dress by the lovely Kate, by I am by no means obliged to say nice things about it. I'm gushing because I genuinely ADORE it, and it does, indeed, make me feel like a beautiful, bodacious bombshell.

For somebody who doesn't rate houndstooth very highly (despite owning this pair of custom-made houndstooth gladiator sandals), this dress WORKS and makes my rack look spectacular. If I do say so myself... It's also of the snuggliest, heavyweight fabric (? I am fabric name n00b)and i'm going to miss it during the summer - I think it will be too thick. But then we shall have a wonderful reunion next April, and it will be like sweet make up sex.







Bombshell Vintage have just released their new season lookbook for the collection "Fairy Floss Fallout" and holy shit there are some divine pieces in there! I will be saving my pennies for something, I just have to choose WHAT! Photos courtesy of Sam Masopust, photographer extraordinaire and semiotician in-the-making. 

OUTFIT DETAILS

Dress: Bombshell Vintage / Diana Dress Sandals: custom made in Hoi An, Vietnam Coat: Miller's (belonged to my Nana) Glasses: Quick Brown Fox (available on eBay, search "Mr Quiffy") Lipstick: Lime Crime / Red Velvet

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