Garb Gathering - Springtime Portland

Welcome to a new casual series of posts here! In these posts I will be going into the details of some of my favorite outfits and the pieces that make them up. Earlier this year I got to travel to Portland Oregon for my anniversary with my partner. 

Day One

For the first full day of our trip, we rented a car to go venture to the coast to do some sight seeing. It was going to be chilly and I knew I would have to throw on some layers for hanging out by the ocean. First we drove down to cannon beach, just a couple hours from Portland, and then up to Astoria. I needed something that was cute enough to walk around town in and take photos, but also be comfy enough to wear sitting the car for some time.

Sunglasses- Derek Cardigan
Rain Jacket - Borrowed
Teal Collared Dress - Hell Bunny
Bee Cardigan - Dancing Days
Black Tights - Dynamite
Not Pictures - White Keds Shoes


Day Two

We had to wake up early to drop off the car that we had rented the day before to drive to the coast. Afterwards our plans were to bike down to the science museum to go check out the submarine tours they had. This called for comfy black stretch denim to bike around in, and Doc Martens to walk around in. Throw on a pull over a collared shirt and call it an outfit. When it got chilly in the evening I threw over my grey blazer and big scarf to keep me warm

Rock Star Jeggings - Old Navy
Hawaiian Shirt - Thrifted
Black Pullover - Thrifted
Aimilita Doc Marten Boots
Grey Wool Blazer - Simons Canada
Plaid Blanket Scarf



Day Three

Anniversary Day! We had reservations at a nice restaurant in downtown Portland. After spending the day wandering around where we were staying, we went back to our Airbnb to change (and nap). I had brought one of my favorite dresses along with us. I had earlier in our trip bought a pair of navy eyelet gloves and cropped black 50s jacket from a vintage shop. The hat I wore was also bought for a steal of a deal just the day before. With black netting and feather I feel like it pulled the entire outfit together.

40s Hat - Magpie Vintage (Portland)
Floral Dress - Pretty Dress Co
50s Embossed Floral Crop Jacket - Hattie’s Vintage (Portland)
Navy Eyelet Gloves - Hattie’s Vintage (Portland)
Black Tights - Dynamite
Leather Shoes - Naturalizer


Day Four

It was our last full day in Portland. We had very little plans for our day, other than going for breakfast at Mckennins School and then a swim in their heated salt water pool. The day before I bought a lovely mustard yellow wool shirt, that went perfectly with the bee cardigan that I had brought along with me. As someone who hates throwing on clothes while wet, I made sure that I wore a skirt so I didn’t need to deal with the stickiness of pants on wet legs after our swim. I threw on my fedora to hide away my not so clean hair.

Black Wool Fedora - Lids
Yellow Wool Shirt - True Vintage from House of Vintage (Portland)
Bee Cardigan - Dancing Days
Pleated Black Skirt - Vintage from Velour (Calgary)

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Bi Monthly Bangers - Sept/Oct 2018

Hey, welcome to the first installation of  what I am going to call Bi Monthly Bangers. I plan for these posts to be every other month, just wrapping up all the rad things that have been going on for the last 2 months that maybe don't need in depth posts of their own. 

Vintage Vibes

• I recently came into a big collection of scarves from the 60s to the 80s from a family friend. I spent a week in October cleaning all the scarves and sorting them through to ones I was going to keep and ones I would be putting up for sale.
• While shopping at a local vintage shop I found the loveliest white crocheted gloves that were well loved. Although there was some tears and discoloration I took them home, and I’ve already worn them to a wedding.
• Cold weather came to my city super quickly, so I put away all my summer clothes mid September. Getting to wear all the wool and plaid kinda made up for it though.

Cosplay & Conventions

• PAX west has been a con on my to do list since I started going to conventions. This year we managed to grab tickets, and spent almost a week in Seattle. If you love games, and have the opportunity to go to PAX, you have to go.
• Bethesda had a community day in Seattle during the weekend of PAX in Seattle. It might have been almost a 2 hour wait in line, but it all ended up being worth it. We got free food, swag, and hung out with our friend in our Fallout cosplays. The highlight for me was maybe chasing down the vault boy mascot to dab for us.
• To have something lazy to wear around the con, I whipped together a Fallout Vault themed dress from a vintage pattern. This was a great idea, and gave me the chance to wait in PAX lines in some comfy clothes.

Geek Goods

• I spent most of sept and oct just waiting for Red Dead Redemption 2 to come out. Between my excitement for this sequel, and all the crummy workplace news about this came, it has been a wild ride. If you only read one thing about this game, I would highly suggest this article posted in late September about the presence of black cowboys in the series.
• What year is it, and how old am I? Because Gerard Way’s The Umbrella Academy is back. Not only that, but NYCC this year gave us even more peeks at the Netflix series that will be coming out soon. Maybe I can finally cosplay The Rumor.
• After coming back from PAX, my partner and I bought switch and I played through all of Zelda in a couple of weeks. We also finally grabbed Overcooked 2 and played through all of that together. If you have any other good couch co-op suggestions hit me up!

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I've been wearing more grey lipstick, because what season goes better with grey than fall? In our house we also harvested all our squashes from our garden. We have been munching on so much zuchinni, and making so much pumpkin pastries. Also if you haven't heard, my bud Sam Maggs came out with her third book! Go pick up Girl Squads and support this super person. 

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