happy 2012!  wow.  i can’t believe i just typed 2012.  it’s the future!  shouldn’t we be driving around in air cars and flying with jet packs?  hmm.  anyway…a new year means new everything.  i’m not down for the new year celebrations, but i am down for the new outlooks/new starts/new…hm…everything- as long as it’s positive.  so with that…i’m leaning my focus on my record collection and doing what makes me happy…collect, DJ, travel, and love every minute of it.

clothes will always be there somewhere in the forefront, but i’m trying to bare my clothing down to the essential.  that’s very difficult if you have a vintage jacket obsession as do i!  but i’m going to try my darndest…so please bare with me.

so far detroit, michigan is going to get my DJ love.  hopefully it’ll be a long, fruitful romance.  i really cannot wait.  here’s to 2012 and those who are loving you….*so far*

i’ve always loved smart, short hair.  ALWAYS.  i’ve always believed in it as a proper accessory to my outfits.  lately, for about the last two years, i have dodged hair cuts.  my hair stylist is so cross with me!  >_<  i survived summer, which is when i get fed up and just cut off my hair, but now i’m entering the fall.  fall is perfect for long hair, but i’m getting the itch to get my hair cut.  most of my fellow Modern Juniors rock the cute, bobbed hair.  i miss the ease of a bob. the niftyness it brings to an already fun outfit.

not sure how i am gonna proceed, but my day dreams are filled with cute bobs and the outfits that love them.

(^_^)

thanks to my best pal, yvette i’ve been over dosing on gidget episodes.  therefore i’ve been obsessed with bows, peter pan collars, boatneck tops, mary janes, and stripes!  ^_^  it’s quite refreshing to remind yourself of why you love what you love.  amongst all the crazy late 60′s suede, fringe, wack-o “groovy” style, there are 60′s girls that DO love the clean fun of early mod, mid 60′s look and that also dig music that reflects that style.  afterall anything else just looks plain costume-y.

toodles!

i’m always on the hunt for something, and this month it’s shoes.  i love smart, simple loafers and mary janes.  i’ve never been one to wear boots or high heels- so don’t ask me to! but put nifty loafers with a sensible 1-2 inch heel, and we are all good.  these rounded out my current collection of loafers.  i thought they were funny because i bought them on the same day and they are mirror images of each other…well, not really, but colour wise they are!

whilst buying these shoes and getting superly duperly excited about planning my outfits around them…the first thing i noticed is that i literally have extinguished any site of kelly green from my closet?

ha!  i think i just found my next mid sixties fashion project.  here i go!  <3

I’ve always been inspired by cuteness and short hair cuts.  Here’s a few that got me smilin’.  <3!

sing it ila!

without the inspiration of my fellow modern juniors…i don’t think i would be, fashion wise, where i am today.  i think having good girlfriends who love exactly what you love is important.  records, double breasted jackets, mary janes, northern soul, ska, rocksteady, perfect hair cuts, houndstooth, the perfect shoes with the perfect pants…yes, that’s what i love about the 60′s.

so far i am working on my perfect shoe collection.  i’ve been working on my perfect purse and record collection for 10+ years, but now it’s time to focus on shoes and records!  haha!  always records!  simple is best, so when it comes to clothes, i’m focusing on finding a couple of perfect double breasted jackets in light grey.

spring and summer brings perfect shoes and *perhaps* a dress?  wow.  crazy!

double breasted and divine.  i’m on my mission to make my double breasted jacket collection theeeee best in the continental united states.  more later!  xoxo

that bob. those stripes. the effortless simplicity. all hail miss cathy mcgowan!  what a cutie pie!  i only hope to dress as sweet and neat as her!  i grew my hair out with the fantasy that it would one day look like miss mcgowan’s…it doesn’t look a nick like hers, but one can only dream, can’t one?

my favourite mod look is the 1964/early 1965 mod look.  cathy mcgowan sums that look up properly.  however, i don’t know if could wear knee highs again!  hahahaha!  ^_~