"Might paint something I might want to hang here someday."

I went into the city (with my older sister) on Friday, to have lunch with our mom. I have a red and green tartan dress that my mom found for me at Myer (Australian department store) which I've only worn once before. I was never really someone who enjoyed dressing up or even wearing dresses for that matter. I was kind of a tomboy when I was a kid, and it's only very recently that I've started taking an interest in clothes. I'm still warming up to clothes shopping though.

This is how I was going to wear the dress. It's sleeveless, but I didn't like the cut of it, so I wear it with t-shirts. This isn't how it was originally. My aforementioned friend Molly altered it for me, so it's more fitted, shorter to wear it as a sleeveless coat, and with a curved hem at the back and front.

Dress from Myer, Fleetwood Mac 2009 concert tour shirt, red tights, Iggy Youths shoes.

However, the temperature dropped down to 24 degrees C/75 degrees F on Friday morning, so I ended up wearing the dress with a longer-sleeved t-shirt and my boots.

Yes, there is a hole in the red tights. By pure bad luck, the first time I wore the tights the Velcro on my skull bag latched on to them and caused them to ladder. Luckily, this happened when I got home, so I managed to buy another pair of red tights yesterday without wearing the ripped tights out.

Dress from Myer, black Mickey Mouse t-shirt (hidden under dress), red tights, boots from Forever New, drum kit necklace (given to me by my sister).

On the way up to lunch, we saw a man playing the bagpipes, but he wasn't wearing a kilt. I haven't heard live bagpipes in the city for a while, so I dropped some loose change into his open case. Then, while we waited for a car to back out of the carpark the man was playing in front of, he stopped to tell me thanks and said, smiling, "You're wearing tartan, too." I knew there was a reason I wore this dress today. I did get a lot of stares for wearing red tights though. The city is business central and everyone wears monotones with maybe dark coloured clothes, such as dark purple.

Now I have to get back to my university readings. At the moment I'm taking notes from my creative writing set text. Yes, we have a set text for creative writing.

I'll be back to post soon,

KiaraWrites.

Reading: Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis (80 pages left)
I'm listening to: Tegan and Sara's Sainthood