Daily Outfit: Mid-week Casual

We're currently in between two public holidays here in Canberra, and as a result my outfits have taken a turn for the casual. It is one thing to dress to the nines during a regular working week, but when half the office is empty with people having taken leave to make the most of this rare occurrence, and the weather outside is just so goddamned lovely, it is really difficult to be overly bothered with dressing 'appropriately' for work.

Hustle & Scout: Style Scouted

Yesterday was the first birthday of the Hustle & Scout Markets here in Canberra, and I headed out to the gorgeous new location at Hangar 47 at Fairbairn to spend the afternoon Style Scouting the other attendees for the Hustle & Scout Facebook page.

I had a really great time at the markets, and I have to extend a huge congratulations to Tegan and her team for an amazing job well done. The space looked fantastic, the talent on display was phenomenal, and I truly cannot wait for the next market to come around.

Below is a selection of my favourite looks from the day, with very brief reasons as to why their looks caught my eye.

Daily Outfit: Fairbairn

This afternoon I headed out to Fairbairn to the Hustle & Scout markets, to check out the stalls from local designers and purveyors of Delicious foods.

I was also there to act as a Style Scout for the crowd, and I spent the majority of the afternoon stalking around looking for well dressed guys and gals to snap a picture of for the Hustle & Scout Facebook page. I'll have a blog post featuring my favourite menswear looks up at some stage tomorrow, and all of my Style Scouting images should be available on the Facebook page by tomorrow afternoon.

Daily Outfit: Hand-me-downs

A little over two weeks ago a friend of mine contacted me and said that he'd been cleaning out his wardrobe, and that he had a few things that I might be interested in. I of course said that I would be, and we arranged to  meet up for a drink the following week so that I could collect the clothes.

I was not expecting to receive close to my own body weight in clothes to sort through, but I've never been one to turn down an opportunity to expand my wardrobe, and so I took the bulging bag home and proceeded to sort through the clothes, hunting for pieces to expand my wardrobe.

Daily Outfit: Style Scouting for Hustle & Scout

Today I met up with Jiawa from Closet Voyage, and she kindly too my photo for the Hustle & Scout Twilight Fashion Markets Facebook page, to announce that I will be there on Saturday doing Style Scouting!

I'm really thrilled to be able to take part in the event, and to see who will be there and wearing what. The past two Hustle and Scout events that I have been to have been absolutely phenomenal, and I am really looking forward to this new Spring session in a beautiful new home at Hangar 47 in Fairbairn.

I'm really excited to check out the new location this Saturday, especially with the promise of 2,000 free car parks, ATMs,  and a magnificent view of the runway and lots of aircraft activity. 

Canberra: VIP at Lucky's Local Fashion Trail

My look for the night. Photo by Closet Voyage.

On Thursday evening last week I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the Lucky's Local Fashion Trail event at Lucky's Speakeasy in the new QT Canberra Hotel.

The evening was full of delicious cocktails from the Lucky's menu, bite-sized snacks, and of course the very best on offer from some of Canberra's most interesting boutiques. 

Daily Outfit: Saturday Casual

Today was all about getting ready for the week ahead. 

Most people, I imagine, use their weekends to relax and rewind and not to run around like a madman getting their lives sorted for the following week. I am unfortunately not such a person, and while I did find time today for one or two moments of relaxation, the majority of my time was spent running errands, doing chores, and generally getting my life sorted out for the following six days.

I didn't really get a chance to stop until I headed out to dinner tonight with the boyfriend.

Daily Outfit: Dressed But Not Impressive

I am counting my lucky stars that I wore this outfit today, as I had a surprise meeting concerning a job that I had applied for, and it could have been significantly uncomfortable had I been wearing some of my less-corporate clothing.

Daily Outfit: Dark Lines

I am having such a serious love-affair with the stripe, that I didn't even realise that it was happening.

I've always been much more inclined towards checks, loving the various styles and sizes of the grids that they make. Lately however I find that my eye is drawn towards lines upon lines upon lines. I am dreaming of a wardrobe of shirts in blue and white lines of all lengths and widths. I want to dress in an outfit made up of striped garments, every piece a different celebration of the humble stripe.

Daily Outfit: Homeward Bound

This weekend I'm back in my home-town of Bega, NSW, to celebrate my boyfriend's birthday with our families.

We stopped on the side of the road on the way down this evening to take the photos of my daily outfit. I'll be taking my outfit photos for the upcoming week while I am down here, but I wanted to take the opportunity to snap something in my favourite area if the country, the Monaro.

Daily Outfit: Dressed-down

Something that I have noticed recently is just how much more attention, and how many more compliments I get on my clothes, when I dress corporately. 

I'm not sure if it is because I spent 12-months wearing nothing but t-shirts and jeans to work, or if it is because people actually notice me when I'm dressed up and don't when I'm dressed down, but I can remember five different people remarking on my outfit yesterday, and today I don't think that a single person mention my clothes. I mean, I'm not dressing so that people at the office will stop and talk to me about my clothes; but it is interesting how the different outfits draw different attention.

And, sometimes it is fun to dress it down in the middles of the week, just to see if anyone will notice.

Daily Outfit: Unintentional Edward Cullen Cosplay

A combination of the lighting and time of the day, and the colours of this thrown-together outfit, have left me feeling like I have tricked myself into Edward Cullen cosplay.

I am not ashamed to admit that I devoured the Twilight books very rapidly when they were given to me by one of my amazing girlfriends for a birthday present several years ago. I love the books to this day, for all their flaws. And, while I've always had fan-boy tendencies, but my my Twilight obsession was on a whole other level. If the books had come out when I was in High School, I am fairly certain I would have come to grips with my sexuality a whole lot sooner.

Daily Outfit: ASOS and Abyss

While placing an order for the boyfriend's birthday present recently, I decided to splurge and grabbed myself a few items at the same time. Two birds, one stone and all that.

I'd had my eyes on this perforated sweater from ASOS for a little while now, and despite the fact that I knew it wouldn't look anywhere near as good on me as it did on the ASOS model, I knew that I wanted to add it to my wardrobe. And I'm already thrilled that I did, because it's is going to be the perfect trans-seasonal piece as we move from winter into spring here in the ACT.

Daily Outfit: Rough and Tough

I feel like I’ve unintentionally dressed for the part of a 1950’s High School tough today. I know that I don’t look like it at all, but that’s just the feeling I get from this denim jacket.

There’s something about the cut of the jacket, I think. It’s a very retro look, and not like anything that you’d buy now; which is to say that the style is for the most part out of date. Still, there is something about it that is quite classic, and I think that it looks quite good.

Daily Outfit: Ink & Leathers and the temple of Sky Space

I didn't realise this, even after people had pointed it out to me, until I got home and looked at what I was wearing, and where I took my daily outfit shots.  But it seems that, completely unintentionally I can assure you, I have taken a few style cues from Indiana Jones and his ilk of silver-screen adventurers with today's daily outfit post.

Granted, the floral scarf and giant Prada sunglasses detract somewhat from the adventurer aesthetic, and I'm too Rubenesque to be taken seriously as someone who runs around tombs and snatching artifacts for a living; but the influence is undeniably there.

Daily Outfit: Lucky

I'm feeling really lucky lately.

I'm naturally a bit of a realist, even a pessimist, and at times I think that this comes across as me being a bit of an ingrate. And while I'm entirely aware of just how lucky I am, I don't often express my gratitude. 

So, it seems appropriate to just take a moment to express how thankful I am that I am so goddamned lucky. I won't go into specifics here, or bore you to death with a sappy listing of my feels about being lucky; but I just want it on public record: I, Grant Heino, acknowledge that I am lucky, and I am thankful for this every day, even if I am a snarky bitch about it most of the time.

StageLabel Model Casting at Lucky's:

This afternoon Jiawa from Closet Voyage and I took a late-lunch and headed over to Lucky's Speakeasy, not for a liquid lunch, but to check out the Model Casting for Melbourne-based crowd-funded fashion house StageLabel.

Daily Outfit: Neutrality

I have to be wearing the least amount of blue in today’s Daily Outfit post that I have worn in over six months now.

Since I started trying to cull every colour other than blue from my wardrobe I have never really had a moment where I’ve thought to myself “God, this is really difficult.” Or “Man, I just wish I could wear some bright yellow.” Granted, I’m not being particularly gung-ho about the Blue Goth look, but I do actively try to wear only shades of blue.

Daily Outfit: Stripes on Stripes

I'm quite proud of this stripes-on-stripes outfit that I threw together this morning as I was rushing to get out the door. 

Ordinarily I am very organised, and have my daily outfits planned at least a week, if not two weeks in advance. However, after my shocking week last week, I spent the weekend sulking, and didn't bother to plan what I was going to wear at all, or to take my daily outfit photos.

Daily Outfit: Cold and Colder

I was out of the office all day today, but knowing I was going to be at a venue my work often uses for training exercises, and how cold that venue is, I opted for a daily outfit on the warmer side. The jacket I am wearing today actually came with matching running tights, and I was very tempted to wear them under my jeans for the sake of the extra warmth!