Daily Outfit: Thumbs-Down

I'm easily amused, especially at other's expense. Never is this more the case than at work. I greatly enjoy presenting something of a hyperbole of myself in the workplace where we are thrown-together in the necessity of employment; just to see how others will react...

Daily Outfit: Going Away to College

Growing up in Australia in the 1990’s, especially in a small rural town in the middle of nowhere, something that I did a lot of was watch American movies. I especially anything aimed at the ‘young adult’ market that featured themes of growing up, coming of age, finding love... or being brutally hacked to death by some freak in a mask. Anything that featured a University Campus and the students that went there would be high on my list of things to watch.

I revelled in the ‘Going away to College’ mentality of these films. The campuses in the films were always incredibly manicured, the students exceptionally well dressed (even when being butchered), and the whole Collegiate lifestyle really appealed to me. As did the idea of escaping my small country home-town to a big city where it wasn’t really that abnormal to be gay.

Daily Outfit: Brunch

It was a nice sunny day here in Canberra, so the boyfriend and I decided to make the most of it and indulge in a little brunch.

Daily Outfit: Mental-Dental

I am absolutely terrified of the Dentist. I’m terrified of most medical procedures actually, with the exception of things that I know intimately, like having food poisoning or a cold. Anything else sends me into full-blown panic cycles where I convince myself not only that it is highly likely I will die, but in fact that it is really the only possible outcome, and that it will be hideously, unbearably painful.

Daily Outfit: Obsession with Orange:

 

For a long time I resisted my love of the colour orange because I believed that the colour simply didn’t suit me. I tried desperately to redirect my sartorial urges for all things orange into stationary or home wares, even my tattoos. However, sating my lust for the colour this way didn’t really work, and like a true junkie I had a stash. A file on my computer called ‘Orange’, full of images of men and women wearing bright, burnt orange proudly and making it work.

Daily Outfit: Mr. Lobster

Today I had an appointment with my amazing Hairdresser Elise, so this meant that it was time for the boyfriend and I to have our monthly 'Date Night' afterwards. However, in light of our new attempt to eat healthier, we decided to forgo our usual Chinese haunt the Takee Roast Inn, and instead visited a Japanese place up the road for pickles, sushi, and a cheeky beer.

Daily Outfit: Sham-rocked

Today's ensemble was a bit of an experiment. I purchased this sheer Hoodie from ASOS a while ago, and while I have worn it a few times, I've never really felt like it's worked for me. To be honest I'm not really convinced it ever will.

Daily Outfit: Gridiron and gold-tone

 

There's so much of my life that is in a state of flux right now. I'm feeling uncertain about my path in life, and so instead of focusing on the variables, I am retreating into routine. I am forcing myself through breakfast, going to the gym four out of seven days, and planning every ensemble I wear up to two weeks in advance. I am writing the things that concern me down in a little book and trying not to devote too much energy to them once I have. I am drinking less tea. I have started using a great new line of skincare which I am really excited about. I am investing in new TV series' like Mob Wives and Grimm.

All of these things I do, I do to stave off the uncertainty. 

Daily Outfit: Palm trees and sheerling

I purchased this sheerling lined leather Jacket before I decided to commit to adopting a new, Prep-adjacent wardrobe. I got it and a similar piece off ASOS for an insanely low price when I was thinking of adopting an entirely different look. In any event, it hasn't received much love from me since I purchased it a while back.

Daily Outfits: A darker shade of Prep

I have been actively making an effort to dress more like how I wish I looked at all times, rather than just rolling out of bed and throwing on the first things I find. If I think about my perfect wardrobe, I think a darker shade of Prep:
a largely collegiate or Preppy look, lots of dress shirts and embroidered ties paired with well-tailored blazers, the stereotypical view of Preppy that most people outside the US only have on account of Hollywood. However, there is no divorcing the fact that I live in my jeans, and I am not giving them up any time soon. Navy is the dominant colour, with traces of burnt orange and crisp white.

Daily Outfit: A spark in the gloom

Today was a truly miserable day here in Canberra. The misty rain never seemed to lift, casting everything in a damp, blue-grey light, and people in the office grumbled endlessly about the weather for ducks.

Daily Outfit: The Neglected Wardrobe

Ladies and gentlemen, a confession. I, Grant Heino, am a recovering wardrobe neglector.

Now that I am getting back into the swing of Blogging, I'm finding that not only am I coming up with ideas for where I would like to take things, but I'm also thinking more and more about my daily outfits. But things haven't been Rosy for a while now.

Daily Outfit: Sunday style

Today I headed to Yum Cha with my mother in Canberra's answer to Chinatown. It was a beautiful sunny winter day, and true to my self, I spent it inside eating Chinese delicacies and then getting my sewing room in order.

Daily Outfit: Deadliest Catch

It was not intentional at all, but I sort of planned an ensemble for today that has left me looking like I should be hauling up crab-pots out of the freezing Atlantic Ocean while swearing at the camera on Deadliest Catch. I don't necessarily think that this is a bad thing, and as a look I sort of dig the combination, sort of L.L. Bean meets Red Lobster meets Australian suburbanite homosexual...

Blogging: Four Years Ago Today

As of today, I have been Blogging as Ink & Leather/s for four whole years.

 

I find it hard not to think of my Blog as this static, adamant thing, like a sort of obelisk inscribed with the details of my life, dress sense and opinions. A monument to who I was that will be floating around the interwebs for years and years to come. I think this is largely because there are a few of my old diaries floating around in the cyber ether that are so appalling written and humiliatingly divulging of my neurosis. I have forgotten or lost the passwords to gain access to the Blogs to delete them - and so now they exist as ugly blotches on the cyber landscape, chilling reminders of who I was at 19.