I've decided this Fall's manifestation of Quirky Waif is Country Punk. Hahaha!
But ok, so I've been enjoying rocker-ish touches here and there, with the build up of this trend. However, since I'm not going into the city now, it's started to feel a little too slick. When not at the bakery, well, I've been tooting around in my banged up green station wagon with my faux herding dog and picking lemons and making marmalade and working on a donut recipe with a -- healthy people look away -- $20 deep fryer from Wal-mart with no temperature controls (I've just got to do it the hard way).
This is not stuff to be done in boots and blouses. I've been living in and loving tan knock-off Crocs from the drugstore, and slipped back into hipster-on-the-prairie A-line skirts, and added very thin, sleeveless tees & tanks. (I used to hate tees, but they're very useful.)
So anyways, then I pick up this magazine. The sort of over-designed, purposefully unglossy kind that you can use to mulch your garden without poisoning yourself. I picked it up because I saw it had a pic of Penny Rimbaud, Punk dawner (ie figure from the dawn of Punk). Anyways, it turned out (I should have guessed) the piece was about Dial House (Rimbaud's English kibbutz), and I confess to being completely distracted away from Penny for a moment by an article on building a hut out of woodland debris.
But back to Penny, I *realised* the only answer to all this style-wise is to spend the Fall in Country Punk. It's fortunate that Penny doesn't know: he'd wish he'd overdosed and could turn in his grave in protest.
Pics:
#1: Dark Hipster (rocker influenced) (did I post this already?).
#2: Faux leather leggings and NAS best-buy green sweater and lower-heeled booties for walking (most rockerish outfit yet).
#3: Poor little higher-end dress taken down by hipster stying (hipbag). Odd-one-out.
#4: A-line skirt and muscle tee thingy. Worn to bakery (which is broiling in our late summer heat).
#5: Artisan baker style, tank top and denim kneepants. Haha. If only I had a tat, I'd be a real artisan baker.
