Awful or Awesome - Case #3 The Pussy Bow Blouse

In the recesses of my wardrobe I found this vintage bright green pussy bow blouse. A flee market find for next to nothing. I have only worn it a scant few times because the color doesn't really agree with me. I don't generally do bright colors. And the pattern is just so weird! It's just a bit much, I feel like a Christmas tree! So for me it teeters on the edge of awful. And I kind of cringe when I see it... But I love the cut and shape of it and I feel like I need to have at least one pussy bow blouse in my wardrobe for when I want to do the secretary or librarian look. 

So, what do you think? Awful or awesome? Would you wear it or do you cringe when you see it?

Awful or Awesome - Case #2 The Brocade Jacket

Oh yes, this one definitely deserves the capital letters! I think this is awesome! But I know many people who cringe at the sight of it. I love brocade, and I love jackets, this one has brocade in just the right colors and such an awesome cut! It is a VERY powerful piece though, it cannot be ignored! When the sun shines, this one shines too! A lot! I feel like a second sun when I wear it in sunlight. And my do people stare!

I found this one at a second hand shop called Beyond Retro, they have a chain of shops both in Sweden (three of them in Stockholm, just a 40 minute train ride from here!!) and in the UK. They also have an online shop. I love that place, it is definitely my go to place for absolutely unique items of good quality! Not too expensive either, but expensive enough that I only shop there about twice a year as I tend to get carried away... My dear top hat is also from Beyond Retro, but it is not second hand.

This brocade jacket is completely anonymous, no lable or any signs that there has ever been a lable. It seems tailored to me and it might have been made as part of a theater production or something like that. It has some details that have been lovingly hand stitched but it still gives a decidely proffessional impression. The patterns align perfectly and it is just so stunning that I get chills!! Oh, I could just go on and on about this one, it is hands down the best find I have ever made! It cost me just 35 €! It´s a little bit big on me, but who cares!!

But, for the awful part of it, it might just be too extreme for most people in the known universe! Shoulder pads, gold brocade, strange cut... I love it, but most people wouldn't! My mother exclaimed "WHAT is THAT?" the first time she saw it!

So my mind might be made up, but what do you think? Could you handle wearing it? Is it cringeworthy? Is it awful or is it awesome?

Awful or Awesome - Case #1

This one is impulsively thrifted a couple of years ago, probably cost me a couple of euros, only been worn once since... It is teetering on the edge between aweful and awesome for me. The style is fine... but the COLORS! It would definitely be awesome for me if it was black, or red or, I don´t know, anything else... Light blue and gold is just revolting! The whole Rococo gone Bollywood  vibe is a bit much!! This one, I´m proud to say, made my mother cringe (says something if you know my mother)!

So, awful or awesome? Does it have potential? Would you wear it? Would it make your mother cringe?

(Sorry for the bad pics everyone, combination of lack of natural light (northern winters do not give you much natural light to begin with), sometimes crappy camera and a chronic lack of image editing program... The first pic is the most true to color!)

Awful or Awesome - Prologue

I love holidays! BUT, they are wery boring when it comes to style... In the last week I have not worn any interesting outfits, or seen anything inspiring, my style has consisted of the ugliest (and admittedly most comfortable) things from the bottom of my wardrobe and I have turned into Common Housewife Extraordinaire... Nothing alternative about my Christmas, and my latest order of perfume samples has failed to arrive as of yet... All of this combined = nothing to write about...

UNTIL I took a look in my wardrobe here at my parents house. I still have a room here and I have never really moved out (nor do I plan to, I happen to get along with my parents so well that I don´t really have a reason to move out). My closet here contains some really strange clothing items, mostly impulsively trifted and never really worn. At my other home I also have some strange items that have brought similar reactions from friends, but that I find absolutely fantastic... I have a tendency to fall for clothes that are so strange that I can´t really tell if they are awful or awesome and that have many of my friends cringing. And so I thought to share these strange finds with likeminded fellows!

Hence the new blog project, Awful or Awesome! Like Hot or Not except it is not about hotness at all... Most of these items will not be hot, all of them will be some kind of strange, some of them will be so strange that I bought them for nothing at all because no normal, conforming person would wear them. If my friends cringe and question my sanity when I come home with a find, it will go straight into this category! If I cringe and question my OWN sanity, then that item will definitely show up in this category!

Now, off to photograph some really strange clothes!

Edit: Decided to rename this segment Awful or Awesome, rather than Ugly or Awesome... For no other reason than that alliteration is awesome!!