I really must be getting a bit of a rep for the ‘WTF’ fabrics. I’ve only ever expressed my love for the ‘WTF’ type fabrics here once and yet some clever people are quick to pick it up.
Kelles who owns Indie Cult Vintage (no, I’ve not been paid by her to talk her up…. I genuinely like her wares and her attitude if anyone is interested…) has probably checked out the blog a few times at most, yet was smart enough to pick up my ‘WTF’-liking vibes and so yesterday, a vibrant bit of floral fell out of a USPS packet. I mean ‘vibrant’ in the very BIG sense of the word…. all pinks, purples and blues and boldly shaped flowers (again, a colour combo I only very recently explored… gosh… people are ever so observant…).
The loud-as-you-can print on a simply shaped open tunic surprisingly works over a multitude of outfits from my naturally instinctive ‘chee sin mui’* ensembles (excuse the English-Canto but it is the perfect phrase that sums up the outfit….) to simpler combinations. Granted the print itself isn’t actually all that crazy and it is in a decent heavy matt linen fabric, but somehow the colours jostling and clashing with each other give off a ‘loud’ effect that only ‘chee sin mui’s like me love…
*Chee sin mui means ‘crazy girl’ but the Cantonese sounds better to me as an expression of the above…
Love those bright colors.
haha, awesome 🙂
You wear it really well.
cute!! It’s very “yellow submarine” lol.
-Giselle <3<3<3
LOVE IT!
the colors are great.
That coat is great! I love the vibrant colors and the print. It would look great with all black or black grey ensembles as well, although I like your first outfit.
great find!
i know how certain cantonese phrases just describe certain outfits better, or any other language or dialect for that matter! but i think this is more cute than is chee sin, haha.
Fantastic print and colours. I’ve bought stuff from Indie Cult Vintage a long time ago. The choice is always incredible but I have a problem with the prices. They tend to get extremely high when you can sometimes find similar stuff cheaper if you have the courage to explore ebay for hours …
Haha, Susie, this is exactly what I meant when I called you ‘chee sin mui’. Glad you’ve embraced the term. The tunic reminds me of the batik ‘housecoats’ that my old aunty used to sew and wear in the 1970s. She was, and still is, quite a fashionable ‘chee sin por’.
Oh gawd, I feel so ignorant–I have no idea what the “chee sin mui” reference is. Or rather, I’m sure I know some equivalent concept but don’t have enough info.
Honestly at first glance I did not care for the coat. Then I saw it with the last outfit–the shiny black, and I liked it. So I took a second look. I always have probs with sleeves of that length, etc. And it’s so hard to *know* without being able to touch the fabric/see the deets. That makes a huge difference. Okay, prepare to vomit but I could totally see that coat over a black or metallic gold turtleneck {or one that picks up a color from the fabric} and some mid-blue wide leg denim and a fabulous cinch belt over the coat. That would be smokin’!
I don’t exactly speak cantonese so it took me a while to figure out which phase you were referring to. The coat definitely has chee sin mui potential on the wrong person (or the right person, depending on how you look at it), but you carried it off very well!
*chee sin mui* really made me laugh. It’s the sort of thing my mom would say…I expect that you’ve had the same thing!
Sometimes, the WTF fabrics make me think otherwise.
At first glance they may look ugly but then later on there’s this little bug in you making you see different options with it. The certain ugliness of the fabric draws some sort of interest in you.
It’s just so fun to rediscover things in a new light.
I’ve always admired Indie Cult Vintage for finding those amazing billowy coats. I appreciate a good flare for the dramatic 🙂
Cute coat! I’m loving the pattern. And yes your right about finding similar stuff on ebay if you just take the time to search, because that’s what she does. She buys stuff under alias user names and re-sells them for a bucket load, just look at the bid history of “fashion-fool”.
Wow that’s really gorgeous, it’s my favorite color combo and in a print no less…
Well, it look like Kelles of indiecultvintage read this and changed the location of her fake user ID “fashion-fool” as being located in Europe so no-one can search her bid history anymore. Man those scamming ebay sellers really have it figured out….geeezz…
I love the first outfit, and thanks for the new expression 🙂
haha, I totally agree, chee sin mui sums it up best, but I don’t think you’re chee sin at all! if only I had the galls to wear some of the fashions you imagine up! I have a few WTF outfits myself…that I can’t bear to wear out, but I bought them nonetheless! 🙂
bold = beautiful. you wear it well!
also, this is very late but i noticed my link on your blog awhile back and it was such a pleasant surprise! thanks for the love!
super juicy! i love the white outlines making the shapes pop
Love the print and the vibrant colors! I get a patrica field vibe from this but in a chic way though. I could see this with an all black or grey outfit as well to let is stand out more although I really like your first outfit.
great find!
^gosh I’m sorry, I thought my comment earlier today didn’t come through. It did though
we knew you could rock this like no other…without a doubt. the colors are as vibrant today as they were in the year of birth!
woow i love the colors!
im dead jealous of your coat and your photoshop abilities
x francis
that’s such a cute coat, love it
Love it. You look great in brights!
I like the first outfit, better then the second actually (though that one is great as well). Somehow the explosion of colours in the first outfit works well together.
Nice coat, and you look great. I love those saturated colors on you.
ohhh those colours are what i dream of wearing. you do wtf so well! i always revert back to black navy brown blurgh colours, you are polyphonic in the greatest way!
well that is your talent miss chee sin miu.
crazy always looks fanatical on you.
i think it looks okay. def better than the first WTF. that was definitely a wonder for me, i have to say 😛
while indeed your clothes sometimes do make you seem more or less ‘chee sin’ sometimes as you put it, but frankly the way you approach fashion is definitely far from crazy!
I do recall the first time I saw your style diary three years ago, I was thinking ‘if this girl steps around Singapore dressed like this everyday, she’ll definitely be thought of by passersby to be loonyhouse material!’.
chee sin mui or not, you’ve got my vote on the both ways you’ve worn this coat!
Love the shoes but didn’t see a mention of them – who are they?? T-bars are my favourite.
for ebay, i prefer VIOLETVILLE VINTAGE – their stuff is more vintage-vintage rather than kitchy-vintage (which i don’t mean in a bad way), but i like it that way!
Shame on Susie for supporting indiecultvintage! Kelles is a KNOWN shiller-meaning she uses fake id’s on ebay to bid against you on her own stuff, so you end up paying much more! I know of 4, yes 4 id’s she uses to bid against her customers so they end up paying more for her stuff!
it’s been awhile since i heard the words “chee sin mui”… anyway, this me thinks this “chee sin mui” outfit rocks!
Susies a cutie, but Indies a Shill!
Want evidence? Read it and weep….
http://forums.ebay.com/db1/thread.jspa?threadID=2000568373&tstart=0&mod=1210956445385
Indiecult is not ONLY a shiller, and she’s not ONLY a scammer who sells new and children’s items as vintage, but she has also been found to be cutting out designer tags and sewing them into clothing:
http://www.kiboshapparel.com/tmp/