Ugly Pretty

I have been a little lazy on the Susie Styles front so I thought I’d go back to the roots of how I dress.  Which is that no matter how pretty something is, I just can’t help but add a touch of the gauche or ugly to it.  It’s an impulse, something I can’t fight and much like the way I feel about the way I look – ‘Ugly-Pretty’ is how I would term the way I dress too.  I’m sure it’s not hard to pick out the ‘ugly’ elements in these outfits…



Karl Lagerfeld for H&M black sequin jacket, Uniqlo brown top, Tofu white mini tunic w/ pockets, nude lace-top stockings, Office black chunky cone-heeled shoes // Combination of three scarves wrapped into a turban/scarf, H&M print dress, Eley Kishimoto spider web socks, vintage perspex wedge shoes, Zara cream wool shrug, chunky wool belt



M&S black and white print dress, vintage black slip skirt, chunky knitted legwarmers, Jonak black patent boots, H&M floral necklace // Crinkled tunic top from Hong Kong, pale blue satin shorts from Tokyo, Prada grey socks, charity shop grey velcro wedges




Vintage silk t-shirt, vintage Laura Ashley floral crossover back dress, H&M yellow ribbed tights, white butterfly belt, vintage white multi-strapped shoes // VIntage grey cotton bomber jacket, Robert Cary Williams dusky pink zip up skirt, Schwipe leggings, Tophop grey wedges, crinkly dusky pink hat

18 comments

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  2. oooh – i love the eley socks and the m&s dress… very kwl! xxxc

  3. I really love the second outfit. It remind me Comme des garçons with pretty prints and pastel colors!
    Xxx

  4. They’re all very you, Susie, uglypretty doesn’t necessarily mean you look bad as a result .. and can I take the chance to say I LOVE your spiderweb socks? The dress you’ve got on with it is a bit of lovely too. As is the M & S dress in the third picture, I’m crazy about the print.

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  7. Your style is so self expressive. Though humility is a virtue, don’t belittle yourself or your style. Ugly/pretty? No no, bubble,…pretty.

  10. great way to put the turban in action in #2, and also, i love the grey thigh hi’s… do they stay up? i just got a pair of grey tights, love them!

  15. like the second outfit.. sometimes I don’t really get the ugliness, but I guess you mean, one shall not always stay on the safe side style wise huh

  16. ‘ugly’ isn’t perhaps the exact word i’d use to describe the element you need to add to an outfit. it’s more like a piece of you, a stamp, a mark that says whatever i’m wearing, i’m in control, i’m still here, it’s mine, i’m not following, “rar!” i have a similar thing maybe. i wear a neat little outfit which my elegant sister might wear, and then i have to mess it up somehow with bad hair or something “other”… anyhow, you look lovely susie, and your “thing” whatever it is actually makes your outfits easier to look at – sometimes pretty perfection can drive one a bit demented…

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