chadchad of the day 1.9

white shirt / Ryul + Wai
embroidered rope necklace / handmade
black drop crotch pants / W Dress Room
skull & crossbones socks / no brand
lace up sandals / Alani
black suede jacket with leather detailing / no brand


Coco Rosie is playing in Seoul tonight and I knew I wanted something bold to wear to the show. The inspiration for this necklace came from browsing through the looks of Andre J. from Manila on Lookbook.nu. His styling is dramatic & whimsical and he always has very unique jewelry & ornate jackets.  A favorite look is a layered & jewelled bib he created.  So when I was picking up a few supplies at the Dongdaemun fabric market yesterday and came across these embroidered rope details, I knew I had to try to create a similar look for myself.  Here is a before & after look at the embroidery:


/ It actually started out as 3 pieces - 2 black, 1 white, which I sewed together.


/ I moved the tassle to the bottom of the bigger piece then added black chain.


I definitely won't be wearing these gorgeous red-soled sandals by Korean designer Alani (which I wrote about in my previous post) out to the show tonight. They are way too new and pretty to be stepped on by hundreds of concert-goers, but I knew I couldn't wait until the weather was warm enough in spring to incorporate them into an outfit. Instead I matched them with these cute skull & crossbones socks I found at a street vendor in Seoul. I thought it was a long shot to pair these ribbon lace ups with socks of any kind but I was pleased to see they actually turned out to make a great combination!

ps. thanks to my roommate Andrea for taking the photos!

xoxochadchad

chadchad of the day 0.8

black sweatshirt / no brand
pink, teal, black & white aztec print shorts / vintage
black cracked shiny leggings / American Apparel
pink, teal, black & gold cap / reformed vintage and H&M mash-up
elephant print gold chain / handmade
black sneakers / Converse


This was the outfit I wore to the shhhACHE! party on Saturday night, but since I didn't get a quality full length shot at the club I decided to recreate it this afternoon outside my apartment. The inspiration was this ratty, old vintage hat with an Indian/elephant pattern I found at Dongmyo vintage market for W1,000. The plastic inside the bill of the hat was completely rotten and the rest of it was in no better shape so I decided to mash it up with a teal baseball cap I bought at H&M.




I used a seam ripper to take out the lining and to separate the hat into sections. Then I used a glue gun with black glue to attach the sections onto the teal hat, starting by glueing the original bill to the underside of the teal hat's brim, since I would be wearing it tilted back. I LOVE black glue for glue guns - it's amazing when working with anything black so you don't see the strings of clear glue but you can also use it as part of the design itself. I left one of the triangle sections on the back of the cap empty to show more of the original teal color then glued it to felt and attached a gold chain to make it into a matching necklace.


The shorts were actually a short & tee combo (complete with shoulder pads!) that I found over the summer in a vintage store in Medicine Hat, Alberta where I studied Visual Communications in college. I originally wore them as a set when Handsome Furs were at Club Vera in August. I love the aztec pattern and the early 90's colors. I always pictured some small town elementary school teacher with overly permed hair wearing them on vacation to Disneyland with her family, complete with fanny pack and some dangly plastic earrings. /

xoxochadchad