Exception #4 - Next Danish Pin-Up

So I've done this crazy thing.

A couple of day ago one of my friend sent me a link to a competition. A modeling agency is looking for a new pin-up model, and I've decided to sign up.

This is so exciting I'm about to make flip-flops and sing in french... And I don't know how to neither.

Well to win this I really need you help.
The competition is on Facebook, and basically to win I need your likes. The girl with most likes wins.

I really hope you will support me in this crazy project I've decided to jump into.

What do you do:

1. Press the following link; it will lead you directly to the picture on Facebook.com: The next Danish Pin-up.
2. Like the picture.
3. Share it if you wish to.

Thank you so much. <3

#47, #48

There has been to manny irregularities on the blog all the way from the beginning, but I will try to update the blog 2-3 times a week from now on. Usually the updates will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays and hopefully I'll be able to post on Sundays as well. 

Yesterday and today is still mostly about simplicity. I like black, but I like colors as well, and that's why I very often use berets and in different colors. Two days ago I go a new red beret. I've always wished for a red one, but for some reason I never bought one. 

So when I saw one on eBay I ordered it right away. 

I wanted the beret to be in focus and the best way to do that is to tone everything else down. 

This is a basic black dress from asos. I love it cause it's so comfortable to wear yet it is so tight that it turns out so sexy that I've seen both women and men not knowing where to look when I wear it. 

I've matched the beret with a pair of red patent leather ballerina shoes. I bought these two years ago in a outlet shop for merely nothing. 

The same place I found the beret I found this cuuute silver cat-brooch. I love over-sided brooches and this one has a pretty good size. I matched it with a pair of silver earring from my always trusted h&m. As simple as it gets. 

The reason I've chosen silver jewelry to the red details is that the silver cools the very bright red down and gives it a harmonic look.

A couple of weeks ago I saw a picture of Audrey Hepburn wearing a bull-fighters inspired outfit. And I just fell in love with the idea. I tried to copy it but of course with my own twist. 

What I'm wearing it is pair of cigarette pants from h&m, I used to wear these all the times when I was dancing a lot, and a turtle neck blouse, also from h&m. I used a scarf I found in a local thrift shop as a belt to give it the bull fighter feel. And matched it all with a pair of leopard ballerina shoes. 

Here I'm using gold jewelry, cause I think that green goes very well with gold. The brooch is an very old pice found on eBay years ago, and the earrings are as the one you've seen before on the blog just in a different size. 

#45, #46

It's spring in Copenhagen. It's seriously spring. It's that kind of weather; when you go out you actually can feel the warmth from the sun on your skin.

I planned to write an entry on Sunday, but one of my friends lured me out in park. 7 hour later when I got home I was so tired it took me approximately 2 hours and 50 minutes to move from my couch to my bed.

So here we go, an new update.

 I felt like celebrating spring this Sunday, so I wore the perfect summer dress. I just adore the color. It reminds me of summer and blue skies. What I love most about this dress is th fact that I don't need to wear a belt to make it look pretty. 

I found this dress some months ago i COS and yes, you are right, you have seen this dress before. But I couldn't help my self. This one is new and so absolutely lovely that I broke my own rule for it, but you know what.. I don't care. Rules are to be broken, and this dress is worth it. 

I didn't want to make a big deal out of a Sunday outfit. So I wore the dress with these pretty heart shaped earrings and and a pair of black ballerina shoes.

Yesterday was a stay-at-home-and-study day. So today I needed to do something extra. I wanted to play around with some 1940s hair, but victory rolls are so hard to make when your hair is too long.

My skirt is just a regular black pencil skirt I've found in a thrift show. I love black pencil skirts cause they re so practical and you can wear them casually during the day but also dress it up for a night out. 

The blouse is one of those pieces of clothes I found in my parents attic some weeks ago. I remember buying this blouse. It's probably seven year old, and I'm always impressed how good it still looks svn though it's just as ordinary as a VILA product. 

I'm retry sure you've seen both of these. The peacock is from a flea market her in Copenhagen and the earrings are from h&m. As simple as it gets. 

#43, #44 - Feminine wearing pants or even rags

Sunday was a dance and pants day. Yesterday was a pants day, and hell... let us make today pants day as well.
Dresses have a special place in my heart, and I love to wear them but every now and then I go pants-amok. There is just something perfectly casual yet feminine in the combination of a pair of capri, cigar or what ever pants, a sweater and a pair of ballerina shoes. In some way this is essence of simplicity or rather casual femininity.

If you wear your pants high-waisted and you match them up with any kind of pre-1960s vintage hair you will get a classic and elegant look of the exact era you wish to represent.
Of course the lingerie plays a huge roll in this as well, but I'll come back to this part in one of my exceptions on the blog.

A lot of men don't like when women wear pants, they prefer their women in skirts cause skirts equal feminine. And even though I absolutely agree on this statement; That dresses and skirts are more feminine that trousers, I'd say that femininity doesn't lay in the clothes but rather in the appearance and how you carry yourself.
If you try to google Marilyn Monroe or Audrey Hepburn, you will see both of them wear pants and even jeans, but their charisma is so feminine that even if they were wearing rags, they would look feminine.
Or remember Marlene Dietrich and her suits?  A suit is one of the most masculine outfits of forever, yet Dietrich nails it every single time, and she is just to die for... every single time!

Of course skirts help you feel more feminine, but the best way to become feminine is by discovering it within yourself. And of course practice, practice and some more practice.
I believe that every woman has the femininity hidden somewhere underneath of decades of anti-patriarch and pro gender neutrality propaganda of the 1970s Red Stocking Feminism.
I bow in respect for the hard work that the Red Stocking feminist did for the liberation of the woman back in the day, without them we wouldn't have the opportunities we have today. But just because you are a feminist, doesn't mean that you have to cut your femininity and womanhood off. One doesn't have to rule out the other. I'm feminist, but I sure do my best to keep in touch with my feminine sides as well.

Don't hesitate; let a man open the door for you, thank him for the gesture and smile. Put a flower in your hair as decoration, use lipstick. Don't be afraid to be extravagant or even dramatic from time to time. Let a man help you carry your bags...
Keep your head up and smile. Relax your face, be aware of how you walk, talk and act... at a point all of these things will become just a part of you and you won't even notice it anymore. At that point it won't matter anymore weather you wear a ball gown, pants or even rags. You will always look feminine.

Yesterday I wore my 1940s inspired chiffon pants. I bought them in h&m two years ago. They are so lovely. unfortunately they are too big, so I need to keep them up with a belt. The shirt is approximately four years old, and I found it in Vero Moda. This is from a time where I still was figuring out how to do this vintage style surf.  I love the color and the pom-pons at the shoulder. I remember I wore it with a pencil skirt back then. And I just adored the style. 

The hair I'm wearing is the same as here. This is so easy and quick and I love it when I need to get my hair out of the way in a creative and fancy way. 

Still what you do to get this hair is: You use a long scarf and secure it on the top of the hair with a bobby pin. 

2. You braid two braids. One on each side and secure them with a rubber band each. wrap the hair and the scar around the hair and tie it in a creative way. I usually tie it on the side. 

The jewelry yesterday was basically non existing. I only wore my old plastic earrings, cause the hairdo and the shirt were details enough for the style. 

Today I'm wearing pants cause I slept over and didn't have time to play around with dresses or skirts. 

These pants are actually my dads old working pants. I stole them from him, long time ago, cause I always wished I had a boiler suit. So these were a compensation for the boiler suit. 

I just adore these, they are so comfy, and they are perfectly big that I can wear them as a pair of high-waisted pants. They are too long as well so I always wear them rolled up. 

The blouse I'm wearing is my favorite turtle-neck blouse. I'm not sure what I'll do when this gets worn out. I think I've had this one for almost 10 years, and as I recall it's a h&m pice. 

I wen't all casual 1950s today. You know, like the american girls imitating the auto mechanics from mid-1950s. There is something light and very romantic and playful about that look. 

The hair was just put up in a hight bun and kept in place with a scarf and bobby pins. The same as Sunday. 

Earrings are bijouterie from h&m and the pin is one I bought on ebay a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure if it's vintage or what ever, but I really don't mind, what I fell in love with is the fact that it is the eternity sign. 

Oh yeah the shoes. This is one of those pairs I always forget I have. I bought them two years ago, I like the combination of the patent leather and the sateen fabric. I bought these in one of those cheap outlet shops in Copenhagen.