The “offending” top
… until I walked into Northcote Social Club looking like a parakeet.
I still don’t know what I was thinking. It was Saturday night. In a grungy pub in Northcote. I walked into the pub, headlong into a sea of muted greys and hipster black and was painfully reminded of the fact I hadn’t set foot in a proper pub for at least 2 years.
Clearly I thought the grunge factor would be welcomingly counterbalanced by a bright green parrot shirt, aqua pants and red shoes. Ahem. Not. I could feel the pitying looks of the patrons burning a massive collective hole in my back. But did I hold my head up high? HELL yes. I worked that parakeet like I would never step foot in a pub again. If the fashion police had a say, I probably wouldn’t.
It was not unlike a scene from a National Geographic documentary. A lone rosella mum, all puffy with egg-bearing duties and too many sugar-coated worms, leaving the nest momentarily, only to stray into a murder of territorial crows and magpies cawing, “Fashion faux pas. 3 o’clock”. I was half expecting a flurry of brightly coloured feathers to fall softly into their Coopers Ale bottles as I walked through the bar, my plumage massacred by the voice of the Melbourne people. Oh, overdramatic, you say? Indeed, but I deal best in extravagant hyperbole.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m a willing slave to black, grey and denim. But sometimes I get as bored as batshit with the daily uniform and yearn for COLOUR in my wardrobe. I probably picked the wrong time and place for a rainbow display, however. Perhaps I should have saved it for the circus. Or the Zoo.
Hahaha love it Kimberley! And hell to the no woman, don’t you dare call yourself a fashion faux pas! So you should stand out in a crowd of colourless people, so you should xx
Thanks mate. I’m all for a colourful display but I think I was a bit shocked at just how black and grey everything was and how much I stood out. Their problem, clearly, not mine. Kx
Love the dress! I try not too wear to much black. Definitely a sub-section of Melbourne style that loves colour though; I find a lot of people who are in the industry try to wear a lot of colour. Black can be so easy and chic though.
Thanks Sarah – I think maybe if I’d done the parakeet with some jeans, I wouldn’t have felt so eye-poppingly out-of-place. But nooooooo, I had to choose the aqua pants and the red shoes didn’t I? Kx
Sounds like you have the perfect wardrobe for Brisbane!
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Yes! I was going to put “or Cairns” after “Or the circus” but thought the Northern Qlders may take offence. I think I was channeling a different me from a long time ago when I went to pubs and bars in Brissie. Very different scene, that one. Kx
bright and bold is beautiful! who wants to fit in in a sea of black? #teamIBOT
Black is plain and boring good on you for embracing something so bright and beautiful
It’s been so long since I’ve had a night out that I wouldn’t know what the general attire for night time frolicking is up here in Brisbane anymore :-/ Good on you for getting out there in all your colours! So bright & beautiful
I’ve been rather bored with my dreary Melbourne wardrobe for a while…I admit to owning a lot of black. So on the weekend I bought a pair of pink sandals! x
Love your outfit! I gave up wearing plain colours years ago, the brighter the better I say!!
Haha I got three very bright and eye-hurting pairs of leggings the other day – stuff I really just would not normally wear. I put them on and sorta kinda thought I could get used to them. I will rock those leggings if it is the last thing I do!
I really enjoyed reading this. Great post! I look forward to reading more of your blog.