Style Challenge: Can You Transform 3 Unworn Wardrobe Items Into Completely Wearable Options? ♥

What's that? The smell of a new, regular feature? Why yes! It certainly IS!

So, once a fortnight, I thought it would be kind interesting to undertake a ''style challenge'', where I complete a task, such as wearing a pigeon as a hat - or not - and try to make it, well, work. It could involve attempting to make a dress solely out of pizza boxes and then wearing it somewhere public, or on a less frightening note, forcing myself to frock up in a colour that I would never, ever normally don (lime green? RED?!) for an entire month. Am I excited? Yes! Terrified? Mildly!  Will it be interesting, and force me to jump out of my current sartorial state of ''safe''? Gosh, well here's hoping. And with that, allow me to present the first ever style challenge: selecting three items from my wardrobe that I never, ever wear, and transforming them into more wearable (desirable?!) outfits!

x Item #1: The Thrifted 80's Ballgown

First up? Greetings, $12 vintage dress! 

 With your dramatic polka dots and lovely metallic sheen, it was   impossible to resist adding you to my wardrobe! But you see, that's the problem: that's exactly where you've stayed. For a year. There's been no outings, no swishing or swirling, and absolutely no parading about of any kind. Which is a shame, because even though some of my loved ones have recoiled in your presence (and muttered something about you which sounded suspiciously like the words ''tin foil'' - fools!), I still think you're beautiful! And let's prove your potential; let's make you FUNCTIONAL!

Okay, so neither of these photos are going to win me first place at the Photographer Of The Year Awards (which is such a shame, because I'd made room on my bookshelf for the award and EVERYTHING!), but ta-dah! No, dress, you're no longer a shiny extravaganza, but you are finally seeing the light of day and are infinitely more wearable when paired with a singlet/jacket combination and flaunted as a skirt then when you were your former formal self!

x Item #2: The Frumpy Dress

Did somebody say ''sack''?! No? Oops. Best get my hearing checked, then. But seriously, if someone had called out ''sack''? All would be forgiven. I mean, just look at that shape! There's simply no other word which describes this garment quite as accurately. Charmed by its $6 price tag, we struck up a friendship in a second-hand store one day but since then, it's stagnated in a signifcant way. It's not that I don't call it enough, or that we don't occasionally meet for coffee; it's really just the fact that when I try it on, I could easily be mistaken for 62 instead of, you know, 22.

Until a gigantic belt, a pair of boots and a fluffy coat come to my rescue!

x Item #3: The Band T-Shirt

Half the fun of going to an excellent concert is acquiring an equally excellent t-shirt of the very band that you're seeing, except the only time that any of mine seem to be debuted is when I'm about to a) sleep; or b) walk the dog! (Tool would be SO disappointed.) It's not intentional; I just feel so incredibly masculine when I try to incorporate them into my usual attire.

The solution? Heels = approximately $60. Skirt = approximately $30. Sequinned cardigan = approximately $80. No longer appearing as though I've raided my boyfriend's wardrobe? Priceless!

♥

Which items in YOUR wardrobe are the least worn, and what could you mix and match them with - from your existing pieces - to change that? (And also, if there's any particular Style Challenge that you would like to see completed in the near future, please let me know in the comments section! But if it's ''stop wearing black all the damn time'', honestly, I'm working on that!)

xoxo

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