[SUITED UP] B&B

Hand-me-down men's shirt, tailored suit pants, Nixon Cannon men's watch

Probably one of my favourite combinations for college - it's quite amazing how well blue and brown go together. Big fan of actual men's shirts on girls too, way cooler than girls' boyfriend shirts (as in loose-cut girls' shirts; I figured my description might be a bit confusing).

A few days after discovering this colour combo I saw a post with this and this on The Sartorialist - just reinforcing its coolness I guess.

[SUITED UP] ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE

Tailored blazer and suit pants, Mango shirt, Zara knit v-neck (I have 50 of them. Jokes), Clarks leather low-heel flats, bracelets from Asos and Manly Crafts market

I know that real business attire should be colour matching, but at uni I allow myself to mix up my blazers and bottoms sometimes. I'm quite fond of wearing grey and navy - both are classic formal attire colours but look much hipper and "younger" than black, and worn together they magically go with shirts or tops of literally any colour. Trust me, I've already tried: yellow, green, black, white, beige, baby blue, red, hot pink, baby pink, pale turquoise (just trying to think of the colours of all the tops I've worn to uni)... you name it. Don't have anything purple but my imagination says ok as well.

It's gotten colder here in Sydney (ha-ha, the Northern Hemisphere says), so my collection of v-necks has finally come into use this year. Again, the shirt/v-neck combo is such a cool classic and I have no idea why it didn't come to my mind last winter; I was only going to work for my internship and not to school, but I could've gone out in that and jeans, which I can't stop doing now. The baby blue shirt (as already worn here) and purple-ishy bordeaux v-neck I was wearing today gave my mismatched suit a bit of a retro feel, without looking like I had a million colours on.

College is fricken busy this term (something I keep saying every term, but this time it's fo real), so I have to get my act together and start getting ready for the battle this weekend. That's what I keep saying every term too...

Happy weekend loves x

*Thanks Phong for taking the photos :)

[SUITED UP] COLOUR POP

Mango shirt, Zara knit v-neck, tailored suit

I felt quite bright at college the other day wearing hot pink and baby blue with my light grey suit. I wish my brain was always as enthusiastic as what I rock up at school in.

[SUITED UP] NOW WE TALKIN' BUSINESS

One of the cool things about going to a business college is that you get to wear business attire. Maybe most of the locals found it quite lame as they had to wear uniform at school, but our college has recently freed us from the uniform suits and allows us to wear our own now. Which is hot - don't we all love guys in suits? And we girls are quite lucky with our endless options of pants and skirts and blazers and shirts and blouses and heels and god knows what else. I myself am quite into blazers and suit pants when it comes to fashion anyway, so it suits me ha.

So after a few (short) weeks of break it was time to get the awesomeness ready again. (Barney from How I Met Your Mother says suits are awesome so they are. End of discussion.)

One of my tailored suits and shirts. Good thing to be Asian. 

(Agent Ninetynine canvas bag. This was only for day one though. Can't afford to run around with such a small bag at college; I'd be carrying all my shit and probably fall over) 

As for stationery, I just got a few 70 cents notebooks from Coles (we already think in a very economical way hey Nicola) and recycled my massive orange folder that I haven't been using since term 1 (considering that I'm in term 6 now, that's been sitting in the box collecting dust for quite some time. And illustrates how organised the other terms were). Speaking of recycling, my pencil case is one of my Sabre cases. I friggen have to stop losing my sunnies.