Face of Boe

ello ellos. Two posts ago I made mention of my jacket, and how it has a story all its own. Well, I thought I might take this opportunity to tell the story!

My friend Laura is one of my greatest partners in crime when it comes to thrifting. However, our pairing includes one fatal flaw: we are pretty dang close to the same size. One particular day we were out on what was turning out to be not the most successful of thrifting adventures when Laura lay her hands on this jacket. My first and most immediate thought upon seeing the jacket was: Jack Harkness! of Doctor Who and Torchwood fame. It is just a slightly military inspired peacoat but it really reminded me of a female version of his famous coat.

Anyway, Laura was unfamiliar with Jack Harkness but she fell in love with the coat too, regardless of that fact. She grabbed it first so by all accounts she had claim to it. Still, I was sad (I pouted, allegedly) and kept thinking about how great it would look with the new grey shoulder bag Dale had given to me for Christmas. It looked good on Laura though so I had to stop pouting and let her walk away with it, knowing that at least I would be reunited with it everytime I saw her in it. The thing about Laura at the time, was that she was in the process of readying to move to England and was already fretting about all the clothes she would probably have to leave behind. So on another thrifting trip a few days later (we're addicted, it's a problem, we know) she looked at me and said something like, "oh hey - remember that jacket? - you can have it, it won't fit in my luggage." The next thing she said was, "are you gonna cry? please don't." So that about sums up how I felt about becoming the owner of this vintage navy blue military inspired Jack Harkness coat! :)

Dale and I took these pictures today in the same area that we took the pictures from a few days ago. We managed to sneak them in right before the rain snow mix started coming down.

This dress from forever 21 is one of my new favourites but it is so short! I could not possibly wear it sans leggings without another and longer dress under it, or a skirt. In any case, I still love it - quite often I will belt it at the waist but today I wanted to show it on its own.

outfit details: dress: F21 // under-dress: aritzia // boots, coat: vintage // tights,beret, scarf: h&m

walking with a ghost

Hallos marshmallos. Whats up? Heavy on the heels of my last post about ethics I thought I might do something a little more fun and show some pictures of outfits past! These are some of my favourite outfits that were featured on a past blog. Last year I had a blog with wordpress but decided to move to blogger! Anyway here are some of my faves from that blog :)

It's a sad story but I think the above shown plaid jumper might have left regular rotation as it was involved in a Halloween accident. This past year a bunch of friends and I went as a roller derby team and my costume involved wearing this jumper underneath the "team t shirt" that we had made. In red fabric ink we wrote our team name (The Bloody Marys) however, it was done a little hastily and was not actually dry before I put it on. Hence, there is red fabric ink all over this jumper. Maybe I can work it somehow though! :p Also, I think there were some pictures taken that night so maybe they will work there way onto here eventually.

I am going to keep this short tonight because I have a paper due Friday and I should probably at least focus a small amount of my efforts to that :)

Until next time,

Rhitbee

The Ethics of Blogging

Hello friends. This is my first real post here under the roof of Rhitbee! There is a particular topic that I wanted to broach within the confines of this first post. That topic is...ethics! Yay! How totally exicting. HEY YOU! Don't run away, I want to talk about blogging ethics and specifically fashion blogging ethics. Is that better? Kay cool.

Lets talk about my outfit first though! I love this skirt so much, I scored it last summer whilst thrifting but it is becoming much too big and soon will have to be made into a top I think. The coat has a story all its own that I will tell another day! The rest of the outfit consists in old staples. Black cardigan, gold top, purple scarf. You might see these things popping up quite a bit on this here blog. Dale and I took these pictures in "tig forest" behind his house. I've always thought it would be a great place to take outfit shots and I think they actually turned out pretty swimmingly. This was our first try though - no doubt the photos shall improve! Anyway onto the topic of the day!

Recently I have been reading a lot about how the blogosphere is lacking a real set of "ethics" or proper "codes of conduct". With it being a discussed recently on a panel at the IFB Conference last week, it seems to be a hot topic. I was not at the IFB Conference and so I cannot speak to what was dicussed there save for the brief tid-bits I have heard, however, I have my own offerings on the topic of Blogger Ethics. This probably comes as no surprise to those who know me, as I fell in love with philosophy before fashion.

There is no doubt that the topic of ethics in the blogosphere is one well worth discussing, however, I propose that coming up with codes and rules and, really, boundaries - will do nothing but harm this awesome place we call the interwebs. That is, ideally, there should be only one rule and its golden in name but I prefer the way Kant put it with his concept of the Categorical Imperative. To state all of this simply, as bloggers we should never post anything that we would not want posted about ourselves, and only post things that we would enjoy reading on another blog. We should only post things and post about things that we see the value in for itself rather than being a tool for some other end. An example of this might be endorsing a product that you do not like but still want the money coming from the endorsement. We should blog because we love it and because we love the things we blog about!

I know that most of my favourite fashion bloggers already follow these rules and I think if we all keep them in mind (when reading and commenting on blogs too) the blogosphere will continue to be an awesome place!

outfit details: tank,scarf,tights//h&m skirt,cardigan//thrift coat,boots,belt//vintage bracelets//aldo accessories/vintage

New Beginnings

Hello and welcome to Rhitbee-isms. Here I intend to post daily outfits, fashion inspiration, music musings among many other things yet to be totally determined. This summer I intend to launch Rhitbee Anne Vintage, an etsy shop with tonnes of great vintage finds!

Keep your eyes peeled!

Until next time,

Rhitbee (but you can also call me Robyn : ) )