Teacher Style day 41, the Sweater Inspiration Continues

Visiting Yle, photographed by one of my students, wearing second hand, loving that over sized leopard sweater.

xxx noir party

Vitaminwater launched a new drink, xxx noir and invited me and some of my friends to the party. The dresscode was xxx. I was wearing a Fiona Timantti hat, a see through dress (fleamarket find), black bra, black vintage 50's girdle, black belt, seamed stockings and super high heels.

The dress was really see through.

 Girls from Ainokainen, Belle Modeste and First Crush

 Bondage art by Tinttu Henttonen

 Jan and Vesa

 Miia, Mert and me

 Paula and Miikka

 Guest dj's, The Misshapes (Geordon Nicol and Leigh Lezark)

Vesa

Vesa and Mert

p.s. It may seem that my life is one continuous party, but i can assure you it's not. I work almost every day of the week, but it might be boring to post pictures of me attaching diamonds etc. Besides, i work alone at my atelier at the moments, so there is no-one to take pictures of me working...

p.p.s. I made yet another Treasury List! I might make a whole series..This one is called Green With Envy.

A Surprise party!

Me and Anni, photo Tipi Taskinen 

My birthday is 26th of november, and when i went to work that day, there was a surprise waiting for me! Cake, champagne, presents!

I'm working in Atelje Teatro at the moment, and i like it! We're making ballet costumes for the national opera. I really needed a break from my hat business.. Ofcourse i'm making hats too, but not full time. I'll be back in my own atelier next month.

This picture was taken that morning, we had breakfast in Hotel Kämp.

And i have new glasses! I won them in a competition by Lensway. What do you think? They are quite different from the other ones i have. 

Hey, Four Eyes!

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Photo from here

Bette Davis

What a gorgeous outfit!

Katherine McGolbin as Midge Carne in BBC's South Riding

I love those glasses and that hat!

By the way, check out this video about the costumes of South Riding, if you are in the right area. I'm not, so i can't see it :/

Hey! Four eyes!

Last sunday morning we went, as usual, to 'Valtteri' flea market (my favourite in Helsinki). I found some old magazines and a lovely vintage 50's dress. And some lovely specs, but i didn't buy them.. :/ Too expensive.

This gorgeous dress was only 8e.

Nice old magazines from the 40's, 50's and 60's.

Sakari found some old lemonade bottles.

Here's the cool specs i found! Most of them were actually pretty silly looking (maybe they just didn't suit me that well..)


These were perfect! I love that shape and those colours.

These were pretty nice too. Bigger than i had in mind, so i didn't buy them.

If you wanna buy specs online, heres one site you might wanna check out (you can shop in finnish, swedish, norwegian, german and danish) Favoptic. Their prices are very reasonable.
"Modena"
"Florence"
These two are my favourites on that site.

Another page worth visiting is Opera Opera. They have a very wide range of vintage style glasses. "Vintage reproduction frames & sunglasses using genuine rivet hinges & trims not mock pins & trims ‘stuck on’ on modern mass produced sunken joints."

These 'Harper' frames are just brilliant.
And they are hand made in England!
They also have those "Johnny Depp glasses", in many different colours.