frocktober – Page 7 – Christina Hopgood

Oh my goodness you guys! It’s nearly Frocktober time and I can’t believe how fast the year has gone!

Here is my Frocktober page where you can donate to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund! Every time you do an ovary says thankyou!

I have had a look at all my dresses and sorted them into categories: work appropriate, not work appropriate, and hard to wear. Unsurprisingly, all of my Lolita dresses fall into the last category. Here’s my list (a lot of the names are things only I’d understand):

Work appropriate:

Luck be a lady dress in red

Luck be a lady dress in purple

Luck be a lady dress in green

Luck be a lady dress in dots

Luck be a lady dress in blue dots

Luck be a lady dress in scholar

Luck be a lady dress in potpourri

Grey dress similar to Luck be a lady dress

Blue “vintage” dress

Red black tartan

Purple Soda fountain dress

Red and blue hearts dress

Green tartan dress from Felt

Pink spots dress from Felt

Perth floral pink dress

Cue polkadot dress

Colette Hawthorn

Fireside glow

Not work appropriate :

Tree of life dyed dress

Garlic dress

Old brown dress

Indie darling

Galaxy dress

Hard to wear:

Review dress red

Review dress black

Cue black dress

VM adele

Vm British check

VM ribbon stripe

Etc dress

Melche shutilforc dress

Silk cherubims

Spotty black tight dress

A lot of the “hard to wear” dresses are too tight or too frilly. Some of the “work inappropriate” dresses are just worn out! And most of my work dresses are Luck Be A Lady. My plan is to wear the “hard to wear” and “work inappropriate” dresses when I’m on holidays, for the next two weeks. Just making things easy for myself!

I have some dresses I’m planning to sell, so obviously I’m not including them in my Frocktober! Also, I hope to make some more dresses which I’ll wear instead of something on this list. Hopefully, by the end of the month I’ll know which dresses I want to toss out! This list has more than 31 dresses in it, so I’ll skip some of course. And I’ll try to save the best til last!!

All ready to go!

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Monday Musings… Frocktober!

September 23, 2013January 24, 2018 christinahopgood

I’ve officially done it! I’ve made a real Frocktober profile page and I’m going to raise money for the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation!

Woo!

Frocktober starts in like a week and I’m pumped. My goal is to wear a different dress every day of the month – same as last year, except I’ll try not to cheat this time!

You can find my Frocktober profile page here.
Here is a list of all my previous Frocktober posts
And here are some of my favourite outfits from last year!

This year’s dresses are going to be SO MUCH RADDER YOU GUYS. Please support me!

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Frocktober 31st! Halloween!

October 31, 2012January 24, 2018 christinahopgood

Today is Halloween! We thought it was no big deal in Australia, but we were visited but a whole bunch of kids! Two of whom were our own students who now know where we live!

So I rushed up to the shops to buy extra lollies (we had some but were running low), and popped on my creepy makeup! I’m not exactly dressed as anything for Halloween (my Starfleet officer uniform fell through as I couldn’t find a jacket I thought I had), so I’m going for gothicy-creepy-but-it’s-too-hot-for-a-blouse.

For my makeup I just used a liquid eyeliner to draw on a spiderweb and a spider. This was my makeup when we took outfit shots…

And THIS is my makeup after I did some extra! I just used one of those eyeshadows I don’t like much to paint my entire face blue.

And here’s an old photo of me in this dress and a black blouse. Someome’s party years ago.

Well tomorrow I might have a well-earned day off! But then I’ll post the last dresses in a few days! I have five more to go: my Emily Temple Cute dress, two Victorian Maiden OPs, a spotty dress from London, and a dress from Cue. So how many is that altogether? Gosh.

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Frocktober 30th!

October 30, 2012January 24, 2018 christinahopgood

Second last day of October! Gosh time flies when I’m blogging every single day.
Today’s dress is a secondhand dress that I bought relatively recently. When it arrived, it was absolutely filthy, like the girl who owned it had just worn it until it was unwearable, then sold it. It came out really nice when I washed it though – and the water in the tub was dark brown when I was finished. Why didn’t she wash it herself? It was bizarre.
Although it’s newly bought, I had been after this dress for a long time, since I tried it on at the Victorian Maiden Press Room in Osaka, 2010. I really wanted the burgundy version, but I am very happy with what I got.

With my Alice and the Pirates cardigan. You guys must seriously be sick of this cardigan now.

Today was a bit rainy when we were taking pictures. I like Canberra in the rain.

Dress: Victorian Maiden‘s Dorothy Doll Dress.
Shoes: Payless
Cardigan: Alice and the Pirates

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Frocktober 29th!

October 29, 2012January 24, 2018 christinahopgood

Today’s dress is a party dress I bought in London two years back, when I was suffering from the most heinous cold. Charles and I were there with another friend for New Year’s Eve right after visiting Paris for Christmas. I can’t believe how sick I was, it was intense. We went to the Camden town markets and I couldn’t talk without coughing, and I just bought two dresses without even trying them on because I wanted to feel better. I was a zombie. There’s another dress coming in the next two days that I bought on the same night!