Groupie by night, college kid by the day

Dropped waistline, loose tank cut and the scent of flapper vibe mixed with librarian chic. And name such as popcorn.
Rachel Comey writes poetry of fashion, and not just with this specific popcorn dress. Since she began with designing a womenswear line, she became a favorite designer for many girls that effortlessly march on the streets dressed chic, but actually they don’t care. Comey’s label is not just another hip line, but it gives a true meaning to the word. Little of quirky, little of print, a lot of simplicity and bit of rock ’n’ roll is what makes clothes made by Rachel Comey so special. With the sexy but comfort pieces she makes a perfect uniform for cool, always in run girls.
Over the years infamous popcorn dress has been through some changes and reinventions and despite summery popcorn in a girly print or nude is beyond charming, so is the luxurious popcorn made of velvet. However, the velvet popcorn, in nude or with polka dots is not a dress you will wear just to rock concert once and store it into your closet. Oh no. You will wash it after the rock concert and wear it next day to library. So you can be groupie by night, college kid by the day.

both dresses at Bird boutique

Holiday Accessories Report

These days are so cold that for the many of us is even hard to breathe. When on the outside is below zero, more alluring seems to enroll on the sofa with hot chocolate than suffer from chilblains.
That is my opinion regarding the cold.

Oh, stop being silly, you are not a teddy bear and you cannot stay covered in blanket forever. At some point you will have to leave the house.
These are my self-affirmation statements.

And I will replace a book and a movie for a good old party. And parties in December are the best. Or at least they used to be. People seem kind of carefree during this particular month. And for december parties I love to dress up. A bit more than usual. And longer. Yes that certainly. And the certainly is that this makes people around me impatient. Where did all the improvidence go?
That is how I make people nervous.

After I finish carefully picking of the empress’s new-old clothes, I consider about details. When the clothes and decorations are assembled, I make myself a bubble bath. After the bubbles sink me and my fingers are enough wrinkled I cover myself in housecoat. When I turn on a lovely chanson on the radio, I make me a nice drink and lit myself a cigarette. When I am not dancing I am doing manicure and thinking how life is simply wonderful
That is what I like to do.
And these are petite decorations that I like:

Jeffrey Campbell Lita boots in tapestry pattern, Marc Jacobs metallic Mary Janes, YSL suede green court shoes, Opening Ceremony par Robert Clergerie velvet crisscross heels


Rika Liv bag, vintage Chanel quilted bag


Eugenia Kim Honey hat with feather trim, Monki Robyn black hat


vintage Chanel earrings, Rebel Rebel heart bracelet from Different collection, Daydream Nation fur and feather collar, Gemma Lister velvet collar

photos 1, 3, 4 Lula Magazine, 2 Hobo Magazine

Christmas carol

The streets and trees are sparkling silver lights, it’s the snow falling outside. Like a soap bubbles covers the house. Music plays from hidden clouds. Bells ringing all the time. Glittering stars falling from the sky. Carefree and full of love people holding hands, while all over the planet is translucent magic floating in the air.
On the 358th day of the year, during the night one chubby man is gonna sneak around your house. Be careful and don’t light fire. Chimney has to be clean and tide. He will look around and sprinkle magic dust around the house, then with a sound he will eat milk and cookies or cherry pie. When you wake up hearing something in dark you will see the falling star. That’s Santa in the sky riding his sleigh.
Santa’s little helpers have been working all the time. Petite treasures they make with lot of love. You will vaguely wander on the streets around with hot chocolate in a to-go cup. Buying of presents is wonderful moment of time. If you are refugee from icy wintertime you will stay home and order petite artworks online.

lace and tulle journal, $25; Jane Austen journal, $16; vintage Vogue poster; prints from Pop Pop Portraits, from $9 to $130


vintage Vogue magazine, $40; Golden Hands magazine, $3.95; What shall I wear today? book, $12; The Selby is in your home book, £13.43; Like I give a frock book, $18.95


knitted hangers, $28; hearts shoe bag, £3.00; positive affirmations pegs, $7; polka dot pegs, $3; floral hangers, £9.00


Christmas decorations: joy letters, $28; bird decoration, $9.95; snow fairy, $13; magic paper banner, $30; Noel tulle decoration, $5


ivory jewelry box, $18; pastel pink jewelry box, $15.75; vintage jewelry box, $39.99; floral laptop case, $28; leopard laptop case, $39

This is misslikey's annual Christmas gift guide (last year's guide)

sealed with a kiss

Dear tunic dress,

In the beginning of autumn when runaway queens and kings nonchalant saw hipsters with hidden legs instead of hipsters in nude legs, both retailers and me were in panic. Retailers because they needed extra fabric and me because I thought there won’t be minis to buy! But luckily that didn’t happen. Meanwhile, dear tunic dress you became popular unlike the last years when you were available only from Orla, Marc or Milly. That makes me happy somehow. Because I like to show some leg. In a nonchalant manner. That’s why you are always my first choice.
So dear tunic dress I love to buy you either embellished or not. If you are embellished you are ready to wear. When you are made of chiffon and decorated with details as bejeweled neckline, bows, peter pan or petal collars you make me look like I will dance with balloons in the sky. But mostly I love you when you are simple, made of cotton. When you are like that I wear you over blouses with interesting or decorated neckline. Also you are perfect for detachable details as bows or crochet and organza collars. So dear tunic of mine, sometimes I love you in baby doll style but prefer you in trapeze cut. Sometimes I love to wear you with heels but mostly I wear you on ballet flats and black tights. Oh, and did I mention I love when you have long sleeves?

Yours truly,
Mini Me

Viennese Café dress, Chocoholic dress and Sweet Darling dress from ModCloth, dress from Temperley London at outnet
vintage letter in collage borrowed from deviantart

Oh Not so lovely fashion

Since that Fashion is usually about lovely and nice things somehow and sometimes industry throws dust in our eyes. As a devoted lover of nice clothes or if you want to say fashionista, for a long long time I wasn’t really thinking about where I am buying my clothes. I am always ready for endless wandering around for vintage hunts so with all of my clothes that I was collecting over the years I could easily open decent boutique. From early age I am experimenting with DIY. And there’s of course the bunch of high street brands that I buy. As I wasn’t obsessed with where I am buying my clothes calling myself open-minded I wasn’t obsessed either with where my clothes had come from. So one day, feeling all open-minded I saw short films on BBC Thread about few British girls and boys that took part of this project where they saw in real the factory and worked with people that produce their clothes. I was always somehow avoiding the day when I will have to go to my room, open my closet and see the truth. After I saw these short films I started with checking of my non-vintage or designer clothes hanged so carefully in my closet. And on tags - list of countries like I was traveling around the world in 80 days. Don’t get me wrong, I love Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam but these labels in my closet are not from some Malaysian, Taiwanese or Vietnamese designer. They are all British, American, Swedish or Spanish labels.
How come? It’s simple; most of the high-street fashion is produced in third-world factories called the sweatshops. These retailers don’t own the sweatshops but they sew the clothes there because it allows producing of fast fashion caused by today’s trends. Trend changes overnight, market is huge. Briefly, it brings the profit.
So what is the real cost of our super affordable dresses? You bought a lovely dress on the sale that costs few pounds or dollars and has the made on the other continent tag. How much costs fabric, details on dress and transportation? How much costs at the end most important: The Hands that made it on sewing machine. Seems that those hands don’t cost anything. And why? Because your dress is probably made in sweatshop.
What is sweatshop? Sweatshop is factory that has working conditions unacceptable by countries with high standard of living, wage is under minimum, includes children labor and with its cruelty violates basic human rights. Although we like to believe that sweatshops are placed just in third- world countries, they also exist in many first-world countries that proclaim themselves as democratic and developed.
Big corporations like to think that with sweatshop labor they are helping the locals in third-world countries by providing them jobs (read meal). Yes we know about poverty and cultural differences, but at the end we are all the same and no one deserves to work in these awful conditions. Maybe those that want to provide jobs should look upon brands as People Tree and Asos and its Africa line and many others to find out what they do about that. So ethical Fashion Company would be the company that respects not only the environment but also people, and not just people that come into the glossy store, they respect those people that are producing for them.



As the consumers we have the right to demand few things when we buy the latest fashion! Money in today’s system doesn’t grow on the trees so you should be careful how and where you are going to spend it. Of course it would be very naive to think that with one consumer’s behavior world will become a better place, but that consumer is part of this community. And community makes our planet.
It’s hard not to buy clothes from the label that is affordable and really really knows your style. Believe me, I know that very well. My advice is if you want the affordable rather buy the vintage stuff. Also on this great Internet of ours you can find a lot of advices about recycling and DIY. Every that little DIY you do is recycling and you did something good for community and the planet. Avoid malls and big clothing lines if you can. There are so many independent designers around that are offering affordable fashion that is cruelty free. Also there are your local designers and all the busy bees on pages like Etsy.
Furthermore today when market is overloaded with products, it’s hard to distinguish ethical from unethical because your local designer, that sells just on Etsy and it’s ethical, if not fabrics, buys zippers or buttons that may be made in sweatshops. But even if that is true, the designs aren’t made in sweatshop. And at the end do we want that our rituals of dressing, which are beautiful and for many of us something sacred have such a bad karma. A new dress makes us happy, but should we think about if that dress had made someone else unhappy?

* You must know that all of the clothes I share with you here on misslikey are not sweatshop free. That’s why there’s you and your lovely mind to decide.
photo via Webgol on flickr

If you want to know more about the subject visit:
Labour Behind the Label
The Clean Clothes Campaign