Winter has finally come to New Zealand, so I am digging out the tights and jeans and warm scarves. It’s been storming all week – sheets of rain, thunder and lightning, howling winds – the whole epic deal. I stole a quick, slightly sunny respite to take these pictures.

I realised I haven’t been taking many photos with my vast (it’s VAST) collection of metal shirts, so now I will.

I am wearing:

Iron Maiden shirt from their “Somewhere Back in Time” tour – the first Australian leg. CDH and his brother and I went to the Sydney show and – as per normal with Maiden, who I’ve seen three times – it was quite a night. Terrible, terrible opening bands, but Bruce and crew more than made up for it. “Fear of the Dark” and “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” still give me shivers. This shirt is not actually black, but a very dark blue (at least, that’s what I’ve been told).

Black slip – second-hand from a cousin

Blue (I think) satin chemise (nightie or slip). A gift from my mum, probably ten years ago now. Worn under skirt so it’s not too see-through.

Black tights – gift from Mother-in-Law.

Red jacket – H&M Oslo (you may be thinking – why go to Oslo and shop at H&M? Well, we don’t HAVE H&M here and I LOVE it. Also, I went to Anti-Sweden, but the jeans looked terrible on me. I wish I’d brought one of their t-shirts, though.

Jeffrey Campbell wedge boots

Dragon necklace – present from CDH (the first piece of jewelry ever brought for me by a boy).

This is the sort of thing I wear to work. They’re pretty cruisy about dress code since we’re only in an office keeping each other company.k

I’m rather gutted because I was going to show you the AMAZING leather raven hair barrette I got from Wing and Talon Leatherworks, but I was running to get to the conference over the weekend, and it fell out of my hair and I didn’t notice and it’s fallen on the street somewhere and is LOST FOREVER. Major sad face. I hadn’t even got the chance to photograph it yet. So, if you were wondering – it is amazing, looks wicked, has WAY more detail than you can see in the picture, and I would have worn it forever had it not have fallen out and got lost :(

I’m a big fan of layering metal tee shirts over skirts or dresses like this – you look a little feminine while wearing these boxy shirts. Until they start making more flattering women’s metal shirts with better pictures on them, I’m sticking with mens shirts, thank you.