On style. Well, my style, anyway.
Back last Autumn, Dan bought what we thought was a morning suit in Snoopers Paradise for not much money, with the idea of just wearing the tail coat. Long story short, it turned out to be a set of bespoke evening tails, made by a Saville Row tailor, and worth considerably more than he paid for them. This lead to him, and then me, getting a bit lot
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Addams Family classic? I like. Yeah, I suppose that covers most of it. I noticed a few years ago that I ended dressing like a mix of my mother (sober suits, blouses and hats, although she's not into boy suits) and her younger sister (the whole bohemian magpie thing) with added goth (partly your fault).
As for your overlying style, well... When you were goth and then hippie, I thought the underlying "floaty grungy punky / riot grrrl / Hard Femme / depends who's talking and when" sort of thing* was there the whole time. It changed over the years and surfaced under different guises.
Also, stompy boots go with bloody well anything. I got my first pair of DMs in 1st year of uni (first pair of non-PE flat shoes I'd owned since the age of about 14), and what a marvellous decision it was.
(*not having come across it though music, I first encountered this approach to style at the age of about 11, when I read about it in a magazine article which called it "London Girl". When I first came to London a few years later, I recognised it.)
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