Let's get Duffy in Blue!

This lovely blue cotton strapless dress was purchased in Rwanda from my favorite dress guy at Kimironko Market for 3,000 francs or $6.  Check it out Hilary Duff has one too! And yes I made my earrings from Rwandan fabric.

 

 

Blair Bow

I love the TV show gossip girl and I love Leighton Meester's character Blair Waldworf, who in her high school years always wore headbands.  It seems this trend is in for all ages in Thailand and I love wearing them!

It isn't easy being GREEN

 What two things do Kesha and JLo have in common?  Well, besides their great style, its their love for lime green.  I happen to also love this color especially in dress form.  I found a crazy lime green dress myself at a used clothing market in Thailand for 70baht or about $2.30.  The outfit was to wear to a music festival I attended a few months ago in Thailand, I wanted to be unique.  Though the outfit is not as crazy as Kesha's, I like the think the outfit was inspired by her with a little Avril Lavigne mix!

Kesha

JLo

 

Me in my crazy Music Fest outfit

Avril Lavigne with Red Hipster Glasses

Green Bow Hipster Glasses

Rocking the Igitenge!!

This piece is dedicated to Rwandan igitenge (fabric).  I left Rwanda almost 8 months ago.  Unfortunately all my Rwanda fabric dresses are in Maryland and I am in Thailand but there are lots of celebs rocking Rwandan fabric including Beyonce, Rhianna, Blake Lively, and Gwen Stafani.  This just makes me want to go back to Rwanda or Africa to have more dresses made!  The last four photos are dresses that I had made, I have about 30 others but found pictures of 4.
                                                            

Blake Lively

Gwen Stefani

Beyonce Knowles

Rhianna in an amazing romper

Runway Model

Runway Model

Birthday Swirl Sequin Dress

Happy 25th Birthday to me (about 2 months ago)!  I think its time I start this blog back up again.  Now that I am living in Thailand this is not African used clothing market finds.  Some things may be used or new. 
For my first entry in a long time I will post my birthday dress found new in a shop in Surin Thailand for 200 baht about $7.00.  I found similar dresses everywhere.  Here is Mary J. Blige and Taylor Swift rocking dresses similar to mine.  I also found a model wearing an even more similar version.  Hope you enjoy, I'm back to work as a shopper celebrity dress matcher!!

Taylor Swift

 

Mary J. Blige

Dress model

Me on my 25th Birthday

Swifty

 A lovely off the shoulder white dress on Tailor Swift.

 A similar off the shoulder white shirt found at the Nyanza market in Rwanda for 1,000 Rwanda Francs equivalent to > $2.00.

celebrity aid t-shirt found in aid country

 As a current PCV I thought this would be only appropriate...

  

 Here is Carla Bruni and J.P. Gaultier with an Elle striped sailor t-shirt as an initiative for the Global fund to fight AIDS.  It was launched in May 2009.

  I found this very same Elle striped sailor t-shirt in a pile of used clothes in my very village of Ruhango, Rwanda in May 2011.

Rachel Berry Inspired

  
Rachel Berry from Glee wearing a white patterned top with blue navy buttoned skirt.
  
This similar dress was found in 
Kigali, Rwanda at the Kimironko market.  
The cost was 3,000 Rwandan Francs 
equivalent to > $6.00. 

   Rachel Berry wearing a solid buttoned up cardigan with a heart skirt.

This dress was found in Kigali, Rwanda at Nybugogo market for 3,000 Rwandan Francs equivalent to >$6.00.                                       

Here is Rachel Berry is a solid blue skirt with a stripped white and blue top.   

 
Here is a similar dress with part blue and white strip and part solid blue.  This was found in Ruhango, Rwanda at the Buhanda market for 300 Rwandan Francs equivalent to $0.60 dollars.