Modern Day Mist Witch
Mist Witch: trousers (H&M Glasgow, 9 pounds), silk top (thrifted, $1), blazer (vintage Armani, thrifted, $3), neclace (H&M, $3), earrings (OI at UChicago, $20), shoes (UO, $10), mist (Magic Land).
I have a sort of strange love of fog and mist. Maybe it comes from a childhood steeped in Lord of the Rings and Gothic novels (and so an obsession with far-off and exotic-sounding places like “The Moors”). Or perhaps it’s the memory of the woods and fields behind my parents’ house, flooded with lost clouds on some mornings. It could be the year I spent in Scotland, a veritable paradise of weather-obscured beauty. Or maybe it’s just that mist is pretty.
Regardless, I get unusually excited on those days this one, when Chicago turns into its Gotham counterpart and people emerge through walls of white air, bike bells ring from invisible places. It seems to me that anything could happen on these days, that some magic event is waiting just past where my eyes can see. And what better outfit to wear for magic than lots of black and some animal print? This is, I’ve decided, the get-up of a modern day mist witch (negative connotation discarded).
I grew up on the Atlantic coast, where we had fog all the time. Now I live in the mountains and we hardly get any. So on the rare foggy day everyone goes nuts, but to me it’s not that special. This outfit, though, is tres special. You do the Mist Witches proud.
From an original mist witch, I take this as a strong compliment, m’lady.
very very very cool. mist is so lovely. it definitely gives the whole day a surreal feeling.
clara
http://theunshinerebellion.blogspot.com
p.s. i have those shoes!
Aren’t these the best shoes ever?! So many people have them, and for good reason: because they’re awesome.
Mist is magical & a little erie … although we don’t get much where I live in Australia.
PS Hope everything went ok with the paper you were working on a couple of weeks ago.
Kelly xo
Elegantly Academic
The paper did turn out really well. I got great feedback and now am trying to whip it into shape for publication. We’ll see! Thanks for asking!
I love this outfit of yours:) And the misty photos are beautiful. So errie and interesting.
“mist witch” has such great assonance as a term. i think it should be brought into widespread circulation.
it gets like that in urbana, too–i love the days when you can’t even see across the street!
I love this!
This is real mist? wow! looks like a photo effect!
hello awesome scottish wide leg pants! i sold a similar vintage pair last year and have kicked myself ever since! marks aunt made them and i stupidly let them go! :s
I’m so glad you swatted me with a men’s shirt yesterday or else I would have walked right past you. I absolutely LOVE this outfit, but am not a big fan of fog. Reminds me too much of the movie The Myst which I walked out off because I was truly disturbed.
I like creepy.
I’m loving everything about this outfit, and your pictures turned out great looking due to this mist.
i really love foggy days too, for the same reasons you mentioned- it really does seem likely that something magic will happen. your foggy-day photos are so lovely. the mix of black and animal prints in your outfit is perfect for the weather!
Thanks, lady! It’s always good to know that there are other mist and magic lovers out there.
Amazing photos and such a chic outfit!!!
I recognize these! Extra misty…
You looked damn classy that day. Much classier than most witches I know.
These photos are just beautiful–both the weather, and YOU.
What beautiful photos.!!!!! How do you always look so good, and in all kinds of weather??? If you were here in Sc you could call that mist the ever present humidity….More like a permanent sauna.
Mist Witch you know how to work your magic.
Great outfit! Fun shoes! And I LOVE the idea of “lost clouds”. such a delicious thought and apt description.
I grew up in the middle of nowhere (literally with no address) and the mornings with a heavy mist/fog were always the most magical for me. Especially when surrounded by acres and acres of forest. Love how you broke up a black outfit with an animal print. It’s just as magical :- )
I think you mean The Moops. Unless you don’t watch Seinfeld in which case /lamejokefail. ALSO THESE PHOTOS ARE BLOWING MY MIND. Mind blown. I would have backslashed that but twice in one comment is gratuitous.
Beautiful, ethereal…I want to wear that outfit and be in that day!
so beautiful. i visited sweden (gotland island) last spring, and it was straight out of lord of the rings. misty castles, green landscape as far as the eye could see (which, considering the mist, wasn’t all that far), etc. absolutely breathtaking. and i’ve never been to chicago, but who’d've thought it’d share weather beauty with sweden? i’ll have to propose that one to my husband next trip. cheaper airfare and all…
-brittney
http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com (fellow 30×30 remixer; come on by if you’d like, but my photos are neither ethereal or beautiful. just…hmmm…what’s a french word for “lame”? i think saying it in french would be much more sophisticated.)
That sounds amazing! Anything straight Lord of the Rings is going to get my approval. I’ll go to Sweden, then you can come to Chicago and we can talk all about it!
These photos are incredible. I can’t believe you found that vintage Armani blazer for so cheap — you are a thrifting queen. You look sharp and ready to take on the world.
I really, really used to love Wuthering Heights for all the passages about walking around/sulking out on the moors. It’s rugged foggy wilderness, probably secretly magical, and just about every depiction involves pretty clothing and pensive staring off into the distance (see also: the 2005 Pride & Prejudice).
Ah, Wuthering Heights! As much as they were dysfunctional psychos, I love all the characters. I used to tell my mom I wanted to re-name myself Earnshaw.
Oh my goodness, the photos! But really, everything about this is perfect — it’s a great silhouette and great color combination on you (and, oh, the shoes!), but these misty, atmospheric photos make you look straight out of a magazine!
Thanks, lady! I love days like this, especially when I get to combine gawking at the mist w outfit photos!