Get dressed with ˚♡˚Emilia ˚♡˚

Getting Dressed With is a dear diary moment capturing the wears of the week of stylish people in Darwin, contagiously celebrating getting dressed, even if it’s just so others can bear witness. If you would like to nominate someone for this series, send us a message.

Emilia is a journalist / writer / hiker / op shopper from Melbourne/Naarm 

Wearing all secondhand or opshop stuff and secondhand $30 bag

SB: Who’s your biggest style muse? 

Emilia: I get a lot of inspiration from my friends! They are probably sick of receiving my broken mirror selfies. And if we’re talking pop culture, probably early season Carrie Bradshaw and Samantha Jones, online influencers like @alwaysjudging and every film by Sofia Coppola. 

Above: The Darwin special, bathers paired with skirts, the bathers are allegedly Chanel but given they were $5 in a country town op shop… I am dubious 

SB: Can you describe your style choices for an average week

Emilia: I work from home a lot and it’s no fashion function. I like one piece yoga suits and ballet flats. In the office, I wear plain coloured tops, comfortable skirts or pants, and fun shoes. My colleagues may have something to say about my rogue choices. 

When I’m heading out, I wear a lot of skirts and dresses, usually with kitten heels and ballet flats. I do have a soft spot for uncomfortable plastic shoes that fog up in humidity. In colder months, I have two black secondhand jackets that I wear a lot. 

As someone who has spent a lot of time in Darwin, I am also very partial to fun vintage bathers styled under skirts or shorts, taking you seamlessly from swimming hole to Casino infinity pool! 

Above: Secondhand dress and shoes, which are the very silly plastic ones I mention 

SB: Why is so much of your wardrobe secondhand? 

Emilia: Secondhand shopping is full of surprises! I love rummaging in op shops or vintage stores for something unique. It’s also a lot cheaper than buying firsthand. Just the other day I found the cutest pair of weird grey flats for $9 in an op shop.

As a journalist, I have reported on our country’s fashion waste statistics and seen brand new, unused clothing with tags being shredded in machines. I’ve interviewed charities that are being inundated with fast fashion. I hope shopping secondhand and cherishing what I own helps somewhat. 

Lastly, I love hand me downs and clothes swaps! There’s something very sweet about passing on items to friends and treasuring their old pieces. One of my go-to silk slip dresses is a hand me down. (Paige, I owe you dearly.) 

Wearing all secondhand or op shop stuff and secondhand $30 bag; The hand me down dress that I mention was from Paige; The love of boob tubes; More boob tubes with hand me down pants; My love of bathers continues

SB: Fav item to style? 

Emilia: What doesn’t go with a boob tube? 

SB: Biggest faux pas 

Emilia: Leaving the house and not feeling right. I just can’t wear something unless I feel physically comfortable (except for those plastic shoes) and genuine in my own skin. Is this why I’m always 15 minutes late? 

SB: Go to date style tip 

Emilia: I always feel sexiest in a simple slip dress and comfortable kitten heels or flats! 

A dress I got for $5 at an op shop!; All secondhand bargains here including shoes for $25; At my hairdresser, clearly loving that secondhand bag again. In secondhand pleats please I bought many years ago for a steal and a very old top; Wearing two secondhand yellow dress and top items plus that secondhand bag off Depop; Wearing hand me down sunglasses, a woven bag off Depop, a cherished dress I bought years ago by Molly Goddard and those $9 weird cute op shop shoes I mention 

Get dressed with ˚♡˚Chotty ˚♡˚

Getting Dressed With is a dear diary moment capturing the wears of the week of stylish people in Darwin, contagiously celebrating getting dressed, even if it’s just so others can bear witness. If you would like to nominate someone for this series, send us a message.

White outfit w car I love all white and I love to match my car, physically and energetically. I was about to go to Bustardtown and as suspected – the dance floor wasn’t lit but my straight hair was!

Charlotte (Chotty) is a school teacher / WAG / & dog mammi hailing from Naarm / Melb.

Dog and white skirt This t-shirt is my partners bros, fits like a dream. I’m with my hottest accessory. Earlier that day I put my shoe on and there was a cane toad in there. By the time this pic was taken I had calmed down.

SB: Describe your week for us babes

Chotty: During the working week I’m v much at capacity, literally offering students my soul in return for them to engage with a lil bit of school work and not to light the toilets on fire! But also, ah they keep me young ;) they let me know when I have a pimple, telling me I remind them of their mum and also being cut throat with when they do and do not like my outfit – often given with some side eye.

School mirror selfie Love a loose shirt and Suku for work. I told you the students keep me young but they also know how to use a few words for big impact.

On bike with shirt I had just finished work and changed into shorts before zooming to a besties to do some babysitting of darling angel Olwen. I love this color combo and Olwen.

Mid week highlights are a pump session at the gym, walking my ginormous dog Jack who I’m obsessed with and giggling with bae before bed. My mid-week life hack is to vacuum/mop/do washing/clean bathroom on Thursday so I can be an absolute lady of leisure on the weekend, this is being in my 30’s? Clean house clean mind ect ect.

Saturday morning is the best part of the week and I love having too many coffees, gossiping with friends and getting overstimulated and sweating at the markets. For the rest of the weekend I try to dip in some kind of body of water, see more friends, eat yum food, read and watch Jonus and fam play footy (I’m a WAG now). My wish for 2024 would be better and more dancefloors in Darwin!

Yellow mirror selfie I told you I love all white. I felt hot this night, thus the mirror selfie.

Who’s your style guru? Where do you draw inspiration?

My inspo would probably be my mum and dad who are very cool. Dad taught me how to wear color and that fabric should feel nice to the touch and on the body. My mum strictly wears black, always smells incredible and isn’t scared to wear funky cool clothes. A friend once told me that self-care is wearing clothes that are comfortable and you feel comfortable in eg no tight seams that cut into you, feeling like you have to suck in ect. My advice is follow the colors you like then everything in your wardrobe looks good together! Also Kimmy K (the early years) said she only bought new clothes once she sold her old ones, sound advice. I don’t do this, but I should!

Selfie w head tilt and skirt I was heading out for the day with friends. I love this colour combo which is surprising cause I don’t usually like wearing red but this linen skirt was from an op shop and only cost $4.

Pink selfie This is my favorite outfit of all time and I miss it everyday because it got stolen when I was living in Mpartnwe, RIP linen jumpsuit. I was wearing some Vietnamese slippers too, that’s cool I might get more.

Dress up at sis buff I think about this shirt a lot and I really want it but I have about 5 long sleeve shirts that coz its so hot up here never get worn! Also sunnies inside is a vibe?

Bae and Chotty after footy This is Jonus and I at ‘the bridge’ on Tiwi after watching the Imalu tigers play and win! (yay bae he kicked a goal!) big shirts and long skirts classic comfortable combo.