I seem to have a lot of photographic fodder from my time in Port Hedland (July 1996 - October 1998)  - I believe I may have been gifted a camera shortly before moving up there - and this outfit is a lot more indicative of the lifestyle. 

• Red dirt. Lots of it. The Pilbara region is basically red dirt and rocks and the iron ore mined and shipped from Port Hedland coats everything in a similarly ruddy coating. Even the pigeons are rust-coloured. #pilbaralife
• My first ever pair of cargo pants. An endearing trend although these days they tend towards the olive skinnies rather than these baggy beige bad boys
• Red striped knit top from Jeanswest which - as I recall - was about the only high street fashion chain store up there. 
• Platform sneakers. I really seriously loved the Spice Girls. I wish I kept these.
• Filthy piecy fringe and a radical, ill-advised dye job
• You can't see it but every fingernail is painted a different colour. Poorly. 

*cue montage of 16 years of oufit choices in flash-forward sequence*

As a point of interest, here is me today on my 36th birthday.

I was going to attempt to replicate the high kick but I didn't have time to warm up and I'd have probably done a hamstring. Excuse the solemn look. I only really get a couple of chances at a timer shot before toddler enters stage left with demands for the phone.

This has been one of my favourite go-to looks over the last season, a New Look navy and white striped knit from ASOS and my old faithful pre-pregnancy dark skinny jeans from Harris Scarfe of all places.

And here is the toddler rocking head to toe Target.