That article about the tailored clothes was fascinating. The only thing I've ever had tailored are formal dresses. Thinking I need to find one I like too and start using him/her on the reg.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Saturday, 7 January 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
My style prediction for 2012: I will continue to wear lots of brown, and my ancient clothes will continue to fall apart.
― emil.y, Saturday, 7 January 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
man remember in the 80s/90s when a red head wearing pink or red was just NOT DONE. How freakin ridiculous.
This year i want to learn to sew collars, peter pan or pointy, to add to dresses or plain not collared shirts. also cuffs if shirt or dress is long sleeved. If anyone knows of a good collar pattern PLease l;et me now <3
i know its kind of 90s but i really enjoy a collar.
Also this year i plan to buy well made classic pieces that will last years rather that some shitty cardigan from target that has holes in it within month.
Actually what id really like to do is learn to make patterns and sew my own clothes because i can never find anything off the rack that exactly how i want it.
― I just got back from a dream attack (sunny successor), Saturday, 7 January 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
emil.y i have no idea how to wear brown! i have brown clothes but cant work them into anything. im mostly a black/purple/white/pink/blue person because of this :(
― I just got back from a dream attack (sunny successor), Saturday, 7 January 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
i wore a replica of Stacey Dash's 'Clueless' collared red dress to my brother's wedding in 96. Wasn't working at all on my me. material for the dress was some kid of weird silky polyester deal. very wrong. and the red was nowhere as deep. more an orange red. ugh.
http://vintageclothesdesignerdrugs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/clueless.jpg
― I just got back from a dream attack (sunny successor), Saturday, 7 January 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
my ancient clothes will continue to fall apart.this is happening to me too and i'm just not even sure what to do about itdo i really have to buy *new* sweaters? what?
yesterday i got fed up with a hideously oversized tshirt that i loooove otherwise, so i cut about 4 in off the bottom (leaving it still below my hips, mind) cut off the ribbed neck, and trimmed the sleeves and WOW does it look better! it looks like a girl's shirt now and i can wear it with pride.
― La Lechera, Saturday, 7 January 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
totokaelo is having a sale, which means $600 sweatshirts marked down to $400, still can't afford anything.
― bene_gesserit, Saturday, 7 January 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
Sales that are a slap in the face.
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Saturday, 7 January 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
even if i did have the money i wouldn't spend it on a bunch of droopy clothes, it just seems wrong. starving children, etc.
― bene_gesserit, Saturday, 7 January 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
I can't stand clothes shopping, so most of my newer clothes are charity shop presents from my family (or occasionally friends - one gave me a really nice shirt as a reward for going to counselling, ha). I did get a new tie for Christmas, which I love love love:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/6625015753_86e339dac5.jpgNew tie for Xmas by miss e kawasaki, on Flickr
― emil.y, Saturday, 7 January 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
Ahhh, I just remembered, I do have one thing I want that is actually 'style' related. I have for years been after a cape like the one in the Prisoner episode 'Dance of the Dead':
http://www.the-prisoner-6.freeserve.co.uk/pictures/norma_rover.jpg
― emil.y, Saturday, 7 January 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
I will re-affirm my commitment to preppiness and menswear. Paradoxically, I wil continue my tight-buying binge and find more skirts to wear with said tights.
― Virginia Plain, Saturday, 7 January 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
This year I want to finally stud a bunch of my clothes. Bedazzler here I come.
― homosexual II, Saturday, 7 January 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
oh dang! that is a very nice cape!
― La Lechera, Saturday, 7 January 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
Capes! I luuurve them. I even have one. Used to have 3, but the two vintage ones were ginormous on me because of the whole short-and-no-shoulders thing, so I gave them away. I should have given them to you, emil.y!
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Saturday, 7 January 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
I actually have two capes already, but neither of them brown so I don't wear them, really. One is my mum's old school cape (a school cape! Blimey!) which is huge and green, the other is a grey one with red inner lining thing and a nice black gothic button-up at the collar.
― emil.y, Saturday, 7 January 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
a grey one with red inner lining thing and a nice black gothic button-up at the collar.
Wa wa wa wahh WHAT?
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Saturday, 7 January 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
omg seriously? DREAM CAPE
― La Lechera, Saturday, 7 January 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
As modelled in this photo (incidentally one of my favourite photos of me - and there aren't many of those):
http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1106/603133127_f907929a64.jpgI like Bilge Pump. And capes. by miss e kawasaki, on Flickr
― emil.y, Saturday, 7 January 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
Although I will admit you probably shouldn't wear it with the collar popped like that.
― emil.y, Saturday, 7 January 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
that picture is totally amazing and i love itI LOVE IT
― La Lechera, Saturday, 7 January 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
The cape (and you!) is gorgeous and the popped collar is OTM.
― quincie, Saturday, 7 January 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
The cape looks rad with the collar like that.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Saturday, 7 January 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
(and I mean 'rad' as a compliment)
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Saturday, 7 January 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
Wow that cape! xoxo I love your new tie, as well. I love women wearing ties.
Also: Save $20!!!!! (on sales over $150) or other such small savings on large expenditures. Bah.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Saturday, 7 January 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
That cape does look so great but i know me in cape would be so wrong :(
also: considering first yoga wear and first spanx purchase. woo.
― I just got back from a dream attack (sunny successor), Saturday, 7 January 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
I don't usually do the whole pinup thing, but I decided to go for it tonight.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/photo9.jpg
the bow on my head has frankenstein on it. lol.
― homosexual II, Sunday, 8 January 2012 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
Love the dress, the bow, the eyebrows, everything basically.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Sunday, 8 January 2012 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
oh and I had this dress custom made on Etsy... for like $90.
The only thing I must have measured incorrectly was the neck, as its a little wide.
― homosexual II, Sunday, 8 January 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
You look amazing! As always.
― La Lechera, Sunday, 8 January 2012 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
~style plans 2012~get some nice but inexpensive jewelryfind a cute blazer with patterned lining inside the sleevescontinue multi-year hunt for ~the perfect cape~more black/grey/whitefinally get around to donating stuff I don't wear anymoreremember to read ILS more often
― salsa shark, Sunday, 8 January 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
style plans include:
more shorts with tightsmake an effort with make-upcolor! last year i did way too much army green + black + charcoalless pigtails (they made my hair so much easier tho)
― Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Sunday, 8 January 2012 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
also, heels. i did far too much flats and rain boots last year
― Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Sunday, 8 January 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
less pigtails (they made my hair so much easier tho)
This is a thing for me too def
― I just got back from a dream attack (sunny successor), Sunday, 8 January 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
going to get a nice watch
― cozen, Sunday, 8 January 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
From that Germany company you liked on fb? Those were awesome. I want one! I have always favored big bulky men's watches and loved those.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Sunday, 8 January 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
Err German co, rather
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Sunday, 8 January 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
mandee, i LOVE that dress - your look is all around awesome!
what etsy seller did you use?
― bene_gesserit, Monday, 9 January 2012 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
mandee you are so pretty
― horseshoe, Monday, 9 January 2012 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
'heartmycloset' is the etsy seller but it looks like their page is temporarily gone...
thanks HS thats nice of ya :) :)
― homosexual II, Monday, 9 January 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, ENBB, had my eye on one of those defakto nachtschicht watches; that or an archimede.
― cozen, Monday, 9 January 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
Okay I just ordered big, square, mannish glasses: that's another new style for me in 2012.
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Monday, 9 January 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
like harry caray glasses?
― La Lechera, Monday, 9 January 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
Now that I've googled Harray Carey, oh dear me, no.
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Monday, 9 January 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
Much more boringer.
http://www.popularoptics.com/52514-52430-large/armani-exchange-eyeglasses-ax-150-color-black-gray-color-code-0e4s.jpg
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Monday, 9 January 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
those are nice!
― La Lechera, Monday, 9 January 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
ty! I am very excited, I've never had square-ish frames before, and they're so BIG! After a decade of wearing, like, retro kitten glasses (sort of), I don't know what to do with all that lens real estate.
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Monday, 9 January 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
look through it at the world :)
― La Lechera, Monday, 9 January 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
I suppose I'll have to! Could take up to two weeks to come in, though. :( :( :(
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Monday, 9 January 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
ha that's how i felt about my latest pair of frames - i haven't had lenses this big since i was a teenager! it's so weird being able to see so much!
i got these as well, but they're way too big for my face :(
― just1n3, Monday, 9 January 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link