changing up yr style and/or new look 4 u in 2012

yeah obv it depends on the shirt and the fabric and everything

a li'l bit of chest hair showing, a la mark up there, is a good look imo

ya the great thing about the v-neck is that you can get the chest hair look w/out pit stains

^^^ protip

i don't get pit stains in la because i drive in my climate-controlled car from one air-conditioned place to another.

shawls for warmth indoors: repulsive/matronly or unjustly ignored/viable?

K-LASSIC. Easily converted to a headcovering in the winter weather, and also to an around-the-neck scarf accessory indoors if just warm enough.

OTM

Shawls are totally classic imo.

I'm wearing a really nice dress and nice high-heeled Italian black ankle boots today and combining them with a stoplight-yellow cheapo hoodie. I think I might buy 6 more colors of hoodie and add one to every outfit from now on? Even the classiest, most conservative looks. Should be interesting.

the old hi-lo is always agl!!

shawls for warmth indoors: repulsive/matronly or unjustly ignored/viable?

I'm wearing one right now, in fact.

I watched The Assassin Next Door over the weekend, and it occurred to me that the coolest-looking women in any movie always get out of prison/slavery/hell/parts unknown and the first thing they do is buy/steal/find a leather jacket, or possibly a trench coat, and some kind of shoes they really really love, whether that's insane $1000 spike-heeled boots or combat boots or a pair of black sneakers. The color black does figure heavily.

Goal for 2012 is to be more like them.

Also: a firearm, but that seems like a lot of bother.

dryers are the clothes killer. move to england, where no one has one

http://i2.listal.com/image/1140777/600full-the-assassin-next-door-poster.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AWH-9nLgrTs/SinLqHu2QRI/AAAAAAAAHGw/mb6bCXy9KrQ/s320/pdvd105mk2.jpg

http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/The-Girl-with-the-Dragon-Tattoo.jpg

Bonus hoodie there.

omg that geena davis pic looks like geena davis dressed up as YOU

Flattery will get you everywhere.

I decided to resurrect these super old high waisted jeans I bought right before they stopped making high waisted jeans (and long before anyone started making them again). So I'm wearing these jeans, and just kind of feeling shitty. Why do I feel so nervous? It is a stressful time of the year for me, deadlines and all, maybe it's that.

Then I realized that it was not that. I am not stressed about work so much as I am UNABLE to take a complete deep breath with something cutting off my circulation at the middle.

Damn these pants.

― La Lechera, Monday, January 16, 2012 3:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think you feel shitty because we're not used to the structured fashion of the 80's and 90's anymore. lowrise has freed us up and now youre all caged in again. like wearing high heel after wearing sneakers only for a while.

dryers are the clothes killer. move to england, where no one has one

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, January 17, 2012 12:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

how do clothes get dry in england? isn't it really humid and wet all the time?

(I mean I know the answer, but I don't really know the answer if you know what I know)

Sometimes they have these weird things called "airing cupboards" iirc? Which is like a utility closet built around a...steam pipe? that you can hang things in. I am only vaguely remembering this so ymmv.

You just hang stuff on a drying rack. I think airing cupboards are a thing but I never had one. I hated not having a dryer and, yes, some things took forever to dry.

You know what sucked most? Towels! Towels are v scratchy when you don't tumble dry them. I still hang certain things to dry now but I certainly appreciate having the option of drying them when I want to.

most australians have dryers but only use them on rainy days as needed. i started using them full time when i felt this thing run up my leg after i put on my freshly line dried jeans

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Huntsman-spider-in-hand.jpg

oh life size. sorry.

line dried clothes are stiff, it's true

now youre all caged in again
Yeah, esp. with jeans. I'm totally used to wearing skirts and dresses that fit snugly at the waist, but not jeans. Also these are 100% cotton with no stretch, so they do NOT GIVE.

I can't quite figure out if I hate them or not. I keep wearing them in spite of them being really uncomfortable.

I happen to like scratchy towels for improved circulation and just requested that my laundry place not use fabric softener. But the most I can stand to line-dry indoors is tights and delicates, because the rack has to be out in the middle of my room and I can't get to my closet when it's up, so I kind of have an overnight maximum tolerance.

I hang all my dress clothes - we're lucky enough to have clotheslines strung up in the laundry room of my triplex - but we used to hang everything in the shower. First up the next day has to move them to the closets. But I love my dryer'd socks & towels, could not live without.

AHHHH SPIDER NOOOO

i am looking for black leather skirt now. i've decided i need one, badly.

I am so used to wearing dresses and leggings and stretchy jeans that when I wear real tailored pants I really feel weird

I got a black pleather skirt at Forever 21 a few months ago... its so tight that I can't sit in it. It's awesome for cougar's night out.

What do you do when you want to get off of your feet, lean against a board?

(Mae West had to do this on some of her films, IIRC.)

Oh, and I was finally able to get a new purse--black leather, three dollars new--at the flea market that we had a booth at today. I'm happy about that, and happy that the strap didn't break on my old one before I could get a new one. (The strap was held on by about two or three strings. Really.)

new purses for the new year! nice :)

a designer friend had a studio sale and i bought so many clothes today omg

i will have to take pics, at some point
3 skirts, 3 dresses and a pair of paints
all awesome

I had this awesome burgundy fake leather pencil skirt but it was so cheap the surface split around the hem a bit. I fixed it with nail polish of a matching colour for a while but now it's way too small and I want a new one.

Well I wear it to go out to clubs, which doesn't require much sitting. I did have to drive wearing it, though, and had to sit with it unzipped until I got to my destination.

i'm bidding on one on ebay that looks perfect. having a phone with an ebay app is turning me into a monster. i was like, almosssssst going to win it for $15 though (now up to $30).

i won this and i don't know how i feel about it:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ngssKTuX5uo/TxZAzIIO7KI/AAAAAAAAAR4/XuvnJb99C8w/s500/%252524%252528KGrHqR%25252C%252521pQE7Bcvh%25252CWSBO6%252528%252529eDtFw%25257E%25257E60_12.JPG

i mean it's kind of wonderfully hideous but it might look good on. more late night bidding.

No, I think it's great! Obnoxious colors are my favorite kind.

ebay pro-tip: do not bid until final 5 secs

^^^^ sunny OTM

lots of ppl have shill bidding accounts to drive up their auctions

yeah i'm way too impulsive! is there an app that will remember to bid at the last minute for you?

someone sniped me at the very last minute! grr

today is my first experiment in wearing (fleece lined) leggings to work (with a short sundress and a big sweater over it). it feels like a dream/looks like the 90s.

Loooool! I'm wearing a floor-length tomato red skirt and motorcycle boots, it must have been something in the air that said, "Do it differently today."