That size finder just gives the finger to plus size stores/people, I see.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
Jenny, we're just a figment of our imaginations :(
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
Well it was too much hassle to actually get a professional to cut my bangs and change up my style for me, so I did it myself. Idk why I keep letting my bangs grow out for months/years when I clearly look 20x better WITH them.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
been tucking in my shirt a lot so far in 2k12. fewer sneakers too, though ive been overrelying on a couple of boots instead of plunging into real shoes
― max, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
which jumper is nicer?
http://www.youmustcreate.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/YMC_Mens_Knit_P8AT6_petrelazure_004-500x640.jpg
http://www.youmustcreate.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/YMC_Mens_Knit_P8AS6_azure113_003-500x640.jpg
― jed_, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
striiiiipes
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
striiipes? i love both. crazy to be jumper buying but i do live in scotland. you need a jumper most of the summer too.
― jed_, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
i think they are both lovely but the colors on the stripey one is really lovely imho
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
i think i might be too short for the striped one. and maybe too old also.
― jed_, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
jed, not possible!!!!! Please do not give up on beloved-colored sweater because of some misguidedly self-denying arbitrary standard of age. Although I would make sure the sleeves are long enough on you; they seem a little bit questionable on that gentleman.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
solid!
― salsa shark, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 12:06 (twelve years ago) link
i went for the solid. not because i'm too old, laurel (you're right), but because big stripes like that could make a wee man look even wee-er.
― jed_, Thursday, 23 February 2012 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
I love that colour.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 23 February 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
maybe i'll wear it when we go for a drink ;)
― jed_, Thursday, 23 February 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
i bought a sweater last week, it was on sale, its never too late to buy a sweater
― 99x (Lamp), Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
cape making plans in full swingsoon enough i will have a cape!
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
I stupidly got bleach or something on one of my favourite black t-shirts and now there's these dark red spots :((Is there anything I can do about it like dye it back or something?
― kinder, Saturday, 17 March 2012 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
send it over to me and i'll dye it for you!
― just1n3, Saturday, 17 March 2012 05:47 (twelve years ago) link
i am a professional dyer fyi
tbh all i've ever done in such a case is Sharpie the spots
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 17 March 2012 05:53 (twelve years ago) link
cape-making: almost done, shopping for notions in NYC this weekend! looking for some wooden buttons for the closure. (by the time i'm done it'll probably be 80 degrees out at midnight, but hey -- this cape will be built to last and fall 2012 is sure to happen unless the apocalypse comes sooner than we expect)
other: need to find another pair of perfect pointy black flats because mine are dying and my dog ate the other pair i was hoarding :(
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
Oh oh oh oh are you going to M&J Trimming???
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
Take me there!!
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
Or tell me how to get there. I really have no idea. I was just going to go to the garment district and walk around. Prob on Monday?
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
I can give you dirrex easy! M&J Trimmings is half beads and ribbon and half buttons and buckles, from floor to ceiling. It's on 6th Ave and...37th? Somewhere right above Herald Square. You'll love it.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
oh godyes pls
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
Today is my mom's b'day, and my present to her is a quick NYC trip sometime this spring (as symbolized by a NYC guidebook I sent to her). She is a fabric obsessive, and I will score major daughter points by arranging a tour of NYCs bestest fabric stores--recommendations, please, from my NYC seamstrixors!
― quincie, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
today is MY mom's bday too!!! hb 2 yr mom! i am getting my mom some designer ice crams.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
hb to your mom, too! Also b'day of one of my dearest friends. Good day for good ppl.
― quincie, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
Well, Mood is exciting b/c it's on that show. But it's kind of expensive, comparatively. I haven't bought fabric in a few years but I used to really like Paron and the Paron Annex (sale stuff) on 39th St between 7th and 8th, I think.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
I am...contemplating...a style change to a bunch of things that are kinda interchangeable. Because I've always been the person with odd pieces and vintage dresses and shoes that only go with two things, and I still love that stuff, but a lot of it is showy and not physically that comfortable and I find myself not wanting to wear it day-to-day like I used to.
So um...5 black knit dresses and 5 pars of black/silver/bronze sandals of varying heel heights and 5 cardigans and/or drapey shawls? I don't know. I can't afford to shop now anyway but that's my summer ideal. Colorful light-colored weekend dresses to be interspersed as I find them.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
Been through that for sure! I used to be that person too, and now I am that person on special occasions. My recommendation: GREY (black fades too fast)
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
Point taken!!
I think I'm gonna buy all my shoes this year from Bass and Clark's.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
my go-to shoes that i wore all around nyc are Clarks and they are not the cutest, but they are v. v. comfortable and i have found that it is worth it.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.zappos.com/indigo-by-clarks-joli-ruffle
http://www.planetshoes.com/mmPlanet/Images/16234/16234_127_zoom2.jpg
https://bassshoes.harborghb.com/images/product/views/JOYCEWHT_lg.jpg
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.shoes.com/ProductImages/shoes_iaec1298708.jpg
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
Oh - an old friend of mine is the chief designer for that Clark's indigo line. Some of their stuff is really nice.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
i like those white perforated flats!
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
https://bassshoes.harborghb.com/images/product/views/BRIDGETRED_lg.jpg
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
oh i like those a lot!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
i guess there are certain benefits to honing a personal uniform but i haven't gone there yet, i don't want to grow up that far, not yet! that is how i feel about it, at least. but it's practical and sensible and probably less stress-inducing when you don't want to think about clothes on a given day.
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
It's hard for me to be professional-looking every day w/o stressing out in the AM, and since I have internal organs and sit at a desk, the list of styles I'm willing to wear for 10 hours or more is getting shorter and shorter and does not include things like pencil skirts or waists that will ride up or prevent me from digesting food. Or undergarments that don't stay where they're put, like the ones I'm wearing today that I now remember why I don't wear more often.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
I just looked at the Uniqlo website for 1st time ever and brb I am going to buy them out now.
Because like I just told facespace I need a whole new wardrobe that I can sweat in 94/7 that doesn't make me want to kill living things.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
I have on a pretty new skirt and my fancy swirly sandals you helped me pick out last summer and I feel all ladylike and pretty. SUMMER!
ps - <3 Uniqlo.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
i just shopped at uniqlo for the first time yesterday and am VERY HAPPY.
― rayuela, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
I get all my boring separates during my annual visit to Uniqlo.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
They need to open up one here. I haven't been since I lived in London! NY gets all the good stuff. :/
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
Do they have them in Chicago?!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
Nope, I've only been to the one in NY.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
Ones?