"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Delight, Fashion, NaBloPoMo 2011, nostalgia, Take A Look At This on Nov 10th, 2011
I was thinking about the Victorian & Albert Museum earlier, and especially about a particular section of the costume collection: the Heather Firbank dresses. She was of a well-to-do family and was quite fashionable and chic in her day. For example, this is a mourning dress. An extremely stylish, even kind of sexy mourning dress. [...]
Posted in Fashion, NaBloPoMo 2011, nostalgia, Shopping on Nov 3rd, 2011
Once upon a time, I owned the most awesome, perfect, kick-assedy boots that ever kicked ass. They were fuckin’ rad, and I wore the everloving crap out of them. My classmates at school thought they were awful, and I took a lot of guff for my big stompy boots (oddly, during an era when it [...]
Button boots, baby! I’ve wanted a pair of button-top, French Heeled, old-style shoes for AGES. Like perhaps since my ‘Tween years, What can I say? I’ve always had an urge for Fin de siècle fashions. I rarely buy shoes, from the Internet or otherwise, so these were a bit of a splurge, but they are [...]
Posted in Fashion, Recommendations on Aug 4th, 2011
Enough with the gutter-based content. Today, I want to show you this My fingernails are really shiny, sparkly silver. All day long it has been making me cheerful to see them twinkling as I have gone about my work duties and stuff. This combination of cheap nailpolishes was a real winner: One coat of the [...]
Posted in Fashion, Gratuitous Cussing, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing), You have got to be kidding me! on Jul 31st, 2011
Do you ever read something and just find your face stuck like this ? Yeah, so I read a woman’s blog entry recently that just made one eye squinch up, while the other bugged out, and my mouth perhaps went “wha’ th’…you have got to be kidding me…the hell you say…” and maybe something incoherent [...]
Posted in Fashion, Fashion/Sewing stuff, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Sewing on Jul 13th, 2011
Sometimes I click on the sidebar ads on Facebook, so as to sort of pay for the service, you know. So today, there were a really cute pair of shorts on the sidebar…neon green and shocking pink diamond patterned hotpants. Completely obnoxious and inappropriate for everything, but also totally eye-catching. Which, I’m sure was the [...]
Posted in Fashion, Things I like & Things I don't like on Jun 8th, 2011
Lately, I’ve been seeing little girls just wearing fancy dresses for normal wear. Like they have a dress leftover from a stint of flower-girling, and instead of just letting it molder in the closet until it is outgrown, then fobbing it off on Goodwill, the parents are letting the kid just go ahead and get [...]
Posted in Fashion, Hair issues, Words I Like on Feb 11th, 2011
I read Mimi Smartypants’s latest entry the other day and got to thinking about the ridiculous text on things. The one that came to mind immediately was from a pair of pants I no longer own – the brand name was “Dream Big,” and a little piece of embroidered ribbon proclaimed such on one of [...]
Posted in Costumes and disguises, Distractions, dumb things I have done, Fashion, Utter Silliness, You have got to be kidding me! on Feb 8th, 2011
One of my nerdtastical quirks is that whenever I make or acquire some new clothes, I like to try them on with a bunch of my existing wardrobe to see how well they integrate. Over the course of several years, I have worked toward a wardrobe wherein the majority of components are interchangeable. I am [...]
Some while back, I took it upon myself to acquire about 3 yards of SCREAMING ORANGE corduroy. At the time, my intention was to replace my beloved and utterly worn out orange pants of yesteryear. Yes, I am the sort of woman who will wear a pair of orange corduroy jeans so often as to [...]
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