i'm in the middle of hastily cobbling together a GOTV project for NonProfit but i still have a few minutes to wonder about fashion...
what shall my new fall look be?
i've tried sexy librarian and failed...
what should my new staples be?
what are the rest of you wearing/shopping?
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i just bought a bunch of darks: dark underwear, tshirts, socks.
For the past ten years, my goal was to do one load of laundry, so all my underwear, tshirts, socks, and towels were white.
Then I saw "An Inconvenient Truth" and decided I shouldn't wash with hot water anymore.
Never mind that electricty in Seattle is hyrdo electric. I'm making a statement.
But you were talking about fashion, weren't you....
plummy velvet. head to toe. wasit coats, long skirts, froufrou collars. yes, that and knee-high ribbon laced victorian boots!
That is what I will be wearing. In my mind. In reality, I'll be wearing the same shit I wore last fall because I am about to leave my job to go freelance and will have no income in the forseeable future. Ahem.
well, according to the Harpers Bazaar trend quiz/recommendation, my fall style should be The Tailored Tomboy.
or, as i call it: The Sexy Librarian's Sexy Butch Cousin
Well, I am going with a look I am calling Country Sports - basically we are talking Gosford Park/Jeeves and Wooster. Have you considered having your look be All About the Shoes? Monochromatic dressing, say, except for the fabulous shoe in an unexpected color/pattern? I need to check out The Tailored Tomboy, now.
i think you can't go wrong when you plan your outfit around your shoe.
and so the Tailored Tomboy is really going to be about the femme shoe and the man-pants. my version of the tomboy isn't one who plays sports or climbs trees but one who is hiding out in a boys prep school and is deeply in touch with his feminine side.
you know. like that.
OK, I can see you pulling off that variant of Tailored Tomboy - you are correct in inferring that it was the whole underbelly of tree-climbing, grubby, sporty, clumpy, loud Tomboy-ishness that I just couldn't reconcile with the elegant languor that is Ding.
think: a brown, curvy Victor/Victoria thing going on.
now, if only i can actually pull it off and get some things...there's a suit in martha stewart's new magazine 'blueprint' that i just LOVE! it drives me crazy, i love it so much. it's retro, sexy, harsh and hot.
that's who i want to be....sexyharsh&hot.
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