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amazon_syren) wrote2012-08-05 10:10 pm
amazon_syren) wrote2012-08-05 10:10 pm
In Which I Yack About Fashion (Mostly)
I am, once again grumbling about not knowing what my "personal style" is.
I mean, I know what I default to. Cotton tank top, cotton (ideally) skirt of around knee-length, and a cotton (ideally) cardigan if it's chilly out.
And that's fine for what it is.
But it doesn't dress up very well. I mean, to a point, I can do "dressy casual" with it... Take my standard, knee-length black crinkle-cotton skirt (which, unexpectedly, is $76 when you don't get it from Value Village? WTF?) and well-fitting, possibly embelished, cotton tank top, and you can dress that up with long and/or chuncky necklaces, big rings, kitten heels (if you can find them in your size, at any rate), cuff bracelets, and similar... to a point.
But at the root of it, you're still basically wearing a t-shirt.
So I'm looking at my wardrobe and going:
1) I have, essentially, an hour glass figure.
2) This means that stuff like Dior's New Look (1946), or dresses like this or this, this (I am seriously like Retroscope, at the moment, fyi), or (potentially) even this work well on me.
3) I prefer natural fibres - cotton (Definitely cotton) but also linen, some types of silk, and I'm open to trying others while I'm at it.
4) Structure makes garments look more formal (maybe I need to invest in a couple of sleaveless blouses - something like this or this (I want to know how to do her hair, too...) would also work nicely).
5) My "default" look can go to a number of different extremes. It can go one direction to hippy, tribal, goddess stuff with kitten-heel mules or wood/cork-soled sandals... or it can go the other way, to utilikilts, and black leather everything... or it can head towards something more like this...
See?
And when I pull pictures together like this, I can see where they overlap (sort of) and, to a degree, can be mixed and matched. The steam-goth stuff can be mixed and matched with the leather femme stuff and the retro 50s rockabilly/esque stuff really easily.
But I'm not sure how to get them to work with the hippy/goddess stuff.
I mean, yes, there's Raqs Gothique; A leather bra works just fine in combination with a multi-layered, hip-slung, ankle-length circle skirt, to my mind. And the kind of shoes I'd wear with the hippy/goddess stuff aren't too hard to make work with a rockabilly-flavoured look either (these could theoretically work with either)... But I'm not sure how else to make the two cross over. :-\
If you have any ideas...
Anyway. Clothes, clothes, clothes...
Maybe I do know what my personal styles are, I'm just not sure how to achieve them on an extremely low budget... :-P
Anyway.
Moving right along...
TTFN,
Amazon.
I mean, I know what I default to. Cotton tank top, cotton (ideally) skirt of around knee-length, and a cotton (ideally) cardigan if it's chilly out.
And that's fine for what it is.
But it doesn't dress up very well. I mean, to a point, I can do "dressy casual" with it... Take my standard, knee-length black crinkle-cotton skirt (which, unexpectedly, is $76 when you don't get it from Value Village? WTF?) and well-fitting, possibly embelished, cotton tank top, and you can dress that up with long and/or chuncky necklaces, big rings, kitten heels (if you can find them in your size, at any rate), cuff bracelets, and similar... to a point.
But at the root of it, you're still basically wearing a t-shirt.
So I'm looking at my wardrobe and going:
1) I have, essentially, an hour glass figure.
2) This means that stuff like Dior's New Look (1946), or dresses like this or this, this (I am seriously like Retroscope, at the moment, fyi), or (potentially) even this work well on me.
3) I prefer natural fibres - cotton (Definitely cotton) but also linen, some types of silk, and I'm open to trying others while I'm at it.
4) Structure makes garments look more formal (maybe I need to invest in a couple of sleaveless blouses - something like this or this (I want to know how to do her hair, too...) would also work nicely).
5) My "default" look can go to a number of different extremes. It can go one direction to hippy, tribal, goddess stuff with kitten-heel mules or wood/cork-soled sandals... or it can go the other way, to utilikilts, and black leather everything... or it can head towards something more like this...
See?
And when I pull pictures together like this, I can see where they overlap (sort of) and, to a degree, can be mixed and matched. The steam-goth stuff can be mixed and matched with the leather femme stuff and the retro 50s rockabilly/esque stuff really easily.
But I'm not sure how to get them to work with the hippy/goddess stuff.
I mean, yes, there's Raqs Gothique; A leather bra works just fine in combination with a multi-layered, hip-slung, ankle-length circle skirt, to my mind. And the kind of shoes I'd wear with the hippy/goddess stuff aren't too hard to make work with a rockabilly-flavoured look either (these could theoretically work with either)... But I'm not sure how else to make the two cross over. :-\
If you have any ideas...
Anyway. Clothes, clothes, clothes...
Maybe I do know what my personal styles are, I'm just not sure how to achieve them on an extremely low budget... :-P
Anyway.
Moving right along...
TTFN,
Amazon.