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

those are basically my style resolutions as well, really

also 'spend less time reading fantasy novels from amazon and more time going to poetry readings at the independent bookshop'

I have a style change addendum, per the thing I posted and c sharp's comment:

~ find a tailor I like.
~ alternatively, step up my sewing game, but being realistic, finding a tailor is more likely.

That article about the tailored clothes was fascinating. The only thing I've ever had tailored are formal dresses. Thinking I need to find one I like too and start using him/her on the reg.

My style prediction for 2012: I will continue to wear lots of brown, and my ancient clothes will continue to fall apart.

man remember in the 80s/90s when a red head wearing pink or red was just NOT DONE. How freakin ridiculous.

This year i want to learn to sew collars, peter pan or pointy, to add to dresses or plain not collared shirts. also cuffs if shirt or dress is long sleeved. If anyone knows of a good collar pattern PLease l;et me now <3

i know its kind of 90s but i really enjoy a collar.

Also this year i plan to buy well made classic pieces that will last years rather that some shitty cardigan from target that has holes in it within month.

Actually what id really like to do is learn to make patterns and sew my own clothes because i can never find anything off the rack that exactly how i want it.

emil.y i have no idea how to wear brown! i have brown clothes but cant work them into anything. im mostly a black/purple/white/pink/blue person because of this :(

i wore a replica of Stacey Dash's 'Clueless' collared red dress to my brother's wedding in 96. Wasn't working at all on my me. material for the dress was some kid of weird silky polyester deal. very wrong. and the red was nowhere as deep. more an orange red. ugh.

http://vintageclothesdesignerdrugs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/clueless.jpg

my ancient clothes will continue to fall apart.
this is happening to me too and i'm just not even sure what to do about it
do i really have to buy *new* sweaters? what?

yesterday i got fed up with a hideously oversized tshirt that i loooove otherwise, so i cut about 4 in off the bottom (leaving it still below my hips, mind) cut off the ribbed neck, and trimmed the sleeves and WOW does it look better! it looks like a girl's shirt now and i can wear it with pride.

totokaelo is having a sale, which means $600 sweatshirts marked down to $400, still can't afford anything.

Sales that are a slap in the face.

even if i did have the money i wouldn't spend it on a bunch of droopy clothes, it just seems wrong. starving children, etc.

I can't stand clothes shopping, so most of my newer clothes are charity shop presents from my family (or occasionally friends - one gave me a really nice shirt as a reward for going to counselling, ha). I did get a new tie for Christmas, which I love love love:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/6625015753_86e339dac5.jpg
New tie for Xmas by miss e kawasaki, on Flickr

Ahhh, I just remembered, I do have one thing I want that is actually 'style' related. I have for years been after a cape like the one in the Prisoner episode 'Dance of the Dead':

http://www.the-prisoner-6.freeserve.co.uk/pictures/norma_rover.jpg

I will re-affirm my commitment to preppiness and menswear. Paradoxically, I wil continue my tight-buying binge and find more skirts to wear with said tights.

This year I want to finally stud a bunch of my clothes. Bedazzler here I come.

oh dang! that is a very nice cape!

Capes! I luuurve them. I even have one. Used to have 3, but the two vintage ones were ginormous on me because of the whole short-and-no-shoulders thing, so I gave them away. I should have given them to you, emil.y!

I actually have two capes already, but neither of them brown so I don't wear them, really. One is my mum's old school cape (a school cape! Blimey!) which is huge and green, the other is a grey one with red inner lining thing and a nice black gothic button-up at the collar.

a grey one with red inner lining thing and a nice black gothic button-up at the collar.

Wa wa wa wahh WHAT?

omg seriously?
DREAM CAPE

As modelled in this photo (incidentally one of my favourite photos of me - and there aren't many of those):

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1106/603133127_f907929a64.jpg
I like Bilge Pump. And capes. by miss e kawasaki, on Flickr

Although I will admit you probably shouldn't wear it with the collar popped like that.

that picture is totally amazing and i love it
I LOVE IT

The cape (and you!) is gorgeous and the popped collar is OTM.

The cape looks rad with the collar like that.

(and I mean 'rad' as a compliment)

Wow that cape! xoxo I love your new tie, as well. I love women wearing ties.

Sales that are a slap in the face.

Also: Save $20!!!!! (on sales over $150) or other such small savings on large expenditures. Bah.

That cape does look so great but i know me in cape would be so wrong :(

also: considering first yoga wear and first spanx purchase. woo.

I don't usually do the whole pinup thing, but I decided to go for it tonight.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/photo9.jpg

the bow on my head has frankenstein on it. lol.

Love the dress, the bow, the eyebrows, everything basically.

oh and I had this dress custom made on Etsy... for like $90.

The only thing I must have measured incorrectly was the neck, as its a little wide.

You look amazing! As always.

~style plans 2012~
get some nice but inexpensive jewelry
find a cute blazer with patterned lining inside the sleeves
continue multi-year hunt for ~the perfect cape~
more black/grey/white
finally get around to donating stuff I don't wear anymore
remember to read ILS more often

style plans include:

more shorts with tights
make an effort with make-up
color! last year i did way too much army green + black + charcoal
less pigtails (they made my hair so much easier tho)

also, heels. i did far too much flats and rain boots last year

less pigtails (they made my hair so much easier tho)

This is a thing for me too def

going to get a nice watch

From that Germany company you liked on fb? Those were awesome. I want one! I have always favored big bulky men's watches and loved those.

Err German co, rather

mandee, i LOVE that dress - your look is all around awesome!

what etsy seller did you use?

mandee you are so pretty

'heartmycloset' is the etsy seller but it looks like their page is temporarily gone...

thanks HS thats nice of ya :) :)

yeah, ENBB, had my eye on one of those defakto nachtschicht watches; that or an archimede.

Okay I just ordered big, square, mannish glasses: that's another new style for me in 2012.

like harry caray glasses?

Now that I've googled Harray Carey, oh dear me, no.

Much more boringer.

http://www.popularoptics.com/52514-52430-large/armani-exchange-eyeglasses-ax-150-color-black-gray-color-code-0e4s.jpg

those are nice!

ty! I am very excited, I've never had square-ish frames before, and they're so BIG! After a decade of wearing, like, retro kitten glasses (sort of), I don't know what to do with all that lens real estate.