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

i really want some lace up boots like that!

i've gone through 4 pairs of justin lacers in the last 8 years or so and have enjoyed every minute of every one
most i've found secondhand on ebay, the first pair i got at goodwill
they are my perfect shoes and i will probably just keep buying them and wearing them until justin stops making them
then i will cry

I'd like to get a different shade each time I color my hair--I might as well have some fun with my hair now that I'm grey.

I'd also like to get some pants that aren't jeans (and I hope I can get some money to do so pretty soon, because I currently have only one wearable pair of jeans). I have a hard time finding a good style, though--any suggestions? I have very, very short legs, a big rear end and a big belly.

- thinking about a pixie cut
- my look right now is 'jeans and plaid shirt' OR 'patterned skirt, plain shirt, cardie', feel like maybe i should sharpen this up a notch
- gonna throw out some old unused clothing RIGHT NOW while i am thinking about it
- maybe going to learn to hang my clothes up this year, also?

There's also a bunch of things that need to be replaced--my bra is seriously stretched out and the strap on my purse is about to break.

My style resolution is to start wearing more skirts/dresses. My legs are probably my best feature and I nearly always wear pants. I would like to change this. Ladies - where are your fav skirt/dress shopping places. I need recs. If it helps I favor a line mod type shift dresses/ skirts and also like fuller 50's style skirts too. Not into straight/pencil skirts cause I just don't think they do me any favors.

I would also like to find a hair stylist I actually like and stick with for more than one or two cuts.

Also stop being afraid of heels and learn how to walk in them. That said, I just tried on some today and they were prob three inches and made me a giant. This one might be tough.

i've been thinking maybe i should give pants a try

In 2011 I upped my makeup game somewhat; in 2012 I would like to up my hair game. This means I am going to need to learn to master my own updos!

Laurel, will you please be my updo mentor, even if you've gone short and may go even shorter? I was trying to find the lady from yootube that you liked, but failed. . . blond lady, 30s/40s, maybe lives in Berlin? Is this ringing any bells? Does a lot of vintage styles?

Lol we can swap styles

HS wear to buy cool skirts?

Skirts: seriously strongly suggest boring lady department stores that stock office-wear!!! You really want a lined skirt, non-lined ones ride up, twist around, and are more likely to look cheap (mostly bc they ARE cheaper to make). And boring career-wear departments have the widest selection of lined black skirts!!

i will wear any old skirt, but i also have a wide array of slips that pretty much take care of the lined/not lined issue for me. are you looking for work skirts or fun skirts? (again, this is a very real divide in my line of work)

quinie: her youtube account name is BerlinHairBaby!

lately i get all my clothes at marshall's and tj maxx due to no money/living in lol buffalo. marshalls has some cute sheaths + shifts if you have about an hour to hunt for them. anthropologie has a lot of cringey preciousness + a gross catalogue + is overpriced but i got a couple of good, interesting-detail, not looking totally like a piece of candy skirts that i still wear from there a few years ago on sale. finally, i have yet to actually buy a dress from asos online, but thanks to kinder i am obsessed with it. that adorable 60s mod dress has still not gone on sale! it's $200 but i want it!!! you should make someone buy it for you.

xxp also nordstrom rack, for skirts. less fun detailing potentially but good-quality stuff. is there a nordstrom rack in boston? i miss nordstrom rack.

Eh fun skirts more than work ones but my office is pretty casual- I wear jeans a lot - so I could prob wear a lot of "fun" skirts to work too!

You make a good point about slips! For various reasons I hate them, so I stick to lined skirts.

Heels: Everyone has their own walk/style, but the advice I find best is to take slower, longer strides. Your legs are practically speaking LONGER now, so think of your foot as a ball on the end of a pendulum and slow that shit down.

oh, it's not mod, but anyway, someone buy this: http://images.asos.com/inv/media/9/8/9/6/1746989/red/image1xxl.jpg

omg sorry for hueg

Dear god you have the most amazing taste in dresses hs.

I really hate both clothes shopping and trying on clothes which makes stores like marshals my worst nightmare even tho I know tons od people who hunt and find good stuff there. I get fed up/bored after about 20 mins.

I actually usually a lot of things I love at anthro but it's so $$$$$. I should keep an eye out for sales and learn to like shopping. Thanks for the tips tho.

That is pretty but I wish it had either elbow length or 3/4 length sleeves.

Laurel, YOU have amazing taste in dresses! <3

I don't know how a human being could actually WEAR that dress to do more than walk around and stand still a lot, but it's phenomenal and BRAVE. Red!

i am kind of bad at shopping for every day, tbh. hence: pants in 2012.

I love red. It's my fav clothing color aside from black.

tbh my personal aesthetic could historically have been described as "a piece of candy" or "a crazy candy-colored mess." i am trying to be more subdued in the '12.

Oh here is a good one. I vow to no longer only buy black clothes.

as befits a woman of my advancing years lol

I love red and black glossy things. I bought a fancy label handbag in patent black with red accents at TJM over the hols.

Now that I've passed 50, I'll be aiming for a distinguished, Omar Sharif, graying eminence-type look.

how will you achieve that? through pomade and scent?

First I'm going watch Doctor Zhivago five or six times.

play more bridge

very stylish

i'm dying for this anthropologie dress to go on sale (even though i hate everything about them as a company):
http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=24157042&catId=CLOTHES-DRESSES&pushId=CLOTHES-DRESSES&popId=CLOTHES&navCount=0&color=049&isProduct=true&fromCategoryPage=true&isSubcategory=true&subCategoryId=CLOTHES-DRESSES&templateType=subCategory

i am going to find a v awesome and v expensive hairstylist and i am going to get heavy bangs to finally cover my enormous forehead

justine srsly you should go see my hairdressing genius friend janet - she's cutting hair at pau1's h@t w0rks - http://about.me/MissJanet

he email is on that page near the end

ooooo that dress. like it. xp

I vow to no longer only buy black clothes.

i should try for that too.

also:

nu-glasses (reading eyeglasses thread!)
occasional lipgloss
hair accessories for my longer-than-ever-before hair
trim ends of said hair

ooh that reminds me!
- getting contacts!

- wear things that are more flattering, and less neutral/camouflage
- all my friends are a bunch of weirdos, so there's no reason i can't be dressy/glammy whenever i feel like it
- accept that wearing shaping undergarments when appropriate does not make me a lame-o

xp to Christine -- is there a reason you have to wear pants? My build is not dissimilar to yours, and i am much happier wearing skirts. You could go with an elastic waist skirt that's designed to be full.

thank you robyn!!! i will investigate :)

- get a haircut
- don't let as long pass between next haircut and succeeding haircut as has passed between haircut-to-be and antecedent haircut

Shaping/support undergarments are stretchy little gifts from heaven. It could be worse, there could be girdles.

in my goth days i wore things with a bunch of clasps that didn't quite have corsetry-style boning, but did have wirey things that were uncomfortable.

oh, and i totally <3 folkways patterns! (need to get back into sewing) - i still have the folkways pattern for the glamour girl dress i made almost 20?! yrs ago

i want to get a few things that are handmade/made to my measurements - i think etsy is probably a good place to look for this...

if anyone has etsy stores they really like please share them!

i think i'm gonna try and grow an epically huge beard.

on my way to doing that atm

rolling beards on white guys 2012

hahaha you're all horrified by my pants

Work pants, definitely.

they are work pants i could tolerate
i loathe wearing Women's Professional Clothes so much

um LL I totally dig your pants

they could be work pants, or party pants --- I endorse you wearing them a lot :D

I recently purchased a pair of leopard print stretch-denim capris that conflicted me hugely because honestly, printed denim just reminds me of the dirtbag moms with bleached hair in my hometown

but I wear them all the time and they're kind of exciting I can't explain it

i like those LL.

my big change this year was that i stopped wearing contacts (for the most part) and started wearing glasses.

my new change is I have a whole bunch of skirts and I now wear SKIRTS a lot

LL when you were describing them they sounded awful but now I want them!

The pants are so much more classy than I expected!! I love them! (I say this as someone who owns a leopard-print twin set.) Totally work pants and I would wear them with tiny pointy flats or diminutive heels with an open vamp, but I know you like to mix things up more than I, kooky vintage girl, do.

I was going to embrace them if they were crazy/trashy/costumey, too, but I'm glad to see they're so wearable for practical things.

I will have had such a long break from anything other than beach clothes that I am kind of scared about having to dress myself for the real world again. I don't even remember what "work clothes" I have to work with back home. I got rid of a lot of stuff when I was packing up for storage.

Like I don't even know what social workers wear to work?

Tunic tops, stretch pants, white sports socks, and Crocs. For some reason this is my mental image.

Hahahaha you are probably not so far off. I'll try to set the bar a little higher! I'm guessing that I will be on my feet a lot more than in my whorporate job, so footwear is gonna be a problem. Crocs are *not* going to be part of the solution.

Check out "comfort" brands like Clarks and Naturalizer.

You guys are totally underestimating social workers!! The ones I know who are in our general peer group are rather stylish, if not work-neutral.

tight pants for rolling up normal fatigue pants/army outfit. (gray)
1 new heavy overshirt, purple
more refined hair side of the head shaving as per mange :-)
hand wraps and arm wraps to not show my scarred for life :-) that's for legs too (im in school)
new taller boots rather than Wellco boots
walgreens hair dye becauyse Splat is permanent and looks good, and loreal et al are expensive
a specific kind of socks and maybe gloves of a permantn?? no u cannot wash wish gloves...

//</style planner> :-)

okey...

also some type of reading glasses, not for looks.

it's cold here, so i'll have to dress warmly shortly.

oh and tattoos, hands and head and orange and pink and mb blue around my eyes and mouth, and a blue grid on my scalp.. |_| :? :\ :D :/ feel weird talking abt style/postin leik ds

+xanax/adderal

do you like salads with lots of butter and cheese on them?

heh what

u are unfamiliar to me, just wonderin!

and also your post was extremely detailed and made no sense to me

Those pants look awesome! They don't look as far-out as I imagined.

neogoth

lo.. i love tapered women's pants too, and salads with butter and cheese,

but i soooo want a liquid diet, if i can get a job. for cutting :-)

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