... Fashion!
Fair warning: this LJ entry comes to you in the spirit of the leopard: → →
I finished my second t-shirt skirt today! I had a little bit of trouble getting the waistband right, but I overcame these difficulties and deem the second t-shirt skirt even more successful than the first. Part of the difference is in technique (I pinned and got beautiful smooth seams) but most of it is design. I revised the pattern, so that
- it's longer, and
- it gets wider, but most importantly,
- it gets wider faster.
Armed with my new discovery and a tote bag stuffed with old clothes, I went back to the consignment store where I bought adorable shoes yesterday. They bought up a bunch of my old clothes. Suckers! I mean, I gave them some good stuff, but I still feel like I pulled one over on them, since it's all stuff I didn't want anyway. (E.g.: Ima, you'll be happy to hear that I got rid of that gingham skirt that Joe wore to Professors and Schoolgirls freshman year. The store gave me $3 for it, which is just one dollar less than I spent on it in the first place.) I wound up with $25 in store credit, and promptly spent it all and-then-some on 2 skirts, a racerback shirt, a t-shirt and a pair of leggings:
The leggings are not pictured, because I feel sort of indecent putting them on the internet. As with the colorful-skirt-in-motion, you'll just have to trust that they are pretty. (I don't know if I'll ever be quite punk-rock enough to wear them without pants over them.)
My favorite thing is the pale skirt, which I might never remove except to attend black-tie events. But my second-favorite thing is the School House Rock shirt, which reminds me very much of Becky from LHWHS. (She used to wear a Taiwanese t-shirt picturing the Pink Panther, except that he was - inexplicably - green.) In the same vein, this store offered a purple shirt with HUGS / NOT / DRUGS printed on it in white over a turquoise heart, and a shirt with a cartoon of a Chinese takeout box featuring hyper-exaggerated slanting eyes, saying "DON'T EAT ME! I'M CHINESE!" I was like, inclined to answer, "This line of argument is unlikely to succeed, Takeout Box! Also, you are drawn in a racist way!"
I was very tempted by a dark heather gray shirt with the flag of Berlin and text that said "Guten Tag Berlin" in an outrageously fancy font. ADORABLE. But it was just a little bit too small on me, so I left it to be claimed by some smaller individual. As they say in Taiwan, UONJUOCJIONTUNCTINN Thuc'naedeyatiore!!
