I'm not dead.
I've just been ill, and rather busy. Something flu-like coupled with PMS (lovely!) brought on a heavy attack of study angst, too, so this hasn't been the best of weeks. Oh, well..
I was going to write about band tees, but I can't really be bothered to feel even the slightest bit peevish about it at the moment, so it'll have to wait. I'll just tell you that mildly funny thing about the guy who updated his taste in band tees from (I think) Cradle Of Filth one week (or was it Nightwish? Or Lacrimosa? Something equally subculturally incorrect, anyway) to Skeletal Family, the next week. The rest of his outfit was pretty much identical; long undercut in a tail, tight black stretch jeans, pixie boots. I bet people were incredibly much nicer to him in the Skeletal Family shirt than they were when he wore that other one.
The short tattered skirt is turning out very well, though; I'll have to take some pictures when I'm done (for this time around, at least). It was starting to look alarmingly lolita-esque for a while - I think I rather went overboard with ruching and lace - but I steered things up with scissors, a carpet knife and some chains. Never fails when things are becoming too cutesy. Next up is a decorative lacing over the closure; it's so overloaded with trimming on the other hip that it'll look a bit lopsided if I don't add anything there. More is more! I'll have to wear a rather plain shirt with it.
Most of this is the kind of trimming that hardly anyone will really notice, though; in a dark club most of it will just be a mish-mash of movement, tatters and things that sparkle here and there, since it's all solid black, even the chains, but that's kind of the point - and I will feel gorgeous just knowing how much work and effort I put into the thing. That's another point.
A third point is that when you get right down to it, I enjoy fiddling with the thing almost more than I enjoy wearing it - no, definitely more. I love doing this kind of handwork. It's so incredibly... satisfying, somehow.
(Don't ask me exactly what it is that it satisfies, though; I couldn't say, and I'm not sure I would want to know...)
And now I feel completely blank, so I'll go and gawk at gothic_babes instead.
I was going to write about band tees, but I can't really be bothered to feel even the slightest bit peevish about it at the moment, so it'll have to wait. I'll just tell you that mildly funny thing about the guy who updated his taste in band tees from (I think) Cradle Of Filth one week (or was it Nightwish? Or Lacrimosa? Something equally subculturally incorrect, anyway) to Skeletal Family, the next week. The rest of his outfit was pretty much identical; long undercut in a tail, tight black stretch jeans, pixie boots. I bet people were incredibly much nicer to him in the Skeletal Family shirt than they were when he wore that other one.
The short tattered skirt is turning out very well, though; I'll have to take some pictures when I'm done (for this time around, at least). It was starting to look alarmingly lolita-esque for a while - I think I rather went overboard with ruching and lace - but I steered things up with scissors, a carpet knife and some chains. Never fails when things are becoming too cutesy. Next up is a decorative lacing over the closure; it's so overloaded with trimming on the other hip that it'll look a bit lopsided if I don't add anything there. More is more! I'll have to wear a rather plain shirt with it.
Most of this is the kind of trimming that hardly anyone will really notice, though; in a dark club most of it will just be a mish-mash of movement, tatters and things that sparkle here and there, since it's all solid black, even the chains, but that's kind of the point - and I will feel gorgeous just knowing how much work and effort I put into the thing. That's another point.
A third point is that when you get right down to it, I enjoy fiddling with the thing almost more than I enjoy wearing it - no, definitely more. I love doing this kind of handwork. It's so incredibly... satisfying, somehow.
(Don't ask me exactly what it is that it satisfies, though; I couldn't say, and I'm not sure I would want to know...)
And now I feel completely blank, so I'll go and gawk at gothic_babes instead.