My wardrobe has attained a kind of critical mass. Lately I've spent a lot of time standing in front of it, bewildered by the sheer amount of data on cut, color, texture, trend, fit, degree of wear, etc. I used to be aware of every item and the various ways it could be used in a successful outfit, but since the complexity of this task scales as a ( Read more... )

So I ended up topping everyone, I mean everyone, on Saturday night. But to tell the story, I need to go back a step and talk about D&G. Hint: They are not the fashion designers. They are, however, awesome.

The weekend of the 23rd found Mr. Tungsten and I at  Dragon's Gate. Before that we went to dinner at fantastic little pub called The Olde Ship ( Read more... )

Hollywood in the summer means tourists, at least that was what it meant on Saturday when I escorted a bunch of kinky ladies around the Strip's stripper stores. The group was Fetlife's Kinky Women Who Like Women and the event was Hollywood Hooker Haberdashery, an alliterative title of my own ideation that I repeat here due to o'erweening pride.

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Why, oh why have I never heard of these before? Unnnh, WANT!


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Pin and were talking about clothes again:

I absorbed a lot of style tips from my mom. She had weight problems all her life, but was always interested in looking chic. You should see the pictures of my mom and dad from when they were newly married. Super stylin' couple. My mom worked her curves and my dad dressed like James Dean.

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An old friend, who's starting to get interested in cultivating a personal sense of style, asked me:

How would you describe your style? What are trying to do when you dress?

There was once a really interesting exercise in a style manual that made a lot of things clear for me. It asked me to pick adjectives that matched the characteristics I ( Read more... )

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So another Wig Out is coming up and I thought it time to buy some new headgear. The Scully wig is nice, but it's been worn a lot recently and I'm aging out of the short bobs from way back in New Orleans. Instead of looking all sleek and sexy they are now i) too small for my head and ii) obviously fake.

There's a wig shop in town that I've never ( Read more... )

 
Want:                                                                                 Wantity: 

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1. Sinful nails.


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