The jacket and jeans are very much in fashion. (Lots of the undergrads here are wearing them.) Not so sure about the boots, though.

really in fashion?

AFAICT, yet, but see above, re: what Betsy said.

For a brief, horrible second there, I read Is as I'm, and my world slowly started crumbling around me. Good to know I'm just a bad reader.

Gaaah! No. No, no, no. I will admit I'm tempted to add wide velvet ribbon to one of my black repro-Edwardian riding jackets, because I think a velvet bow would look cute at the waistline, but those weird multi-colored shrunken tweed things? Ew. Not For Me.

The jacket and jeans are very much in fashion.

I suspected so, because the women who work in the marketing department here are so very up-to-the-minute on baffling, trendy fashion.

The other day, one of them asked me where I found all of my 'So hot!' reproduction Victorian blouses, because she wanted some. I made up the name of a boutique, because I do not want to have to fight Those People at the thrift stores for clothing items I've been collecting for years.

Is wearing one of those pink & brown shrunken tweed jackets (that ties shut with a limp satin ribbon bow) with a pair of those ‘dirty wash’ jeans (dark blue denim with pale tan ‘scuff marks’ on the butt & backs of the thighs) that are rolled up to show pale tan calf-high, stiletto-heeled boots really in fashion?

Yeah, but I prefer them with dark denim with maybe a bit of fade. But, I'm against dirty wash in the first place. It makes me want to rip off the jeans and throw them in the wash with some color-safe bleach.

Wow. I efiled my Missouri taxes Tuesday night, and my return was in my bank account today.

Color me impressed.

Yeah, but I prefer them with dark denim with maybe a bit of fade.

See, that makes a vague sort of sense to me. Not something I would wear, but it wouldn't confuse me like the dirty wash denim did.

But, I'm against dirty wash in the first place.

I just don't get the point of it.

I just don't get the point of it.

I suppose it makes you look like you've been all rugged in your designer jeans, tweed shrunken jacket and stilleto boots.

I just think it looks like you don't do laundry.

I would be SO flat on my ass with these:

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Dirty wash seriously bugs. Ug-lee. And yet I have actually purchased dirty wash jeans within the last month -- not for myself, but for Emmett, and not for the dirty wash but because they had double-thick denim at the knees, and this is a kid who's shredded the knees of his jeans literally within minutes of taking the tags off. So I held my nose and bought the dirty wash jeans for him, and...

...when he wears them, he looks cuter than hell. I cannot account for it. I've also noticed that the whole pants very low/undies showing above the beltline thing, which makes me want to kill kill kill when I see a grown person doing it, looks so unbearably adorable on Emmett as to reduce me to a glurbling puddle of meeps. I feel ethically compromised. I'm not even a blood parent, yet affection is making me turn a blind eye to his fashion crimes.

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The other day, one of them asked me where I found all of my 'So hot!' reproduction Victorian blouses, because she wanted some.

Oh, ew. Just... ew. Now I want to make you a parasol with a sword hidden in the handle.