There should be a fair number of women in the Bay Area with gowns to sell or swap about now, as the Dickens Fair will start in about a month and folks will be looking to swap, sell or trade up whatever they had from last year.
Ooooooh. Really?
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Atropa - Oct 19, 2005 9:32:23 am PDT #9359 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Katerina Bee - Oct 19, 2005 9:32:57 am PDT #9360 of 10001
Herding cats for fun
"Do your parents KNOW you're Ramones?"Love that line so.much.
Daniel - let me add to the "HR needs to make reasonable accommodations" crowd.Yeah, really. If you can’t care for yourself without scaring silly people, they ought to have some sort of official plan for the proper way they want things done in their place of business, instead of hoping that now you’ll figure it out successfully by yourself.
In back pain news: I thought I was doing pretty well until I got home and removed the back brace. Yeeeeeeeeooooooowwwch. I can’t bend forward at all and have to lower myself into chairs very, very slowly. So today it’s part of my outfit again. It’s very solid and supportive and warm, like a good hug. I’ve disguised the waist-nipping effect beneath loose & comfy clothing, but I’m reminiscing fondly about the hourglass figure I got when I added uplifting foundation garments atop and sweeping skirts below. Sigh. The corset, it does fabulous things for a body. Now I wanna go play costume drama instead of work, how strange.
DavidS - Oct 19, 2005 9:37:49 am PDT #9361 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
ita, you might find what you want at Fashion Era and specifically look for "silhouettes." Each era tended to have its own silhouette from the inverted triangle of the 80s to the narrow column of the 20s.
Also, the two cuts on the right are the Eton Crop you were looking into months ago.
Susan W. - Oct 19, 2005 9:38:54 am PDT #9362 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I'll say this as delicately and euphemistically as possible... if you want your husband to treat your fastball like Albert Pujols and not like Willie Bloomquist, you should probably look into period dresses. Because girls dressed as boys to join the army do not make the husband think of rye bread and mustard.
Hey, I said I was going to do both. Just not for the Civil War, since I don't have the same yen for Victorian clothes that I do the Regency and 1770's styles.
And this is basically a combination of hands-on novel research and a grown-up version of all the imaginary time travel I did as a girl. IOW, I'll find a way to fulfill your fantasies, but it's mostly about fulfilling mine.
DavidS - Oct 19, 2005 9:39:06 am PDT #9363 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Daniel - let me add to the "HR needs to make reasonable accommodations" crowd.
I'm thinking they'll say that the bathroom is a reasonable accomodation.
Aims - Oct 19, 2005 9:41:19 am PDT #9364 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The bathroom was where it was suggested I pump when I came back from maternity leave. I promptly asked my boss if she was going to bring her lunch into the adjoining stall and eat there with me.
I was able to pump in the lunchroom after that.
Steph L. - Oct 19, 2005 9:43:10 am PDT #9365 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Also, there are some 1930s clothes that I'd love to have.
I'm too curvy for 1930s styles, but despite my avowed non-girliness, I am MAD for Dior's New Look.
Aims - Oct 19, 2005 9:44:54 am PDT #9366 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
You and me both, Tep.
Amy - Oct 19, 2005 9:46:19 am PDT #9367 of 10001
Because books.
Also, there are some 1930s clothes that I'd love to have.
Oh yeah, I love a lot of those dresses. Oddly, I also love a lot of '50s stuff -- and even more oddly, I saw a lot of it on I Love Lucy. The tweed suit she models in Hollywood, the dress with the vines at the waist, climbing up and down. And the hats! We don't wear hats enough anymore.
See what happens when I post before looking at Teppy's link? That's exactly what I talking about.
§ ita § - Oct 19, 2005 9:46:27 am PDT #9368 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Also, the two cuts on the right are the Eton Crop you were looking into months ago
That wasn't me -- flea, maybe? I was helping her out with links, just like you.
I don't see what I'm looking for there. I mean more than silhouette, if possible -- and they only have a few. Ideally, I guess, would be some sort of thing where you put in your dimensions and it spat out "Japan, 1920!" and you know that's when and where they were trying to look like your body (or closest, really).
I mean, there are probably tons of women who could do with a subtle shift away from trying to dress like today's fashion, but just introducing period elements into their wardrobe -- keeps their wardrobe timeless, plus is pulling from a pool of fashion that's all about their high waist and flat chest (or whatever).