Ok, between JZ's seamstress, my new one, and Jilli's, there should be a way for all of us (that want one - I know it's improbable that everyone wants ons one) to have a pink velvet circle dress.

Believe me, I am saving the pictures of it to show to Jay the WonderSeamstress. The trick will be finding fabric of comparable quality.

I had a 27 inch waist when I got married 3.5 years ago. I was living off of Xenadrine the original and cigarettes, but I was skinny. [link]

As much as I'm trending towards skirts and a more feminine style now, no, I do not want a circle dress (although...pink velvet!). I am not a big petticoat fan.

My favorite look of my own wardrobe so far was "goth film noir" which was heavy on the tailored 1940s/1950s-era suits with hats. Expensive (even making my own with Vogue vintage fashions), and quit being possible to wear to work when I started having to clamber around the computer lab daily.

Also, I was two dress sizes smaller.

New fashion goals include dropping at least one dress size and learning to wear shoes that go with skirts, then acquiring the skirts.

Unfortunately I have a hate-on for most undergarments.

I love beautifully draping bias-cut dresses. Not sure if they love me back, but given my clothes budget it's not like it'll affect my life one way or the other.

OMG!

flail, flail, flail

I just got e-mail from a recruiter from A Very Cool Company. A VCC that I submitted my resume to a few weeks ago. A VCC that one of our Buffistas works for in CA, that has a branch office here in WA.

flail flail flail

Please oh please oh please ...

Expensive (even making my own with Vogue vintage fashions), and quit being possible to wear to work when I started having to clamber around the computer lab daily.

See, this is my problem. I wear jeans and sweaters mostly now, because a) I'm at home and must be comfortable, and b) I'm chasing around a devilish toddler. I think what I want, secretly, is the life -- or part of it -- that comes with a Victorian day dress. Like, afternoon calls. And being driven somewhere in a carriage. And having a big late afternoon tea. And, you know, a maid.

Those dresses are goregous!

Jilli I thought of you the other day, I was flipping through the channels during a commerical break for hockey (or maybe I was flipping becuase I'd gotten motion sick over the camera work) and ran into E!'s Fashion Don'ts. They were doing Goth when I watched. All about how horrible it all is and stupid and it's only fit for whiny pretentious teenagers, etc. The pictures they showed weren't the best dressed Goths I've ever seen and look like they were all taken in the 80s.

I kept imaging you sweeping in with very elegant and cluesticking them with an elegant silver tipped walking stick for being such idiots.

is the life -- or part of it -- that comes with a Victorian day dress. Like, afternoon calls. And being driven somewhere in a carriage. And having a big late afternoon tea. And, you know, a maid.

Someday, some fine day, I will live that life. I will, dammit.

I kept imaging you sweeping in with very elegant and cluesticking them with an elegant silver tipped walking stick for being such idiots.

sigh

See, this is the problem with the media's perception of goth. They don't get that the current version of it has been around for almost 30 years and that it has grown and changed. They just focus on the really bad, silly-looking bits of it.

I think what I want, secretly, is the life -- or part of it -- that comes with a Victorian day dress. Like, afternoon calls.

I want the life that came with A Constant Wife. Not the adultery bit, but the amazingly lovely and well-put together suits and dresses and hats and amazing colors and Art Deco creeping into the Old World....

Maybe I just want to be Not!Me.

I'd love to pull off Dior New Look, but I don't have enough curves. My measurements are all within a few inches of each other.

Maria is me. I'm just a column lookin' for curves.