I just said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in...engine grease, you're... No, especially, especially when you're covered in engine grease.

Simon ,'Jaynestown'


Spike's Bitches 30: Going on Thirteen  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


sj - May 11, 2006 9:34:45 am PDT #3940 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Y'know, San Diego is beautiful and has many exciting attractions. Really, I could send brochures! IJS.

I would be willing to consider any options that get me out of New England for the 3rd of July, where the flight is around $200 a person.


Lee - May 11, 2006 9:40:32 am PDT #3941 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Question for the people who sew-- based on the picture (which I know isn't always accurate), how hard do you think it would be for a professional to alter this [link] (especially getting rid of the bow)?


Fay - May 11, 2006 9:41:43 am PDT #3942 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Good lord. Really, the image that sprang to mind just then...for the love of Pete, don't tell Jeeves. I blush and boggle at the memory.

::flail::

Nonononono.

Wrod.

hangs head in shame


Toddson - May 11, 2006 9:43:45 am PDT #3943 of 10002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Perkins, getting rid of the bow should be the easiest thing - that's something that's usually added after the dress has been constructed (going waaay back when I actually sewed).


Atropa - May 11, 2006 9:44:06 am PDT #3944 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Perkins, I am willing to bet a pair of pointy-toed shoes that the bow is attached by about 5 stitches, and can be removed by anyone with a pair of small embroidery scissors.

Good lord. Really, the image that sprang to mind just then...for the love of Pete, don't tell Jeeves. I blush and boggle at the memory.

Bwah!


Lee - May 11, 2006 9:45:23 am PDT #3945 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Perkins, I am willing to bet a pair of pointy-toed shoes that the bow is attached by about 5 stitches, and can be removed by anyone with a pair of small embroidery scissors.

I could do that!

I'd probably also want to have the waist taken in though, which I wouldn't dream of doing myself.


JZ - May 11, 2006 9:45:50 am PDT #3946 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

It definitely looks like an easy enough matter to get rid of the bow. Other alterations, not sure.


Lee - May 11, 2006 9:49:57 am PDT #3947 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

So maybe I should see if I can get it for close to the $10 reserve and just hope that it is alterable, and doesn't look like pepto-bismal?


Atropa - May 11, 2006 9:50:09 am PDT #3948 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I'd probably also want to have the waist taken in though, which I wouldn't dream of doing myself.

Eh, it looks like a matter of taking in two seams in the back. If you don't sew, take it to a tailor, but it wouldn't be a difficult alteration.


§ ita § - May 11, 2006 9:57:40 am PDT #3949 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Perkins--I got my Daddy O's dress yesterday, and it just didn't work. It had a nice high waist (so little hits me there), but then high hips too, and since I don't have my hips there it resulted in strange bulges of fabric.

I have to admit I wasn't impressed with the construction too much, or the fabric. Not a $73 dollar dress, even if it fit.

If only the chick at dangerdame would talk to me! My e-mail's gone ignored, and no one picks up their phone.