Growing up, I was told never to mix black and navy, so I don't.

Okay, strangest thing you've researched for a story, fanfic or otherwise. Go!

Jan Karski for that Grindelwald-era Harry Potter fanfic I've still got brewing in my head.

I was told never to mix black and navy, so I don't.

I was told that too, but am sufficiently lazy that I do. So I'll wear a navy sweater with a black skirt, or put a black belt on a navy dress-mostly it's because I refuse to buy navy shoes and I'm trying to wrench the outfit around.

But when you look at something like this blog entry on predictable colour preferences I have more of a conviction that the non-preferred combos look bad--navy and black are just described as bad.

She was pretty zombieriffic. Very much going through the smallest motions of it all.

Oh--I thought Jesse meant she was out of shape.

navy and black do clash-ish because they are so close in color that they often look like the wearer meant to wear one or the other but got up and dressed in the dark instead.

Or at least that's how I look when I do that.

Okay, strangest thing you've researched for a story, fanfic or otherwise. Go!

Well, right now I'm hip deep in the history of Bent's Fort. This year I've had occasion to look up Pontiac Firebirds of the 1970s, spiral tib-fib fractures, how to legally register the home birth of a child in California, and the etymology of Throg's Neck, NY.

Well, she was boldly rounded for someone wearing a bra and tap pants publicly. Even in those pictures she looks kind of soft.

Kathy, if you haven't already read the Wood and Jankowski biography of Karski, you must must must. So good (but so heartbreaking -- I had to put it down for a month after reading about his meeting with Felix Frankfurter and Frankfurter's polite but utterly disbelieving dismissal of Karski and everything he reported; it just made my gut churn so badly I couldn't touch the book for a while).

Please get going and write that fic!

Even in those pictures she looks kind of soft.

I like how she looks.

Here's the little bit on black & navy. I think it looks especially good in the first picture.

God, why can't it be noon yet?

I did not know the iconic Grace Jones picture was a manip. Hmm.

I did not know the iconic Grace Jones picture was a manip.

I've always wondered that....

Oh--I thought Jesse meant she was out of shape.

I did -- but really just for a professional performer wearing a bra and panties (and nothing else, Sophia!). Her belly was soft and not-flat. Obviously she's thinner and in better shape than I am!