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"Look in your own wardrobe and notice what you do not own. " - practical exercise

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Gypsy Lantern

21:10 / 23.09.03

In the UK high street menswear=slacks/polo shirts/smart casual/ties with disney chars. urgh

It's filth! all of it! filth! This is probably the thread to mention my persistant anger at 90% of interesting t-shirts only being available in girls sizes - Grrr! Luckily, when I visited Camden at the weekend I discovered a shop that does completely ridiculous Jerry Cornelius wear, which I must own all of. The sort of clothes that I'm fairly certain didn't really exist in the 60s outside of peoples acid-crazed imaginations. At last I can properly live out my absurd Cornelius 60s mod fantasies!

The Strobe

09:03 / 24.09.03

Hell, I have enough trouble finding menswear that fits my peculiarly shaped frame in the bland/featureless-yet-attempt-at-stylish stuff I wear. It is a nightmare. I then baulk at spending, say, £50 on a fucking T-shirt like half the label-shops around demand. £50 for a PLAIN WHITE TSHIRT because it has the word DIESEL written on the inside? I have a beef about this.

I also have a plan to write the word "Carhartt" on all my clothing in order to up its value by £20.

Today it is cold enough for the olive-greeny-brown duffel coat. Yum. I feel better. Am peeved that I don't get to wear a suit in this workplace, but have an excuse to wear one saturday night which will make me very happy indeed.

Kit-Cat Club

13:34 / 24.09.03

Went out in Old Street on Sunday and felt so totally high street in comparison to all the fashionable young things - very depressing indeed. But I think I would look a bit daft if I tried to look too fashionable. Librarian dressed as lamb, etc.

Sax

13:43 / 24.09.03

No no no. You have to look all frumpy, so you can take off your glasses and let down your tresses and we can say: "W-why, Miss Kit-Cat Club... you're beautiful..."

Tryphena Absent

14:45 / 24.09.03

Bengali, let's get one thing straight, I love Ann Demeulemeester's style of clothing and I now hate you.

KCC- brocade and tapestry! Forget Old Street and that rough style, go Chrestomanci and fabulous patterns!

gingerbop

22:28 / 10.11.03

Hurrah. Gap of push-up-bra gap filled. Its dark red with gold embroidery and pretty, and I have a new see-thruish cream top with low neck to go with it. Very christmassy. Doesnt seem very stable; boob may fall into turkey and sprouts and suchlike.

gingerbop

19:29 / 13.11.03

I got addicted and bought another one today. Its so preetty.

telyn

00:05 / 25.11.03

Gingerbop - I know you've fixed your fashion dilemma, but I noticed that wonder bra do a 'Pure' range which are push up even if they are not padded and that they went up extra sizes.

What I am wearing right now is a brown medium length skirt, a petrol blue sweater, plum tights and a really well cut black top underneath. The under layer is probably more important than the over layer because without my jumper on I look really smart (for me) today. I spent last week looking smart for work exp and now it's finished and I'd really rather it hadn't.

But yes - tights and a skirt to cheer me up. I have a tendency to get dressed in opaque tights and a really short skirt for the days I have to do dull things. Trousers are for days when I move about a lot and are therefore likely to be interesting.

+#'s, - names

01:23 / 28.11.03

I am wearing a teeth of the hydra t-shirt cause they are the only band i'll advertise for (www.teethofthehydra.com) and a pair of boxers with kisses on them. From an ex girlfriend, of course.

Jack Vincennes

10:40 / 28.11.03

Band t-shirts can be a bit of a problem -I used to buy them obsessively (for every gig I went to, which wasn't as bad as it sounds since I didn't go to that many gigs...). I've given that up as it was getting expensive, and am therefore running out of t-shirts I can wear since I no longer wish to endorse, for example, Gene in public.

Today, I'm dressing for warmth, which is great now that I've got a fluffy jumper -it's cosier than a hoodie, which I had hitherto thought impossible. Also wearing mittens (not right now, obviously...) and my coat which may as well be a duvet. Nothing to fear from Scottish weather, then...

gingerbop

17:25 / 28.11.03

Ta harmony. One of them was a wonderbra pure (thought they only went up to d, but alas not), and the other is a really pretty elle macpherson willow-patterned one. Reduced from £30, to £4:50, hurrah!

I love work. When I cover the lingerie ladie's breaks, i can have a good rummage.

telyn

19:20 / 29.11.03

Oh that's ace. I have resigned myself to spending a serious chunk of money once every year / nine months / when I remember. Bra's are just not something you can skimp on.

I twigged my biggest wardrobe gap - smart(ish) shoes. I do own shoes, but I have such a problem finding ones which don't hurt my feet that I rarely ever wear them. How do other people handle shoes? I did pointe work for about three years and it's even harder to find stuff that's comfy now than it was before.

gingerbop

20:56 / 29.11.03

Now theres a huge gap in my wardrobe that I just didnt really notice.
My shoes are: 3 pairs of scaffy trainers, blue suede slingback kickers (they count as my smart shoes, cause they have wee heels) and docs that are permantely attached.

I just try to avoid the need for smart shoes at all costs. They do not exist- one's that wont hurt your feet after a few whirls of the gay gordons. I also have a pair of little dusty pink things that just have the 2 inch wide bit across the foot- how the hell are you supposed to keep them on?

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