closet ponderings

[anotheranon]

Fashion for Nerds is a bad influence. I mean that in the best of all possible ways ;) For someone like me who gets stuck in periodic sartorial ruts it's a real inspiration - her confidence with color and texture are a marvel to behold. She makes me want to wear skirts. She makes me want to wear [shock horror] colored socks.

These temptations combined with recent closet scouring have yielded the following cautious conclusions:

• I have enough black dress pants (yes. I have ENOUGH of them!). Also enough black t-shirts and black boots. At least they are all different from each other, and I've not fallen into buying the same/similar items. Not often, at least.
  
  
• Future black items have to have some element of texture or contrast so as not to be boring/look worn out too quickly.
  
  
• This involves getting away from my beloved 1990s minimalism [twitch] [flinch].
  
  
• Anyone know how to make cufflinks? I have a couple of French cuffed shirts and I don't need anything dressy, just something more interesting than the plain plastic linked buttons it came with.
  
  
• I broke down and got these 'cos I found them on sale and I really want to rock the Kate Hepburn look this fall.
  
  
• I daydream about making something like this or this to wear as a vest/layering piece. Maybe in bottle green velvet or red tartan.
  
  
• I have a bunch of jewelry I never wear. Gonna see to that. Will attempt not to look like overdone '80's nightmare.
  

Comments

you said red tartan...

[stanci.livejournal.com]

If you would do something with it, I have a piece of Skene tartan (wool, red and green, with the red more prominent than green) that's about a 30" x 72" fabric? The only thing I've figured that it would work for is a pleated skirt, but am not entirely sure I'd wear something Christmas colored enough to make it.

Re: you said red tartan...

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

If you're really not going to use it, I'd be willing to give it a go. Do you want to do an exchange? Contact me off-LJ.