Spring/Summer Fashion 2005

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Today I am wearing this:
http://www.gap.com/assets/product/main/gap/ga291252-04p1.jpg
and this (in pink):
http://www.gap.com/assets/product/main/gap/ga295899-00p1.jpg
and everyone is like OMG YOU LOOK SO SPRING.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

I am having some trouble with Spring fashion. I realized when clothes shopping the other day that I hate Spring clothes -- I don't like shirts that show my shoulders. I don't like big floral prints. Boo. I like pastels, though.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

B-but are you carrying a WHITE PURSE??

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

(x-post) Pink and turqoise (and yellow) were the colours of Marks & Spencer Easter eggs this year, so I would agree with them! I love the navy/white/red theme that always seems to appear at this time of year.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

No purse for this girl! I carry a black messenger bag year-round.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I've been wearing spring clothes lately, but today it was chilly, so I reverted all the way back to fall and I'm wearing olive.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

can i just say that i'm very unhappy with the hippie indian/african trend at the moment? sequinned floaty batik skirts, wooden jewelry - a more "world music" take on the sienna miller look. bah.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Yeah really, I HATE that shit, it was all over Express and all the mallratty stores.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

also, halter tops: boo.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Those disheiki-bullshit see-through, dress-length shirts with sequins all around the neck = instant dud.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

I actually bought an aqua linnen shirt at Uniqlo! Plus a stretchy t-shirt to match. I've discovered the secret to not having the stretchy t-shirts make you look paunchy is to tuck them in, then they make you look very trim.

Can I add to my unhappiness with the hippie chic look? Especially as EVERY BLOODY MALLRAT IN THE WORLD has started wearing those silver-threaded Indian scarves which have been my trademark since about 1989. Grrrrr.

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Gah, it's vile isn't it? Can't buy any fricking thing that's not beaded to death.

I went SPRING the other day with a big swooshy floral 50s prom-skirt (but with cosy boots keeping my shins warm) and got several compliments from the nice ladies in the office. Maybe this means I looked tastefully middle-aged or something.

New this year for me: COLOUR.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Today I am wearing a lavender mohair open-knit sweater over a lavender silk tank top and tan cords. I feel very preppy and almost too girly fluffy for my taste.
Trends I love for the summer-the knee length skirt-like above, the bright colored kitten heels. Hey Mambo, mambo italiano.
Trend that needs to die: Tiny ruffled flip skirts that do not cover your ass or fake tan lines.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Ugh, I walked into Warehouse the other day and walked straight out again. Horrid hippy skirts in horrid scrunchy fabric, bleurgh.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

OK, the pink and green is starting to make me feel like a female Kanye West sans the Rocafella chain.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

can i just say that i'm very unhappy with the hippie indian/african trend at the moment? sequinned floaty batik skirts, wooden jewelry - a more "world music" take on the sienna miller look. bah.

Yes! I thought I was the only one who just hates that stuff. So ugly and clunky and lazy looking.

― Leon WK (Ex Leon), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Halter tops are better than those strapless maternity-looking tops.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

I think it's only acceptible to wear things like that if you bought them IN AFRICA!!! (I must confess I have them, but they were bought abroad which makes it kind of different.)

Also, I bought (vegetarian) engineers/cowboy type boots. But I'd never ever wear them with a floaty skirt, I hate that look.

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Jocelyn, I'm wearing kitten heels!
also:New this year for me: COLOUR. Me too! I've always been BLACK GREY BLACK GREY. No more! ROCAFELLA YALL

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Those awful strapless tube things with the smocking? I had one when I was five. They make you look like a pregnant Lolita.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

...a chapter 20 Lolita.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

They frighten me!

x-post

― Leon WK (Ex Leon), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Hey, anyone know anything about these Editor Pants from Express that are all "OMG THESE ARE THE BEST PANTS EVER PROVEN BY SCIENCE" on the label? They just look like pants to me.

Oh, and I got an IPEX bra. They really are pretty awesome.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

I just realised that I've been wearing colour for quite some time now. I was going to say it's my second summer of blues and aquas, but realised it's more like my fourth!

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

i am advocating shorts that are actually short for guys this warm season. none of this below the knee shit. i don't mean like gym short shorts though. like yachting style.

and i advocate that girls not order from anthropologie.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm just going to stick to my floral skirts from last year which were not HUGE and frumpy looking. I plan to just load up on tank tops this summer so I can mix and match them to the skirts.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

I need to come up with some good jeans that are form-fitting, but flatter the "fuller" figure on a taller girl. I *never* have any luck with womens jeans. They're always the wrong shape. Even if the leg is long enough, the rise is too short and I get cameltoe. I used to wear boys Levis, but I've put on too much weight to really work the assless look.

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

I like the newest obsession with necklaces though.

I agree that long shorts on guys just look frumpy.

xpost- I feel your pain, Kate.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

(Though I finally caved and bought one of those short, flirty jeans skirts. Peer pressure from ILX girls, but they look so good.)

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

I can only agree about the beady hippie tasselly look. Particularly the outfits that have sort of integrated chunky jewellery/leathery bits all over them. So declassé darling. Who looks good in this??? And I've been trying to buy my WEDDING outfit in this climate of horror. Tch.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

That said, I've seen one or two shirtwaisted (is this the correct term?) dresses which I really like. But they all have the BOOB problem!

i.e. I am a 14 on the bottom, but a 16 on the top due to my breasts. So anything that flatters my rear does not button over breasts, and anything that fits my breasts makes me look like a sack of potatoes from the waist down. :-(

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

That would be bad! Looking for a wedding ensemble is difficult enough as it is. Everything style I liked didn't look good on me.

x-post

― Leon WK (Ex Leon), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

I also shall be trying colour this year. Already I have got a Dorothy Perkins top in BROWN, as opposed to my usual goth black. It was £2.95 in Scope and I think that is good. It is also 2 sizes smaller than I usually get. I don't usually go in DP, are their clothes normally generously sized thusly?

― Alix with an I ? (alix), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

I have bought a totally rocking pair of jeans from New Look though. It is a long time since I had a pair of baggies and I am adoring them.

I am wearing head-to-toe brown today.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

amen, kate. until i lose some weight off of my tits, dresses aren't happening. i managed to find a 60s navy and white big-collared slightly mini dress at everything vintage the other day, and i nearly wept for joy.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

I think I've lost all the weight I'm gonna lose off my breasts. I've got massive shoulders as well. :-(

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

I've got big fat boobs and a big fat ass with a small(ish) waist. Dresses generally make me look like a hippo unless they are the wrap kind.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

But that's exactly what the shirtwaist dress is supposed to counteract! Shirt-like top, with a belt around the top. They're supposed to flatter the hourglass figure!

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Hm. I wager my figure would not be flattered.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Like so:

http://www.woodlandfarmsantiques.com/patterns/1950s/pages/wpt17039vpg8695.jpg

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

The ones I was looking at were not quite so extreme, but were still very flattering to my figure. Were it not for not having enough boobspace.

(my fault for going to Uniqlo and H&M, I guess - do Japanese people just not have bosoms?)

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Mine is not flattered, and I am very hourglass, because I have broad mannish shoulders and I don't like the collar on most shirtwaist dresses.
Also, destroy all those summer dresses that have tiny triangular pockets for your boobs, as mine do not fit in them by any means.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

yeah, UGH! Lots of tops with that problem as well.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

I confirm Madchen's jeans are ace.

Andrew M, I agree on short shorts for boys (gotta show off my one good feature) - but how do you avoid the inner-thigh-bits riding up? That's the problem.

(answer is probably liposuction on inner thighs, sigh)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Wait, I am wrong, it is just SHIRT DRESS I am looking for:

http://www.pulpvintage.com/pics/items/01600088.jpg

I used to have loads of these in eye-boggling colours.

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007737J2.16._AA384_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Cute, but who can fit into it?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

gotta show off my one good feature

Which knee is it?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

This in dark brown was what I was looking at:

http://www.habithat.co.uk/images/New6214.jpg

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

I am all about the wrap dresses for this season as the DvF ripoffs are the only things that aren't awful Sienna Begorrah ripoffs. No idea if I can wear them yet, I haven't tried. Typically me, I have only bought a "little black dress" this - boat neck to just below the knee - looks good if I do say so myself, but boy I need work on the arms. Although I've got ILL again so have been shunning gym. Curses. Superpitcher will never love me at this rate. Wrap dresses have more sleeves as well ov course.

World of x-posts - I don't like shirt dresses, neither do I like shirts. Gave up on them years ago. Can only wear when completely flat-chested which frankly right now AINT the case. Boobalicious.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm wearing me winter clothes still! I did buy some blue Converse trainers that have red stars, I think they look okay.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

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― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Haha teeny you are now the only gurl who can wear spring/summer fashion 2005, as presented in stores!!!!

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Congrats Teeny!

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

thanks! I did it all for the fashion!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

oh, and the gas. The unbelievable quantities of gas. I am powering downtown st. louis with my belching.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

wow, did anyone see the photos from the costume institute chanel party?

http://www.style.com/slideshows/parties/050105COST/47f.jpg
selma blair in wow.

http://www.style.com/slideshows/parties/050105COST/13f.jpg
karolina kurkova in wtf.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

It is like she's wearing a novelty quilt made by an elderly woman bored in a nursing home.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

wow, congratulations teeny!

(not that i read this thread. or have ever.)

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Selma has an unbelievably flat chest.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

(also yes, congraulations teeny)

i never know when to congratulate women when they're pregnant or go "OH SHIT. OOOH GIRRRRL U KNOW WHO THE DADDY IS? U BETTER GET THAT MONEY .OOOOOH SHIT"

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

i noticed the same thing, jeanne!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

At first I read that as "Salma" (both for the photo and then again for Je4nne's post) and did a double-take.

Congratulations, teeny!

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

haha, Phil's alternate pregnancy response just made me say "bwah-haha!"

Wow, I want to have a Costume Institute party.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Yay, teeny! I'm excited (and scared) for you! :-D

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Hurrah for the teenies!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Those were some cool pictures. Claire Danes doesn't look as good as usual, the Olsens look unbelievably cute as usual, and the red-haired Desperate Housewife looks great, as is unusual.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

I was just talking about having bebes with an old friend at lunch and she urged me to get the move on as I be getting old. argh! (yay teeny)

(oh also I bought a cute full skirt this weekend that looks like it has silver bubbles all over it but they're actually little holes and there's an underskirt.)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

congratulations, teeny!!

It seems Rochas is the best designer since forever.

At Barney's Coop, I saw a green cloth jacket with a penguin on emblem/logo on it and nice polo shirts as well, but there was also a green t-shirt lettered with 'NEW MONEY' and I could not stomach their irony and felt ashamed.

Selma Blair's dress is wonderful.

― youn, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

teeny i can't help but feel that you buried this very important announcement.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

I did, just to see who secretly reads the fashion threads.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

How hot does John Taylor look in that picture! Has he not aged?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

Selma has an unbelievably flat chest.

It's mostly the bodice's boning and her pose, but it looks she's wearing her breasts on her back!

And faboo for you Teeny!

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

Teeny! You done got knocked up! That's brilliant!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

Hooray for babies.

― The Irrelevant Man (Negativa) (Barima), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

congratulations!

I bought this but in turquoisey blue, light blue and white, with black trim. Hand wash though, bugger

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/graphics/2004/08/17/efmar4.jpg

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

That irascible toad Martin Parr is taking on FASHION work? WTF?

(Congratulations, pregnoid!)

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Revive!

Today I got a pair of proper '80s straight-leg Calvin Klein jeans at the local charity shop, for a pittance, after I'd been searching for ages. CHUFFED. Am now wearing with Boy Scouts Of America shirt and red wedge ankle boots.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm trying out the jailbait Russian model hair and beauty look today, plaits pinned on top of head with lots of blusher. I think it makes me look like a tacky souvenier doll from the Alps.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

If it's good enough for Yulia Tymoshenko...

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Yulia is my new fashion icon. As long as you don't do the white chiffon bows on your plaits I think you're out of jailbait territory.
Today I am wearing my "grecian" sandals with the straps that wrap around the ankle and leg and tie, and have been getting weird looks.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

That Kurkova dress, oh my. Is that Viktor & Rolf? I am looking at the slideshow now.. Carine Roitfeld is so cool. Also Vanessa Paradis. A-ha, it is Viktor & Rolf! I love it when I guess right.

I think seeing the last collection from Rochas sort of killed my interest in fashion. I mean, I can't own any of that, but why buy any other new clothes? I have more than enough, and whatever I spend money on is not going to be Rochas.

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.style.com/slideshows/parties/050105COST/50f.jpg

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Carine Roitfeld is so cool
The fashion desk of the Guardian have this obsession with pointing out she looks like Iggy Pop. I'm wondering if it's some kind of personal vendetta.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

what a world.

I'm with gareth on waistcoats.

and against greg on shorts.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

xpost Well, she is kind of a rock star. I think I just wish I were French. And believe me, I've tried and can manage to fool people sometimes, but then I remember my old Parisian housemate who was ten times as stylish as I could ever hope to be, at almost twice my age and with one tenth as big a wardrobe. Actually, she kind of looked like Carine Roitfeld. Also see Lou Doillon, Beatrice Dalle, Charlotte Gainsbourg..

http://www.style.com/style/view/12/14/100071412.jpg

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Congratulations teeny!

That Kurkova dress caused a wardrobemalfunktion (or whatever the word would be in German) whereby her dress became entangled in the entrance doors and she had to be extricated by Viktor and/or Rolf before the fashion procession could continue.

This was the first I had heard or seen of the impressive Mlle. Roitfeld. She looks very similar to Selma Blair in these pics.

Youn: I often feel outsmarted by the clothing at Barney's Coop, and ashamed for looking in there in the first place.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

At least the penguin was cute, like the penguin in the logo for Penguin Books, possibly cuter because it was just an outline, childlike.

― youn, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

What is a Barney's Coop?

I think I hate everything in the shops right now.

Really.

It's all...

...awful.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

It's all brown. Now I am on a bit of a brown kick at the moment, but it takes so much effort to avoid the clunky hippy bits. It's so frustrating when you see something that might be nice, you grab it in the right size, then turn it around and see that there's a hideous sequin-spangled cheesecloth panel covered with blanket stitch all over the back.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

I am all over the shoes at the moment. The last pair I bought were turquoise, blue, lime green and silver. The pair before that were brown leather, brown patent, blue patent and yellow patent. Be gone from my wardrobe, boring black!

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

against chromophobia.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

FELICITY!

Email me on suzysurname at yahoo dot co dot uk - hope everything's good with you.

Oh, and the reason yr French flatmate had such amazing style - according to my grandmother, who was from a Huguenot family, studied fashion design, and worked as a buyer from 1950-1970 - is they're drilled in never, ever buying anything but the best you can afford. So you make investments, like my Parisian friend who spunked her entire student grant on the very first Helmut Lang collection (I have a friend here who did the same on Westwood). Same friend has worked out her look so only has to buy a few things each year, takes good care of the archive, and keeps it simple by shopping for fresh vests at Muji which get chucked the second they go off-colour. I am trying to get to this point.

The flatmate will have had 20 years to find the best pair of black cigarette trousers there is for her body shape, or whatever. Whatever, most fashionistas I know maybe have 10 pieces that they wear for days on end in the office for a whole year and after that you won't see them until the revival.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

I love your turquoise/blue/lime green/silver shoes Madchen. They are the best shoes I've seen in ages. Why do I only see shoes I want on other people, and never in shops?

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Suzy, I know the way you describe above is good and makes you elegant and is sensible andfabulous and .... but it's just NO FUN!
I use being English as an excuse,meaning that I am supposed to look either
1) Whispy English Rosey - Helena Bonham Carter in most films.
2) Rather eccentric - Helena Bonham Carter on the street.

Then I go and read things about Britain's innovative street fashions and try and forget the concept of elegance. I think it may claim me as I get older, you can't spend your whole life wearing a feather boa or pink fishnet stocking, well, not unless you are Viv Westwood or Zandra Rhodes.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

I haven't bought a single article of clothing since I bought a pair of bright, bright blue tights back in August. I think I might never buy clothes again, except ones at Value Village I can reconstitute. I just wish there was a way I could make my own shoes and have them be comfortable.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Didn't hurt that the flatmate was tiny and a size 0, as well.. But yes, there was some of that going on. So far as I recall she only bought one or two items the whole time I was there.. some fabulous & quite expensive designer wedge shoes, and maybe a shirt or two.

I'm working on it myself. I've chucked out a lot of stuff that didn't fit properly or simply felt too far outside whatever look I usually wear, and yet I still have things like a couple of silk dresses that don't quite fit but might if I had them altered. One of them is soooo YSL and I just can't give it up. But actually I've spent most of the past month in my same slim fit cargo pants and black, especially this vintage Givenchy sport fitted top with a tie neck.

Anybody looking for anything particular in vintage? I have got to get rid of more of this wardrobe before I move. . I eBayed things for a while but then had a massive stressout over it and can't handle it any more.

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

There is no genetic reason to excuse my dumpy horse-facedness. Maybe I should just give up and start wearing tweed and pearls. Sigh.

I suppose being in a band with three such glamourous girls is making me feel a bit... dumpy. Ah well, I can just hide behind my laptop and my glittery guitar and no one will notice me anyway.

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

what size daria and what era vintage?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, daria, I might be interested in things, depending on the measurements of the pieces.

In other news, I've decided that Levi's straight slouch 504 jeans (juniors sizes) are like the best jeans on the market right now.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Today I have purchased my first pair of peep-toes. They are from Isaac Mizrahi/Target:

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/ref=br_1_11/601-2772375-6755368?%5Fencoding=UTF8&frombrowse=1&asin=B0009KQMWQ

Haha "faux suede." I would have preferred a less wintery material, but they are lots more comfortable and possibly less accident-prone than the slightly more style stlin' Steve Madden peep-toes rejected due to safety above.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 22 August 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

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