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

  
  

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Goodness Gracious Meme
14:49 / 04.09.03
quoted from Anna in the 'clothes make...'

have been thinking that it'd be nice to have something practical going alongside the other thread. and I like practical workshoppy things, and thought it'd be an interesting way to use Barbelith.

So, have a go.

Alternatively, tell us what yr wearing right now (baaabbby ) and what you think it says. About you, about culture, about society. We can compare and contrast.

will do the wardrobe thing later but for now:

i'm sitting here in a black quilted dressing gown, with red and yellow embroidery. long chinese-style.

I'm able to sit here in me dressing gown because i'm not at work.

I'm in a small class of people who able to do this:the very rich, people on benefits (the very poor, usually), freelancers.(i'm unable to work due to illness) So i'm immediately in a very small/odd social group: those who don't work. That's not something you could tell by my posting here but if you had a window out of that screen onto my outfit it'd be pretty obvious.

The styling is very dramatic ott/bright colours. Which make up alot of what i wear. I guess i like to stand out, and even when no-one else is around, sometimes i like to look dramatic! I'm also dark-skinned and i like the contrast.

It's a bit too warm but i'm sitting here in it as I can't be arsed to get dressed, and people can see in through my windows. there's limited visibility, true, but i'd still rather be hot than expose my body to others view. If i was male i'd pronbably be sat here in pj bottoms only, but that feels uncomfortable for me.

care to have a go?it's not very incisive, but just quickly off the top of my head...
 
 
Tryphena Absent
15:06 / 04.09.03
Ooh, fun, fun!

Okay- I'm wearing a pink T-shirt with the word 'angels' on the front in silver writing. It's very girly but since I'm in the office at the moment really marks out my working environment as relaxed. I own a lot of pink clothes, I've always liked the colour, that marks me out as quite feminine I guess but I try not to go too overboard with it. That would be why the T-shirt's coupled with beige Dockers (trousers). They were my brothers but he got bored of them, they're quite baggy on me and definitely too long- he's about 8 inches taller than me. I have to wear a (brown leather) belt to hold them up. My shoes are big, red platform trainers... they kind of fall somewhere between girly and boyish I guess.

I own approximately 11 skirts, 5 pairs of trousers and countless tops. Apart from the fact that skirts are just majorly comfortable I think that I wear them a lot because they make me feel free. In all honesty I've always been the girliest girl on this earth- I've never broken a bone, I love dolls and as a child I was obsessive about keeping my hands free of dirt. I'm not sure what that says about society but I do know I enjoy fulfilling and creating a feminine role!
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
17:27 / 04.09.03
I'm not sure that there are an awful lot of gaps in my wardrobe - primarily clothes that have a function, rather than clothes that are simply functional - hiking clothes, that sort of thing. I don't have much sportswear, and only one entirely healthy pair of jeans.

As I sit here, recently returned from work, I'm wearing a Burberry 3-piece, which is black with a very thin silver stripe, with a grey shirt - I found the shirt in a charity shop, I think - it's soft, thick cotton, grey with a lighter grey stripe. Some sort of American old Navy sort of thing - Gant? The shoes I have just removed and are currently lying on the floor next to my chair, are corduroy ankle boots from Joe Casely-Hayford. Utterly impractical, but somebody caught the heel of my best pair of Grensons and until I get them fixed I'm improvising. Which perhaps says that I set too much store by brands, but only weird brands acquired in slightly odd ways. Also that I want to spend far more time charity shopping than I do at present.

Ah! I've got it. What I don't have in my wardrobe is "business casual", which is what I should be wearing (most of the rest of the office, to my untrained eye, look like buskers, but that's apparently what the young people are doing these days). Fuck *that* noise in the ear. I have suits, which I wear if I feel like feeling worky, and varying degrees of pyjama, which I wear when I do not, and never the twain shall amalgamate into a sticky blob of business casual.
 
 
Ganesh
19:35 / 04.09.03
Not at home, so I can't do the 'gaps in the wardrobe' thing. Doing overtime, and still in today's work clothes. Which aaare:

A single-breasted Crombie suit in a mid-grey. I tend to go for dark or pinstriped suits, and it's the lightest one I own, so it feels vaguely 'summery'. It also reminds me of Mapplethorpe's famous 'Man in Polyester Suit' (if you're also at work, this link includes a large, flaccid cock - but hey, it's officially Art) although it isn't polyester and my cock isn't that big. One rather shallow reason I'm wearing this suit is that it's previously been admired by H, the colleague with whom I'm on duty this evening. A tall, muscular and very attractive black man (straight-ish), H also reminds me of 'Man in Polyester Suit' - and he'd take that as a compliment.

My shirt's an old black Christian Dior one which might actually belong to Xoc. We've owned it so long that not only has its colour faded to a grey only a couple of shades darker than the suit, but it's also become a sort of mutually-owned 'our' shirt. Button-fastening cuffs, which also dates it (since coming to London, I've begun to affect cufflinks). It's comfortably soft.

My tie's a slightly 1950s-looking affair, with vari-width diagonal stripes in a range of browns, creams, golds, greys and black (nicer than it sounds). It's only pseudo-1950s, though, as it's last season's Paul Smith. It was one of Xoc's 'going away' presents when he left Edinburgh last September. It's a silk/cotton mix, and I really like it; for some reason, it makes me feel like balancing a hat on the back of my head, Sinatra-style. That would make me look like a tit, though, so I haven't tried it.

Shoes are unfeasibly comfortable black Patrick Cox Wannabes from two or three seasons ago. One of them (the right one, I think) has worn through the sole and, being too lazy to have them resoled, I tend to wear them only on days I think it won't rain.

My bag is a lovely black leather rucksack I bought in Jenners department store, in Edinburgh. I fancy it marks me out in some subtle way to fellow leather pervs, but I can't say this has ever really been confirmed.

Amd that's it, really.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
01:17 / 05.09.03
Easy. I'm at work wearing black jeans (Jeanswest, from memory, as they're largely insignia-free, and stay relatively black), a black Bonds T-shirt and a restraint on my left wrist. There's a silver semicircular bracelet on my right wrist, and two silver rings on my right hand. I've got a beaten-up black leather jacket waiting for when I go out - it's pretty old, probably qualifies as "distressed" in wanky parlance. I'd be wearing my longer leather (recently relined in a particularly Mephistophelean red) but I'm going to a farewell tonight and don't feel like humping it around. Black socks and black RM Williams boots, which always make me feel a little more dressed/actiony than normal. Big sideburns. Brown beaten-up doctor's bag is what I'm taking all my stuff around in. It'd be "distressed", too.

My wardrobe's got a lot of stuff in it. I'm tending to move more towards the black/grey end of town, though. Basics. Easy. I have both bathrobe and tuxedo (and pleather trousers which look fucking rock when I can fit into them, which will again be soon if my luck and plans hold) in my wardrobe, but I tend to feel vaguely underdressed most times.

I love wearing black. But need to do something about my fluff-magnetism. My drier's a bitch, no matter how often it's cleaned out.
 
 
at the scarwash
02:03 / 05.09.03
Light flat-front khaki slacks from Patagonia. Catholic Charity shop, but I probably would have bought them new. Old Navy store brand flip-flops stolen from a bill-dodging roommate. faded blue ringer T-shirt with some sort of heart-shaped sunburst printed on the front, framed in what I take to be purple orchids. On the back, in peeling, fuzzy letters is the name "Debra." I suppose it's taken to be ironic (my name not being Debra), but I bought it because I liked the colors and the Beck song.

I have nothing nice in my wardrobe, really. My tastes are way beyond my means for the most part. If I could afford bespoke suits, I'd certainly wear one every day. Generally, I'm quite a dull t-shirt and jeans person, which is strange, because I don't really think of that as a look that in any way expresses who I feel myself to be. I only feel stylish during the brief winters of the American South, when I can get away with my wool slacks and sweaters.
 
 
The Strobe
12:34 / 05.09.03
At work.

Wearing: plain olive green t-shirt, well-fitting but not tight nor baggy; long, baggy trousers of a sort (they have a zip down the back of the calf to control just how big they get at the bottom), with various zips (seven in toto) that Haus thinks is incredibly "youthful", watch on left wrist, bracelet on right, glasses on face, black socks, boxers, and cream/dark blue Vans trainers. My stuff is in a large, thick, brown canvas duffel bag from Gap, which has quite a nice single cream strap attached by karabiner. It is big, heavy, and sturdy, and thus good.

It's comfortable, I don't look stupid in it, I look quite good in it, and I look about my age. I also look like I'm aware of what young people wear without being led by it. Curiously, the tshirt is the only piece of clothing I own that is sized "Small". Tshirts of similar fit from Topman must be XL. This has stretched a little, but not much in the time I've owned it. It is quite tight, and well fitting, and is the shirt I remember I like to wear when I want a motive for losing my gut.

I arrived at the office in open-necked shirt and suit on the first day, and promptly felt woefully overdressed. I'm still going to wear the suit from time to time; it is, after all, wearable pockets, and it fits well, and I love wearing it because I look good, as it were. So I'll find a way to dress it down - usually with a plain black tshirt - and then do that. (I kind of feel Haus' pain).

Things I don't own? Almost nothing from "designer" labels, and very little with anything other than the tiniest icon/motif/printing. I have this thing about walking around with words written on me; unless they are amusing, self-penned, or subtle, I don't really like it. When I bought a new shirt for myself this summer at an event I was DJing, I realised it was the first patterned - not plain coloured - thing I'd bought in ages. It looks really good, too, so I'm maybe going to branch out a bit more. It's not I don't like the brands - I just either can't afford them or don't like feeling like a walking advert.
 
 
Mr Tricks
19:37 / 05.09.03
I'm at work...
so that means I'm dressed more casual than say a night out in the city (San Fran). Such is the nature of working in a design studio in the Bay area no less... casual is V E R Y...

Shoes:
Black Skecher psudeo sneakers... I'm particularly fond of the elastic slip on nature of these shoes which I wear constantly... that wear is starting to show though so I'll be looking for a new pair. I'm VERY picky about my footwear and still have shoes in my closet I wear maybe once every 6 months preferring old reliables.
I once had a pair of Combat boot from Equadore that I wore to pieces... it got to the point that not even a healthy amount of duct tape were holding them together. In honour of the long service they offered me I left them in a men's room toilet stall positioned to appear as if that stall where occupied. That was MANY years ago (it seemed suitably funny)... I'm realising now that my attachment to footwear tends to result in some sort of ritual associated with laying to rest a truly reliable pair once they've become unwearable.

Pants:
I'm wearing what's become my favorite pair of Jean INDIO brand semi-carpenter pants. They've got the nifty pocket along the side of my right leg just at my fingertips (perfect for dropping my car-keys into). A design feature I'm particulary fond of is the wallet sized pocket right on the front of my right thigh. Keeps it accessable and yet out of the way.
At this point I guess I should mention my obsession with pockets, with a pair of pants boasting 16 useful pockets being the current record holder. Several Burning-Mans have proven that pair of pant's worth but have also made them rather unsuitable for work (unless I'm in I don't care mode). You see my father was a tailor and had come up with the cargo pant design in the late 70's... as kids in public school, where conformity was a means of survival, our custom made clothing was a source of regular embarrassment for my sister & I. Ironic how it's influenced my adulthood and utter disinterest in "fashion trends." Granted the cargo pant "trend" made for convenient clothing purchases but whatever, I'm certainly not too much of a label follower.
As these pants are longer than my legs I have 'em cuffed...never got around to hemming them.

Shirt:
Black "hulk" t-shirt. Went to the dentist this morning and got a kick out of the idea of wearing a shirt that featured a very stylized green growing face. Work is usually t-shirts and I'll save my button down Wajaberas for a night out.

So does that place me in the casual with quirks category? I guess.. assuming there is one. As for the rest of my wardrobe... it's pretty diverse, however a "formal" occasion would sooner see me in one of my Silk "chinese" shirts over a tie & jacket (I think I've got a tie somewhere...)

I keep my gear (sketch book, various pens/pencils, whatever I'm reading and random multi-tool swiss army knive knock-off, munciables and mail) in a bad ass ECKO.complex bag. one of those over one shoulder back pack with a plethoria of pockets (of course).
 
 
Mourne Kransky
17:26 / 08.09.03
I too am wearing a pair of black jeans (DKNY, Selfridges sale). The trousers say that standards of dress are much more casual at my work down here than they were in Edinburgh. I have two identical pairs of these and they're all I wear on the work trouser front these days. No more Mr Suit & Tie, hooray! I ***ing hate ties.

Pair of Marks and Spencers black socks with a lilac "I'm a conservatively dressed poof today" stripe up the side. They have been darned several times and I really must go on a sock shopping spree soon. Or cut my toenails more often.

I am wearing my battered old sandals because I have been looking for a new pair for ages and am obviously hard to please on that front. These are fine but the sole is decomposing on the right foot one.

I was wearing one of our stock of mutual, faded old black shirts but I've just washed all the dishes and couldn't be bothered rolling up the sleeves so I just took it off. I see the label says Dior so it is perhaps the same one Ganesh was wearing (above).

All my clothes, I realise, have been black. There are good practical reasons for this but I have worn black for all these years in preference for the same reasons as so many other Barbelites (as demonstrated by the jolly but rather funereally attired gathering in the Plough yesterday): because it's by far the sexiest colour.

I used to be wear black because of its slimming properties. Now I wear black to avoid being mistaken for the 36 bus.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
17:33 / 08.09.03
Two things occur to me, now that I have so recklessly posted without a read-though.

1. Although these are work trousers, I am not at work. Being bare chested at work would not enhance my professional image, already tarnished as it is by my plebeian Scots burr and my tendency to call everybody "Darling" or "Cherub" indiscriminately.

2. I have placed on record now the fact that I am wearing sandals with socks. This is only because nobody can see me as I surf here and I am wearing the sandals in place of slippers, a species of footwear which I detest with every metatarsal of my being. Shoes without hard bottoms are utterly pointless and deeply annoying.
 
 
Jack Vincennes
19:49 / 08.09.03
Been travelling today, so wearing fairly minging clothes... apart from the trousers, which are baggy, shiny-ish material (kind of like denim, but less heavy) and which I love unreservedly because I have never seen anyone else wearing them. Also a Jon Spencer Blues Explosion tshirt, because I always wear music related tshirts if I am going on a train. This just in case the person sitting opposite me is also into music, and then we can have a conversation about the JSBE which could take up to five minutes of a five hour train journey.

As for footwear, it's probably worth noting the army boots, which I wear because they are the most comfortable things of all time and which obviously have steel toecaps so it doesn't matter if my feet get trodden on...
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
20:56 / 08.09.03
I'm struggling to think of an item of clothing that doesn't appear at least once in my wardrobe. i have too many clothes, don't even know what ive got really.

Don't think there's any feminine formal wear. Have several man's suits/dj's etc, but wouldn't be caught dead in a 'skirt suit'.(ugh.) oh yeah, no heels, urgghhh.

No pastels. I'm dark skinned, i look ridiculous in them, and they strike me as too girly.

Yeah, the missing thing is probably 'girly'. Not much in the way of frills/ribbons. But there then are lots of definitely fem clothes, eg coupla pvc knee length skirts/several mini-dresses,knee boots etc.

Oh and mood-wise, no neturals/subtle. Don't really do cream/grey/beige (uck). Guess I dress to be visible. My casual/can't be arsed wear is still colourful: jeans/combats/hoodies/stripy/block-coloured t-shirts.

Does that basically make me a show-off?

One thing I do know is how much most of my clothes have cost, which strikes me as a bit odd. They're almost all second-hand/bargains/dirt cheap/hand-ons, mostly with a 'story of discovery/woooooh, a jumper for 50p' behind 'em.

Eg i'm sitting here in red vest (50p, charity shop), combats(free from an ex), sandals £2.

As i say, strikes me as a bit odd!*g* suggests that the activity of shopping/bargain-finding is a bit part of what my clothes represent to me, they're process as well as end-product...
 
 
Tryphena Absent
21:13 / 08.09.03
Hmm... I don't have any male formal wear or MANCUT T-shirts. I don't have a suit, it makes me quite sad, I need an 'event' to let me buy one. It doesn't help that I'm a madwoman where suit cut is concerned and feel it's an art form betrayed by a century of industrial ruin. Ahem.

None of my clothes are yellow btw. Strict aversion to yellow clothes.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
22:40 / 08.09.03
"I am wearing sandals with socks"

Hmmm.

Paging fashion police...

(aka Anna, 'laces and I in uniforms) Don't leave the country any time soon, perp.


Yellow: yeah, v.hard to do. One eg definitely of utterly impractical/unflattering haute couture directional stuff being faithfully replicated by high street only to be roundly ignored by all and sundry and ending up in £1 bins. Ha!

Only yellow thing i have is a 70s nylon babydoll nightie,where the yellow is just part of the fabulous nastyness...

Anna, re good suits: get Haus to show you a place called either top hat/old hat, in chelsea/kensington(?), proper gentlemens' outfitters. They'll probably call you ma'am.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
22:49 / 08.09.03
"I'm not sure that there are an awful lot of gaps in my wardrobe "

Unless you've done some major culling, i'd say it was unlikely

(sorry, picking on Haus as looking at my 'wardrobe' made me realise I obviously shop for a non-existent family of six. and this is after I've given loads of stuff away. )

Have recently acquired some decent/functional dance/sports gear for trapeze, which was definitely a massive gap previously.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
08:07 / 09.09.03
Coloured things. I realised this when putting my clothes away after moving house last w/e. I ended up looking at an entire wardrobe of black and brown and cream. I have one green skirt, one green jumper and a few tops with a bit of colour on them.

I keep meaning to rectify this but I seem to be drawn to the shelves of black clothes in shops. It can't because I think it's smart, because I am perfectly well aware that nothing looks shabbier than shabby black. Force of habit?

Though actually very few colours are safe - I find that autumnal colours make me look middle-aged, bright ones wash me out, and the only safe one is very pale pink and I'm not bloody wearing that.

Hardly any pairs of trousers either.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
08:11 / 09.09.03
Poor, poor Xoc, you're in trouble now. Me and Bengali are coming round to shake our heads rapidly at your wardrobe and sigh heavily with grim despair. 'Oh poor Xoc' we will say 'his style's all askew'.

I have recently acquired a skirt. There was no gap. A pair of trainers. Already had quite a few. A sleeveless top. Definitely had about 6 of those. Nope, not filling the gaps, just making them wider.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
08:13 / 09.09.03
Kit Kat- I should buy a pair of olive green, suede shoes if I were you and some purple lipstick. That is all.
 
 
The Strobe
11:58 / 09.09.03
I don't have a suit, it makes me quite sad, I need an 'event' to let me buy one.

This, Anna, is such a lie. No-one needs an excuse to buy a suit. OK, I might need an excuse if I already had six and needed a seventh, but in general, suits are good and once you have the money you don't need an event.

Of course, if you require the excuse to spend money that you don't techinically have, I can see the problem.

I really want a cream linen suit for summer.
 
 
Ex
12:31 / 09.09.03
My wardrobe has gaps in all the practical areas. I have some charming individual items - mainly stupid, dramatic coats - but never a top, or a pair of socks or pants when I need them. I have gone all showy and can barely assemble a functional outift. This is a sign that:
- I haven’t worked fulltime in four years.
- I live in a shared house. Housemates steal my socks.
Thus a lack of work means I can wear whatever I like, but I have no money, and therefore have to fight off the sock-stealing housemates.
My work - such as it is, a day or so in a week - doesn’t care how I dress. I cycle through haircuts and nice ladies press my arm and tell me “You’re awfully brave...” and nothing fatal involving dismissal happens. I teach in suits; they give me a sense of authority.
I’m currently wearing
- a pair of jeans, stolen. Being as they are stolen from a large lad, they are taking me over to the boi end of the scale. There’s something odd going on with class and gender - if I dress less posh, I look more masculine. The masculine is nice, but the class feels a bit fraudulent.
- a velvet jacket. Experimenting with identity badges.
- hair in a tatty black crop, DIY.
I need a wardrobe overhaul, but I’m with Anna De L. on the status of clothes, and buying more clothes seems to be very much like deciding what kind of person I intend to be (or discovering there is no such thing) - I have no idea what I want to communicate via my clothes.
And as Perfect Tommy mentioned in the other thread, there is a definite gap between old me and new me. The old me was tolerably stylish in a sixth-form butch-goth-fop way, but can I go back to that? And can I face the ironing involved in wearing white shirts?
Any virtual makeovers gratefully recieved.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
12:35 / 09.09.03
This, Anna, is such a lie

You're right. I'll buy one in October. This gap cannot be allowed to continue.

I live in a shared house. Housemates steal my socks.

The bastards! Who do they think they are? The Borrowers?
 
 
Ex
13:25 / 09.09.03
The bastards! Who do they think they are? The Borrowers?

That would be endearing, and worth a few socks to see.
It's accidental. Black low-quality socks: each ressembles his dark brethren. Or something.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
13:43 / 09.09.03
But dark lipstick makes me look as if I've been punched in the mouth... think I might branch out into eyeshadow instead...

You do not need housemates to have your socks disappeared, btw.

And I quite like skirt suits, BUT. They must have very long, elegant, sweeping skirts and the jackets must be short and fitted (not boxy). Then you can carry a plain, furled umbrella. And the fabric should be heavy, and dark, otherwise you'll look like an Edwardian chocolate box illustration and too frou-frou for words.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
13:54 / 09.09.03
Punched in the mouth? Gosh, I take the lipstick back then. Though I still think the shoes are a good idea, redheads always look good in green shoes.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
14:06 / 09.09.03
Actually I saw some the other day that would fit the bill, but I couldn't wear black fishnets with them so they might get limited wear... not that that's ever stopped me before... RED ones on the other hand (but that's your territory, isn't it, I won't trespass unless I absolutely must must buy some).
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
14:49 / 09.09.03
Kat, skirt suits are fine per se, I know.

But on me, they're just *wrongwrongwrong*. Just jar really strongly with whatever my sense of me is, I guess.

Completely knackered/slobbing at home/cannaebearsed wear would appear to be:

Combats,red vest, black/pink stripey knitted t-shirt/odd socks.

Comfy, soft, colourful(but only by default really.)

Day-pyjamas, basically.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
15:09 / 09.09.03
I wouldn't deny anyone red shoes just because I love them! Spread the shoe love... then I get to talk about them more!
As for skirtsuits- bloody marvellous.

Hmm and since I'm here and my brain's all speedy from nicotine underload, I'm wearing black tights and flat shoes, a fake tweedy skirt and a navy jumper (looks like schoolwear).
 
 
Mourne Kransky
17:01 / 09.09.03
Whilst you and Bengali are on the tube on your way here, Mlle de Logardière, I shall be climbing up a drain pipe, breaking into your bedroom, and rifling through your wardrobe till I find your coat of many (sworly) colours and then steal away with it, Gollum-like. It will never fit me but I shall fondle it surrepticiously and revel in its tapestry-ness like Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs.

Good Lord, I've just realised how creepy-stalkery that sounded. Pretend I just said, "I covet your coat". *blushes*

re: Suits. I used to love wearing suits, just not ties. Only have two suits with whole trousers left (but about a dozen jackets, bereft of trousers after the arse wore through) and they needed a dry-clean when I left Edinburgh. A year later, I still haven't got round to it, so my besuited days would appear to be over. Alas, I will never be as bespoke-looking as that dandy Haus.

I think Kit Cat is right about the "habit" of black (and autumnal shades). I am notoriously indecisive so I'm sure that's why I come home from clothes shopping with freshly minted versions of the clothes already in my wardrobe, and all black. Probably why I get my personal shopper, who looooves to shop, to undertake that chore more fopetn than not.

And I have a lovely pair of well-bobbled old brown socks on with my sandals tonight as I type. I mock your Trinny-and-Susanna conventions!
 
 
Tryphena Absent
19:35 / 09.09.03
My god I never considered Haus' dry cleaning bill before today but it must be extortionate.

Don't worry Xoc, everyone's a stalker when it comes to my coat. Not that I'm boasting or anything.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
22:45 / 09.09.03
I really want a cream linen suit for summer.
*Hums theme from The Boys From Brazil*
 
 
Rawk'n'Roll
09:11 / 10.09.03
This thread reminds me of American Psycho in oh-so-many scary ways.

The only thing I'm missing from my wardrobe (except some smart black trousers) is a black cocktail dress. Given that I'm a boy I won't be dashing out for one anytime soon.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
08:22 / 11.09.03
Don't you think that you're placing yourself in to a gender category in saying so. You should go out and buy a cocktail dress because you're a boy.
 
 
Lyra
20:03 / 11.09.03
Right now I'm wearing nondescript blue jeans and a huge man size black wool jumper. It's pretty hard for me not to notice the fact that I still have all my daytime office make up on, my hair is still good and my nails immaculate. Even now, I couldn't really come across as sloppy.

Earlier on this evening I was asked if I could help to paint walls in my new house and had to borrow 'painting clothes' because I don't own anything suitable. Nothing that is charmingly distressed, nothing faded, no random stuff that I wouldn't mind getting paint all over. I don't go gaga over my wardrobe or take particular care of my clothes, there is no underlying theme running through the things I wear, I just don't do casual very convincingly and my clothes show it.

Actually, there is a gap that I was reminded of recently. Proper dress up, fun to wear items - Corsets and fishnets and gorgeous look-at-me dresses. I probably have a few things stashed away from my goth phase when I was younger but I wouldn't (and couldn't) get away with wearing them now. There is nothing like seeing other people's fabulous wardrobes to incite me to go shopping again and lately I feel like I should be making much more of an effort. As I mentioned, I don't dress down properly so I might as well go the other way.

I have been trying to avoid buying so many black clothes lately but it's hard to escape the 'black is slimming' mindset once you get hooked (it's either that or hanging around with too many goth minded people). I will be strong and resist the urge.

Perhaps some pink is what I need....
 
 
Rawk'n'Roll
21:35 / 11.09.03
Pink is a good colour... clashes (therefore works) with anything.

A little black cocktail dress wouldn't suit me, I have terrible legs.
I could do with a resevoir dogs style black suit though... just so I can be smart and badass at the same time.
I'm considering having all my trouser's tailored as I have the perfect pair from H+M (I know!) that actually fit on my waist, hug my bum and are nice and wide so I don't look like a stick insect. Being thin can be problematic, especially when you don't really have any thighs to speak of.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
22:49 / 11.09.03
Thin a problem?! You should try being a husky gentleman sometime.
 
  

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