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Outfits that make you go 'hmmm'

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Goodness Gracious Meme

14:20 / 10.10.02

What it says really. What outfit/items are you wearing that make you feel great/sexy/comfortable/cosy etc?

For me its a pretty scruffy combo of baggy boys' jeans - given to me by a friend and well worn so they're incredibly soft and comfy, a grey suit jacket that fits *just so* and either a skinny fit red sweatshirt or a black woolly jumper with a pink lightning streak front and back. Red baseball boots.

Dunno why, just feel fab in these atm. You?

We're The Great Old Ones Now

14:29 / 10.10.02

For some inexplicable reason I have been working in my glasses and a woolly hat this afternoon. I don't usually wear the glasses, and it seems rather odd to wear a woolly hat on a warmish autumnal day when you're inside the house.

Go figure.

14:43 / 10.10.02

and conversely, I'm wearing a light blue and yellow striped Jarvis Cocker-type summer shirt, and it's pissing down here. It's still a good shirt, though it doesn't make me look like Jarvis Cocker at all.

Goodness Gracious Meme

14:47 / 10.10.02

just to clarify a bit, I wasn't specifically thinking about what you're wearing at this moment (but now I am. mmmmmm), am just feeling curious about what 'lith style entails....

The Apple-Picker

14:55 / 10.10.02

I'm wearing my black glasses, which I have grown more and more used to wearing lately, my favorite pair of jeans, which I suspect will soon go the way of the dodo bird as I can feel they've worn too thin in some places, and a black turtleneck. My, how I love turtlenecks. Something about them makes me feel very safe.

This is my fall through winter through early spring uniform: jeans and turtleneck.

14:59 / 10.10.02

Me too AP - if turtle necks are like polonecks? I think they are. And I have black sleeveless ones for summer and black sleeved ones for winter. I really ought to break out a bit and buy something else.

I'm wearing one right now. And hipster jeans that I like, high heeled boots that make a hell of a clackety-clack racket whenever I walk on a hard surface, a velour hooded top and a denim jacket. Which is what I wear pretty much all the time.

15:11 / 10.10.02

Oh my gawd, I have this black cotton wrap dress, that is so effing comfy, I wish I had thirty of them. Very accomodating and goes well with the casual thigh-high boots.

Sexy, comfortable and I am dressed (or undressed) in seconds.

16:45 / 10.10.02

Just bought a pair of indigo jeans that matches up exactly to a jacket I picked up at a thrift store a year ago. Combine with one of my three pairs of Chuck Taylors (preferably denim) and plain t-shirt for maximum rock action.

Most of my purchases are from the thrift store, including my beloved dark blue suits. With the suits, slightly lighter blue dress shirt, black tie, and black dress shoes. Glasses optional. That's the combo I'm saving for the Fishbone show Saturday. Feeeeeshbone!

Other than that, my Sandy Haired Bruce Wayne mock turtleneck and/or the labcoat.

The Apple-Picker

16:50 / 10.10.02

I think they're the same thing, too, Ariadne. That's quite a lot of tops you have on there!

Other clothes I've been loving lately are all courtesy of my younger brother (as he left behind a casket-full of dirty clothes at my parents house when he moved out, saying that they were clean and that they could give them away; so I washed them when I last visited, and took some): a pair of camel baggy corduroys, and many t-shirts of his former soccer teams, my favorite of which being, I think, a deep green with white, script silk-screened lettering reading Dayton Galaxies, f.c.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

17:04 / 10.10.02

I generally go for jeans and a t-shirt, but when I'm putting any effort in trying to dress up I tend to increasingly work in terms of white and/or black, black jeans and ill-advised tight-white T-shirt. Then I went shopping with another Barbelither and it was lovely black trousers with a black flower design and a semi-transparent black blouse, looked like a Goth Eddie Izzard. Went down an absolute treat at my boss' leaving do I tell you.

I'll see if I can get photo's

17:16 / 10.10.02

Today I wore my Harry Hill shirt. Yes, you heard that right. Not a shirt with Harry Hill *on* it, I hasten to add, a shirt of the variety that Harry Hill might wear - big sticky-out white cuffs (and white collar) on a black pinstripe shirt. I like wearing suits. Suits are gooood. I have a lovely grey suit that cost me £30, which is veeery reasonable for a suit, I think you'll agree. But usually I just wear a light pair of black flared trousers and a shirt of some description - comfortable, dykey, just right thank you.

18:41 / 10.10.02

my "mock Starfleet" gear: Ribbed long-sleeve shirt, two shades of grey; Black cargo-style pants (lots of hidden pockets, zippers, hidden utility straps for all the tech-gear); black jacket w/more discreet storage space. Black dress shoes or black Chuck Taylors. usually laden with a laptop, active webcam, Palmpilot camera, sketchbooks and the like.

I want a tailor, damnit. I want a crative professional with absolutley no interest in "popular fashion" save a simple curiousity. I want truly multifunctional clothing, a suit that can be worn from a boardroom to a sewer-spelunking expedition (with a few simple prefabbed alterations, involving zippers and the like). I want clothing that functions as a computer and looks damn good on me. I want clothing out of Batman Beyond, not the Matrix.

Murray Hamhandler

20:21 / 10.10.02

Feeling not sexy and a bit "Errrrgghhh..." so I make with the baggies: loose loose fit and way too big, big enough to hide in and not be seeeeen.

I think I will go clothes shopping so that I can stop looking like olive drab baby poo.

21:19 / 10.10.02

I always feel my most, how to say... powerful isn't the right word. Potent! I feel my most potent in tight jeans low enough to show off my tattoo, stripey socks, airwalks, and logo-y t-shirts- comic book shirts and the like. Maybe it's an age thing.

21:44 / 10.10.02

Er, black, and very very long skirts which are far too long for me. Basically covering up as much as possible... hence also my fondness for my ridiculous long blue carpet coat. Not sure whether this is a comfort thing or whether I actually feel genuinely better about self when wearing more FABRIC.

22:27 / 10.10.02

Carpet coat? That sounds swanky, may I ask you to expound upon it?

22:35 / 10.10.02

The carpet coat is swanky. So much so that I keep looking out for similar for myself. But you need a bit of height -- I would look more like a carpet bag than an elegant lady-about-town.

22:39 / 10.10.02

I have no height either, hon, and am totally bitter about it. So is the carpet coat like a carpet bag, is it actually made out of some manner of rug? (Yeah, I know "Why no, Maz, it's made from palm fronds, we just call it a carpet coat.) I'd never heard of one before this thread.

22:44 / 10.10.02

It's long and made of ...hmm... a thick, patterned fabric. I'm sure there's a sensible term for it but I'm just in from the pub.

It's obviously not thick enough to be a real rug, or KCC would be unable to move. But it just looks very elegant and yet odd enough to be very cool.

The Return Of Rothkoid

22:58 / 10.10.02

Ariadne: carpet-bags are awesome. Felix the Cat had one that contained escalators - THAT is accessorising!

Me? I'm more comfortable in black. Obviously. I like big boots, too; something about big, chunky boots coupled with good trou (dark blue jeans - not dirty blue, and not faded, or my grey kinda 30s trou, or, at a pinch, the Ganesh-approved black pleather ones) does it for me. As far as tops go, though you can't beat Bond's shirts. V-neck, black tees, lovely stretchy material, cotton, basic as fuck. They just work with me - to the point that i don't think I've been to a barbemeet in anything else.

Well, except my underwear, obviously.

And I have a long(ish) leather coat that looks kinda good. When it has all its buttons on, that is - something that must be rectified soon. But given that it's already hitting 32 degrees some days here, I don't think the trenchcoat mafia look will work here.

For some reason, I feel much better about myself when my hair's up and when I'm wearing my two-buckle leather cuff. Dunno why, I just do.

23:04 / 10.10.02

Cripes, look at the time.

I've a new and luvverly red dressing gown which tempts me into lolling about and not going to bed. But I'm sure I'll feel even better wrapped in a quilt.

Nighty night.

00:54 / 11.10.02

Hmmm... depends on where I'm going. Lately, it's been sandals (and toenails painted vamp red!), snug faded jeans, tank top of some variety, and either a lovey black and white silk-blend sportscoat from my favorite thrift store or a denim jacket, usually tossed jauntily over my shoulder...

As the weather gets cold and nasty, I'll break out the leather - black car coat, turtleneck, white silk aviator scarf, boots...
(What am I wearing right now? [hhhhhh hhhhh] Tight jeans. [HHHH HHHH] A lacey bra. [HHH HHH HHH] You seem to be having trouble breathing; should I change into my nurse's outfit? [HH HH HH HH HH HH click]

01:44 / 11.10.02

How you can tell it's me (October-March):

*brown coat or black leather jacket (depending on length of shirttails)
*brown boots or black Doc Martens (depending on coat, also weather)
*denim or flannel shirt
*Levi's 501s, slightly accordianned at the ankles (share pants with Husb who has same waist, longer legs)
*white cotton long underwear
*white socks

*if cold, green fleece hat and gloves
*unless overcast, sunglasses (ever changing, always leaving behind in restaurants etc.)

*fifty-pound backpack
*rhinestone bobbypins

02:45 / 11.10.02

What's in the back pack what weighs so much?

02:59 / 11.10.02

Oh definately sunglasses.

I will not leave my home without them.

good call!

05:50 / 11.10.02

I oscillate. On a good day, I'm in something tight that shows of my cleavage, and boots; black lace-up, f-zebra (that's faux/fake zebra, not a typo). Lots of black, but not exclusivly, and purple and burgundy. And black jeans, or f-maharishi pants. With a smile.

On a bad day, I hide. I spent about two years in an ex-boyfriend's extra large sweatshirt from the Gap, which said athletic in a cursive script underneath it. Strange, because I'm not very athletic. And of course, you shouldn't even think about going to the Gap...

Sunglasses. I say that my eyes are sensitive - which they are, to sunlight... too long inside - but I think they just suit me.

11:34 / 11.10.02

What's in the back pack what weighs so much?

Tools for nation-building! No. Um, front to back... car keys, wallet, cell phone, little diary for keeping my mileage, various maps, little day planner for office, pencil box full of drawing pencils and colored pencils, travel kleenex, zip disks, two ballpoint pens, fountain pen, one of those expandable pill cups with aspirins and lactose pills inside, lip balm, eyedrops, purple journal, sometimes a book I am reading, class notebook, big day planner for home, headphones for computer, two plastic snapon covers called "cats" that go on those horrible round iMac mice that they have at school, laptop, black fuzzy sweater... if memory serves.

12:16 / 11.10.02

My partner labours under the odd opinion that my combat trousers don't look good on me because I 'gasp' use the pockets to put things in. So, apart from old combats with full pockets, I can generally be found in an enormous jumper, a lot of which is coming apart; and old boots of which the soles are departing from the rest of the boot.
As said partner quite rightly commented to me on one occassion; fashion and I have reached a compromise. We ignore each other.

13:16 / 11.10.02

My favourite thing to wear is a big old coat from my grandma. It's so warm that I can just put it and (even over a tshirt) I'll probably be warm wandering around outside. It's really windy where I live and it's the only coat I have which cuts that out.

My coat also looks incredibly old and non-descript, which suits me just fine. I agree with Tez' view of pockets - my coat has big pockets which collect random (sometimes important) pieces of paper. Maybe they breed in there.

The Apple-Picker

13:24 / 11.10.02

a thick, patterned fabric

...tapestry?

14:40 / 11.10.02

That's the one! Oddly enough, that just occurred to me a little while ago - yes, I think tapestry is the best description. So very like a carpet bag, only long and swish..
KCC, we need photos!

Tryphena Absent

14:52 / 11.10.02

KKC- is that the coat you were wearing for MC and LA's thingamijigimy in the JC (it's like code!), it's gorgeous.

Clothes, my favourite subject, I am wearing a red half mohair/polyester jumper, a brown skirt that has diagonal stripes of tweed and corduroy (sp?), black tights that are vertically striped and leather shoes with diagonal straps. I'm still living on my 1930's trip and haven't put on a pair of trousers for a week now.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

15:05 / 11.10.02

What the 'lith style entails I have no idea. I do know that my wardrobe is bizarrely schizoid - there's a slew of tight clubby t-shirts from Cyberdog and some non-standard fabric trousers (although I threw out the clingy silver ones because they made me look like Lenny from 'Of Mice And Men' in some God-awful Travolta remake circa 1976). There's a small section devoted to black rubber, pvc and leather. There are two casual suits - one a kind of baggy grey flannel which looks like a journalist's suit from Depression America, and another which looks like a refugee on grounds of taste from Frank Sinatra's suitcase. Then there are various jeans, cords, jumpers and so on which take up the slack between these disparate aspects of my life. This last category is where I spend most of my time, and is also the section I have recently been mercilessly pruning.

Passport clothes and me clothes and me-passport clothes and what all else.

15:13 / 11.10.02

Sort of on topic: Have any UK people been watching that frightening and frightful 'What Not To Wear' programme on the BBC, with the women that say tits a lot? Fucking disturbing. And Jeremy Clarkson was on it the other week. *shudder*

Goodness Gracious Meme

15:23 / 11.10.02

gawd yeah. deserves a thread of its own, I think... wanna start something in the TV bit, Chol?

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