New Year’s Eve was a night for dancing and just as I always do when I dress for dancing, I thought about how the clothes would look while shimmying and shaking across the floor. For that reason, I seldom wear system skirts for dancings as the distorted textures when you dance can so ruin the line of a dress. This also makes me wary of sculpties that flap around like broken wings on a baby bird. But flexis aren’t necessarily the solution as they can look like a tornado swirling round the floor. Of course, we all understand the limitations of clothing and forgive our dancing foibles…but I am always on the look for a great dance dress. This lovely white Alaska dress from Kunglers is ideal.
Tag Archives: Armidi
Too Long Ago, Too Far Apart
posted by Gidge Uriza
It was way past midnight
and she still couldn’t sleep
This night the dream was leaving
She tried to so hard to keep Continue reading
Back to the Winter Garden
There are five flowers in Modern Gypsy’s Winter Garden. In this picture I am wearing the Rose, another exuberant bouquet of dancing prims.
You can contrast that to the more structured architecture of Asian Lily whose exuberance is expressed through the riotous fabric texture.
Sometimes, I Just Find Stuff on the Floor
posted by Gidge Uriza
Wandering the grid, I’m prone to finding leftover hunt items sitting about. This is especially true around holidays, and I know how it can be. I once left Easter Eggs sitting out around Vicious Island for over a month – because I forgot where I hid them + Cajsa and I were really busy hosting two HUGE themed events per week.
I am usually terribly delighted when I find these things though, as my schedule rarely permits me to participate in “hunts” on a regular basis. Continue reading
Winter Garden: Gypsophilia & Ginkgo
So I am going to go overboard and drive you mad with Modern Gypsy posts, I am that excited. This post will look at two of Micah Kanto’s designs for Modern Gypsy, Babybreath and Genko. You mission, should you choose to accept it, is to determine which is which.
Christmas Quickie #5
As Christmas draws to a close and we head toward New Year’s, there will be a lot of holiday parties looking toward the coming year. Perhaps a traditional Black & White ball on New Year’s Eve? If so, this is a lovely dress for that, simple and seasonal, with understated elegance. It’s from Pretty Magic and is wisely sold separately from the witch hat and cape that goes with it.
Dress Me Up: Cajsa by Candy
This outfit could be a twofer, since it also meets the requirements for Analu’s Armoire Diversity Challenge, but it was actually directed by Candy Lemmon of Red-Headed Step-Child. The brief:
I want to see you in menswear! There’s nothing sexier than a girl in a man’s shirt and tie. Try Armidi or Blaze for the button-down, and don’t forget a great hat.
So, wandering in the men’s department, I have to give the men’s clothiers a big fat F for FAIL. Guys, you have to be more demanding. It’s absolutely unacceptable that you only get one or two layers and that your shirt layer does not include underpants to allow you to tuck your shirt or wear low rise pants. I went to many men’s stores and was just dismayed…so the shirt is from Muism, for women, but a man’s button down style.
Bare Rose Challenge #4
What I usually glean from my expeditions to Bare Rose are fun jackets full of details and fripperies and furbeloes. This time, though, I want to show you that Bare Rose can keep up the Jones in the soft, romantic and classic line of clothing, too. In the Diamond Dust fatpack, you will, as usual, get eleventy-million shades of this lovely, classic cocktail dress and gloves.
It's All Golden
Shai Delacroix knows how to texture dresses so they look wonderful on you. She adds shadows, contours and shading so the dress is not just fitting your body, but it also looks like it’s fitting your body. Her clothes are a dream to photograph because they are never flat and lifeless. Today, I am wearing her gold Aemillia dress and feel like a million bucks.
Pret a Porter Makes me a Kevin Bacon Game Champion
posted by Gidge Uriza
I’m a Kevin Bacon game geek. Yes, I still like to play it. It makes me laugh, because I always have my “ringer” I like to pull out – to wow others with my incredible geek-i-tude. Why, you might ask me, am I sharing this with you – wearing this gorgeous dress by Clio – Pret a Porter?
I guess I just finally decided that I should have some Holiday Spirit and let all of you achieve this same level of dork at parties. Actually, most people are usually fairly stunned when you pull this one off because it’s so obscure.
If you don’t know – the Kevin Bacon Game works like this – all movie stars can be linked to Kevin Bacon in less than 6 degrees of separation. So you say “Link Madonna to Kevin Bacon” and I say “Oh that’s EASY! Madonna was in Vision Quest with Forest Whitaker who was in The Air I Breathe with KEVIN BACON”. Continue reading