I got an IM from Polaire Aeghin the other day asking me to take a look at her collection for Prelude. Little did she know that I had recently visited the store and picked up a few items to blog, but the clothes she dropped on me were so fun and so versatile, they completely jumped the line.
When I think of LeLutka, I generally think leading edge fashion – modish and avant garde, solid colors or bold op art prints. I don’t think of an English Country Garden. It was such a suprise to see this sweet spring florals – and another demonstration of how strong the floral trend is this year.
Although the braid on the bodice is gold and restrained, I could not help but think of Flower Power when I put on this delightful little dress from Storin. This is actually more than a dress, it’s a suite in that it comes with a short prim to make it a blouse and a coordinating pair of pants – so you have options for that weekend getaway that you pack only in a carry-on. I went with the mood the dress put me in and added lamb’s lovely lovetones hair and then played
If you’re going to San Francisco,
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you’re going to San Francisco,
You’re gonna meet some gentle people there
I went to the opening of Armoire and was astonished by the imaginative and artful dioramas created by Saigye of Balderdash and the other tableux from Kesseret Steeplechase, Caliah Lyon, Violet Voltaire and Candy Cerveaux. Live models wore jewelry in the maze and in the dioramas and overall, it was just so incredibly well done I could have spent much more time there. I wore this dress from Sn@tch and pull up socks and wore that without jewelry or shoes, only my skin with hair from YourSkin that you have seen a few times already this week – and enjoyed a completely lag free romp with under 100 ARC. But when I left, I wanted to up the voltage as you shall see. Incidentally, I have no idea why Ivey Deschanel named this outfit Damaged Goods, because I think it’s perfect.
Reading Harper’s yesterday, I came across the a short article listing the taxonomy of Weimar Republic prostitutes – who signalled their specialty by the color of their boots and the laces on their boots. This made me think of those wonderful texture-change hi-tops from UBU and of course I had to laugh because they are called Pornstar. My reason for mentioning that is that when I put on this RFL Clothing Fair dress from League, I decided to add the League stockings as well and they make me think of Berlin and the wonderfully subversive Berlin cabarets. One of my favorite albums is Ute Lemper’s Berlin Cabaret songs which is as subversive as they come. So,, listening to Ute as I shot this outfit – I followed the route of the Berlin cabaret singer.
posted by Gidge Uriza
You might think that I like every skin given to me, that like a crack-fiend – I can find no flaw with my drug of choice.
And that is where you would be wrong. You see – I try on a LOT of skins, I receive many as review items and others I go hunting down based on blogs and plurks about what people have released.
Much of the time I slip into the new pixel shell and say OH HELL WHAT IS THIS?
You never see those skins. Because I want to look pretty, and I want YOU to look pretty, therefore it only behooves me to bring you that which pleases me and I hope will please you.
Thus, Yourskin. Continue reading
I am Irish on my mother’s side and so we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day though I have never drunk green beer. Of course, the Irish ancestry is far and distant and long away because Mom’s ancestry was that wonderful American melting pot of everything from Iceland to Iraq and Russia to Romania, England to Egypt and all points in between. However, among her Irish ancestors is that great hero Brian Boru who probably did not unite Ireland, but gets credit for it anyway. However, it was not the scant trace of Irishness in me that led me to choose the Emerald version of the new Lelutka Maria dress, but just my love of green as a color – rich and deep and vibrant green.
and of course, the stunning constrution that includes this marvelously well-done sculpty two strap bodice. With the straps sculpted like this, there’s no fading, disappearing and melting strap to mar the look. My only wish was that the attachment point for the bodice had been the spine, not the chest as the chest is the most common attachment for necklaces and so I had to resit the bodice on the spine.
posted by Gidge Uriza
So it’s St Patricks day and you’re about to barf from the amount of shamrocks,green tinsel and erin go bragh on the feeds today, aren’t you?
That’s why I posted mine YESTERDAY bishes.
That being said, it seemed appropriate to wear something green today nonetheless, especially if I didn’t want that Irish Curse – the pinch for not wearing green. 🙂
So I thought I’d share one more of my Callie Cline pickups (NO I AM NO WHERE NEAR DONE I TOLD YOU I SPENT ALL MY MONEY THERE SO HUSH!) Continue reading
I have never understood that phrase. Have you noticed any particular luck the Irish have had, what with potato famines, centuries of occupation and colonization, the “troubles” and to top it off, leprachauns. I guess the one lucky thing is their association with the color green – my favorite color – and one that has worldwide associations with luck, wealth and prosperity because it reminds people of plentiful fields and the promise of big harvests to come. So, in many ways, the luck of the Irish is about the promise of the future – not so much the reality of today and of the past. So perhaps their luck is optimism. The sort of happy, luck-reliant optimism than imbues this Clover dress from Moxie Polano – a Relay For Life Clothing Fair offering.