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I am obsessed with clothes
Mar. 8th, 2010 10:35 amBe still my beating heart:
http://www.calicovintage.com/
Especially this one.
My friend Julie gave me a Gunne Sax dress this weekend. It's sorta Edwardian/prairie style...it's got a lace netting inset and a really high neck, but it's also mostly black-background calico. It's in pretty dang good shape (the ribbon is slightly worn but the calico isn't faded and the lace looks great), except for a missing button. I'm going to take one off the collar (there are three collar buttons) and move it down. The skirt isn't very full, unfortunately.
Yeah. I think I'm officially on a life mission to save Gunne Sax dresses. Whenever I think about the fact that I saw so many of them sold as COSTUMES at Red Light that once, I just want to cry. The idea of the dresses languishing somewhere unworn and/or abused bothers me enough that I try not to think about it. I think there's something wrong with me. o_O
While looking up Gunne Sax stuff, I found an old entry on a wedding blog that had a picture of a pattern for a Gunne Sax wedding dress. The blog author and the comments were all about how fugly the pattern was, oh lord they had to wear those dresses as little girls, they were so awful, blah blah blah. I looked at the pattern and thought, "Oh man, I totally want that." LOL!! I think those ladies would be shocked that some modern women love them!
Joanna Newsom has started going high fashion. I wonder what she did with her old Gunnes. Maybe she still has them in a closet. I hope. She should totally give them to me. Except I dunno if we're the same size. In any case--seriously, in the video for The Sprout and The Bean? I have pretty much the exact same skirt as she's wearing in a few shots. I think mine is in worse shape though, the lace is coming off.
ANYWAY! Have I told you about the Japanese fashion mori-girl? Lots of lolitas (especially older ones) are going apeshit over it. The idea is that you look like you just wandered out of some dreamy idealized forest and decided to sit in a coffee shop and write in your journal while wistfully looking out the window (well, sort of--mori translates to forest, apparently). Lots of natural fibers and layers and crochet. Lots of hairstyles of the "I spent four hours making it look like I woke up this way" sort. I am not the only person who has noted that Gunne Sax fits in perfectly. I still love lolita, don't get me wrong, but it's nice to mix things up a bit, yes? Plus mori-girl is way more "relaxed," and I can wear lots of secondhand/vintage stuff. Which if nothing else, means it's much much cheaper.
My favorite description (from a link earlier in this post):
Imagine, a Lolita wonders out of the historical side of the city (where most Lolitas pretend they’d love to live) and stumble into the woods and get lost, get a little feral and stir crazy. Soon the brand jsk starts to fray and get a little tatty, she finds an old heavy knit coat, the petticoat fluffs down and peeks tattered edges, she lets her socks slide down her ankles and her make up rubs off. Spends hours decorating her old AP hairbow that has become sun faded with bright flowers and doesn’t care that there’s grass seeds on the bunny bear bag.
(A "jsk" is a jumper skirt, a dress you wear with a blouse under it. AP is short for Angelic Pretty, it's a really "sweet" brand of lolita. Stuffed bunnies and bears that are purses are popular among sweet lolitas.)
In other news: We were supposed to have storms today. It's....totally sunny outside. Cold, though. I was supposed to go on a thirty mile ride today. I think I'm gonna skip it. Again. In favor of doing laundry and practicing my music, 'cause I'm supposed to have about six songs memorized for chorus by now, and I'm hazy on most of them. Eek! Why are we supposed to have memorized a bunch of songs we've barely rehearsed? Oh, and spending more tedious time on craigslist searching for an apartment.
http://www.calicovintage.com/
Especially this one.
My friend Julie gave me a Gunne Sax dress this weekend. It's sorta Edwardian/prairie style...it's got a lace netting inset and a really high neck, but it's also mostly black-background calico. It's in pretty dang good shape (the ribbon is slightly worn but the calico isn't faded and the lace looks great), except for a missing button. I'm going to take one off the collar (there are three collar buttons) and move it down. The skirt isn't very full, unfortunately.
Yeah. I think I'm officially on a life mission to save Gunne Sax dresses. Whenever I think about the fact that I saw so many of them sold as COSTUMES at Red Light that once, I just want to cry. The idea of the dresses languishing somewhere unworn and/or abused bothers me enough that I try not to think about it. I think there's something wrong with me. o_O
While looking up Gunne Sax stuff, I found an old entry on a wedding blog that had a picture of a pattern for a Gunne Sax wedding dress. The blog author and the comments were all about how fugly the pattern was, oh lord they had to wear those dresses as little girls, they were so awful, blah blah blah. I looked at the pattern and thought, "Oh man, I totally want that." LOL!! I think those ladies would be shocked that some modern women love them!
Joanna Newsom has started going high fashion. I wonder what she did with her old Gunnes. Maybe she still has them in a closet. I hope. She should totally give them to me. Except I dunno if we're the same size. In any case--seriously, in the video for The Sprout and The Bean? I have pretty much the exact same skirt as she's wearing in a few shots. I think mine is in worse shape though, the lace is coming off.
ANYWAY! Have I told you about the Japanese fashion mori-girl? Lots of lolitas (especially older ones) are going apeshit over it. The idea is that you look like you just wandered out of some dreamy idealized forest and decided to sit in a coffee shop and write in your journal while wistfully looking out the window (well, sort of--mori translates to forest, apparently). Lots of natural fibers and layers and crochet. Lots of hairstyles of the "I spent four hours making it look like I woke up this way" sort. I am not the only person who has noted that Gunne Sax fits in perfectly. I still love lolita, don't get me wrong, but it's nice to mix things up a bit, yes? Plus mori-girl is way more "relaxed," and I can wear lots of secondhand/vintage stuff. Which if nothing else, means it's much much cheaper.
My favorite description (from a link earlier in this post):
Imagine, a Lolita wonders out of the historical side of the city (where most Lolitas pretend they’d love to live) and stumble into the woods and get lost, get a little feral and stir crazy. Soon the brand jsk starts to fray and get a little tatty, she finds an old heavy knit coat, the petticoat fluffs down and peeks tattered edges, she lets her socks slide down her ankles and her make up rubs off. Spends hours decorating her old AP hairbow that has become sun faded with bright flowers and doesn’t care that there’s grass seeds on the bunny bear bag.
(A "jsk" is a jumper skirt, a dress you wear with a blouse under it. AP is short for Angelic Pretty, it's a really "sweet" brand of lolita. Stuffed bunnies and bears that are purses are popular among sweet lolitas.)
In other news: We were supposed to have storms today. It's....totally sunny outside. Cold, though. I was supposed to go on a thirty mile ride today. I think I'm gonna skip it. Again. In favor of doing laundry and practicing my music, 'cause I'm supposed to have about six songs memorized for chorus by now, and I'm hazy on most of them. Eek! Why are we supposed to have memorized a bunch of songs we've barely rehearsed? Oh, and spending more tedious time on craigslist searching for an apartment.
