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[rm]

The current state of fashion is annying the crap out of me. It's basically the worst of the 80s. Eveything is tight in the wrong places and loose in the wrong places and the only thing I've seen in stores that I've liked in months is this pair of hideous little ankle boots at H&M that my inner Snape just adores, god help us all.

It's not that I need new clothes. It's that I want to look at less ugly.

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[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Posts like this make me <3 you all the more.

[rothko.livejournal.com]

i fucking HATE all those empire tops that make you look pregnant. seriously, who thought THAT was a good idea?!? why do people wear ugly shit just because it's the "in" thing this season? just because they're selling it doesn't mean you have to fucking buy it.

seriously, i can't even GO clothes shopping anymore. to be fair, i've always hated clothes shopping, but it just gets worse and worse.

(yes, you struck a nerve, LOL...)

[rm.livejournal.com]

What annoys me the most is that the empire waist can work, but it requires good tailoring. Of course, no one is interested in good tailoring and that would also defeat the purpose of the trend which is that "anyone" can wear it. Not so a properly tailored empire waist. I actualyl saw a girl on the street today in what I suspect was a dress she made herself as it was a perfectly tailored Regency-style gown -- it just happened to be in bright red cotton.

I hear ya

[saltbox.livejournal.com]

It's gotten to the point where I've bought a sewing machine and am planning on making a few (simpler) clothes, so I can avoid the ugly.

[askeladden.livejournal.com]

Thank god my professional uniform is black t-shirt and black slacks. It's all so freaking complicated.

[beemerbike.livejournal.com]

at least i have not seen people wearing 4 neon polos at the same time again. '83 was just scary with that and legwarmers over keds.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

There are a few hopeful signs for fall and winter (New Romantical, like those Snape boots (the ones with buttons?), and now I am envisioning a teen Snape in New Romantic drag and I want to smush him in a big hug because it's soooo cute), but I am so goddamned sick of cheap thin knitwear in badly fitting cuts and layers. I can't remember when I've seen so many things actively designed to make the wearer's figure look awful. Bad Empire waists, horrible bloated blousons, waistlines all the hell over the place, baggy saggy sack things... ugh.

And why, God, why did they bring back the oversized message tee? I thought we might finally be done with the crappy screenprint Seventies tees, but argh!

And of course all this tunic-and-leggings crap looks ridiculous while sitting down, which is most of what I do these days. My only consolation there is that at least the baggy tunics might put an end to both biscuit roll and skanky denim with rhinestone messages on the ass.

[crazycatlady.livejournal.com]

The day the acid-washed tapered leg jean comes back into style, that's it for me. I have a cave in the Andes reserved for just such an occasion.

[laurel]

Ugh, I know.

I know there was at least one fall catalog that had stuff in it that made me think of you (in the "wow, that really looks like something rm would like"). I'm trying to remember which one, it's possible it was Spiegel (for some reason I feel weird saying that, but I think that might be it).

Things are looking better for Fall/Winter, IMHO.

I am with you

[newwaytowrite.livejournal.com]

fashion this fall and well this past summer was rotten. I just don't understand why women don't hold a revolution and say enough is more than enough. Stop creating clothing cut in the most unflattering way for 99.999% of womenkind.

Excuse me while I go to bed and wear somthing that fits me...my birthday suit.

[placate-me.livejournal.com]

I'd love tp find someone to make a Regency day dress for me. I've toyed with the idea of doing it myself, but I have such a terrible schedule these days.

Re: The new empire waist. I did purchase a smock dress at Old Navy for 15.00, and added tiny crocheted belt loops to make it an empire waist. It actually worked well. I'm obsessed with anything Regency (speaking of, New Amsterdam is filming 1813 this week) and always buy anything reminiscent.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I know about that filming, and I am so cranky. They only wanted women with hair well below shoulder length which is entirely not neceesary to the hairstyles of the time.

[placate-me.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure the H/MU dept have it under control for the period. They wanted men with hair 5 inches long, but it would be unlikely that a young male in NY would tie hair into a queue. Perhaps a 50 year old man, or a dock worker, but short hair and sideburns were quite fashionable by that time, especially in a port city.

BF is working on it--he is a huge Regency-phile as well. I'm not an actor, and not SAG, but would have loved to do it for the period. Doing a commercial instead though...

Same with short hair on a woman. Rare, but not anachronistic. I thought that their requests were strange as well, considering, you have an easy hair length to just add a piece to create a Regency updo. If I were running the hair dept., I would have wanted shorter hair, so I could prestyle hair peices and attach them.

Now you truly know the intense geekery that I have for period hair.

[rm.livejournal.com]

So can you be lured to our annual Regency Ball in October?

And you're right, that men's hair is totally wrong. It's like peopel watch Horatio Hornblower and decide that 1795 and 1815 were the same year. So not.

[placate-me.livejournal.com]

Trust me. I'm a crazy person when it comes to period hair. I was so frustrated working with CW reenactors on an 1880's TV projects, because they kept wanting to wear smooth, low, buns. Sigh.

I just built a wig for an Amazon book commercial. I will have to post a pic in the eljay. Super fun 1818 hair.

I'd love to do a Regency ball. It was one of the things I wanted to do when moving to NY. In Ohio, all we have are CW reenactments, and some weak RW events. :( I just don't have Regency wardrobe. Same with BF. He has tons of CW and one RW, but no Regency. Is it dress code strict?

[rm.livejournal.com]

We don't require costumes, but our core group has very elborate onesin some cases, and we even have some loaner items for people. We do request that people ress in formal clothes an that women at least wear long skirts.

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