This is such a sweet video from The Innocence Mission. The styling is so lovely in this video (the singer is wearing a 1930s style feedsack dress) and it reminds me of a Sally Mann photograph.
There’s a fine line between two slips=a dress and two slips=wearing lingerie out of the house.
I’m still not totally convinced that this is a good outfit… maybe the slip would have to be less of a lipstick red for me to believe it. This outfit is inspired by: Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage when she’s strung out and sick. Courtney Love circa 1994 – lots of lace, red lipstick and mary jane shoes.
Navy beret that I sewed pearls on. I got the idea from Karin of http://www.blog.lilyofthevalley.se when she did the same!
Orange paper flowers
Pearl/Glass earrings – made by my sister
Vintage navy jacket – Austin clothing swap
Green belt – Decades Vintage, PDX
1930s flame colored dress – ebay
Remix vintage shoes
I bought this dress on ebay with the original intention of cutting out the pattern and using the shape as a projection screen as part of my MFA thesis. It’s difficult to capture on film, but this fabric is absolutely luminous and glossy – it burns with so many colors! However, the projection idea proved too obtuse, and luckily, was scrapped. The dress remained, quiet, in my closet. The first strange thing I noticed about this dress was that the piping around the pockets and sleeves is the sweetest color of periwinkle. But, I’ve never ever even thought to pair periwinkle with orange, but I think it looks quite lovely. I also like how the breast pockets look like folded envelopes! One thing I wish I could change about the dress is the length. It has a full zipper, like that of a house dress, fancy as though this fabric may be. It was probably a glorified dressing gown. We just got these paper flowers in at my work. I had a fun time today moving them from my hair to my blazer and back again. I got them in almost every color so brace yourselves to see some in the next few posts. My remix shoes are still pleasing me with every time I wear them! These got a little beat up in the back when I rode on my bicycle. Now my favorite! The sleeves! These are the kind of poofy sleeves I draw on all of my cartoon girls:
I think in this image I was literally chanting “Puffy sleeve! Puffy sleeve!” in a muppet voice.
The first time I wore the dress, Halloween, 2007: I was posing as a living mannequin inside and outside of Decades Vintage Clothing in downtown Portland. I started out in the window, but I am too tall for most people walking by to notice. When people made eye contact with me, I winked at them! When I posed outside, two men pulled on my fingers to see if I was real. I held a dish of candy and whispered Enjoy when people took a piece. One woman yelled the loudest I’ve ever heard in real life. Her friends laughed at her. Two business men tipped me.
On March 5th, I will be heading to Paris to visit for one week! I have not been in ten years, and I’m so so so very excited to go back! Here I am outside of Avignon, age 18, frolicking through a field of lavender.
Thus far: I have a date set up with the lovely Stella Polaris to have tea and go antiquing, and I think I may try and see Sunny Buick for some ink and of course I will be going on lots of picnics and burlesque shows.
I want to badly to go to Ladurée and press my face up against the windows to look at the fancy macaroons.
This will also be my first time to visit Europe as a vegan, which I am nervous about! I am counting on fresh market food, bread, tea and wine to get me through the trip.
I already have a small list of things to do, but I’m certainly open to suggestions if you have them!
Tell me, what should I see in Paris!?
Butterscotch Yellow
Banana Yellow
Dandelion
Canary Yellow
Sunshine Yellow
