All I Want To Do Ever Is Shop.
Lately my obsessions with beautiful clothing and fashion and my desire to perfect my own personal style have been amplified. Perhaps it's my slight dissatisfaction with my current predicament and the strong desire to live a more fabulous life in a more fabulous city. I dream of my amazing apartment in Greenpoint with exposed brick walls and floor to ceiling windows, the perfect hip city wardrobe, a bespectacled partner in crime, and dancing like mad every weekend to Holy Ghost! and The Juan Maclean. I don't know if it's the fact that fashion trends are currently very much in line with my personal aesthetic or if my tastes are expanding and becoming more sophisticated (I think it's a little of both), but I'm surrounded by beautiful clothing. 1960s dress cuts, peter pan collars, tie necks and pussy bows, headbands and bow clips, retro heels, bright colored tights, plaids and checkers, wingtips...
My friend Kimberly introduced my to a site called Polyvore which allows me to save and keep track of all of the clothings that I see online that I want and also lets me create sets like this:
Bows, Ties, Collars by leilaniac featuring Full Circle tops
I read an article in ReadyMade magazine yesterday while I was bored at work about a 39 year old indie rocker chick named Eleni Mandell who makes all of her own clothes. She sews adorable little mod dresses using vintage patterns, something I've been wanting to do for quite some time. I've been lazy about this whole learning how to sew thing and my Christmas gift sewing machine has pretty much sat on my desk gathering dust since December. But hopefully next month I will be taking a sewing class at the Stitch House in Dorchester and then I'll start making my own lovely creations. If I seem to have a knack for the craft perhaps I'll even get a wild hair and go to fashion schoooool. woo!
PS: I'm hoping for a move to NYC in the fall...
Makin' it happen!
