You’ve seen the movie Clueless, haven’t you? If you haven’t, I think you ought to. It’s become something of a generation-definer for some of us, it’s awfully funny, and if you’re an English Lit nerd, you can pick out the basic storyline of Jane Austin’s “Emma” as depicted by airheads. Anyhow, at the beginning of […]
Category Archive for 'Fashion'
Clearly I need to stop wearing pants three sizes too big.
Posted in dumb things I have done, Fashion, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Shopping on Jun 13th, 2008
This picture, from Jeff Perry, is ample evidence that it wouldn’t kill me to wear some dang clothes that were something akin to my actual size. If I wanted to look lumpy, dumpy, frumpy, and generally awful, I would continue to dress this way in public. Despite all photographic evidence to the contrary (and there’s […]
catch-up list
Posted in Cats, Fashion, Fashion/Sewing stuff, Lists, Sewing, Travel on Mar 19th, 2008
1. I got the new camera I’d been saving up for. I’m now the owner of a Canon Powershot G9. I’ve gone out and done some test shots to get used to it, but since my computer is in the shop right now, I can’t post ’em yet. Joel’s computer doesn’t recognize my camera, and […]
Spring Cleaning
Posted in Fashion, Other Bike Stuff, Redline Monocog 29er, Schwinn World Sport Singlespeed, Trek 800, Yellow Bianchi on Mar 14th, 2008
Ah, spring cleaning. For me it means so many things. Yesterday afternoon when I got home from work, I hauled a couple of feeeeelthy bikes out onto the lawn, sprayed ’em down with Simple Green, let that soak into the winter guck for a while, and hosed them down. I worked over some of the […]
I’ve been toting around a gift certificate to my favorite lingerie shop, Birdie’s since Christmastime. I’m really bad about gift certificates, because I’m definitely a fair-weather shopper, so certificates I receive in December probably won’t be redeemed until at least March. As the latter part of this week and the whole of the weekend are […]
It was inevitable (and unfortunate)
Posted in dumb things I have done, Fashion on Jan 16th, 2008
I chose to wear an oversized orange cable-knit turtleneck sweater today, paired with an orange-and-red plaid skirt, white tights, and black mary-janes. It is true that I have short, brown hair, which I chose to hold back with a couple of little orange barrettes, and it is true that my eyeglasses have fairly prominent, dark-brown […]
"If you're going to wear such loud clothes all the time, you need to start handing out earplugs."
Posted in Fashion, Photo entries, Utter Silliness on Nov 4th, 2007
This was the comment one of my highschool classmates made to me one day at school when I showed up wearing my Dr. Seuss Sweater (pictured below), a black miniskirt, mustard yellow leggings, and a yellow bandanna in my hair. It was an outfit carefully chosen to be as visually offensive as possible, so when […]
I have many reasons to love my dad
Posted in Family, Fashion, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on Nov 3rd, 2007
And his endearing goofiness is one of those many reasons. I was talking to my folks earlier today and my dad commented that he’s just about ready for Audrey and Matt’s wedding, he’s lacking only a tie. He admitted that mentioned his tie deficit to one of their neighbor ladies, a kind-hearted craftswoman who was […]
If you are ever a 6'5" guy looking for fishnet tights
Posted in biking, Costumes and disguises, Distractions, Fashion, Party, Photo entries, Recommendations, Utter Silliness on Oct 31st, 2007
torrid.com is the place to go. That is if you are an over 6′ size 12. As you will see, they work pretty darn well on the ectomorphic build. Photo Credit to Roger Harrison of Lanterne Rouge Cycling Joel and one of his co-workers, Dean, hit upon the notion of a team costume: “patient” and […]
I'm not quite sure how the Victorian (& Edwardian) lady cyclists managed
Posted in bike commuting, Fashion on Oct 25th, 2007
The ones who didn’t wear bloomers, that is, and who clung tenaciously to skirt wearing. How, in an era when it was considered racy to show anything above your ankle, did they manage to ride bikes in skirts without showing everything up to mid-thigh? I ask this question because I was wearing a skirt today […]