Shallow fashion ponderings

[cupcake_goth]

I have developed a sudden craving for a knee-length, slightly fitted skirt, that has ruffles at the hem. In black. To be worn with any of my batwing-point hem jackets, b&w stripey tights, and granny boots.

See, if I had realized this on Friday, I could have looked for that sort of skirt in any of the gazillion thrift stores I was in over the weekend. But nooooo, I had to think of this today, while sitting at work.

I'm not quite sure where this urge for a knee-length, not worn with petticoats, skirt has come from.

Other shallow-ish appearance things percolating through my brain:

- I am vaguely (very vaguely, I might add) considering having the lowest set of holes in my ears stretched, so I can just stick a set of spiral talons in them and not ever worry about earrings again. I seem to have this thought every time I see girlgoth and look at the very large-gauge spirals in her ears.


- I think my next tattoo will be placed just above my left wrist. I think. I need to look at the design again to make up my mind, and then I need to start shopping around for a tattoo artist.

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Real content will appear again some day, I promise. Right now, however, I'm sleepy and distracted by clothing.

Comments

[martygreene.livejournal.com]

I prefer something more solid, although battenburg lace looks nice, it's not so practical keeping the sun off.

The only ones I find on ebay that are in a condition worth getting, are horrid horrid horrid patterned fabrics. Do you know how hard it is to re-cover a parasol?

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Oh, believe me, I know. I've re-covered two, and I'm still kind of amazed they turned out well.

I'll poke around some of my usual online haunts and see what I can come up with. oldhalloween's other business Old Fashion Halloween (http://www.oldfashionhalloween) does sell lovely hand-painted umbrellas which could work as parasols:

[martygreene.livejournal.com]

Gah I'm a totaly doof. I found a parasol that I liked, and that was going for $10 on ebay because the fabric was so ugly (I'm guessing) I was just going to airbrush it with fabric dye to cover the hideousness, but misread the time left of the auction and missed it! Damn!

[martygreene.livejournal.com]

How knowledgeable are you on parasols in general? dating, materials, etc.? I did some more ebay scrounging, and have a few that I'm eyeing (many of which are listed as "umbrellas", but either I belive they are actually parasols, or they will work just as well) but I'm curious someone's opinion who knows more about the history of these contraptions. I'd like to get a good deal on one, perhaps two or three.