Wardobe sanity check time!

So, I have this stripy blazer. It's by Ralph Lauren (thank you, Marshalls!), it's got a lovely shape, and I've done some tailoring to it to make it fit me even better. But the black stripes are a skosh narrow. They are not wide enough for my preferred Beetlejuice/circus aesthetic.

While I was waiting (and waiting, and waiting) to fall asleep last night, I was thinking about this blazer, and what I could do to it. "Oooh!" I thought, "I could take some 7/8" black ribbon and sew it down each stripe. Huh. Or I could paint over the stripes."

Now, in the vaguely rational light of day, I realize I perhaps should get a sanity check on these ideas. That's where you people come in.

( 2 photos of said blazer back here )

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Help me, LJ hivemind! Be my sanity check! (Stop laughing.)

Wardobe sanity check time - possible solution!

Apparently a lot of you folks say I should sell that particular stripey blazer. Heh. Some of you suggested taking fabric markers and coloring in between alternating black stripes, thus creating wide black stripes. I do like that idea. However, the Stroppy One suggested I do that with my pink fabric markers, which would give me a pink and white striped jacket with black details. I will wear the blazer in its current incarnation when we go run errands tomorrow, and ponder this idea. But feel free to tell the Stroppy One he's brilliant!

I will wear the blazer in its current incarnation when we go run errands tomorrow

(staxxy, no sequins. No. That feels too ... costume-y, for me.)