Today's random Gothy Nostalgia Burbling

[cupcake_goth]

I miss the Newport News catalog.

Specifically, I miss the autumn 2006-2007 catalog. That was the one with AAAAAALLLLL the romantigoth/neo-Victorian things. Short mandarin-collared velvet jackets! The infamous velvet military coat that I swear every single one of us gothy ladies owned! Lace blouses with ascots! Cotton gauze blouses with high collars and ruffles! Everything in black, ivory, and burgundy!

Yes, I know, Newport News is now under the Spiegel umbrella. But they haven't made anything in years like they did in those seasons, and I still haven't found good replacements for some of the items that have finally (finally!) frayed and fallen apart.

EDITED TO ADD: Seriously, if any of you have this blouse in a size 14 in ivory or black, and you want to get rid of it, TELL ME. It is one of my Perfect Blouses.

Comments

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

hear hear, on all fronts. I never did have that jacket though, alas.

[icprncs.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm telling you. In black. (And also purple but I figure you don't want that one.) Along with some pink things that I figured I'd give you first crack at. It's all in with the potential swap/sale event for January.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Whoo! Thank you!

How dark a purple on the other one? Would it work for overdying with red to get a dark wine color?

[ashbet]

Oh, I KNOW -- I used to order from them all the time!! I really miss their Goth-able pieces :(

<3!

[morfydd.livejournal.com]

I miss the J Peterman catalog. For the ridiculously overwrought text, fantasy line drawings, and the actually really high quality pieces they occasionally came up with.

Someday I'll fit again into their silk jet-beaded jacket Wade and Erica bought me out of nowhere one year. I never had the guts to tell them that I hate navy, but it was too gorgeous not to wear anyway. Maybe I could take it to a tailor and get it overdyed. (I'm afraid of trying it myself...)

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

I miss the old J. Peterman catalog, too. It's still around, but there's nothing like the glory days of the late 90s early 2000s in it.