Fashion notes from my workplace

[cupcake_goth]

Dear Woman I Passed In The Cafeteria,

Yes, I get that my outfit is confusing to you. Rest assured that I am equally perplexed by your outfit of a "tweed" suit (matching jacket and micro-mini skirt) and thigh-high, high-heeled boots.

Yours in no-doubt mutual "She obviously chose to wear that" mystification,

Cupcake Goth

Comments

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

0.o

[ladymandrake.livejournal.com]

maybe she goes from the office to her 2nd gig as a stripper??? ya never know...

[tinkerbell86ca.livejournal.com]

I think so . . . sounds like it.

[corbaegirl.livejournal.com]

I got a lot of that yesterday, because I was wearing--(wait for it)---A Hat.

[tinkerbell86ca.livejournal.com]

OMG! A HAT?!?!

I like hats . . but my head is to large for most hats.

[lyviathon.livejournal.com]

OMG no not a hat!!!

[going-not-gone.livejournal.com]

Tweed with fetish-esque boots? Odd.

However idiosyncratic your outfits are, they always look like the pieces were chosen to go together.

[corbaegirl.livejournal.com]

That's acually a pretty high-fashion look right now. Doesn't mean it makes any sense, though.

[kerydwenn.livejournal.com]

OK, what?
*blinks*

[my-poison-apple.livejournal.com]

:|

At least you don't look like you belong on the set of an office-themed porn production.

[nocturnalice-66.livejournal.com]

That's exactly my first thought too. Right after 'what the hell was she thinking' and 'wonder who she had a "business meeting" with.' I'm... actually mildly offended by her outfit (as you described it)... I think... wow, didn't see that coming. Can't really describe my reaction properly. The outfit could be awesome, but the context is completely wrong.

[loree.livejournal.com]

Who knew Business-Hooker was a dress code?

[sirriamnis.livejournal.com]

I felt the same way the first time I saw someone in a business skirt-suit and fishnets.

[ste-noni.livejournal.com]

I guess I wouldn't normally think of thigh-high boots as work-appropriate clothing.

[javagoth.livejournal.com]

Call me old fashioned but I just never considered a micro-mini skirt or Thigh High Boots to be professional business attire - even at a place with no dress code. Having a micro-mini skirt in Tweed is just darn right Kinky!

[angldst.livejournal.com]

omg preach to the choir. I AM old fashioned in this respect. I think that skirts much more than a couple (read TWO) inches above the knee have NO place in the office, unless said office is involved in the adult film/entertainment industry. ;)

Criminy. :)

<3

-d

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

I must have more info. Did she stand there and gaze at you slack-jawed? Did she give you a quizzical eyebrow lift in passing? How high up the thigh?

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

More of a smacked on the back of the head with a hammer facial expression. I'd say the skirt was at least 6" above the knees, and the boots went up about 4" above the knees.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Tweed. And thigh-high boots. I think my eyes are watering.

I'm hardly averse to hookerwear, but what message did she think she was sending? Probably not the one she wanted to.

[theblackdeer.livejournal.com]

Wait, someone wore thigh high high heeled boots to *work*? The Evil Empire really just has no dress code at all, do they?

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Other than "wear clothes", no, not really.

[aniline.livejournal.com]

The thigh-high boot sighting is now a multiple-times-a-day occurrence for me and I still don't understand it. I realize they are THE thing in fashion right now but I'm maybe 1 in 30 women I see in the things can actually pull them off without looking like a hooker or with the even more unfortunate slouchy kind, a confused pirate.

[caleidescopeyes.livejournal.com]

That's just confusing. Like she was preparing to wade through swampy marshes before entertaining some lecherous Tories.

[mr-cutiepants.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Exactly.

I don't get the people who stare. Do they not go on the internet, ever? We are by far not the most interesting thing currently existing in the universe (this can be a good thing. :)

Goth has been around for 40 years now. Every time someone looks at my askew, I always wonder, "seriously, have they never seen this before, ever?". And then I feel a little bit of sympathy.

[scarletfaewind.livejournal.com]

Just because they go on the internet doesn't mean they go outside their own microscopic world. Heck, I have had to explain what BBC is and why anyone in America would watch it.

[bijouxdejais.livejournal.com]

Ships passing in the night...

[dali-muse.livejournal.com]

You were much more civil than I would have been. I would have made the observation that micro mini tweed suits with thigh high boots were done much better by Channel in 2004.

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

Excellent point.

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

I am very concerned about that "tweed" outfit.

I would, however, enjoy hear Andre Leon Talley's summary dismissal of its incoherency, gaucheness and general dreckitude.

[tvashtri.livejournal.com]

Thank you for summarizing my feelings every time someone gives me that *look* ;-)

You rock!