Wardobe sanity check time!

[cupcake_goth]

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.



With Kambriel and Neil Gaiman!


With Sir Terry!


[Poll #1822431]

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

Comments

[lylassandra.livejournal.com]

I vote to fill in every other white section, making very large stripes. Just cause I would never sell something that I met Neil Gaiman in. =)

If the nostalgia is not a huge draw for you, however, I would sell it.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

OOoh. I like the making very large stripes idea. Oh, if only the thrifting gods would make a second of these jackets appear the next time I hit the discount stores, so I could try out this idea! ;-)

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

Seriously. FRAME THAT THING.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Um. This is where I mention I have a leather biker jacket that Neil signed and drew the Sandman on, the very first time I met him, back when he was doing a signing tour of tiny comic shops for the release of Death: The High Cost of Living.

THAT item of clothing, I will hang onto forever. :)