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Fashion Blog (Archive): August 2004
Saturday, August 28, 2004
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
1:45 AM (Pacific)
Sorry for the multiple posts. I'm doing something else on the computer that's excruciatingly boring, so... :)
Image courtesy of Pretty In Pink Fan Site.
I'm trying to think now of my own fashion icons. The obvious ones: Diane Keaton, Chrissie Hynde, Molly Ringwald, Julia Stiles. I like individualism. I truly do not like the Hollywood style of having someone else pick out your clothes and your entire look. The look is good, but it's generic.
I always think of the East Coast as being more eccentric than the West Coast but I'm thinking of the way the East Coast was 20 years ago. Twenty years ago, the culture was still flavored with the 70's and 60's.
We have undergone cultural communism. :) Of course this is not based on a book by Marx & Engels; it is based on pure capitalism.
Just recently I started really disliking clothes or accessories that have the designer's or manufacturer's name stamped prominently on them as an intrinsic part of the design...where it's just a name, not even a design.
I mean I'll wear Levi's and Felix the Cat and Hello Kitty, but just recently, as I say, it started making me kinda nauseated to see this name or that, slapped all over the merchandise.
I suppose that one of the main reasons for doing this is that products are copied so often. I can see putting a discreet, small logo in there somehow. But, slapping a big name or initials all over it, all the time?
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
1:17 AM (Pacific)
Oh, this is fun. Some quotes from Pretty In Pink off imdb:
Iona : Does he have... strong lips?
Andie : How can you tell?
Iona : Did you feel it in your knees?
Andie : I felt it everywhere.
Iona : Strong lips.
[laughs]
Iona : I know I'm old enough to be his mother, but when the Duck laid that kiss on me last night, I swear my thighs just went up in flames! He must practice on melons or something.
Steff : I've been out with a lot of girls at this school. I don't see what makes you so different.
Andie : I have some taste.
Duckie : May I admire you again today?
Duckie : This is a really volcanic ensemble you're wearing, it's really marvelous!
Duckie : What now?
Andie : Bed.
Duckie : Yours or mine? Ours?
Andie : I just want them to know that they didn't break me.
Duckie : I'm off like a dirty shirt.
Duckie : You know what an older woman does for me?
Iona : Changes your diapers?
Duckie : Touché.
Duckie : We don't have none of this stuff in the boy's room! Wait a minute! We don't got none of this... we don't got doors on the stalls in the boy's room, we don't have, what is this? What's this? We don't have a candy machine in the boy's room!
Andie : I don't know what I'm doing!
Iona : Wishful make-upping!
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This is fashion-related, because Pretty In Pink was the Annie Hall of the mid-80's. That and Desperately Seeking Susan.
--J.
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
1:01 AM (Pacific)
Okay...I'm here inside the virtual model program. I'm going to see if I can replicate that "volcanic ensemble" I have in the previous post--Doc Martens, faded jeans and a BR boatneck top. (Wasn't "volcanic ensemble" a phrase from Pretty In Pink?)
It says "On my model...curvaceous." Is this d@man program calling me fat? :p
So far all you can change is the pants. Hm. This is like something out of sci fi hell. I know that virtual models have been around for a long time. It's just eerie. Instead of going to the store and trying stuff on, you get this thing to try it all on for you. There's something a tad Will Smith about it.
Oh dang, now the program is down.
--J.
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
12:50 AM (Pacific)
Okay, this broad belongs here too:
 
 
The link to make your very own virtual model is here: link. I got it from Looking Like Your Mother.
Once I got over laughing...because what I see is Martha Stewart, frankly...I got a cold chill as I realized, I actually look like this thing!
Meaning...the program is actually pretty accurate, at least for me. I haven't tried dressing "her" yet...and I doubt they have renditions of my clothes anywhere (it would be spooky if they did).
Hmmm...I should try dressing her actually. I was just thinking of putting it in Photoshop and drawing a cigarette in the hand...*g*
--J.
Monday, August 09, 2004
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
2:22 PM (Pacific)
Oh, I just found out what "jorts" are. :)
It's jean shorts. Apparently the term covers both cut-offs and non-cut-offs--any kind of jean shorts.
This is one of those makeupalley.com terms...like "jeesh" and "meh." *g*
Just thought I'd share.
--J.
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