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Sat, Aug. 5th, 2006
Downtown adventures
Sat, Aug. 5th, 2006 05:26 pmSo I went downtown to pick up a cake for the party I'm going to. It's the cutest little cake store ever, Japanese-style Western cakes (it sounds sort of silly, but it's really, really good). They mix ingredients like green tea and kinoko and sesame and chestnuts with the normal chocolate, strawberries and etc.
I am wearing a spiffy little black dress with a v-neck and spaghetti straps; the skirt is very a-line and made of a chiffon-like material, so it swirls out gently. Alas and alack, it doesn't have quite as much fabric as a real fifties-style dress would, but I currently don't fit my real fifties-style dress.
In my weekly recon of Borders, I saw Subversive Cross Stitch, which has lovely floral borders and mottos like "Babies suck." I would totally make them if I still cross-stitched. I only wish that the stitches and the borders were even more elaborate and sappy and flowery, which would make the mottos that much better. There's a website too! As a side note, I forgot the name of the book and ended up finding the site by typing "fuck cross stitch" into Google.
I was going to cease and desist all book-buying activities (you all know there's a "but" coming into this, don't you), BUT....
The new fall issues of Interweave Knits and Vogue Knitting were out! I ended up skipping on the Vogue because the patterns didn't look appealing. I wish they stuck more to their current summer issue style, which has so many cute, fifties-style things!
I sense a theme in this post...
Interweave was all wrapped up, so I couldn't browse the patterns, but it promised the second half to their bit on lace knitting -- it's probably stuff I already theoretically know, but I am a total sucker for all things lace. So yes. I succumbed.
On a side note, Borders hates me. In other words: why does no bookstore I go to have vols. 6 and 7 of Planet Ladder?!?! I have finally decided that I will actually shell out money for it! And yet, no copies can be found!
Clearly it is a conspiracy of Machiavellian proportions.
On the way back, I saw the little vintage store down the street, which I've always ogled at and never entered. They had a sales rack in front. Alas and alack, most vintage clothes are not my size. But! I browsed and browsed and found all these beautiful clothes and giant circle skirts, and oh, oh, oh how I want them but they are waaaaay beyond my price range.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chi_zu, if you ever come here to visit, we must go together and look at all the cute stuff!
And of course I tried on a $400 dress on a whim, only to find it fit beautifully and was the most adorable thing ever! Navy polka dots on ivory chiffon, an above-ankle skirt that's wide and swishy, princess waist and a navy sash thing right around the ribcage, going to a peasant-esque bodice and slightly off the shoulder puff sleeves. The store owner said it was 40s, probably inspired by the garden gown from Gone With the Wind. I want it so badly.
And I am not even going into the absolutely adorable white lace parasols and the little perchy hats and the Victorian-style lace-up grannie boots (GAH! WANT!) and ohhhhhhhhh......
*whimpers*
But! I have discovered there will be a Vintage Fashion Expo in SF mid-September. Anyone want to go with me? Maybe I will be able to find vintage stuff that I can actually, y'know, afford.
I am wearing a spiffy little black dress with a v-neck and spaghetti straps; the skirt is very a-line and made of a chiffon-like material, so it swirls out gently. Alas and alack, it doesn't have quite as much fabric as a real fifties-style dress would, but I currently don't fit my real fifties-style dress.
In my weekly recon of Borders, I saw Subversive Cross Stitch, which has lovely floral borders and mottos like "Babies suck." I would totally make them if I still cross-stitched. I only wish that the stitches and the borders were even more elaborate and sappy and flowery, which would make the mottos that much better. There's a website too! As a side note, I forgot the name of the book and ended up finding the site by typing "fuck cross stitch" into Google.
I was going to cease and desist all book-buying activities (you all know there's a "but" coming into this, don't you), BUT....
The new fall issues of Interweave Knits and Vogue Knitting were out! I ended up skipping on the Vogue because the patterns didn't look appealing. I wish they stuck more to their current summer issue style, which has so many cute, fifties-style things!
I sense a theme in this post...
Interweave was all wrapped up, so I couldn't browse the patterns, but it promised the second half to their bit on lace knitting -- it's probably stuff I already theoretically know, but I am a total sucker for all things lace. So yes. I succumbed.
On a side note, Borders hates me. In other words: why does no bookstore I go to have vols. 6 and 7 of Planet Ladder?!?! I have finally decided that I will actually shell out money for it! And yet, no copies can be found!
Clearly it is a conspiracy of Machiavellian proportions.
On the way back, I saw the little vintage store down the street, which I've always ogled at and never entered. They had a sales rack in front. Alas and alack, most vintage clothes are not my size. But! I browsed and browsed and found all these beautiful clothes and giant circle skirts, and oh, oh, oh how I want them but they are waaaaay beyond my price range.
chi_zu, if you ever come here to visit, we must go together and look at all the cute stuff!And of course I tried on a $400 dress on a whim, only to find it fit beautifully and was the most adorable thing ever! Navy polka dots on ivory chiffon, an above-ankle skirt that's wide and swishy, princess waist and a navy sash thing right around the ribcage, going to a peasant-esque bodice and slightly off the shoulder puff sleeves. The store owner said it was 40s, probably inspired by the garden gown from Gone With the Wind. I want it so badly.
And I am not even going into the absolutely adorable white lace parasols and the little perchy hats and the Victorian-style lace-up grannie boots (GAH! WANT!) and ohhhhhhhhh......
*whimpers*
But! I have discovered there will be a Vintage Fashion Expo in SF mid-September. Anyone want to go with me? Maybe I will be able to find vintage stuff that I can actually, y'know, afford.