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Maria Bamford - Cat Lover, Style Icon.

Class Acts - Part Deux

Hogwarts - Class of Dumbledore's Barmy Army
















To Sir With Lu-Lu-Luv





































Mona Lisa Smirk













































Flirting with the outskirts



















































Getting a Clue









































Croquet Club

Back to School Special: Class Acts - Part One

I've had a very comprehensive education at various institutions, in no particular order (well, that's not entirely true).

I present, my fashionable classmates of:

Grange Hill

Head of the Class

TV 101

Degrassi Jr. High

Heartbreak High

Norbridge Comprehensive

Zonkers!!!!

20s/70s

Tracked down a photo of a favourite maxidress of mine & Sarah's. We've been thinking about it a fair bit recently because it sports the most splendid 1970's illustrations of 1920's flapper gals. We're all about the era-meld at the moment. 50's/80's is my default setting, with occasional excursions into 40's/70's.
It really was such a gorgeous summer sundress. If only there was a family snap of Sarah & I in our matching dresses - if my memory serves it was a 1979 Christmas present for us both?
I would wear that shimmylicious slip again in a click of some castanets.

My photoface hasn't changed much, the cheesey grin is just older & mouldier now!

xgenie (aka Little Moon Face)

"Oh, coulda, shoulda, Prada!"

Here's lookin' at you, Smitty. Happy new year/season/hemline/liver.
xo

Shelf-bust 101

Talk about dreams imitating life imitating art imitating Clueless (well actually it was more of a montage of Clueless, Pretty in Pink and Slipper & the Rose)... In a dream last night, Sarah was designing me the most perfect party frock. Actually she had about three on the go because I wasn't exactly sure what style I liked the most and had to see them all constructed & photographed before I could commit (typical!). All of the dresses had '50s shelf-bust features. And '80s extravagance. The dresses were made variously from polka-dot taffetta (sky-blue with black 5c piece sized spots, pink with black, black with white). So, the purpose of this post is to express my conscious & subconscious love of the shelf-bust feature. And to explain to Sarah exactly what it is - something I didn't quite manage over muesli this morning. I may have used the term "shelf-bra" & really that conjures up images of '90s hip-house bustiers & the like.

So Sarah, this is what I was getting at:

And this:

Note the awesome airguns the brunette in lemon is packin'. Airguns! When a dress inspires airguns you know it's what I like to call a "Party in a Dress".

So, reckon we can put up a shelf-bust or two in my wardrobe? Don't panic, I don't mean for the witness-dress, just as a summer building project.

Perhaps we can combine it with the Magyar Sleeve project.

Ohhh and a quick yogel of Magyar just informed me that by definition, Magyar, being a sleeve cut from the body of a garment is technically a batwing!