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Nov. 24th, 2015 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotI bought some really cute tights and three pairs of thick stockings from Sock Dreams. The stockings do all go over my knees, but they're all too thick for garter clips to hold them up. I'm going to try out just wearing them as-is, but might have to get band garters.
So my second Butterick 5556 looks really 80s, I think, but mainly because it's so brown. Very Nostalgia of Mud. Maybe I'll get use to it, though. And in my next dress, I'm going to tone the FB down, I've been adding something like 4" and I think it's just too much. But even Mom likes this one! You don't understand, we hate each other's clothes (although we have very similar feelings about really historical styles - that stripped-down thing I go for is totally the way she dresses IRL).
I think I left my cheapo Walmart fake diamond girandole-style earrings in the motel in Ottawa. :( And I didn't even wear them. Going to write/call and ask them about it, meanwhile look harder here.
The director at the museum in Potsdam asked me to bring over an outfit for them to dress for their Dickensian Christmas thing, so I brought them my Cranford cotton gown. And then I got a tour of the collections storage, which is a little scattered, but their clothing is all very neatly put into (horrible heavy Hollinger) boxes and put into custom-built wooden shelving so that each box has its shelf and you don't have to stack them. Got some envy there! And then since I'd gone all the way to Potsdam, I figured I'd go to the co-op, which is like the health-food store in Canton (I'm pretty sure they're affiliated in some way) but twice as large - I got some things we don't have in Canton, like lard (what will I do with it? I don't know!) and barley malt syrup and tofu and a piece of baklava. That was a nice treat. It's was all enough to make me wish I had friends, so we could go hang out and walk around in Potsdam where they have some stores to window-shop in. #foreveralone
So my second Butterick 5556 looks really 80s, I think, but mainly because it's so brown. Very Nostalgia of Mud. Maybe I'll get use to it, though. And in my next dress, I'm going to tone the FB down, I've been adding something like 4" and I think it's just too much. But even Mom likes this one! You don't understand, we hate each other's clothes (although we have very similar feelings about really historical styles - that stripped-down thing I go for is totally the way she dresses IRL).
I think I left my cheapo Walmart fake diamond girandole-style earrings in the motel in Ottawa. :( And I didn't even wear them. Going to write/call and ask them about it, meanwhile look harder here.
The director at the museum in Potsdam asked me to bring over an outfit for them to dress for their Dickensian Christmas thing, so I brought them my Cranford cotton gown. And then I got a tour of the collections storage, which is a little scattered, but their clothing is all very neatly put into (horrible heavy Hollinger) boxes and put into custom-built wooden shelving so that each box has its shelf and you don't have to stack them. Got some envy there! And then since I'd gone all the way to Potsdam, I figured I'd go to the co-op, which is like the health-food store in Canton (I'm pretty sure they're affiliated in some way) but twice as large - I got some things we don't have in Canton, like lard (what will I do with it? I don't know!) and barley malt syrup and tofu and a piece of baklava. That was a nice treat. It's was all enough to make me wish I had friends, so we could go hang out and walk around in Potsdam where they have some stores to window-shop in. #foreveralone
