fashion sense

[quietann]

So... I have a lot of long rayon skirts and dresses, which are fine right now, but when it gets colder... Would it be totally dorky to wear leggings underneath them, with granny boots? And where does one even get leggings (preferably with stirrups), anyway? Or heavy tights? For someone who is definitely on the edge of "queen-sized"?

(links below will go through makeashorterlink.com)

Speaking of granny boots, what do people think of these? (I have a discount coupon, so they won't be so outrageously expensive.) And if I am spending money, what do folks think of this dress? Or this one?

or am I being just too hopelessly naive about what looks good on me here?

Comments

[thespian.livejournal.com]

all those links just lead to the front of the site, not to the item in question...

[quietann.livejournal.com]

that's odd; they work for me just fine using Mozilla.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

it's not your browser, it's that it's keeping track of your user session. (note the shopperid field.)

[quietann.livejournal.com]

thanks, all fixed now :)

[quietann.livejournal.com]

updated now, should work

[thespian.livejournal.com]

the granny boots are really neat. i didn't like either of the others, but that's a style issue; I am a bad judge of anything I'd never ever where except at my mother's behest. Which doesn't mean anything about the clothes, but more about my relationship with my mother. But the boots rock.

Avenue is where I buy all my clothes while in the US, and they rock. I've had problems with pants of theirs being TOO big. I've bought winter tights there in years past, and so, if they have clothes that fit me, and I'm emerging from the other side of Queen Size, they'll have them that fit you. They're also *really* reasonably priced, and if you sign up with their mailing list, they send out really good coupons to boot.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

hm, interesting idea. I think for hosiery, I'll try Avenue. I'm actually just a bit too small for most plus-sized clothing, though their size 14 may fit me. The hosiery issue arises mostly because my legs are *really* heavy for someone my size.

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

You and I should go shopping together sometime. We have similar tastes. At least, in terms of what I like to wearwhen not climbing truss or crawling under stages! When I do wear dresses for a nice evening out they are very similar to the stuff you picked. Most of the dresses and skirts in my closet are like that.

You should also look at April Cornell. (Store name) they have an outlet store in faneuil hall and 2 more stores in the chestnut hill mall and in harvard square. Check the sale racks. I get some good deals in off season clothes. If you want to go sometime let me know....

[quietann.livejournal.com]

hm, I walk by Faneuil Hall on the days when I walk from North Station to work...

[docorion.livejournal.com]

Well, the boots are excellent; the dresses are also very pretty (speaking as someone who doesn't really have a good idea of what you look like, but who likes vintage (inspired) clothing), except that if you already have a lot of rayon skirts and dresses, is getting more really what you want to do?

But the boots do have It, I must say. For my personal value of It.

And finally, wearing leggings under the dresses is both good fashion sense and good winter clothing sense. And you can choose leggings to get whatever look you want (lemon yellow leggings say one thing, and plain brown leggings say quite another, you see...).

(Says the boy who is frequently envious of the clothing choices available as standard for women, as the choices available as standard for men are often boring. Probably I should take someone along when I shop...)

[quietann.livejournal.com]

Good note on the rayon... As for what I look like, short and chubby, big hips, big-boned in general (but not huge... I am probably ~30 pounds overweight, based on what looks good for me.) Your ex-GF H just inherited a bunch of my work clothes that are now too small for me, so I am a little bigger than her I guess.

Your endorsement of the boots is a good thing :)

I have a number of cross-dressing male friends who are into it at least partially because it gives them more choices. Guy clothing seems to have about 5 "standard" outfits, and rarely varies from that. too bad, really...

I quite like the boots.

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, neither of the dresses really does very much for me.

We should go shopping together sometime.

Then again, I think you look good wearing nothing.

Re: I quite like the boots.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

Visit me in October :)

And you have not seen me naked in... well, almost 2 years. The body is not aging well, and the aging process is accelerating.

[donnad.livejournal.com]

I really like the boots. But to me the dresses look kinda... frumpy. I think you would look great in something just about knee length in rich dark jewel tones, or maybe brown velvet or velour, with tights and those boots. For a person of your height, you don't want to go with really long dresses because they will make you look shorter and wider (not that I'm saying your short or wide...)

I would stick to solid dark color skirts with solid and print pattern blouses. If you are choosing dresses over skirts and blouses, I would stick to solid colors.
Have you looked at the Lane Bryant catalog recently. Or http://blair.com/ I really like Blair and have gotten many things from them for both casual and dressy occasions.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

I can see all this, but... part of the reason I like my dresses and skirts long and flowy is to cover up my calves, which are gi-normous. The left one also has a very painful lump, probably a neuroma, on the front. THough I do wear shorts sometimes, it's only when the lump isn't so obvious. I have a doctor appointment right after Worldcon to have it evaluated.

I have a long-time dislike of solid colors, because I am a messy little person, and spill things on myself regularly. I've ruined too much solid-colored clothing to count... However, I agree w/you WRT pants; printed pants are just all wrong for me :)

I am a little too small for Lane Bryant, and hope to stay that way. I'm pushing the larger end of the petite sizes now.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Love the boots, wish they came in my size. The dresses don't do anything for me, but that's me.

I wear leggings and tights under skirts all the time, personally.

[chhotii.livejournal.com]

Nice boots! um, not in that sense

[rmd.livejournal.com]

And where does one even get leggings (preferably with stirrups), anyway? Or heavy tights? For someone who is definitely on the edge of "queen-sized"?

i'd check www.decentexposures.com. i got a pair of their cotton leggings (the link above is their lycra leggings) last winter when i couldn't wear pants and boston was colder than mars, and they were great.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

and i'm a dork for not closing that a tag in the above comment. ah well.