Black and Yellow

Subtitled: "Or Variations of Black and Yellow and When I Mean Yellow I Mean Gold

In This Issue:
1. Shoes by Bobsmade
2. Rachel-Marie I.
3. Fashion scans

4. Impromptu post is impromptu. Celebrating my school's success before it comes crashing down... Don't really care for basketball, though. And I still think that the names for VA suck. I mean, whose afraid of rams? Okay, so they can cause serious damage, like in the gum commercial. And at least the rams sounds better than the spiders... even though I am afraid of spiders.

The Birds

In this issue:
1. runway photos from style.com
2. still from "The Birds" (duh)
3. Tippi H.
4. a Barbie from the past
5. vomit from Pollock

6. Is testing to see if this post will show up hours after it had been typed.

7. Anyways, I've been meaning to write about Bottega
Veneta's FRTW collection for some time. But I can be lazy
at times and for some reason kept putting it off.
I decided to check out BV because of a few ads I saw in
Vogue (and Glamour, I think). My favorite featured this
beautiful apron-like dress the color of lemons... Okay,
not lemons, maybe mustard? Ah, who cares, it's one of the
above images (by the way, the image quality for the scans
are low because I don't want to take up space; their five
times bigger on my computer). Isn't it cute? It's the type
of dress that I would want to wear everywhere; to work,
school, the beach, a funeral.

The review on style mentioned a Hitchcock vibe and they're
absolutely right (at least the first part). Tights,
tweed, knitted sweaters, and that sculpted but wispy
hair. I started thinking of vintage Barbie for some
reason. The colors were awesome; hot pink, orange, some
purple-ish colors. There were some blacks and grays and
lace (?). Ah! I need to learn more about the different
fabrics. I just know jersey and cotton. I especially loved
the latter part of the collection where it looked more of
lace layered on different colors. Made me think of
Pollock, hence the painting.

If I ever land a job, and after taking care of bills, I
would buy one thing from Bottega Veneta (and it'd
probably be that lemon-colored dress).
The above were just some of my favs, the rest can be seen
on style.com.

8. text alignment is a bit off 'cause I copied and pasted from my notepad. Will try Word next time.

9. Also need to figure out how to keep the images the same size that I have them on my computer... I usually load them up being 400 pixels wide (the height doesn't matter)

10. Testing is a failure... but figured out how to save posts as drafts

Grow Some Big Feet

Finally got around to watching "Where the Wild Things Are" a week or two ago. I loved it. Though, for a story about a boy playing around with monsters, it was really depressing. Everyone was so angry. It could have been a lot more fun. But as I said, I did love the film. The expressions on the Wild Things' faces were so real and, of course, the songs were awesome.

[ "Where the Wild Things Are" title cards made by Geoff McFetridge (first one and the second one) and movie stills (first and second); girls from lookbook.nu (in order: Capucine P.; Erika M.; Margarita M.; and Johanna M.) movie stills from "Ponyo" (first and second); a road made by a hobbit (discovered that photo awhile ago and it's still with me); Lyra and Iorek (sp?) from "The Golden Compass"; and a still from "The Jungle Book." I need to go on my own adventure.]

Material Girl

There's something about "A Pair of Silk Stockings", a short story by Kate Chopin, that I love. It's simple: Mrs. Sommers receives fifteen dollars and ponders for two days on how to spend the vast sum of money (my inflation calculator says it’s at least $300 today). It starts off promising; Mrs. Sommers decides that the money is best spent on clothes and hats for her children.
But as soon as Mrs. Sommers starts shopping, the plan changes. Mrs. Sommers, someone who was once well-off, finds a pile of silk stockings and purchases one of them. Soon after, Mrs. Sommers spends the rest of the day in a whimsical, semi-Cinderella fairytale. She buys boots and kid gloves and “high-priced magazines.” She eats and drinks wine at a high-end restaurant with “shining crystal” and waiters attending to pricey customers. The rest of the money is spent attending a matinee and taking the cable car back home. The story ends with “a poignant wish” by Mrs. Sommers for the cable car to continue forever.
It’s a story that a lot of us could relate to. We have to choose between paying for what we need to pay for or for paying for something that we want. I feel that the story ended the right way; if we were to learn about what happened to Mrs. Sommers once she returned to her former life, it would lose the magic. I get the sense that it wouldn't end like Cinderella, with a hot and wealthy prince. I'm trying to be deep about this story but find myself unable to.

[ vintage photo by star11950; Olivia L. from Lookbook; Montgomery ward vintage gloves; Bebe Z. from Lookbook; Vanity Fair and *Vogue covers; Kerry L. from Lookbook; A Bar at the Folies-Bergere; Sparkling champagne; A couple of Mary Cassat (love her!) paintings, One and Two; and a Casino de Paris poster

*I can't remember where that Vogue cover came from
**No progress report for Thursday 'cause there's nothing to report @.@