fashion thinky

I need a new jacket, having lost (sob!) my Pava's black leather trench. Alas, poor coat.

I need a hat, because otherwise my nose will burn.

Would it be totally ridiculous and steamrat-ish to buy a brown linen duster (I want a new leather jacket, too, but it's not the season for a heavy coat yet) and a, um, a fedora? I kind of have a hankering for a Victorian lady adventuress persona, a la Amelia Peabody, or Indiana Jones-meets-Gwendolyn Fairfax-by-way-of-Cordelia Naismith. And a tan or brown linen jacket of a sufficiently unassuming cut would go okay either with a t-shirt and jeans or with a walking skirt and perhaps some sort of bodice. I realize that the fedora is a bit cliche, what with the new Indy movie, but... but. It's awfully tempting, and I'm excited to have a fashion paradigm that's so appealing.

(I am trying to convince jmpava that a tasteful steampunk decorating theme would be awesome for the new place. Emphasis on tasteful -- I don't want anything garish or cluttered-looking myself, and random gears stuck everywhere is passé -- but it seems to be a plausible way to bridge his desire for the simplicity of glass and black metal and my desire for something a bit more old-fashioned with wood and colors. He isn't biting yet, though. Of course, given how many things we saw at Uwajimaya and went 'omg, that's awesome!', we might go more that route, though I think I'd feel like a poseur going too heavy on the Japanese influences.)

I should also probably get more long hippy skirts, since I have exactly one and I wear it so often I'm going to wear it out, but I'm sure I'll have ample opportunity for that at the umpty-million street fairs in the summer. Or I could probably make one -- the pattern is fairly simple -- though I do not as currently have a sewing machine and there isn't really room in the budget to buy one until we've got necessary house-ish things out of the way first.

Fashion is a lot more fun when I'm worrying about what I want to look like and not at all about what's in style, though I still don't go for the extremes -- I'm too introverted a person to want to be stared at.

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It seems like half my flist is down with one illness or another. (Apparently Wiscon got hit with a norovirus strain, nasty stuff. I still badly want to go to Wiscon, but I have to say, I feel better about missing this year!) Everyone who's unwell, take care of yourselves, and I hope you recover quickly.

(My stomach is bothering me, too, but I halfway wonder if it isn't just suggestion from reading about illness all day... Time for tea, I think, on the principle that placebo-cure is the best solution for suggestion-induced-illness.)