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I have a pair of riding boots from ebay that were reasonably priced. They fit fairly well, though I think I will have to have the opening at the top widened - I can wear them as is, but the left boot is tight enough that I can't get pants to tuck into them.
I also have the materials needed to modify my cheap plastic internet goggles, and a respirator that I intend to pretty up for costuming uses. I'll also use the respirator for moving books and matresses so I don't have my throat swell shut, but there's no reason I can't look like a post-apocalyptic maniac while doing it.
I'm impatiently awaiting a new alienware desktop (I bought the bottom of the line!) and my back-ordered polar fleece hoodie, and a few different shipments of tie pins.
Why is it always when I'm most busy that I get the urge to work on creative stuff? when I have free time, I decide I'm bored and play video games instead.
I have a pair of riding boots from ebay that were reasonably priced. They fit fairly well, though I think I will have to have the opening at the top widened - I can wear them as is, but the left boot is tight enough that I can't get pants to tuck into them.
I also have the materials needed to modify my cheap plastic internet goggles, and a respirator that I intend to pretty up for costuming uses. I'll also use the respirator for moving books and matresses so I don't have my throat swell shut, but there's no reason I can't look like a post-apocalyptic maniac while doing it.
I'm impatiently awaiting a new alienware desktop (I bought the bottom of the line!) and my back-ordered polar fleece hoodie, and a few different shipments of tie pins.
Why is it always when I'm most busy that I get the urge to work on creative stuff? when I have free time, I decide I'm bored and play video games instead.
Caffinated brain still whirring away on random topics. Right now, it is designing clothes for Kaledioscope and general weirdness wear.
I really need to get a small, durable sketchbook for my backpack kit.
- A hooded robe made of sarong-weight black fabric. Slit on the sides to waist level with waist-ties to fit, like Thai fisherman's pants. Ideally, it's have some sort of tie or fastener at the wrist, too. With the ties, it should work as both a sun shield and a lightweight bug screen, while the light material should allow sweat to be wicked away.
- Black polar fleece hakama, for cold nights at bardic.
- Arm-warmers, either wool or black polar fleece, with decorative touches on the back of the hand and along the length.
- A jacket of some kind of warm material (though maybe not *more* black polar fleece) with pleats along the length of the sleeves, with a sort of cape-let of sheer pleated dark material along the back, most likely with a hood.
- Wrap pants with nifty cuffs of some kind (i.e., find some nifty fabric to put on the bottom, or silk-screen something myself)
- Utility belt of doom; instead of carry a man-purse or using my kilt pockets on a normal belt, I am imagining a heavy belt (probably fabric, at least the first try) with alternating snap-on pouches and loops that carabiners and the like can clip onto. Good for any time I'm wearing a garment with no pockets, espcially for things like kscope where I want to keep a flashlight and bug repellant with me at all times.
I really need to get a small, durable sketchbook for my backpack kit.
These guys make crazy clothes I could see myself wearing some of that stuff. Note to self - keep practising sewing and you, too, can make crazy clothes like this
Spiderman killed Mary Jane with his, uh, radioactive web fluid? Okay, then. I'll just... be over here. Watching Heroes. With my lead-lined underpants. (Link contains NSFW text)
Spiderman killed Mary Jane with his, uh, radioactive web fluid? Okay, then. I'll just... be over here. Watching Heroes. With my lead-lined underpants. (Link contains NSFW text)
I'm getting increasingly itchy to have more "cybergoth" clothes in my wardrobe. Then I see this. You fucking ravers, I swear. :) (reminder to self - you don't have enough money to go buy expensive clothes, even if some of them are technically allowable by work's dress code..)
I went out today and bought pretty much everything that I need for my Halloween costumes. I need to do a little sewing to make the Batman cape and cowl, but I have enough fabric leftover from previous costumes and unmade projects that I got to avoid fabricland this year.
I am also becoming a little unsettled by the changes in sizing in mens' clothing. I'm starting to have a hard time finding pants that fit - when I was 18, it seemed that most pants were sized "square" - the waist and inseam the same size, or close to that. Now that I'm back in that size range, the pants with the right waist size seem to assume that I'm about 5' 0". Also, some (but not all) manufacturers have redefined "large" so that, even though my torso is much bigger than it was when I was 18, I'm now wearing a medium.
I give into my yuppie urges today and bought a couple space aged exercise shirts - one with crazy warming fibres (seems to be warmed than my wool sweater), and another with crazy moisture dispersing fibres. Both include thumbholes stitched into the sleeves, which makes me absurdly happy. They also look like surperhero outfits, which doesn't hurt either.
On the downside, the apartment is in a mess, my network is broken and I didn't make it to the grocery store, so I have no food that I want to eat. I do need to eat something, though, before I go out to dance all night at DarkRave. I also didn't get laundry done, because there was a significant lineup in the laundry room when I went down, likely caused by one of the machines being broken. It looks like the broken machine flooded at least part of that floor.
I am also becoming a little unsettled by the changes in sizing in mens' clothing. I'm starting to have a hard time finding pants that fit - when I was 18, it seemed that most pants were sized "square" - the waist and inseam the same size, or close to that. Now that I'm back in that size range, the pants with the right waist size seem to assume that I'm about 5' 0". Also, some (but not all) manufacturers have redefined "large" so that, even though my torso is much bigger than it was when I was 18, I'm now wearing a medium.
I give into my yuppie urges today and bought a couple space aged exercise shirts - one with crazy warming fibres (seems to be warmed than my wool sweater), and another with crazy moisture dispersing fibres. Both include thumbholes stitched into the sleeves, which makes me absurdly happy. They also look like surperhero outfits, which doesn't hurt either.
On the downside, the apartment is in a mess, my network is broken and I didn't make it to the grocery store, so I have no food that I want to eat. I do need to eat something, though, before I go out to dance all night at DarkRave. I also didn't get laundry done, because there was a significant lineup in the laundry room when I went down, likely caused by one of the machines being broken. It looks like the broken machine flooded at least part of that floor.
In a similar vein to the silk-screening class I am thinking about taking at some point;
Sew Be It has sewing classes. I'm thinking about signing up. Anyone interested in going to the beginner class with me?
I also note that they run classes on leather working and corset making, for people with more talent and drive than I. Some of the "easy workshops" look like fun, too.
Sew Be It has sewing classes. I'm thinking about signing up. Anyone interested in going to the beginner class with me?
I also note that they run classes on leather working and corset making, for people with more talent and drive than I. Some of the "easy workshops" look like fun, too.
Swap meet! I got pretty clothes! I gave pretty clothes! Much thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tormenta for hosting! I did not expect to come away with so much stuff, and I definitely did not expect so much of the stuff I came away with to come from mycrazyhair. And no, there will be no pictures - if you want to see, you'll have to do it in person.
And now, to bed, because I am lame and tired.
tormenta for hosting! I did not expect to come away with so much stuff, and I definitely did not expect so much of the stuff I came away with to come from mycrazyhair. And no, there will be no pictures - if you want to see, you'll have to do it in person. And now, to bed, because I am lame and tired.
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I've been sketching clothes I want, but can't make, due to lack of skill. I'm seriously considering trying to see if I can find someone in town to make some of these, and see how affordable it is.
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Anyone have recommendations for sewing classes in Toronto? I'll have to learn how to use a pattern some day.
Also, anyone know where I can get opera gloves in men's sizes? How about how much a pair of riding boots should cost?
I don't have the cash to do any of this stuff right now, but my brain seems determined to think of stuff, so the rest of you get punished for it.
On related notes:
Anyone have recommendations for sewing classes in Toronto? I'll have to learn how to use a pattern some day.
Also, anyone know where I can get opera gloves in men's sizes? How about how much a pair of riding boots should cost?
I don't have the cash to do any of this stuff right now, but my brain seems determined to think of stuff, so the rest of you get punished for it.
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