jackson towers

dinner party. wow, these pictures are several months old...oh well.

norma on the phone, navy blue dress and boots.

chef emily rocking an apron and miniskirt in the kitchen

i'm wearing a disturbingly yellow dress from a neighborhood church rummage sale. it has lace cutouts on the back and also came with a shoulderpadded short-sleeved jacket! extreme...too extreme for me to wear as a set until i'm about 60 years old.

marie and lizzie, pondering in glitter and blue and black.

striped glynis and plaid flannel todd.

the general scene

princess day

this ancient denim skirt is so flouncy i always feel like a ridiculous princess wearing it. a cowboy princess?

cheap old heels, big h&m shirt, messy bedroom.

london-town

the last of this winter's tea party pictures...

rachel goes to an arts university in london. she is insanely skilled at making things, and also at finding just the right amount of vintage craziness. bonus: knee socks!

me in my own vintage dress and my favorite belt, with rachel. as usual, i am barefoot...i am just not made for wearing shoes inside houses.

hootenanny

some shots from a few months ago, the last time i was in dc. i am still, amazingly enough, friends with basically the same group of people i loved in ninth grade and before.

andrew, intent on his banjo, and in plaid.

a few of my favorite gentlemen. sean looks crisp; teddy looks quizzical.

lovely cory, also in plaid!

i hammed it up in two vintage sweaters (it was cold) and a vintage shirt, with micah.

nicolectric

nicole is one of my favorite people to photograph.

love the tights...yep, they've got built-in knee patches. i also never get up the guts to wear tights with peep-toe shoes, and this is evidence that i should just do it.

all coated up and ready to head outside. note the footwear change! i can't figure out the coat...is it double-breasted?

gilded blue

this was my museum-visiting outfit. i thought i'd never say this, but i miss the shanghai heat and cozy smog.

skirt, purse, and omnipresent black flats are secondhand; shirt is a north face hiking shirt that i like to travel with because it fits perfectly and refuses to get stinky or dirty; little cut-glass earrings are from the yuyuan bazaar; gold-and-blue scarf is from suzhou.

inside the shanghai art museum. it says "the people."

burgundy

i haven't done a good-ol'-fashioned outfit post in a bit.

here is what i wore to the first day of school this term: vintage black dress (long-sleeved with really thick fabric); beloved burgundy sweater that used to belong to my grandmother; scarf i bought at a "yard" (apartment) sale last year; thermal bottoms; and my favorite favorite boots, whose appearances i struggle to limit to a couple per week.

i'm in my new bedroom in a new apartment in this photo! my sadly white walls have, by now, been covered in posters.

nicole's

a week or two ago i went over to a friend's house for food, love, and clothes.

nicole's parents are foodies and it appears she's inherited something. she made apple/mango chutney/grilled cheese sandwiches. jeez. she is wearing a high-waisted (vintage?) skirt...i have similarly been finding myself tucking everything in recently.

going through her clothes.

shiny dresses.

dissapearing!

back from the wilderness

so, believe it or not, i was a camp counselor this summer...i took kids rock climbing and caving and lived without electricity or air conditioning for two and a half months, and it was incredible. camp style was pretty much along the lines of comfy t-shirts and basketball or khaki shorts, and the number-one in-demand jewelry item was the friendship bracelet--i loved it. i am now finally home. expect the posts to be coming more regularly for a while.

i just wanted to show off my cousin, legacy...she was featured on stylelikeu, a sweet fashion profile blog, while i was away at my job. a love for excellent old clothes runs a bit in my family: it appears that both me and legacy enjoy pilfering our mother's closets.

here's legacy in one of the photos from stylelikeu:

professorial

one of my favorite things about university is dressing like i'm an old-school academic type: blazers, scarves, and dorky shoes are the way to go.

i'm wearing my mom's blazer and shoes, a shirt a friend left behind when she graduated, miss sixty jeans, a ripoff burberry scarf, and a seconhand cardigan.


red & orange. fabulous blazer lining and forever 21 junk ring.

cowboy flannel

here i am, wearing my favorite cowboy boots and one of my favorite dresses with a secondhand cardigan over it. the dress is made from reworked flannel shirts and was a steal on sale at urban outfitters...they had about 10 different other colors of the dress there and i wish i had picked up a bunch of them!

inaugural ball

here's a good old picture: this is me at my school's party for obama's inauguration. the purse is a
treasured little marc jacobs thing i got from my cousin a few years ago. the belt is vintage.

pink rainy day

dressed for a rainy day, from february or maybe early march:

two pairs of tights to brave the cold, of course.


here are my earrings...they are little wolves. every female science teacher i've ever had wore things like this. good stuff.

recessionista

the student fashion show this term was called recessionista. i've been involved with most of the shows since i've been at university so it was nice to just watch. i got front-row tickets. here's the view of attendees from my seat:


i went with glynis. my shirt is my mom's from a while ago. glynis is wearing beads that my friend got in bhutan.

tea party 7

here are some more photos i found from my tea party back in january.

this is me. i'm wearing a skirt that used to be my mom's. about fifty or sixty percent of the clothing i wear regularly used to belong to either my mom, my dad, or one of my grandmothers. the shirt is from target; i have it in size XL in three colors (usually i never ever do that with clothing) and it is the comfiest, baggiest, nicest thing ever. i have stolen nicole's shoes--at the party, about 6 different people were wearing them at some point. the necklace is a charm from a vintage rope belt strung on an old chain.

tea party 6

okay, so i have absolutely no idea of why i didn't put this photo up when i was doing the rest of the pictures in january...sorry ms. rachel!

here's rachel, 18, at a dc tea party.
this is really an excellent outfit that few people could pull off, but rachel does it with ease. the dress has a sweet print and i think it is vintage/secondhand. great combination of dress and boots too.

twenties ball

there was a 1920s-themed ball in our building last weekend. there were moments while i was at the ball in which i looked around and didn't see one clue that it was 2009. people looked flawless.

flannel

eddie, 18.
flannel is back.
eddie got these excellent boots either for free or near it at a church rummage sale.

butterflies

maria, 19, backstage at a student fashion show.
maria is wearing vintage reworked by victoria maya. i love the fit and colors, although the butterflies make the dress almost too extreme for actually wearing out.