Quickly quickly before I go out to watch Gregg Araki films (Kaboom is ace), drink ginger beer Shandy's & forget all my money woes here is the dress I got in Glasgow, or rather my father kindly gifted me with. It's meant to be full length as you can see by the 4th picture & online here, although it's also a lot more creamy than mine online too. But however much fashion magazines & catwalks are taking inspiration from Big Love sometimes I just don't feel like looking like a peasant/Mormon. So I took a belt, held it up around my waist and belted through all the fabric (& slip) as much as I could. I was left with a little excess at the back as a sort of bustle, but I put it to the side & we'll just call it a design feature. Now all I need to do is sort out my horribly bruised legs & summer ahoy! (PS does anyone else find puzzling tattoos peeping through lace/crochet/sheer fabrics completely absorbing? To the extend they cannot continue in normal conversation?)
Its also kind of fed the fact that marriage & the idea of it seems to be following me around lately. First my manager at work was getting married (not very significant) then a couple of my friends got engaged, then I discovered someone had already thought about engagement rings for some lucky lady in the future, also that someone else had already resolutely decided with her boyfriend that they were completely against marriage. It's funny how marriage is either something people idolize & fantasize about a la rom-coms, or completely do not want to be associated with in the slightest & completely don't understand. I think it has to do with your parents mostly, mine were never married & didn't work out, so I don't have any bad associations with marriage, whereas most of my friends of divorced parents do not want to get married. Anyway it's just a dress. A dress that I suspect was Zara's highstreet take on one Mrs. Princess' (is she a Princess?) dress, so for now I will wear it short & only long when trying to freak out the boy. Mwah ha ha ha.
Also the scary bottom photo is in aid of presenting you, internet world, with my new ring. New as of almost a month ago now, but I am slow on the news bringing. I've wanted an evil eye for a while but nothing seemed ok enough to part with my cash under the eyes of the scary goths in Twilight Fashions, who look at me in disgust. But the lovely J-meister gave it to me for the anniversary & so it has joined his other ring on my own very little *scary goth* hand.
Tomorrow I will be spending some quality time with the internet, catching up on all your wonderful blogs & returning comments in shame at my delay in doing so. Also, there will be an extra very special AMAZING post tomorrow so if you are still reading...check back then!
Goth love.
jess! thanks I got your package today ACE xx
ReplyDeletecorpse bride? so much love for the ring, worth the eveil eyes from the goths. imagine me prancing round camden? yeah, i can empathise with your situation. marriage... well, i'll never rule it out (who can?) but right now it's really not seeming like an option for me. xxx
ReplyDeletei dont believe i've let you know how much i like your assortment of rings. you have taste :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful dress :) Love your ring too! love this look, thanks for your comment :)
ReplyDeleteLove, Vanilla
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Lovely dress! The ring freaked me out a bit- in a good way. Great accessory!
ReplyDeleteSincerely,
Sabrina
This dress is great. Love the way you made it shorter. I am slightly scared of your last photo with the ring though hehehe. I know what you mean about marriage- and loads of my friends have got engaged recently too. I have several engagement parties the next few weeks. Oh and I think from now on Kate Middleton should definitely be referred to as MRS Princess!! :-) x
ReplyDeleteI love that vintage dress! It has an older victorian feel, love it!
ReplyDeleteMaryjane xoxo
goth love.
ReplyDeletere: glasgow, we actually did go to quite a few of the places you mentioned, we walked down that lane with the vintage shops on and that funny arcade. i wasn't really after buying anything it was just a nice browse. there was a fancy pants menswear shop down there too called W1 i think. did a bit of research and it turns out it was once a comme des garcons show room, now it sells comme and a couple of other brands. we walked behind the other side of the road down to all these cool looking resturants and stuff which was nice again too then onto kelvingrove.
that cinema sounds really cool and another friend suggested the lighthouse but we ran out of time really. the one gigish place we went to was the arches, where a friend works but it was dead as a dodo. thanks for all the info though, logged for next time.
marridge eh, i'm up for it but not yet. not in a good position to and there's no rush really. it does do my head in people constantly asking though. the ring is wicked, i remember having a necklace with an eye on when i was a kid