Back to blue for Fall 14. Wardrobe and weather not quite up to season yet but with a subtle shift in the make-up things feel new.
Some new fall color from Dior and NARS.
Eyeshadow Palette | 276 Carré Bleu | Dior
Rouge Dior | 317 Bar | Dior
Lip Liner Pencil | 169 Grège | Dior
Dior Vernis | 796 Carré Bleu | Dior
Larger Than Life Long-Wear Eyeliner | Rue Saint-Honoré | NARS
Yesterday achieved a 75% success rate with some DIY wardrobe work.
Reattached original jean hem to two pair of DL Florence skinnies, close to looking like who ever knew. Re-hemmed a pair of silk twill cargos, actually did the work three times, once two weeks ago Friday and wore them out that night, they didn’t feel great. Knew they weren’t right so there they sat for another two weeks until yesterday when they were tackled again, this time it took two tries to get it right and now they are good. Actually wearing them today while working and doing the runaround. Success.
Leather culottes? Not so much. Feeling strong after having accomplished a good length on three pair of pants decided to rip-stich these leather pants at the seam around the mid-leg. The length of your pant can tell so much: you’re perfect model height and those jeans just hit you at the exact right spot, or, you’re like 99.9 percent like the rest of us and you’re pant length needs some adjusting.
Home hemming your leather culottes is a definite DIY fashion don’t. Googled ‘how to sew leather’ after seam-ripping one leg in half, cutting 1 3/4″ off of each end, and then attempting, unsuccessfully, to sew them back together. Have been sewing since about 5th grade so decided why not? You never know until you try, right?
In addition to sewing on leather playing with proportion can be a challenging thing which led me to cutting the pants at the knee in the first place. When something needs to be shortened you need to look at the entire garment, even skinny jeans can taper at the end and can cause a little puckering at a new hem length if not considered. These leather culottes were pieced at the knee and having been told that to shorten them you simply had to cut the desired length of the bottom of the pant I should have listened. The hook was in seeking to create the correct placement of the mid-leg seam where the skins were sewn together. As the legs on this body are on the short side kind of wanted to put that mid-leg seam further up on the leg to create a longer line. Bombed. Leather is unforgiving and the tiniest indiscretion shows big. Way above the current skill level. Off to the experts we go.
Expensive mistake but okay. If you don’t try you’ll never know. 75% success rate is acceptable here and we learned something: probably don’t attempt a DIY wardrobe rework on a leather garment unless you simply plan to cut the bottom off, and this I’m thinking is probably a bit tricky. Funny thing is just might try it again if I can get my hands on some leather sewing needles, synthetic thread, binder clips, and feel confident in adjusting the thread tension. For now taking this pair to the professional tailor.
If he can’t fix the mess perhaps I’ll simply cut them off some more and make both legs equal. I’ll then have an awesome pair of leather shorts, now those are so useful. 🙂
Every day dress, DIY fashion don’t. Mistakes happen, moving on.
Wishing everyone a fantastic weekend.
When fashion week is going on in the big city and you claim you’re a fashion and lifestyle blog and you’re home working, you kind of have to default to the lifestyle stuff, how in the world else can the content be the least bit interesting? There are tons of blogs and social sites out there reporting on all that’s happening, and we’re home watching.
We’ve talked about this before, this is an every day site, accessible to all and existing to inspire to find the good and the style in the every day of every day.
So, here’s what’s been happening: husband and I have decided there’s been much too indulgence in the French trinity of bread, wine, cheese. Cutting back on all but heck no not eliminating. And back to the gym, this new trainer is all about push-ups. Politely asked the trainer that in addition to the body we could focus on the chin, arms, abs trinity, ha.
Lunch for two inspired by NET-A-PORTER video of some fabulous stylish London woman prepping a salad with one egg for the protein part. Oh, it was beautiful, and sometimes think that vegetables and one egg could do it for lunch but have now lived long enough and have kind of learned that maybe there’s more. There’s always so much to do after lunch: work, house, pick-up, laundry, garden, dinner, clean-up, dogs etc etc.
When it’s just two, greens and a piece of cod, quite nice.
When it’s six you need to mix in some rice, and some tortillas, and a pile of cheese. Vegetables still there, and green peppers are prime now, so sauté those separately from the onions and then stir them all together when both are at the right doneness.
Every day dress, lunch for two dinner for six. Fashion coming back soon, off to France again this coming weekend. Oh, trinity, bread, wine, cheese.
Last week Friday for a friend, a colleague, and a friend and a colleague, agreed to wear some fun new Fall stuff for their Fall Fashion Update. Second son DJ’d, and two youngest daughters were there too. Family affair, just how we like it.
Seems like so many rules going on now: eat this, don’t eat that. wear this, don’t wear that, keep on top of your social media, not. We’re going with what we can when we can.
Wearing some Helmut Lang for all the friends. When asked to show some stuff for others they can have their way. The red was good, first choice probably black, haha. Black stretch leather skirt, total score.
Every day dress, obey the rules, not. Hope you’re all having a great weekend and doing what you can when you can. 🙂 It’s been a downright busy back to school week.
Helmut Lang jacket and skirt | at Tony Walker & Co.
Day-tripped to the place in the country for a summer’s end picnic in, of course, white shirt, blue jeans. Not ready to wear Fall clothes, yet the summer things feel a little tired. Did a DIY dark manicure and grabbed an old dark satchel to set the mood a little.
Seems it’s time to gather it in and begin again. Bittersweet.
Every day dress, gather it in.
White Shirt (old) | Worth New York
Enamored Hi-Shine Nail Lacquer | 152 BARK! | Marc Jacobs Beauty | at Sephora
Bag (9 years old) | Donna Karan New York
