Three Dresses and Two Cocktails
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beautyofgrey– photos of the dresses I bought yesterday! All from Nordstrom Rack, all under $50.
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I wore this one to work today! I really like the little rosette on it.
I have been having a little love affair with dresses that I probably would never have even considered wearing a couple of years ago. The kind that look frumpy on the hanger! The kind with crazy prints that look like the Von Trapp Family’s discarded curtains. When I started working at King Features, I had to upgrade my wardrobe after a year of working out of my apartment and having to dress for comic shows. I mean, I cuted up, but my cuting up involved cute tee shirts and floofy skirts, and I needed to step it up a little.
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This one is a little little-girly, but I freaking loved the fabric too much to pass it up. It’s crazy soft and floaty and reminds me of a dress I had in college, that had butterflies on it in similar colors.
The thing is that at first I was buying slacks and stuff, and that’s just not me. I mean, like I was saying to drjeff, if I had my druthers, I would still be wearing ball gowns and shit like I did in college. And I just had no idea how to dress like me but still like a grownup. It was awkward. I think I posted a bunch of posts here asking people how to dress, but I just didn’t quite get it.
It didn’t help that my body type made dressing hard. I mean, I am lucky in that I’m a normal dress size
(6-8), but my boobs pretty much mean that a lot of clothes are out. Strapless? Out. Strappy? Out. Halter? Nope. Backless? Nope. Nothing with an empire waist or any kind of decoration around the bustline, because it always falls at the wrong place.
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This one isn’t my typical style, really, but I really liked the print and the sleeves! I was on a cute floral print kick, apparently! Which I like because so many colors!
And then I started watching Mad Men, and like every single person who has ever seen Mad Men, developed a huge crush on Christina Hendricks. In between fanning myself off, though, I noticed that here’s finally someone who is pretty much exactly my size. We have almost the same measurements and it was like, hello, lightbulb! I can see how all these clothes look on her and try to buy things with similar styles. And that’s what I’ve been doing since, well, the end of last summer. And I never feel like I’ve put something stupid on because I don’t know how to dress anymore!
On to drinks!
Highland Park
Ingredients
2.5 oz G’Vine gin
.5 oz limoncello
1/4 cup fresh lilac blossoms (removed from stems) plus some blossoms for garnish.
.25 oz St. Germain
Instructions
Add gin, limoncello, lilacs to pitcher or glass with ice and muddle well.
Let sit for 5 minutes
Coat 1 chilled glass with St. Germain, discard excess
Pour, garnish with remaining lilacs.
Remedy (This and variations on this is what I was drinking all last week when I was crazy sick)
Ingredients
2 oz Bulldog gin
1 oz Elisir MP Roux
1 Tb local honey
Instructions
Put all ingredients in a pitcher or glass with ice and stir. You need to stir for a while to get the honey to dissolve if you are using thick honey.
Pour into chilled glass!
That is all!
Mirrored from Antagonia.net.
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Date: 2011-05-26 02:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-26 02:36 am (UTC)And thank you!
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Date: 2011-05-26 09:41 am (UTC)You would look completely stunning in this, I think, based on the floral dress and your description of your shape. I have it from their Curve range--it does need a sneaky safety pin to keep your cleavage from escaping, but I am willing to forgive it. It's a power suit in slightly slinky form.
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Date: 2011-05-26 02:36 am (UTC)AND you called the drink with the lilacs Highland Park, which back in Rochester has the awesome Lilac Festival every year, so I'd normally be all homesick but now I'm just happy I'm going there this weekend. So yay.
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Date: 2011-05-26 02:38 am (UTC)Aw! And yes, that's why I called it that! <3
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Date: 2011-05-26 02:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-26 02:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-26 02:46 am (UTC)if that first one is a vintage style cut it makes me wonder what you'd find for yourself at a vintage store?
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Date: 2011-05-26 02:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-05-26 03:57 am (UTC)Love the new gear, and I have to agree with another commenter that #1 is quite befitting.
I have never seen Mad Men and was previously unaware of this Christina Hendricks person, but a brief internet search leads me to believe that she'd be more than welcome to show up at, say, my bar or on my doorstep.
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Date: 2011-05-26 04:12 am (UTC)And thank you! I am very happy with my shopping results.
I think that is the reaction all good people have upon seeing her. I have spent far too many hours staring at image search results of C.H.
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Date: 2011-05-26 06:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-05-26 07:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-26 02:21 pm (UTC)And thank you! It is kind of fascinating to realize that when I walk into a store now, I pull things off the rack that I would never have even considered two years ago.
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Date: 2011-05-26 07:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-26 02:22 pm (UTC)Thank you so much! Dynamite!
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Date: 2011-05-26 09:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-26 02:25 pm (UTC)I think it's been an adaptation from dressing however I wanted but not understanding so much how clothes work, to understanding how clothes work and making conscious choices about how to present myself.
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Date: 2011-05-26 02:49 pm (UTC)I sometimes envy those people who just throw on the jeans and whatever shirt they pull out of hte closet. I just can't do it. I'm too conscious and possibly vain! haha
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Date: 2011-05-26 09:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-26 02:26 pm (UTC)I have been thinking about you a lot lately. I see your posts and I don't know anything about rugby so I'm not sure what to say, but I love you and miss you and <3 <3 <3
Flowers in drinks is my new obsession. I can't wait for nasturtiums.
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Date: 2011-05-26 04:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-05-26 11:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-26 02:32 pm (UTC)I'm between 5'5" and 5'6" and I don't have an exceptionally long torso or anything like that. My chest does tend to raise hemlines slightly-- I'm between an F and a G cup in bras. I think my measurements are something like 39-30-38?
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Date: 2011-05-26 06:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-26 08:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-26 06:44 pm (UTC)And this may be too personal but how do you find bras? Because most places don't seem to carry above a DD.
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Date: 2011-05-26 08:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-05-27 11:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-26 06:43 pm (UTC)Maybe I COULD wear dresses after all...and look ok/nice
(I had pretty well decided I have to be a "seperates" girl but I like dresses sometimes:(
Hmm..
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Date: 2011-05-27 11:38 pm (UTC)I think you would look great in dresses! I like them so much more than separates. Don't give up. I find that department stores and discount department store places, like TJ Maxx or Marshall's, tend to have much better dresses than typical mall stores like the Gap.
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Date: 2011-05-27 11:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-30 12:14 am (UTC)And god yes we can go drinking and dancing. <3 <3
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Date: 2011-05-30 03:06 am (UTC)Eee omg I will be so excited to see you for as long as you would like to stay! I will have to work obvs but just let me know what your plan is. I could theoretically take a day or maybe two if you wanted to go to Philly or Boston or somewhere else for a weekend.
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Date: 2011-05-30 03:06 am (UTC)