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kaiserkuchen is writing her thesis and needs something to cheer her up, and we all seemed to be in agreement after my last post that Winter Fashion is great, so I thought I would make a post about it! I am by no means any sort of fashion expert or Style Icon, but, hey, I like clothes, and I love to talk about them and most of all ILKAZ.
It is no secret that I love Autumn, I love the colours and the smells and Halloween (yay dressing up!) and Bonfire Night (yay fireworks!)
And it is even less of a secret how much I like getting out my winter clothes.
Let's talk coats, the most important aspect of your Winter Wardrobe!
I have a bottle green wool coat that I've had for 3 years now and still adore. It came from Topshop so it's still in pretty good nick.
I like that it's not black, and the collar and the buckles are great details. But there are so many pretty coats about this season. And there are lots of nice coats for guys, too. There is nothing more stylish than a man in a good coat... There are lots of cool military ones for both sexes, and lots of nice retro ones too, which I like because I am a retro kind of girl (only not the wanky 'oh it's VINTAGE" scenester type. I hope!)...
I especially like all the very old fashioned styled ones with nipped in waists.
Like this, or this cute blue one
Or the cool detailed, slightly Steampunkish ones like these
Or (Modcloth ftw) combine two great Autumn things into one with a plaid coat,
OMG SO PRETTY.
Wouldn't the grey one look so cool with some brightly coloured tights and a matching knitted hat? Red perhaps...
Speaking of coloured tights, I have a whole drawer of them (Verity tells me some people think this is weird. Go figure!) in all the colours of the rainbow. Pretty much. Apart from orange. I will not lie to you lovely people, Autumnal as it may be as a colour, I do not much like orange... Tangentally, what would be the American equivalent of Autumnal? Fallish? Fallen? Fell?
I love my tights, though, because they make non winter outfits (ie skirts) into something suitable for the Frozen Wasteland that is Leeds, November - February. I love my city, you guys, but goddamn it gets cold and windy. And I own a lot of black (what?!) and tights are a good way to brighten or add interest to an outfit. Plus, I wear much shorter things with thick wool tights than I would ever DREAM of without...
My current hearts desire is some cute grey wool tights, which are sassy and cute, but not cutesy. I am picky!
Like these, look how they just hint at being sexy without being, like, suspenders or anything like that. Plus, soft and warm!
My other two items on my Winterware Wishlist are a proper wool beret and some new gloves.
Now, I love all things French, and I love hats, so I should really get on and buy myself a beret already, am I right? People who know me in RL would certainly agree, because I go all ♥_♥ whenever I see one in a shop. I want a proper felt one, perhaps this adorable berry coloured one from H&M (my favourite shop in the world. About half my clothes come from there, and about 3/4s of the ones I wear regularly. Affordable and so cool!)
I would also love some new glove mitten (glitten?) things. I do have some kick awesome gloves that Nat calls my 'emo kid gloves' because they are elbow length, black and white striped gloves with black buttons down the side. But I used to have glovittens, and they were great because you can have fingerless gloves for doing fiddly things like getting your change out and texting, but still have warm fingers when you put the mitten bits back over.
Accessorize has the best selection of these kinds of gloves (they call them capped gloves but I like my smoosh words better) that I've seen. Like these, aren't they adorable?
They also have super sexy leather gloves, and normal ones with bows. Oh, Monsoon and Accesorise, why must you be so shiny, and yet so expensive...
I also wanted to talk about boots. Yay boots! Also, arg boots. Shopping for boots is like shopping for jeans (did I mention I'm picky) because you are going to be wearing them a lot and they have to fit just right. It took me about 2 years (no, really) to find the perfect pair and I plan to wear them forever. They are brown and have just enough heel. I also have some white material boots that I like to refer to as my steampunk boots and have absolutely no idea what to wear with. I'm working on it, never fear.
In conclusion, here is a what Autumn!Lal looks like, in coat and tights and boots. Do you love boots and coloured tights too? Talk fashion to me, darlings, I'm all ears under my snuggly hat.
(I'm all contradictions too, because I feel like I should make my next entry about something really deep/ungirly. I am so weird, y'all.)
Things to ignore in this picture, my face, the mess of cables on the floor, how yellow the walls look, my face, the fact that I am wearing red and green and look over Christmassy.
kaiserkuchen is writing her thesis and needs something to cheer her up, and we all seemed to be in agreement after my last post that Winter Fashion is great, so I thought I would make a post about it! I am by no means any sort of fashion expert or Style Icon, but, hey, I like clothes, and I love to talk about them and most of all ILKAZ.It is no secret that I love Autumn, I love the colours and the smells and Halloween (yay dressing up!) and Bonfire Night (yay fireworks!)
And it is even less of a secret how much I like getting out my winter clothes.
Let's talk coats, the most important aspect of your Winter Wardrobe!
I have a bottle green wool coat that I've had for 3 years now and still adore. It came from Topshop so it's still in pretty good nick.
I like that it's not black, and the collar and the buckles are great details. But there are so many pretty coats about this season. And there are lots of nice coats for guys, too. There is nothing more stylish than a man in a good coat... There are lots of cool military ones for both sexes, and lots of nice retro ones too, which I like because I am a retro kind of girl (only not the wanky 'oh it's VINTAGE" scenester type. I hope!)...
I especially like all the very old fashioned styled ones with nipped in waists.
Like this, or this cute blue one
Or the cool detailed, slightly Steampunkish ones like these
Or (Modcloth ftw) combine two great Autumn things into one with a plaid coat,
OMG SO PRETTY.
Wouldn't the grey one look so cool with some brightly coloured tights and a matching knitted hat? Red perhaps...
Speaking of coloured tights, I have a whole drawer of them (Verity tells me some people think this is weird. Go figure!) in all the colours of the rainbow. Pretty much. Apart from orange. I will not lie to you lovely people, Autumnal as it may be as a colour, I do not much like orange... Tangentally, what would be the American equivalent of Autumnal? Fallish? Fallen? Fell?
I love my tights, though, because they make non winter outfits (ie skirts) into something suitable for the Frozen Wasteland that is Leeds, November - February. I love my city, you guys, but goddamn it gets cold and windy. And I own a lot of black (what?!) and tights are a good way to brighten or add interest to an outfit. Plus, I wear much shorter things with thick wool tights than I would ever DREAM of without...
My current hearts desire is some cute grey wool tights, which are sassy and cute, but not cutesy. I am picky!
Like these, look how they just hint at being sexy without being, like, suspenders or anything like that. Plus, soft and warm!
My other two items on my Winterware Wishlist are a proper wool beret and some new gloves.
Now, I love all things French, and I love hats, so I should really get on and buy myself a beret already, am I right? People who know me in RL would certainly agree, because I go all ♥_♥ whenever I see one in a shop. I want a proper felt one, perhaps this adorable berry coloured one from H&M (my favourite shop in the world. About half my clothes come from there, and about 3/4s of the ones I wear regularly. Affordable and so cool!)
I would also love some new glove mitten (glitten?) things. I do have some kick awesome gloves that Nat calls my 'emo kid gloves' because they are elbow length, black and white striped gloves with black buttons down the side. But I used to have glovittens, and they were great because you can have fingerless gloves for doing fiddly things like getting your change out and texting, but still have warm fingers when you put the mitten bits back over.
Accessorize has the best selection of these kinds of gloves (they call them capped gloves but I like my smoosh words better) that I've seen. Like these, aren't they adorable?
They also have super sexy leather gloves, and normal ones with bows. Oh, Monsoon and Accesorise, why must you be so shiny, and yet so expensive...
I also wanted to talk about boots. Yay boots! Also, arg boots. Shopping for boots is like shopping for jeans (did I mention I'm picky) because you are going to be wearing them a lot and they have to fit just right. It took me about 2 years (no, really) to find the perfect pair and I plan to wear them forever. They are brown and have just enough heel. I also have some white material boots that I like to refer to as my steampunk boots and have absolutely no idea what to wear with. I'm working on it, never fear.
In conclusion, here is a what Autumn!Lal looks like, in coat and tights and boots. Do you love boots and coloured tights too? Talk fashion to me, darlings, I'm all ears under my snuggly hat.
(I'm all contradictions too, because I feel like I should make my next entry about something really deep/ungirly. I am so weird, y'all.)
Things to ignore in this picture, my face, the mess of cables on the floor, how yellow the walls look, my face, the fact that I am wearing red and green and look over Christmassy.
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Date: 2009-10-21 01:36 am (UTC)But most of all coats. I still wear the ski jacket I got in Grade 9 because I haven't grown since then, but I also have a beautiful black-and-white plaid/gingham coat from Le Chateau that is the EPITOME of winter class.
Alas my choices in winter fashion are severely limited due to me living in The North and having crazy Ottawa winters - thus the ski jacket is a necessary evil, as are the legit mittens that look like things Everest climbers wear (though I have fuzzy wool ones that are sooooo warm). And legit winter boots, though my mom picked out cute ones for me :)
BUT SCARVES. PLAID ONES. WOOL ONES. SOFT ONES AND LONG ONES AND BRIGHT ONES AND MY BLACK ONE THAT I PROBABLY WEAR FOUR TIMES A WEEK FOR LIKE SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR. SCAAAARVES <333
I love those two modcloth coats you chose - and I have been having such a hankering for a military style coat, unf. My fingers are itching for the first modcloth one, ahh. It's beautiful.
I basically own this coat only mine is bright red and from H&M. I also find this one (and this one) quite fetching.
Oh and boots <3 I have no pictures, but I am quite the fan of boots. YAY FOR WINTER!! (and I can say that now, because we're actually having a pleasant warm snap. ask me again in january. lol)
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Date: 2009-10-21 03:11 am (UTC)That does sound like the classiest of coats, I do love patterned ones, they are so fun and interesting. Poor you with the terrible winter, but at least you get snow and exciting things like that.
I do love scarves, but I tend to loose them. I must have had about a thousand and five, and I don't know what I've done with them.
I have seen and lusted after that coat in H&M! GOOD CHOICE BB. And that last one? I was really considering linking to it, in fact, I think I meant to. Aren't they just so gorgeous? I think the first one would be so versatile and unique and GAH, MODCLOTH.
I need more boots. My lovely flat black boots gave up the ghost and I really do need some without heels. There was a girl wearing red, flat boots with star details and I nearly wrenched them off her in the street they were so cool.
Boooooots.
AHAHA, WINTER IS COMING FOR YOU...