Aquarium Formal

In a moment of modern life, I went to a formal at the aquarium on Thursday. It was pretty cool to see the fishes at night. So here I am with my friends, and our new friend the Turtle!

A Modern Bubble Dress

I helped a friend of mine make a party dress. We made it Friday night and she wore it Saturday night. Fun, right? Not my usual style of project, but it was an interesting adventure. We totally made up the bubble skirt technique, but it turns out that just making the lining shorter is really enough to do it. Nice. So this is what I do at college... haha.

Main-st(r)eam Punk - Lipservice Gets Steamy

Lipservice is a mostly-goth alternative clothing brand that makes highly mass-produced clothing, yet I am often impressed by their things. A while ago they had a line that I am sure was intended to be steampunk called "Steam Machine." Let us analyze - they do not understand the importance of brown for mass-appeal steampunk. They do get the importance of metal, but I think the metal is too coppery and would be prettier if it were more like brass. Thumbs up on the aviator hat, although it is not particularly attractive. The shapes for the clothes were uninteresting, but ok. Basically, this is not high-class steampunk by any stretch of the imagination, but I could tell they were trying.
What I really want to do is give them a gold star for improvement, though. Lipservice is showing signs of improvement with the Step in Time line. They still don't get the color scheme (they are missing a serious opportunity here on brown with brass, insisting on black with copper), but this time they have brown fake-leather straps, rivets shaped like gears, and lace. Somebody is learning. In fact, they even made a skirt I would wear (the cute one with the fake-garter straps and buckles on lovely newsprint fabric). I can make better things, but not everyone can, so I will give Lipservice some credit for being easy to find and relatively in-expensive.

A Modern Formal

I went to a formal. This is my "modern person" disguise. I'm not sure it worked... but at least you can rest assured that even in day-to-day life I look a bit old fashioned.