The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Renatus:

Meg: Dressing eccentrically doesn't necessarily help against the vagaries of fashion, I've found. I ceased caring about being trendy long ago, but since I'm extremely hard on clothing and need to replace this and that every year, I despair when the fashion dictates are to colours and cuts I despise.

And while looking rather ragged can fit with looking eccentric, it isn't a look I particularly want to cultivate again (having done that when I was only wearing black, and black was out of style for a few years...).

I can sew; but even replacing a few bits of my wardrobe through sewing is an immense time-sink as I'm not particularly good at it and lack a sewing machine. I'd rather go to a store, buy something, and be done with it, for the most part.

And like xeger, I find the hipster pants a boon, although not because I'm short, but because I'm short waisted; usually I have to buy pants a size or two too large to get them to fit comfortably, and then the crotch is around my mid-thigh. Ick. However, I will be overjoyed when the ultra-low-riding pants, worn a size too small, goes out of style.

(Chatty clotheshorse up later than is probably good for her. I hope the ramblings are entertaining, if nothing else.)

Kate: I look good in most shades of orange, and I'm day-glo pale. I look good in most colours, really (especially bright ones), except for my afore-mentioned problem with khaki and anything strongly yellow-hued (which makes me look like I died of some horrible illness). This makes this year's colour palette rather bothersome for me. I just know I'll have nightmares of trying to find clothes but everything in the stores is avacado... *shudder*

Bluh! Khaki, of all horrible things. No matter what shade it's in it's too close to my skin tone, so wearing something khaki coloured mades me look like I'm not wearing anything at all...

Well, at least I know who to shake my fist at when I can't find anything that doesn't make me look naked/like a corpse at the stores.

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