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[zdashamber]

So, yesterday I was lazing on the couch looking through the latest catalogs. One of them started off with pages and pages of gowns, which I was lapping up like cream... So pretty!

So I flip the page, and I think, Oh Wow... I could buy that one and look like rotted meat!

It's done with burnout red velvet over red silk, I believe.

Now, most people, this probably wouldn't be a selling point. But I was so very tempted. I mean, it's really a gorgeous Gigerian getup. Imagine that with black pumps, the kind that dip low enough that a bit of the part between your big toe and the rest is visible, so that they really give the impression of hooves... (Because frankly, if black pumps don't give the subliminal impression that you have hooves, there is just. no. point. to wearing them... The hoof thing is another reason why I need ninja boots, the kind with the big toe split off. I'd love to hear from you if you know where I can get some.)

Anyway, wings, maybe even tasteful horns... You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but rotting meat would grab more than both combined.

Alas... Gowns are evening formal attire. So why is it that they're all so stringy? Even in the day, 8 months of the year here it's too cold for stringy little things.

So it's a bit more than I want to pay for something I'll never be able to wear anywhere. Also, the same catalog had a cheaper beautiful dress that looked exactly like Chaos. Hoo te doot te doot te doot... ::happy little bouncing around capitalist contemplations::

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[follybard.livejournal.com]

Martin Margiela tabi boots.

(First I searched on "cloven-toed boots," which gave me one hit -- a review of a Martin Margiela runway show that described such boots as typical for the designer -- and then I searched on "Martin Margiela boots," which gave me a whole bunch of hits including that one. Kind of expensive, but it's a starting point....)

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Kick-started, last night I poked around on the internet until I found some "recommended on a martial art board" tabi boots from Japan, and ordered them. I will report on their level of coolness when they arrive...

There are also tabi socks. I love cool socks almost as much as I love cool boots, so this is just all good. And, Dave and Mary's house where we game has a no-shoe policy, so I can show off any cool socks I own... Mwa ha.

[cochese.livejournal.com]

Ah, but the thing with a stringy dress: you find a coat that accessorizes well. I'm thinking a bolero style jacket, or perhaps this one. Harder to do if you're going for wings, but if you eschew the wings...

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

Thing is, "stringy dress" is a different style than "stringy dress with a bolero jacket", and I don't as much like the second... Also, bolero jackets aren't warm.

Hm. I guess I could do the "black fur blanket draped over shoulders" thing (there's a name for those... Stoles?), but that sounds like a pain in the ass to keep from sliding off.