Tuleh Fall 2009 Preview

Click on the image to take you to my source. It's a new thing I'm starting to do.

Tuleh 2009 Spring has jackets that match the dresses. They've done this before like in Spring 2008. I think it's so elegant. Like, you know if someone owns both, they care. And it's cool to care.

Mcqueen for target

how exciting! everything is on NYMag.
found via Is Mental

Inspiration: Amelia Erhardt

she's so beautiful. i got inspired as i looked for aviator hats. she's so stylish.

She's so pretty because she looks like Mia Farrow
and
Mia Farrow is so pretty because she looks like Amelia Erhardt.

sigerson morrison and shift dress

So here are boots that I hope will go with my soon to be made shift dresses.
I got these shoes at Loehmann's the other day (ok, like a month ago).
They're sigerson Morrison.
And as I've been writing, short boots are awesome.
However, they are difficult to pull off and cannot work with every outfit.
Like these, I can't tuck them under my boot cut pants because of all the leather above the actual shoe part of the boot.

I've decided that you've got to have ankle hugging pants - like leggings.

So... I want to make some (like a million in a million different colors) that look like this (yeah, if I post the picture enough, maybe I will finally make one):

shift dress patterns

Sometimes I wish I had a uniform.

These are days when I don't want to think about clothes and I just want to get on with my day.
I wish I had 5 colors of the same kind of outfit and I just wore them interchangeably.

In a way there are set outfits that I wear all the time that become somewhat like a uniform.
long cardigan, skinny jeans & flats or boots.

These days I want to introduce another type of uniform to my wardrobe:
Shift dress, tights and short boots.

I tried looking for simple shift dress patterns on burda, but I think that it's so simple that it's not there. Therefore, I bought some shift dress patterns that I like and will change the neckline for.
These are them:


Now all I have to do is post about the next step.... making them!

I got these at SelmaLee's store on etsy. I realized she has the best bang for the buck after searching for a pattern in my size. Some people charge $10 for when similar patterns go for $7 at other stores. I'm not gonna lie, it took me a while to find a pattern in my size that I liked.

they take shoe making classes in Japan too!

Wiksten posted about a Japanese store called cotton which has a blog.

Me being Japanese and all I was excited to see there was a blog to the clothing store.

Me trying to learn Japanese and all I've decided to read the blog even though that takes me like forever.

One of the posts was about a shoe making class.

Me writing on this blog and all about wanting to learn how to make shoes, I thought it was fate that this blog posted about making shoes.

Me spending so much time translating it and all I thought I'd give you a bit about what the post is all about: taking a shoe making class... and working hard on it.

Something about the snugness

Is he a girl or a boy?

I don't like the rest of his outfit, but the snug leather jacket is why I am posting this picture. There's something about how snug it is.

Found via The Sartorialist for men's fashion week. The link is a bit strange on my computer.