Fashion Friday :: somewhere along the line, I started doing hipster Mad Men. Go figure?

I swear, I set out to do this straightforwardly.  I love me some vintage, after all.  And I legitimately like these outfits.

But then I started searching for a tan/gray plaid women’s coat.  And I was… ridiculously stumped.  I found this, though, and it was one of those moments where I said “well, if I can’t do it accurately, I’ll embrace the hipsterness of it.”  Open Heirloom Market Coat, ModCloth.

(Just ignore Ted.  It has been spectacularly hard to find decent pictures of… well, anyone this season, really.)  I put this here after I’ve already included the coat because the above picture doesn’t include a shot of what’s under Peggy’s coat.

And this will work too.  Honeydew It Right Top, ModCloth.

And because it’s hipster (and I’m pretty sure Peggy’s original was a dress, but I couldn’t find a dress I liked, so top and skirt, and I feel weird if both the top and skirt are just solid color and the same general color) birds on it.  Chatter and Chirp Skirt, ModCloth.

Well, hers doesn’t have a veil, but this is still closer than much of the outfit.  Millinery Masterpiece Hat, ModCloth.

And I’m almost positive Peggy’s shoes are kitten heels, but — these will do.  They match the coat nicely.  Craft Faire Flat in Cream, ModCloth.

But it’s an open blazer!  It’s… at least the right color, I sigh to myself.  Open Blazer, Eliza J.

But because it’s open it can be worn with this familiar beauty.  (More hipster time!) Owl That and More Top, ModCloth.

And this skirt is pretty close, actually.  Style Essential Skirt in Blue, ModCloth.

I don’t think I can explain how happy I am that my Joanie is wearing a butterfly pin.  Monet 1960s Gold Tone Butterfly Pin, KlinesJewelry at Etsy.

I figured since I used this one for Joan before, I can use it for her again.  Hot on Your Helix Bracelet, ModCloth.

And because hipster pinup always seems to involve patent leather 4-inch Mary Janes in my mind, here.  ‘S Marvelous Heel, ModCloth.

–your fangirl heroine

Fashion Friday :: rewind a couple of episodes, because Trudy rocks my socks.

Like I am always saying.  Trudy (Alison Brie) is a lovely woman and I may have actually applauded when she told Pete off.

I feel like “I’m having to do this more modern and/or interpretive” is a going theme this season so far.  But, still stands.  New Apartmint Top, ModCloth.

And actually, I can totally see Trudy wearing this together.  Jukebox DJ Jumper, ModCloth.

Because Trudy Campbell is badass enough to pull off matchy-matchy.  Pecking Border Heel, ModCloth.

A bit smaller than Trudy’s, but cute and I like their vibe.  Freshwater Girl Earrings, ModCloth.

–your fangirl heroine.

Fashion Friday :: because I have to acknowledge things that are obvious.

(Also it is Christina Hendricks’ birthday, so I feel only right about doing some sort of tribute-ish thing, I don’t know.)

I am obsessed with this outfit solely because vest.  Unfortunately, it is next to impossible to find vests for ladies that aren’t denim, fleece, or some other such thing, as I’m pretty sure I’ve discussed.  And anyway that’s not… entirely the point here.

The point is that my Joanie and my Christina are basically iconic in the pinup-retro clothing community at this point, and there is no coincidence that Pinup Girl Clothing hosts both a Joanie Dress and Top in multiple colors and a Christina Dress in multiple colors.  This is the latter, in Purple Sateen, by Pinup Couture.  And while it has very little to do with the above picture of Joan, it is very keeping with her general vibe, and the color is almost identical, so.

Look!  More black heels.  Black Currant Scones Heel, ModCloth.

Interpretation time: Joan’s bracelet is actually surprisingly whimsical (it’s a charm bracelet with hearts of multiple colors).  I cannot find such a bracelet, though I could swear I’ve seen one, so instead I present two alternatives, one that’s gold hearts in a different arrangement, one that’s heart charms but a bit more blinged out.  Hearts of Gold Bracelet, ModCloth, Black Heart Stretch Bracelet, Betsey Johnson.

And finally, I cannot find a leaf brooch that I like that isn’t ridiculously expensive and I can’t find earrings I like, so I’m just combining the two things.  Gold leaf earrings.  Allure of the Arboretum Earrings, ModCloth.

–your fangirl heroine

Fashion Friday :: wherein I cannot get hung up on details.

Strangely enough, the best description of my Megan (Jessica Paré) feelings that I can give is still “yeah, okay, sure.”  I don’t dislike Megan and I really do wish that some plot she participated in would be completely independent of Don (Jon Hamm) especially because oh my gosh while I can find that man dashing and interesting and even endearing when it comes to his platonic relationships (few though they are) wow he is a jerk to women he is romantically involved with and it just doesn’t let up and she is a sweet woman who does not deserve that, but I don’t have overwhelming feelings of desperate affection toward her, either.  I do really enjoy the fact that her style is so mod and wacky and different from everyone else’s, though.

I am legitimately disappointed that I could not find a more accurate approximation of Megan’s dress, with its ridiculously bold print and all.  This one has the right colors, more or less, and it looks very vintage, and the gold show-throughs are cool, and also I like that it looks like Victorian wallpaper even if that’s not particularly mod, just because I like Victorian wallpaper.  Best of Luxe Dress, Tracy Reese at ModCloth.

Making this up as I go along.  Since black pumps are office defaults, white pumps are mod Megan defaults apparently.  Cielo Pump, BCBGeneration.

Well.  Obviously Megan’s earrings don’t have birds on them, but updating her look for now-times, mod is a little hipster, so.  Birds it is.  A Chance Tweeting Earrings, ModCloth.

I’m not even sure.  I can’t find any necklace I really like (putting birds on the earrings significantly decreases the amount of necklaces that would go with, and also I am picky about shades of gold at least somewhat matching) but here, this will do.  Strand and Deliver Necklace, ModCloth.

I’m not positive if Megan would be this matchy-matchy, but I like it, and it feels vintage.  Five Speed Clutch, ModCloth.

–your fangirl heroine.

Fashion Friday :: where I compensate for a lack of screen time with fashion posting.

Things I love:

• having Mad Men back.
• Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) being amazing and also sassy as heck.
• My Joan (Christina Hendricks) being amazing and also sassy as heck.  And wearing vests and having her glasses on a chain.

Things I do not love:

• My Joan only having a scene’s worth of screen time in nearly three hours of episodes.

Things I am now doing:

• Styling for my Joan anyway.

As you guys know, Mad Men season is, for me, at least 1/2 “fawn over the perfection of Joan Holloway Harris” season.  For so many reasons, and I promise that once the season is over I’ll finally, properly write them out.  In the meantime, clothes.

I present two options for the top, neither perfect; the first has the print, the second has the sleeves and the bow to stand in for the matching scarf.  Hosting For the Weekend Top, ModCloth, Tie Neck Pleated Blouse, Pleione.

Similarly, two options for the dress.  Neither is particularly literal, I regret to say; the first is more hipster-cute, the second more business-classy.  The Little Navy Dress, ModCloth, Tayler Stretch Sheath Dress, Tory Burch.

Find/use ALL the black pumps.  Everything’s Aglow Heel in Onyx, ModCloth.

And finally, decidedly more modern/hipster jewelry to finish it off.  Wrist and Reward Watch, Hot on Your Helix Bracelet, Hammer it Home Earrings, ModCloth.

–your fangirl heroine.

Fashion Friday :: so begins 2013′s Mad Men series.

And it is begun with cutesy hipster party dress versions of gowns worn by some of the ladies in promo photos.

First, my darling beauteous Joan, rightful queen of all she surveys.

It was this dress that made me decide to avoid looking for proper gowns and just do this hipster party style.  Grecian Glamour dress, ModCloth.

A bit cutesier, but that’s another part of the game here.  Drops of Enchantment Earrings, ModCloth.

Just go with it.  I don’t think you can see her shoes in any of the pictures, but these feel quite Joan.  Everything’s Aglow Heel in Gold, ModCloth.

Now, darling Peggy.

This is a bit edgier, a bit more casual, but I think it suits Peggy’s overall style.  Sanguine Outlook Dress, ModCloth.

Well, those are just about perfect.  Glamour Pearl Earrings, ModCloth.

Because I assume that were Peggy a modern semi-hipster, she’d be one of those modern semi-hipsters who’s preppy but in a vintage way so it’s still cool.  Right Here Heel in Black, ModCloth.

I wish this picture didn’t also have Pete in it.  But here, Trudy (Alison Brie).

Very cute, but then Trudy is a cute woman.  Window Trappings Dress, ModCloth.

Because Trudy feels like the kind of woman who would wear floral earrings, really.  Stylish Genealogy Earrings, ModCloth.

I mean, I suspect she’d be wearing heels, but in semi-hipster modern times, flats are fine when they’re four-times-over Mary Janes.  Homemade Ice Cream Flat in Vanilla, ModCloth.

–your fangirl heroine.

Whimsy Wednesday :: the cutesiest Game of Thrones post that I will ever make.

Which is to say, in the spirit of my “putting ___ on it” posts, I am finding cutesy items for all of the major houses.  Because it has definitely gotten to the point where I can’t see even something as straightforward as a lion or a stag without going “whoops, Westeros.”

House Stark: Paws and Breathe Tee, ModCloth.  (This seems like it would be fairly in keeping with the Starks-as-hipsters motif that is present many a place online.  It’s ironically multi-colored.)

House Targaryen: Embroidered Boyshorts, Betsey Johnson.  (Normally I’d try to keep intimate apparel out of this, but given the soft spot I have for Betsey and the lack of other decent dragon merchandise I was finding, well.)

House Lannister: Creature Cuff, Tasha.  (This isn’t really to my taste, and it’s a little too fancy for a normal whimsy list, but it screams Lannister.)

House Baratheon: Times Gone By Watch in Fauna, ModCloth.  (And I think it suits that this is so plain, because since there are so many Baratheons, it could go with any number of appropriate whatever-elses.)

House Greyjoy: My Pet Octopus Cuff, ModCloth.  (Because things actually tagged “kraken” were not cute enough, but actually, the Greyjoys were the reason I thought to make this post in the first place.  I keep seeing octopi/krakens everywhere lately.)

House Tully: Bass Pandemonium Dress, ModCloth.  (Well, apparently these are bass, not trout, but I wasn’t finding good trout-specific items, and this is relatively Tully blue.  Go with it.)

House Arryn: Wing On It Dress, ModCloth.  (Similarly, finding good merchandise tagged falcon was proving impossible.  It was either Star Wars or football.  So here, generic white bird on a blue background.)

House Tyrell: Take Gold of You Bag, ModCloth.  (Well, the Tyrell colors are green and gold, but blue and gold/brown seems so far to be Margaery’s thing, and this bag does seem very Margaery, at least.)

House Martell: Magical Thinking Woven Wall Mirror, Urban Outfitters.  (Yeah, so the show hasn’t really introduced them yet, but after reading A Feast for Crows, I kind of adore them.  So.)

House Mormont: Bear You’ve Been Travel Pillow.  (Like I said, cutesiest.)

–your fangirl heroine.

Fashion Friday :: I am still predictable.

I repeat again because I feel like I need to make a point of it all the time that I love Sansa, and the lack of good Sansa (Sophie Turner) stills and trailer material before this season is exceptionally strange to me, so I’m going to rebel against that strangeness by styling this one still, also in a more rockabilly/pinup way.  Though Sansa is inherently less of a punky rebel type, so this is the cute side of pseudovintage.  So there, I guess.

Relatively nonliteral, yes.  But the important things here are pattern (check), semi-pinup (check), and at least related colors (Sansa’s dress has purple, this dress is kind of purple).  Also the neckline is vaguely similar.  Pretty on the Park Bench Dress, ModCloth.

Sansa is at court.  At court, sometimes you wear slippers instead of boots, or you wear Mary Janes instead of boots.  Play Us a Corduroy Heel, ModCloth.

I’ve substituted birds for Sansa’s dragonfly necklace before, and I’ll do it again.  Because metaphor.  A Plume of Your Own Necklace, ModCloth.

I can plainly see that Sansa’s ring is gold, but I… have that difficulty abiding with gold jewelry worn at the same time as silver jewelry when styling something myself, and anyway I didn’t see a gold one I liked.  This, I figure, is hipster rockabilly/semi-pinup Sansa’s very subtle snarky metaphor.  A bird on her necklace, a lock on her ring, well.  But it is a ladylike snarky metaphor, and probably one that others wouldn’t trouble to think about unless pressed.  Under Locks Ring, ModCloth.

Finally, I know that you don’t see what’s in Sansa’s hair in the picture, and it’s probably naught but a bit of whatever they use to tie hair back in King’s Landing.  I just fancy this piece, because it is dainty but with a bit more, and it just seems very Sansa for some reason.  Wrapped in Romance Hair Chain, ModCloth.

–your fangirl heroine.

 

 

Fashion Friday :: I am predictable. Period.

I probably won’t officially begin my season three-inspired round of hipster Game of Thrones until the season is officially over, but because I am me and I know I will end up inventing equivalencies for most of the outfits that Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) wears, I am getting a jump start on that with this outfit that is seen in the trailers.  There is also a blue dress, a necklace, leggings, boots, but I can’t find a good picture of the rest of the outfit that is both large enough and of reasonable quality.  So.  Trust me on this, I guess.

Also, this one is special because this is quasi-punk rockabilly hipster Daenerys.  This is a thing I think about embarrassingly often, yes.

Because I really liked the color and anyway, Dany is a badass.  And while sometimes the semi-hipster college her kind of dresses like a hippie, sometimes she can put an edge on it too.  Midnight Ride Jacket, ModCloth.

This is the rockabilly part kind of.  I figure that although this skirt’s not split up the middle to facilitate movement, it’s swingy enough that one could still run in it or even ride a horse if need be.  Haute Milan Dress in Lake, Heartbreaker at Pinup Girl Clothing.

Naturellement.  I don’t think I can avoid including leggings when the skirt/dress is not originally floor-length and therefore leggings aren’t used/shown originally.  Ace of Basics Leggings in Brown, ModCloth.

Wearing high-heeled boots with pinup-esque outfits is a delightful thing to do, and really, I feel wrong not putting boots on any of my theoretical Dany outfits that include leggings.  They’re just so essentially a her thing.  Know When To Fold ‘Em Boot, ModCloth.

I see Dany wearing this dress in several different scenes in the promo, but there’s a different necklace every time.  And because I’m not finding any that are closer and because leaf jewelry (or at least accessories) is/are something Dany does anyway, this will do.  Leafing Town Necklace, ModCloth.

–your fangirl heroine.

Fashion Friday :: wherein I am shocked that I have not done this before.

I once thought that maybe someday I’d be Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent)  for Halloween.  I then realized that either I’d have to be lucky enough to find a perfect dress that fit me properly while but still looked accurate or have to find a pattern for one and requisition help in making it, and that plan went flying out the window.  Luckily, here on Friday night it is not about perfect, it is about nonliteral interpretation.  So.

I guess this is semi-hipster/semi-rockabilly modernish Shosh?  Why not, right?

The hat is kind of essential, after all, and I’ve seen ones online in the past that suit better, but I’m somehow not seeing any right now, so this will do.  A Modern Fascinator, Modcloth.

I can’t decide which of these dresses I like better.  None of them are literal or even close to, but they are all red and somehow they all feel appropriate.  The Obsession Dress in Red, Stop Staring, Monica Dress in Red Knit, Pinup Girl Clothing, Sheath’s Got the Look Dress, ModCloth.

And when in doubt, find an excuse to use more black pumps.  Neap Tide Heel in Black, ModCloth.

This is actually fairly close.  Black Beaded Barrel Clutch Bag, Debenhams.

And some lipstick, because that’s also sort of essential.  Cockney Lipstick, MAC Cosmetics.

–your fangirl heroine.