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Saturday, July 30, 2011

One Dress Protest

I get to be part of One Dress Protest!

I just created a black dress from some fabulous hemp and tencel twill fabric from NearSeaNaturals. I created the dress for a wonderful graduate student in Texas who is studying marriage and family therapy. For one whole year, she is going to wear the One Dress every day as a way of becoming ever more intentional about how she experiences and presents herself in the world.

I may not be describing her project quite right... But I am impressed with the idea of doing a sort of "fashion fast" in order to take some time to reflect and deliberate about clothing, fashion, style, and dress.

Thank you, Lacey, for inviting me to help you to prepare in my small way for your coming year of One Dress Protest! Both my dress creation and my very self are honored to get to be part of your reflection and meditation.

The dress is a shift style frock, very elegant yet utilitarian. The black twill is fashioned into a short sleeve, raglan sleeved style with a wide scooped neckline. At center front and center back, there are small inverted box pleats. The skirt portion of the dress is slightly A-lined and its wide hem ends a couple of inches above the knee.

If I were going to wear one dress for a whole year, this dress would be IT for me as well. Beautiful and functional and sophisticated and comfortable, all in one dress.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

I need a new dress. I do!

I simply must have the gorgeous top by LeMuse.

WHY ON EARTH, you ask, would someone who makes fabulous one of a kind, original design, fun to wear clothes buy a new dress made by someone else?

Because I love LeMuse clothing and want to support the beautiful muse behind the beautiful and unique clothing. Lina designs and creates the remarkable pieces featured in her shop, www.LeMuse.etsy.com.

I ordered her top, "Asymmetric Muse Blouse" yesterday.

L size Black long-sleeved asymmetric Muse blouse ready to ship

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

collecting up some beautiful black dresses....

I just created a treasury of some of my favorites from various awesome etsy shops. I will paste the treasury here. I invite you to spend some time clicking through these items and the shops from which they hail. Beauty in abundance....

I call it WINTER BLACK, and there are a couple of really cool maverick pieces in the collection too. (you can go to it on etsy: http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d245c0dac0f6d918cc7278c/winter-black )