Why don’t you…
* Wear brilliant sparkling eyeshadow and encrust your lids with tiny jewels? In turquoise and magenta gems?
* Sweep your hair into a tatty mess and decorate it with brittle willow twigs? Make your head an inviting home for tiny bird friends?
* Wear an extraordinary ball gown to work and bind your waist tightly with a men’s cummerbund? Pin a Christmas decoration to your wasp-like waist?
* Cover your face in the palest of powder and white out your lips with a matte concealer? Make your face look like a photograph stripped of pigment?
* Wear black gloves with the pinky finger cut off? Exposing tiny scarlet-painted nails?
* Wear every piece of neck attire that you own – necklaces, ties, scarves, collars – everywhere but around your neck? A bow tie on your wrist? A string of pearls around your head? A mess of metal chain pinned to your jacket collar?
* Take to never wearing street clothes in your own home? Perhaps don a Japanese-style robe and turban? A caftan and some bangles? A vintage slip with woolly knee-high socks?
* Wear a wig?
* Paint a tiny pattern of fleurdelis with liquid eyeliner? Just beneath your eye?
* Wear a patterned t-shirt backwards? Keep your front persona completely clean and decorate your back so you leave a lasting impression as you walk away?
In loving memory of Diana Vreeland
Love Lady Smaggle
xxx
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What precious ideas! I am so going to get out of my tracksuit (don’t worry, I’ve been cleaning my house safe from critical eyes) and put on a slip and some long socks and dance the rest of the cleaning away. My hair is already in a tatty bun – I think I’ll thread some ivy through it….
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I love the idea of never wearing street clothes in your house. I would love a divine silky kimono to wear around the house but sadly the only one I have was bought to fit me when I was five 🙁 May have to be the kaftan and bangles LOL
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I love these….
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I totally spent the morning wearing a voluminous, bright lime green 1930’s kimono over the top of my day clothes. MrE said it was like being in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Mikado – sadly I had to take it off to supermarket shop as due to mybikehasbrokendown syndrome I am riding pillion – I wish you could do that side-saddle. I was flouncing about the aisles wearing my kimono in my head. UK Vogue (I had to have something compensatory in my trolley) is full of fantasy fashion – I mean Tim Burton, Karen Elson and Helena Bonham-Carter channeling Roald Dahl in a photoshoot fantasy. Excellent.
I wish I had an Aunty Diana Vreeland.
Thank you Lady Smaggle.
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Point number two is by far the best. “Make your head an inviting home for tiny bird friends?” That rules so much that I am going to take it up as a new personal mantra!
Xx
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I LOVE these. Well done, Lady Smagle!
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Ooooh, so much glamour, so little time. Lady Smaggle you just spun the world on it’s head!
I have wig… sometimes my cropped do starts making me feel like a boy – I just put on my long hair and confuse everyone I know! Love it! I wonder if I can make it a birds nest….hmmmMaybe I’ll try the Fleurdelis…
Love Nina xxx
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I love your “why don’t you”‘s and this one rocks! The bird-hair thing is my favorite.
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You are too much awesomeness, great ideas!
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I can’t get enough of these, they’re SO good!!! 😀
I rarely wear street wear at home, but rather than a kimono (oh, how I’d like one) it’s tracky dacks. And an old tee shirt. Oh dear.
I want to do my hair like that again, I’m still looking for a little bird friend to put in it!
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you are too cute!
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Scribbles – I have been this recently and it’s awesome! I swear it makes you relax more…
Shannon – Oh please do! I love messy hair with twigs in it…
Hannah Cheeto – Thanks… it’s a little bit of silly fun.
E – You’re welcome lady! Please please please wear it in public one day though? I’d love you forever! It just makes me smile when I see people like that in the street.
Grant – I actually a bird that used to get lost in my hair when I was little. It’s my dedicated to my little Buddy…
Tara – 🙂
Ninaribena – Lets get more of this down here in Canberra! We need more fab in our sometimes drab streets…
KD – I totally enjoy writing them! I’m going to try to do one a week!
Eyeliah – Did you try any?
Marianne – I’m trying so hard to never wear trackies but sometimes it’s just too damn cold not too. I do love wrapping myself in a quilt though…
Punky – Yay! You’re already on mine darlin!
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