Frock Friday, the Fourth

Frocking Fridays is presented with its first real challenge - Kendi's 30 For 30 challenge. I'd thought I would avoid choosing more than a couple of dresses for the 30 For 30 because they're more difficult to remix and I don't want to wear an outfit more than once or twice but I also don't want to wear the same dress two or three or four weeks in a row during the Frocking Fridays challenge. Luckily, this outfit was from last Friday, before Kendi's challenge began and this dress isn't part of my 30. It's the last time I'll be seeing it for a month. :(
It's simple little mod dress I found in a thrift store. I shortened the hem and removed the strange little belt/flap/buckle/thing attached to the waist.

I wore it with the white sweater (also thrifted) because when I tried a black sweater, the black-on-black-on-purple-stripes thing made me look like a witch that moonlights as a hooker.

(None of these are hookers. Only one of them is slightly trashy but she's still adorable and I love them all.)

~Bananawacky is offensive to witches everywhere

Frocking Friday: Part Three

Dress - Hourglass Lilly (modcloth), Gold Gladiator Sandals - Target

I am so on top of this Frocking Fridays. Lookit me, three weeks into it and still going strong. Even my cat is surprised. See the look of stunned amazement there on the back of his head? He's almost as surprised as I am that I've made it this far. Clearly, I've proven my commitment to things and it's time to make my bid for Presidency of the United States.

This dress is fantastic. It makes me feel all kinds of tall and Grecian. It's ridiculously comfortable and is a dream of a dress for those days when I'm feeling plump.
(Admission: It took twenty minute to figure out the shoulder strap the first time I wore it.)
(Admission #2: I do not live in a grey and white apartment. I live in a very dark brown and red one with all kinds of colorful, distracting things hanging on the walls. Those strings behind me? They are a hanging bead curtain painted with an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, all bright yellows and blues. They have been Photoshopped into oblivion so that the dress, and myself in it, are actually visible to you.)

I found this photo on Juju Mama's blog. I'm hoping she'll let me live in her house someday.

~Bananawacky for president

Frocking Friday: Week Two

Dress - BB Dakota, Tights - Target, Boots - Aldo

This is a dress I don't wear nearly as often as I'd like to. I love BB Dakota but I have size issues with them - those size issues being that we don't agree as to what size I actually am. That dress fits perfectly through the waist and hips and squeezes the life out of my upper bits. I get all kinds of Crushed Upper Bust action going and have just a teensy bit of trouble moving my arms. All this, and I refuse to go a size bigger because the smaller size fits half of me. Ah, vanity. I might not be able to take deep breaths but I'll pass out in style.

Those boots are a whole other story. Love at first site. I walked into the shop, noticed them there on the shelf waiting for me and knew that they were my destiny. About two days later, I finally admitted to myself that they're really, really ugly. My bestie says they look like Little Orphan Annie shoes and she's right - they totally do. Also, they're not very comfortable. In fact, they're so not very comfortable that they're actually kind of painful to wear. They weren't cheap, either. They completely fail in all aspects of shoedom. And I still love them. LOVE THEM. Did I mention that they don't really go with anything I own? But it's OK. We'll work it out. They really care about me and want to be right for me, I know they do. They'll change. We can make it work. We can be happy...Le sigh.

First Week!

Dress - Eva Franco, Sweater - from Native Boutique, can't remember the brand but I'll update when I find it, Boots and tights - Target
Polar Bear - Los Angeles Museum of Natural History

This was my outfit on the first week of Frocking Friday. I wore it to First Friday at the Museum of Natural History and while I am a nerd that typically enjoys going to museums, going to a museum where they ply you with wine and there's a DJ spinning in one of the galleries and you're dancing to 70's funk while surrounded by a whole slew of taxidermied animals native to California... That's a whole other kind of fun. It's fantastic and if you're in LA you need to check it out.


My outfit for Week Two is still in my camera and Week Three hasn't happened yet. I feel I'm doing well on this challenge.

The return of FAIL

I've got another chance - spring remixing challenge starts on February 1st and I'm back on board. Currently, I'm two weeks into another challenge, Frocking Fridays. This one won't be much of a challenge because the dresses, I wear them a lot. In fact, I found out about this challenge after the first Friday had passed and remained blissfully unconcerned because I had worn a dress that Friday and just happened to have a photo of it (and a Polar bear) on my camera. I'll upload those this week to make the whole thing official.
So there you have it. Another not-really-an-update update.