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Archives: December 2010

shimmering grey cravat with deco lace insert

  • December 24, 2010
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Tough guys wear what they want. Who’s going to stop you from wearing a bit o’ lace if you feel so inclined? And this is nobody’s namby-pamby excuse for elegance, either, it’s a look with attitude. The Cluny lace was once black, but it’s been battered and bleached into subtly desperate shades of grey and taupe. It trims a scrap of dove grey iridescent plain weave fabric, long enough to wrap about your neck and tie in the front. There’s a beautiful Art Deco lace insert adorning the top tie, (because too much is never enough) that has been mistreated…

The best hot winter drink ever

  • December 22, 2010

it’s the spice tea known as “Masala Chai.”

And they called him Aikendrum

  • December 20, 2010
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For my sister-blog DragonMother Wand Works, these moon faces keep track of the moon phases, in front of the red-cram-and-blue quasi-Victorian show board.

Desert Raider Zombie Hunter

  • December 18, 2010

This is Wolf, heading into the canebreak. We made this outfit for the Wasteland event… Wrap pants in a double layer of muslin to the knees, with canvas tube for the lower half. The shirt is an approximation of the same technique. Wolf hotglued and tied bundles of corn straw to make the hat. The furs are courtesy of my dear friend Walter.  All the weaponry, and those amazing elkhide boots, circa 1970, courtesy of Keith Longino.

Ephemera’s a tough job but someone’s got to do it.

  • December 5, 2010
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I do love to design. I love to go over the top. These are me being restrained. Really! Sort of. In a way, which I shall explain after the pictures. I have always loved ephemera. I have collections– can labels, fruit labels, even– and this is hard to admit to– toilet paper roll labels. I like the stuff that is utilitarian. In France, the fruitier’s shops had small thin brown paper bags that exhort you to “Mangez Des Fruits,” with varying vintages of graphic sensibility. I have one in a little gold frame over my sink–  also, the wrapper from…