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01 02 03 85 Icons & 12 Banners                                                                   So I, er, kind of did it again and took forever making a new batch which is now colossal as a result. Forgive me. This set is mostly just old stuff I needed to clear out so more variety will be seen in coming batches. ;D Rules...

Fashion Designer Course, Day 23 First we got a overview of synthetic fabrics. This we do not have to learn, but it's very interesting to have an overview. The paper has names of the fabric, the commercial names and the producers. Color studies Four basic types of color: primary colors, secondary colors, mixed colors and non-colors. Primary colors are red, yellow and blue; secondary colors are green, orange and purple. Secondary colors are mixed primary colors (in even amounts); mixed colors...

1887-1888 New York Fashion Bazar Magazine published by George Munro.

I was never really a tee and jeans kinda girl.  However, like any bespectacled student, there was indeed a period of time whereby I am on the constant look-out for comfortable and interesting tee-shirts to form part of my wardrobe staple. The mad-rush in the mornings and urgency to transmute between lecture halls and rooms simply leaves one with not much of an option. What you need, is fuss-free attire that requires limited amount of co-ordination. Naively, I assumed that accumulating a whole barrage...

On Mother's Day I took my mom to lunch in Japantown and then to Vivienne Westwood: 36 Years in Fashion at the De Young Museum. http://www.thinker.org/deyoung/exhibiti ons/exhibition.asp?exhibitionkey=657 I liked it, but my mom did not. I did not like all the clothes, it was not that great, but they were interesting clothes. The only thing I would have worn was the black wool coat cut on the bias. I also like the Harlequin and Columbine outfits. The Harlequin was a skin tight jumpsuit, that...