Famous Clothing Item Re-Makes by •m•

I've been thinking about starting a line of famous clothing item remakes to sell in the shop. I've often found myself pining over wonderfully lovely fashions worn by actresses... and I'm sure a lot of other women do, too.. wishing they could wear such a delight to get all the heads turning.

So I'm planning to do some studies, prototypes and pattern-making for fashionable garments - some inspired by actresses and film, and others being as close a re-make as my little hands can manage.

I don't know about you, but I would certainly love to don Audrey Hepburn's black "Tiffany's" dress. Definitely something every girl would love to own and to show off at fancy occasions, and maybe a shorter-skirted option for less formal wearability.

Some of the clothing styles from Star Wars would also be a very interesting project to take on. I love the olive and lavender combination on this hooded piece worn by Natalie Portman as Padme. No one really wears cloaks these days, but a daily-wearable version of this would be quite interesting I think. The built-in brooch is a nice touch too.

- Oh!! -

I just remembered that I already made a sketch for a costume-inspired dress I'd like to test out! It's the dress "little Alice" wears in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.. the one the Mad Hatter makes for her when she shrinks to her smallest size. It took a lot of image researching to find good stills from the movie of her dress details, but after doing so and making sketches, I think this dress would be quite cute on a variety of body types:
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Yes, this needs to happen for sure.

I'm going to call the line Famous, But Yours! And I've already done up some logo versions.. I'd love to hear your input! I'm leaning toward the red since it matches the main logo, but I didn't want to ignore the option of looking at a different color:

Little Black Dress with a Little Pink Babe

Perfectly elegant for mommies-to-be | made to order
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Shopping for Clothing These Days!

Does anyone else have the problem I seem to be having while shopping at the mall and other clothing stores lately? The ones I used to go to rarely carry anything of interest anymore... maybe it's because I've aged, but I doubt it! I still wear the cute things I bought from those exact stores years ago, and they are still cute compared to what they sell now. Perhaps the bar I set for style is higher than it once was?

In my experience, there seems to be a cheapening of quality, and a sort of style blandness in stores like Forever21, Old Navy, Gap and Target even. I was shopping for a hoodie to replace one I lost (at the mall ironically) and found a cute one online at Old Navy - tried it on in-store and was disappointed to find it was way too long on me. True that I'm only 5', but looked like a sack!

I have to caption this with: The only person who could pull off a potato sack dress OF COURSE would be Marilyn Monroe, ha.

There is however the occasional rare and interesting find, if it even fits right. Usually I find interesting things online at Anthropologie and I do a lot of clothing project research at Modcloth, two stores that actually do have very cute selections sprinkled about uninteresting ones... but not for very cute prices! $278.00 for a simple dress that you have to dry clean?? Perhaps not.

Chain-store clothing seems less and less suitable to my individual style, and I wonder if other stylish people have also found this to be true. I'm curious about the buying habits of you clothing shoppers. I personally want to buy cheap and get great lasting quality in a style no one else has. That criteria is a very rare flower, it seems.

• How do you shop for clothing?
• Is style, price or quality most important and why?
• Do you find things in stores and say 'I love this but if only it had this or didn't have that on it?'
• Do you come up with ideas for the perfect garment, but can never find it in any store?
• What do you look for that doesn't seem to exist?

I'd love to hear your input :•)

Indian Fabrics

A visit with my twin sister this weekend reminded me how much I'd really love to work with fabrics from India. The colors are so bright and rich, with gorgeous detail work.

Amanda in my favorite green and gold silk sari.

Her wedding sari is maroon colored with gold designs.
The silk is very heavy, but looks so rich!



I snagged this one from her album of their Kolkata visit (Calcutta to Americans).

I'm sure that I could spend a stupid amount of hours in a shop like this. Colors!! Absolutely gorgeous, and apparently pretty affordable in US dollars.

Someday I will have to take her up on her India trip invitation.

Romancing the Wheel

My dear husband and I visited Lake Winnie for our One Year Anniversary on May 16th for a ride on the ferris wheel. What a great spot for excitement and romance!

Ferris feets.

Me and m'love.

I've always found a ferris wheel ride to be quite relaxing, and this one had definitely been the best ever: they let us ride for a half hour!

I am wearing the Lacy Picnic Dress in this picture :•)

The rest of our lovely day consisted of eating sushi at the best place ever, listening to our ceremony / reception music during car trips everywhere, a visit to our wedding locals on Lookout Mountain, eating frozen year-old wedding cake! , watching Roman Holiday, and giving Jonathan my gift that I was so excited about:

I put a little designer's touch to the sheet music he wrote for our ceremony music which accompanied my walk down the aisle to his wonderful smiling face. He loved it! We spent the evening playing it together on piano. I love you sir! How are we going to top this next year?

Baby Shower Invitation

Adorable baby diaper shower invitation! | customizable design
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Lacy Picnic Dress

Lacy Picnic Dress in Fair Lemon | made to order
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I'm going to wear this dress for our anniversary next weekend (!) ..It reminds me of my wedding dress, but I can more safely enjoy our trip to the amusement park in it without having to worry about keeping my wedding dress in pristine condish!