I don’t know what it is, but I’ve seen this Cynthia Steffe dress three times now and it resonates with me a lot more each time. maybe it’s the lasered lace on the sleeves and hem of the overskirt, which is so girly and dainty combined with the severe gray flannel.
This isn’t quite wearable the way it is — even leaving out the fetish gloves, and how fun will it be to see what Google ads the words ‘fetish gloves’ bring to this page, huh? maybe I must start seeding these entries with completely random words, like ‘pumpkin jambalaya’ or ‘customer-centered light-arms manufacture’ — I’d rather see 3/4 length bell sleeves with the lacework at the hems than these little cap sleeves, but if just that one tweak were made I could see wearing this all the time, with tights and short boots.
Gray is one of my favorite (non)colors — ask my mommy sometime about how anxious she was about my all-gray wardrobe in the seventh grade; I was a kind of Goth-lite, or maybe I just looked like someone had drawn me in pencil and then half-heartedly erased me — and I’m really feeling it again this year. I just gotten a heather gray cardigan, and I think I have some hugely wide-wale gray corduroy to make an autumn skirt of, and I have some pink cotton satin that I was going to pair with some yellow lace in an eyeball-wrenching excursion de force of Bollywood homage, but now I think it would make a terrific party-dress Duro with basic gray banding, instead. and I have a charcoal 1960s shift I must really finish up, too, and a gray pencil skirt cut out and waiting for a waistband, and a gray A-line skirt cut out and waiting for construction … and, oh, a gray flannel circle skirt! I really need to make one of those before autumn gets too far advanced. (I know, I know, it hasn’t even started yet!)
Looks like it’s back to seventh grade for me! only this time without the orthodonture or the algebra, thank god.
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