oulipien
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Most of my 2021 was spent ploughing the same few furrows as before, with the high points being finally getting some things I'd lusted after in the general "dark artisanal" area for a while: a pair of m_moria shoes (gorgeous) and some CCP and Deepti pieces, which I've been really into (albeit without a great many opportunities to wear them yet). At the same time, and in pretty stark contrast to the tight fit, "the clothes wear you" vibe of a lot of the "artisanal" stuff I'd been accumulating and especially of CCP, I got a loose, drapey hakama from Rosen and really dug it:
to the point of getting two more (from Yamamoto and Bishool, which seems to have a lot of loose flowy unisex stuff) and of overcoming the bifurcation hurdle and getting one skirt from My Beautiful Landlet and sewing another myself (a process that involved my having to really psych myself up to make the initial cuts in the fabric, since I … have basically no experience sewing clothes, and for that matter did make several admittedly venial mistakes):
In a way this is actually kind of annoying, because I'd managed to convince myself that I pretty much knew what I wanted and could really focus on just completing a wardrobe and sort of calling it a day, and now I'm beset by new interests.
to the point of getting two more (from Yamamoto and Bishool, which seems to have a lot of loose flowy unisex stuff) and of overcoming the bifurcation hurdle and getting one skirt from My Beautiful Landlet and sewing another myself (a process that involved my having to really psych myself up to make the initial cuts in the fabric, since I … have basically no experience sewing clothes, and for that matter did make several admittedly venial mistakes):
In a way this is actually kind of annoying, because I'd managed to convince myself that I pretty much knew what I wanted and could really focus on just completing a wardrobe and sort of calling it a day, and now I'm beset by new interests.