Fuck yeah, Queenie. You totally ruling the empire. That monochrome effect is in full flight.
If I were Kate Middleton I would feel so conflicted. Fashiowise I'd think I was basically given the perfect opportunity to dress monochrome for life! But then I'd also feel like I need to not start dressing like QEII while I was still a young woman and make my own style. And so I'd probably just dress in the fucked up jumble I do now. But maybe better, certainly more expensively. So word up K-Mids. Word up QEII!
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
What is Prince William up to? (AM)
The other day, I was catching up on my favourite blog, Miss Soft Crab. No, really. I was bored and I thought I would read old Miss Soft Crab entries. What a great time I had! You guys should keep it in mind for next time you're bored.
In addition to amusing me a great deal, it reminded me that we have a LOT of tags for our posts. There are our oft-used favourites ( please see WTF, Best Things, Food), but there are also many many more we have used just once or twice (see: terror, so much ugh and sounds like my friday night).
Perhaps the most surprising tag I stumbled upon was 'Prince William'. I know, on this blog? Surprised the shit out of me too. Turns out J referred to him a couple of times back in the early days of MSC and then we haven't give him another look since.
Doesn't seem very nice, does it? Shall we check in and see what he's been up to? Ok then!
Well, unsurprisingly, he's been going to the Olympics with his wife a fair bit.
That looks like fun, doesn't it?
He's also been dressing up in his pilot outfit.
Such a good one.
And because he's such a cool guy, it looks like he's also been going along with it while a couple of dudes cross swords in front of his wife.
What a cool guy.
Perhaps most importantly though, I am pleased to advise that like most future kings, he's also been getting himself noticed as a subject for art, albeit in a supporting role for his wife and grandmother in this hilarious Tim Key poem.
So that's Prince William. Tomorrow we will revisit another infrequently used MSC tag. Maybe Boreanaz?
(We're not really going to do that.)
In addition to amusing me a great deal, it reminded me that we have a LOT of tags for our posts. There are our oft-used favourites ( please see WTF, Best Things, Food), but there are also many many more we have used just once or twice (see: terror, so much ugh and sounds like my friday night).
Perhaps the most surprising tag I stumbled upon was 'Prince William'. I know, on this blog? Surprised the shit out of me too. Turns out J referred to him a couple of times back in the early days of MSC and then we haven't give him another look since.
Doesn't seem very nice, does it? Shall we check in and see what he's been up to? Ok then!
Well, unsurprisingly, he's been going to the Olympics with his wife a fair bit.
That looks like fun, doesn't it?
He's also been dressing up in his pilot outfit.
Such a good one.
And because he's such a cool guy, it looks like he's also been going along with it while a couple of dudes cross swords in front of his wife.
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Perhaps most importantly though, I am pleased to advise that like most future kings, he's also been getting himself noticed as a subject for art, albeit in a supporting role for his wife and grandmother in this hilarious Tim Key poem.
So that's Prince William. Tomorrow we will revisit another infrequently used MSC tag. Maybe Boreanaz?
(We're not really going to do that.)
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
QEII Style (PM)
I totally dig on QEII style!
Obvs I don't want to look or dress like her, but sister got some good tips. In fact, I'm starting to think that QEII has been influencing me without me even knowing it. Did you know my whole look for this year is based around monochrome. Tone wise I'm happy to mix it up, but colour-wise I'm totally trying to maintain monochrome outfits. Duochrome at most. But even QEII would let me get away with that.
Also, I love that she kind of has a uniform. I long to be the sort of person that wears various incarnations of the same thing every day. I think that is kind of awesome, but when it comes down to it I just can't commit like that. I think it's awesome QEII does it. I mean, she could wear anything in the world but she just goes right on wearing skirts with jackets and hats in one colour. Unlike some people in her family, she really knows what commitment means.
In fact, it is so great her new granddaughter in law is totally imitating her!
Me, I take a lot from QEII style. Sure, not the skirt suits or hats, but more generally, you know.
But let me give you a little advice, if you want to keep the dream alive please don't Google 'Queen Elizabeth II casual'. I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying keep your QEII style vision pure. I didn't and now I can never go back.
Obvs I don't want to look or dress like her, but sister got some good tips. In fact, I'm starting to think that QEII has been influencing me without me even knowing it. Did you know my whole look for this year is based around monochrome. Tone wise I'm happy to mix it up, but colour-wise I'm totally trying to maintain monochrome outfits. Duochrome at most. But even QEII would let me get away with that.
Also, I love that she kind of has a uniform. I long to be the sort of person that wears various incarnations of the same thing every day. I think that is kind of awesome, but when it comes down to it I just can't commit like that. I think it's awesome QEII does it. I mean, she could wear anything in the world but she just goes right on wearing skirts with jackets and hats in one colour. Unlike some people in her family, she really knows what commitment means.
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| Check out how long she's been doing it! |
In fact, it is so great her new granddaughter in law is totally imitating her!
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| Who the eff do you think you are Middleton. I see you with your eyes on the prize. |
But let me give you a little advice, if you want to keep the dream alive please don't Google 'Queen Elizabeth II casual'. I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying keep your QEII style vision pure. I didn't and now I can never go back.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Yes, the show does rule, it's true
Oh man, I love the heck out of the show.
We were never allowed to go when I was little, but I went a few years ago with AB and Coco and we had the best time ever. We went to the pig races and they chose me to lead the cheerleading for Swifty, one of the pigs who was racing. They chose me out of all the people! They gave me a flag and when I waved it, everyone had to cheer. It would be fair to say that Swifty got a lot of support that day.
Lets hope that's what a pig looks like when it's having a really good time.
Anyway, I had a top day, and it looks like your day ruled just as much.
Just quickly though, those Irish setters are the cutest (after Doggy, who is one of the cutest and best dog ever, as articulated here and here ). Also, that chicken with the black and white feathers looks like it is wearing that Alexander McQueen dress I saw that time. Cute.
We were never allowed to go when I was little, but I went a few years ago with AB and Coco and we had the best time ever. We went to the pig races and they chose me to lead the cheerleading for Swifty, one of the pigs who was racing. They chose me out of all the people! They gave me a flag and when I waved it, everyone had to cheer. It would be fair to say that Swifty got a lot of support that day.
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| This is not Swifty, it is a picture of a pig that is on the internet. |
Anyway, I had a top day, and it looks like your day ruled just as much.
Just quickly though, those Irish setters are the cutest (after Doggy, who is one of the cutest and best dog ever, as articulated here and here ). Also, that chicken with the black and white feathers looks like it is wearing that Alexander McQueen dress I saw that time. Cute.
Monday, May 16, 2011
In response and some other stuff
The only thing better than ending a day in NYC with a Marky Mark movie is ending it with The Office. If only you had been watching that show. I love that show. Not least because of this guy:
But just generally I think that show is really funny. Steve Carell is great and so is everyone in it really. Even though the first few times I saw it I was all, “Stupid American Office they don’t get English humour.” But it was me that didn’t get them. Don’t worry. I get it now. You see it's just that when I was in the US of A a few months ago we drank beer and watched that show all the time at the end of the day, so I imagine you doing that too. But you can watch whatever you like. That's cool.
But what's with the non sequitur when I could be talking about those Alexander McQueen dresses. Holy mother effing moly. They are so beautiful and awesome. I just really love the look of them a lot. I know that I really like clothes, but it sure is rare that something actually makes me feel things in the way those dresses did. They practically made me have a physical reaction. They made me think, if I ever got married maybe I'd ditch sequins and embrace lace. And antlers. And it made me think even less of Middleton's dress than I already did. Your post also got me thinking, sheesh, I know her parents aren't royalty but what a jib they have to stand behind a bollard. I mean, they are the parents of the bride! You think they'd get a better position that.
But just generally I think that show is really funny. Steve Carell is great and so is everyone in it really. Even though the first few times I saw it I was all, “Stupid American Office they don’t get English humour.” But it was me that didn’t get them. Don’t worry. I get it now. You see it's just that when I was in the US of A a few months ago we drank beer and watched that show all the time at the end of the day, so I imagine you doing that too. But you can watch whatever you like. That's cool.
But what's with the non sequitur when I could be talking about those Alexander McQueen dresses. Holy mother effing moly. They are so beautiful and awesome. I just really love the look of them a lot. I know that I really like clothes, but it sure is rare that something actually makes me feel things in the way those dresses did. They practically made me have a physical reaction. They made me think, if I ever got married maybe I'd ditch sequins and embrace lace. And antlers. And it made me think even less of Middleton's dress than I already did. Your post also got me thinking, sheesh, I know her parents aren't royalty but what a jib they have to stand behind a bollard. I mean, they are the parents of the bride! You think they'd get a better position that.
Kate Middleton, you really dropped the ball
Today I went to the Met.
I love the Met!
In addition to all the shit-hot art on the walls, I saw a special Alexander McQueen exhibition which consisted of garments, shoes and headwear from the early 1990’s onwards. While I couldn’t take photos, you can see a lot of pieces on the Met webbie, so you should all probably do that. And let me say that while I dislike the way the term amazing is used to describe everything these days, honest to god, every single piece in this exhibition was amazing.
I think I had two favourites. This one, made entirely from pheasant feathers:
Pheasant feathers! Imagine how warm it would be
And this one.
Lace and antlers, together at last!
Anyway, the whole way round the exhibition I kept thinking that even though Alexander McQueen is dead and therefore this degree of awesomeness may be lost forever, surely Kate Middleton wasted an opportunity when, in engaging Alexander McQueen to design her wedding dress, she ended up wearing this* yawnfest when she could have ended up with something like the above.
Anyway, I am wrapping up the day by eating an arepa (thanks to the helpful suggestion of a MSC reader!),watching The Italian Job and drinking American beer with my Mum.
Nice.
* You will note that I have not linked to a photo of the wedding dress, because I can’t find a decent one on the internet. Can you believe it? They don’t even have a decent one on her wikipedia page. They do, however, have an hilarious picture of her her parents with a bollard.
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