looking alpha as fxck

Haha, thanks. Never been told that one before!

This is sheer beauty. The glasses as buttons are absolutely the most innovative thing I've seen in a long time! And I'm digging the John Lennon sunglasses.

Thank you, thank you. You wouldn't believe how many spare glasses frames I have lying around.

You have the best attire ever.

Thanks, it takes years of practice and sewing.

Bring amazing patterns back please. All I see on my old records are amazing patterned clothing. Where did they all go? All I have is the genuine imitation modern day stuff. It's not the same!

Gimme' that old time, threadiful paisley~

I have been very fortunate in finding fun fabrics. It's just the matter of making them into clothes that takes so long.
I don't understand why today we're so afraid of making interesting clothing

The 60's were discovery, the 70's were an abuse of the open mind, the 80's were a rejection and a reaffirmation, the 90's were a cooling down period, and basically the 21st century is all a silent retrospective - We know what happened and what ideas were expressed, therefore we do not need to show or express that again. Basically white things aren't emptyness - they are a statement that we are aware of all the amazing patterns that have ever been on clothing, yet we wear white and keep the patterns in our knowledge database. Knowledge and the database is king, shirts with funny sayings and graphic imagery are all allusions to the great knowledge database (ie internet and all that has spung from it)

Or something like that. Either way it's a lot less colorful.

That is far, far more eloquent than I could've put it.
Although I'll put forth that while patterns were not as big, I daresay fashion history before the sixties had some real amazing things to show for itself in the way of shapes, fabrics, and detailing. Hell we get to the forties and earlier and the further back you go, the more in love they are with detailing and shapes and embroidery, beading, all that wonderful stuff.

Dressing as I do I get a lot of comments from people about the fears they harbor that keep them from wearing those older fashions that they admire, kept in their databases as you've said. I guess I never thought of modern fashion as a statement of awareness, but one of fear.

There is an appreciation of knowledge, and yet a fear of what that knowledge may represent in the eyes of others (if reapplied). It's something like a lion in the zoo - we keep it in a habitat much like where it came from, but safely behind bars. There are no lions running through the city - we lack the beauty of the mix, but get the safety of knowing where to find it. Quite a few people keep tigers in their houses though.

I guess the spread of common knowledge and opinion, again with the internet, almost created something of an average... The occasional man in a frilly shirt might get called a fag from a car full of passersby, but he couldn't go google frilly shirt, and get a wealth of 3 word posts and pictures to give him an opinion of what that was all about, in the averaged eyes of others. At the same time, he might not have been able to search and join a community of frilly-shirt wearers - large and local community fads are going way and in their place are convention-hall sized specialized pockets of interest amid a vast sea of plain averageness. Television is the last real perpetrator of common, localized (controlled) faddery, with sites like Youtube attempting to channel a sizable chunk of the everyone, through it on their way to everything, therein creating something of a internet community center, from which popular things can emerge.

I didn't mean to leave out the beauty of the 40's and earlier, I just am not as read up on them. There was a great deal more artistry back then, with artists being the rockstars of that time really. There was no TV, so people needed something to look at. Also, there was less to do, and so more time to do it in. And less was done already, so there was more freedom to explore, and more opportunity to succeed and be a star - especially when you couldn't google "patterned fabric" and find a bunch of places to pick it up.

Oops, wrote too much. Aha, frilly shirt wearers are furries XD

Now I know, mods=furries.
But yeah, I think I follow you, and I agree. Although I gotta say, it's also fascinating what happens when these convention halls fill up.

I've never been to one! :o mebee I should

Heh, furries or any other weird fringe, a bunch of people vaguely connected by this common interest crammed together in one space, it's a menagerie of humanity. Or animality in this instance, I guess.

Also, if I'd forgotten to say, love the coat - I'd pair it with white pants, and either tan or blue shoes. I'd also consider incorporating some stems - perhaps on the shoulders, following the curve of the collar, or lining a split in the bottom of the sleeves? Even more hilarious would be a fringe of them :D

By stems you mean temple pieces of glasses? Never really considered them on clothing, although I've tried and failed to incorporate them into jewelry before. A fringe might be fun to try.
And thank you kindly

The part that holds em' on your ears XD

Quite lovely <3 This has a very John Lennon vibe to me...dunno' why...Maybe it's just because I'm a Beatles fan and my brain just works in strange ways :p

Not too far out there. While I had been planning on making a nehru for quite a while, during the actual sewing I admittedly kept being reminded of this video by a contemporary of the Beatles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA