Fashion

When criticism gets doubly negative, it turns out positive

icelava — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:29:31 GMT

After such incredible testimonies, how can anybody ever deny such easy power.

http://www.birkoph.com/Wolf_tshirt.htm

Release the animal in you.

D'Closet, your door to Korean fashion

icelava — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:30:55 GMT

Seldom do I stumble upon a complete collection that actually amazes me with such pretty soothe. And female clothing to boot. If only local stores, and more local females, dressed like these more often.....

http://www.dcloset13.blogspot.com/

To be fair, this Singaporean who took it upon herself to import creative Korean works also has a male section

http://www.dcloset13men.blogspot.com/

And mothers-to-be, have no fear! Your baby will know how slick you were when s/he was still swimming laps in your womb.

http://prettywomb.blogspot.com/

Gender wars: can somebody explain to me...

icelava — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:18:06 GMT

why females can wear floral dresses/blouses to work, but males cannot wear flower shirts?

Kumar: it is your destiny......

icelava — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 03:20:59 GMT

Here's a statement that most who know me well already know, but just for the benefit for those who haven't had the luxury of my size to figure it out.

I own female clothing.

When I say that, I don't mean walking out on the streets with frilly dresses and lacy underwear. Let's get the record straight here, ok. I only put those on at home.

Reality speaking, my physical size and frame usually finds me swimming within the space afforded by even the smallest ranges of many brand's men's wear. Such that I sometimes (more often than I like) have to compare with the female cut, if there is such a version available for a particular design, and go with it as long as the shape ain't too exaggerated. Buying the "alternative choice" that is similar enough is economically better than altering the over-sized male pieces. After all, I occupy less material, so why should i pay more for less? Existing in the unprofitable demographic range in many companys' eyes sucks big time.

But that is not the main topic, actually. What I truly want to point out is, it seems spectacle designers have gotten wind of my tastes in frames, and decided to play with me as well now.

I recently got a voucher for a free pair of Nikon lenses. Not for camera, but prescription lenses for the eyes. This was something new to me; I didn't know Nikon was so serious about capturing light that they began including the retina as a receptive platform along with the film and CCD. Offered by the Lens Men chain of shops, I hopped over to their branch at Centrepoint hoping to find a frame I should have gotten years ago: short + narrow rectangular dimension for the lenses.

If you are into fashion spectacles, you really need to visit the Lens Men. Their offerings (which are reportedly different for every branch), to say in a short sentence, are colourful and vibrant with life. It suddenly feels so refreshing and wonderful to have poor eyesight.

Anyway, despite the delectable designs put out, nearly all the frames with a rectangular shape with either too wide or too tall. It was after perhaps an hour of searching and trying did we come across a pair with the perfect shape. It is a designer spec, so it rather costly it is. But never mind that. The only problem was, the entire frame is painted bright pink.

And being a designer spec, it only came in that colour. Having somewhat unique tastes in style, I am all for the unconventional, but flamboyancy is something I do not wish to attain. For a moment I felt the need to walk over to the scale-kit modelling shop to buy a tin of paint.

But ain't I kinda put into the same situation as the above? What is wrong with the people who produce bodily articles? Do they have some sort of determination to drive me in a direction?

Nope, I did not buy that pair. I only took down the dimensions (40x22) and am visiting the Marine Parade branch later today in hope there is a similar frame with a less "bold" colour.

Want to buy leather pants?

Gibby — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:28:15 GMT

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8335653541

Knocking up the wrong door all these years

icelava — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:13:05 GMT

Today (or rather, two day's ago) i demonstrate my lack of general knowledge.

Being of petite size, I have always had to alter my long sleeve shirts since my arms are never long enough. That meant trimming at the cuffs. But length is just one dimension; my body ain't broad either, so shirts that go beyond 14.5" for the shoulders fit me like a boy looking to last a shirt all four years in school.

I have to recognise that I stopped wearing school uniforms more than 12 years ago.

So naturally I was dismay, as usual, when the S-sized (american) shirts from Microsoft eCompanyStore arrived last month. It was almost an advertisement for me to patronise McDonald's if I am to fit "comfortably" into those shirts.

We have a part-timer house cleaner who has tailoring connections, and my mother suggested passing the shirts to her for trimming. My suggestion was whether it was possible to cut the sides to bring the shoulder line in closer to fit my frame. She said such work can be done.

Wow. And now I look back at my past shirts and wonder what I've done.

PS - To "defend" myself, I hardly wear proper business shirts since I have the "luxury" of wearing what a real software engineer should while working - boxers and singlet. [<:o)]

Looking for flashy suit

icelava — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 18:52:24 GMT

If you know a store/tailor that sells this please drop me a note. Thank you.