I am both Daria AND Jane

Just sending out some Morgendorffer-Lane love.



Check out what Molly Lynch found, although it is a bootleg compilation. Info on the only official DVD's available is here.

Does anyone know if there were ever plastic poseable versions of the gang? I would SO love to have these two on my desk to cheer me on!

Image: Venus Zine

Me and my Red Shoes

My Clarks arrived early Friday morning, but I didn't open them until I got them home that evening.

As advertised

In real life

As you can see, I ordered the rust pair. They are a more subtle red than the type I'd been looking for the last six months, but I think I like that.



Here they are (first photo) with both black and brown tights. They really look better with the brown than they appear in this photo but I couldn't get the color right.



Though with the Miz Mooz brown ones having a bit more red in it, these Target ombre ones, and now these brownish-red ones, maybe they are all a little too close for comfort.

Maybe I need to get a more true red pair...what do you think?

Waiting...

for my shoes.

Since I live in a secured-door apartment building, UPS wasn't able to deliver my shoes the last two days. Even though I redirected the delivery to my office early this morning (actually 12:04 AM) I won't be able to get them until tomorrow.

It was disappointing since I was wearing an outfit perfectly assembled for those shoes today. My red swing skirt, autumn colored fall shirt, black Forever 21 50s-style swing jacket, and my new pumpkin colored earrings. Oh well, at least I know what I'll wear with them next week.

Braniff: The Opposite of Stripped-down Style

Note: Originally published at the 2Modern Design Talk blog.

My post last week on Dallas-based Braniff International Airways only made me eager to write about their infamous airline hostess uniforms. I mean you have to make note of a uniform advertising campaign that is built around the burlesque art of strip tease and markets posters such as this Air Strip ad seen here.



The uniforms (see below) were designed as many separate components of a complete wardrobe consisting of a reversible coat worn over a pink wool suit on top of a silk turtle-neck tunic and culottes. Throughout the flight, the hostesses would "strip" off their ensemble until they reached the silk pieces. Using women as eye-candy. Wow, what a novel idea. Not. However, there was in fact a very novel idea in play as these uniforms were innovative and most definitely eye-catching. Designed by Italian fashion designer Emilio Pucci, how could they not be?


1965 Air Strip


1966 Pucci II

As part of a company-wide rebranding effort, Pucci was brought in around the same time as Alexander Girard was hired for graphic design, and the "End of the Plain Plane" campaign. The bright colors used statically on the plane exteriors would now also be seen moving inside the plane cabin.


1971 Pucci VI

Sites where you can see more of these colorful uniforms:

• Fabulous uniform collection donated by the Clipped B's, a service organization of former BI hostesses.
• A former Braniff air hostess and her recollection of her uniforms.
• Hostess uniforms from 335 international airlines and here is Braniff from the mid 60s to late 80s.
• Check this site's photos for more of the Braniff uniforms in action.

Images: Braniff Pages, the Dallas Historical Society, and Uniformfreak

Target for the win?

The black Merona sweater coat from Target may* have won the challenge to stay in my wardrobe and take its place as my new cardigan.

As it turns out the Old Navy cardigan was only serviceable, not really cute and funky once it was layered over anything more complicated than a brown racer-back tank that strangely enough was originally from Old Navy. Hmmm...

In other matters, the Clark Devine has been asked to join the wardrobe family as it was on major sale at 6pm.com. I was very enamored of the Nicole Beautiful but unfortunately it was not on sale AND it's mixture of red and brown was not as closet-friendly with all of my black skirts and trousers. Hopefully, the Devine may have an easier time finding its place among them, as well as, with the various shades of brown and brown-friendly prints I already have in my closet. It should be arriving today!

*An employee in my department was let go yesterday, so I think the Target cardigan is going back too. My older black cardigan isn't in that bad a shape if I get some funky cool patches on the elbows as soon as possible. Of course, I had a chance to repair it very early in the unraveling process but procrastinated. Oh well.