MeMadeMay 2019 day 27

“MeMadeMay (2019) day 27. We took these pictures approximately 2.5 seconds before it started pouring rain. I was initially skeptical about combining this skirt with this particular blouse (vintage 70’s) but I think it fits my primary aesthetic of ‘high school English teacher’.”

I love that I somehow have no eyebrows in any of these photos.

This is one of those looks that was born out of… desperation, basically. You can really tell that I was stretching things by the end of the month, even in spite of the fact that I made three new pieces within the month of May to try to increase my options. (I’m not sure I’ve ever finished three pieces in a month before or since then.)

The skirt is, once again, the bottom half of Anne Adams 4526, and the top is one of my staple ugly 70’s blouses.

I’m also amused that this might be the first mention of my preferred aesthetic (of the time, at least), the High School English Teacher. My own high school English teachers wore the weirdest outfits, vacillating between tartan blanket-wrap-skirts, pieces that vaguely resembled a NASA pressure suit, and those late-90’s maroon-and-tan colored dusters with clogs, and I loved every minute of it. Nowadays, I would probably define my style as “anything John Lodge wore that wasn’t leather” which is… shockingly not a lot, that man loves leather in a way that I just can’t fully understand. But a lot of my vintage sensibilities came from the gatefold of Natural Avenue (IYKYK), the Rainbow Tank, and his persistent tendency to wear anything with the front open most of the way to the navel. And, honestly, I love that for me.