Sale Alert: Upscale Resale
Friday, March 18th, 2011I just received the following email from Upscale Resale (previously reviewed here):
ANNOUNCING….. Our second annual charity bag sale.This sounds like a great opportunity to spiff up my wardrobe a bit.
STUFF A BAG FOR $10.00!!!
This Saturday, March 19
9am til 3pm (Half price from 2pm-3pm)
All proceeds go to Breezy Hill Baptist Church Teenlife program. Don’t miss this chance to support a worthy cause and to get some great stuff!
**See pictures from last year on our Facebook page.
Styles of Yesteryear
Friday, January 8th, 2010I found the article "Resident to don period clothing for Aiken anniversary" in yesterday’s paper an interesting read. A local lady has made several period outfits from 1875 to celebrate our town’s 175th anniversary. She made some interesting points about how women back then used fabric very efficiently and only replaced their dresses every 5 to 10 years. That’s definitely a contrast with today’s practically disposable fashions.
It’s All Ripped Up
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010Two months into my commitment not to buy any new clothes, I have ripped the knee in two of my three pairs of jeans. And it was my two nicest pairs, too.
This development is really challenging me to stick to my guns and not spend money unnecessarily. I’ve asked myself, do I really need more than one pair of jeans? I have other pants. I’m not naked and I can look respectable when I need to.
My plan is to put iron-on patches on the inside of the ripped knees and keep on truckin’.
This development is really challenging me to stick to my guns and not spend money unnecessarily. I’ve asked myself, do I really need more than one pair of jeans? I have other pants. I’m not naked and I can look respectable when I need to.
My plan is to put iron-on patches on the inside of the ripped knees and keep on truckin’.
Seasonal Dressing
Friday, September 12th, 2008Growing up in Northern California, I pretty much wore the same clothes year-round. The only difference between the summer and the winter there is how much it rains. When I went to college in Tennessee, I got a crash course in seasonal dressing. Suddenly, those fashion “rules” I’d vaguely heard about started to make sense. “Don’t wear velvet in the summer” – because you will swelter. “Don’t wear linen in the winter” – because you will freeze.
The closets in my dorm rooms were small, so I got in the habit of switching out my wardrobe when the seasons changed, putting the warm-weather clothes into my trunk for storage and taking out the cold-weather clothes in the fall, then repeating the process in the spring. It felt so nice to suddenly have a whole new wardrobe twice a year, and to have less clutter in my closet, that I kept making the switch even after college.
The longer I’ve lived in the South, the more I’ve embraced the whole concept of dressing for the season. I don’t see it as a bunch of silly outdated rules. Rather, I think seasonal dressing is a worthy tradition dating back hundreds of years. For an example, look attraditional Japanese kimonos with their carefully crafted designs meant to express the essence of each season. Dressing for the season helps me feel more in tune with the natural world. Also, it’s a good way to give your wardrobe a periodic overhaul.
One difference between South Carolina and some of the other places I’ve lived is that we don’t really get winter here. At least, not temperature-wise. Also, the weather doesn’t really get fall-like until mid- to late-October. In addition, we don’t have the cold spring weather that fashion merchandisers assume is the norm. So instead of two big closet-changing sessions a year, I’ve found that I need two big ones and two little ones.
I make one of my big changeovers around Easter. That holiday is a pretty good marker for the beginning of spring/summer. Then, sometime in May, I put away all the spring clothes that it’s too warm to wear anymore (e.g. long-sleeved sweaters and tees).
In early fall, around Labor Day, I make another small changeover, putting away clothes that feel too “summery.” (I’ll get into this more in my next post.) Finally, when the weather really cools off sometime in October, I put away the shorts and capris and bring out the jeans and sweaters.
I like keeping my closet filled with only the clothes I can actually wear at the moment, and I like the feeling of getting a whole bunch of “new” clothes a few times a year, when I take things out of storage. Do you dress seasonally? Why or why not?
The closets in my dorm rooms were small, so I got in the habit of switching out my wardrobe when the seasons changed, putting the warm-weather clothes into my trunk for storage and taking out the cold-weather clothes in the fall, then repeating the process in the spring. It felt so nice to suddenly have a whole new wardrobe twice a year, and to have less clutter in my closet, that I kept making the switch even after college.
The longer I’ve lived in the South, the more I’ve embraced the whole concept of dressing for the season. I don’t see it as a bunch of silly outdated rules. Rather, I think seasonal dressing is a worthy tradition dating back hundreds of years. For an example, look attraditional Japanese kimonos with their carefully crafted designs meant to express the essence of each season. Dressing for the season helps me feel more in tune with the natural world. Also, it’s a good way to give your wardrobe a periodic overhaul.
One difference between South Carolina and some of the other places I’ve lived is that we don’t really get winter here. At least, not temperature-wise. Also, the weather doesn’t really get fall-like until mid- to late-October. In addition, we don’t have the cold spring weather that fashion merchandisers assume is the norm. So instead of two big closet-changing sessions a year, I’ve found that I need two big ones and two little ones.
I make one of my big changeovers around Easter. That holiday is a pretty good marker for the beginning of spring/summer. Then, sometime in May, I put away all the spring clothes that it’s too warm to wear anymore (e.g. long-sleeved sweaters and tees).
In early fall, around Labor Day, I make another small changeover, putting away clothes that feel too “summery.” (I’ll get into this more in my next post.) Finally, when the weather really cools off sometime in October, I put away the shorts and capris and bring out the jeans and sweaters.
I like keeping my closet filled with only the clothes I can actually wear at the moment, and I like the feeling of getting a whole bunch of “new” clothes a few times a year, when I take things out of storage. Do you dress seasonally? Why or why not?
Fall 2008 Color Predictions
Friday, August 22nd, 2008The fall clothes are already in the stores, but it’s not yet Labor Day so I’m going to say that I’m not yet late with my fall 2008 color predictions. These are not necessarily the colors the fashion industry is trying to foist upon us. Rather, these are the colors that I think people will gravitate to most. (For example, it doesn’t matter that there are a lot of pumpkin-colored sweaters in the stores right now because I expect most of those to be hanging on the clearance racks come November.)
These colors aren’t just for clothing: they’re the ones I think you’ll want to surround yourself with in napkins, wrapping paper, nail polish, flowers, rugs, soap, etc. because they just somehow feel right right now.
Color by COLOURlovers
These colors aren’t just for clothing: they’re the ones I think you’ll want to surround yourself with in napkins, wrapping paper, nail polish, flowers, rugs, soap, etc. because they just somehow feel right right now.
Color by COLOURlovers
- Teal: We’ve had about 15 years to recover from the teal binge of the late 80s/early 90s and it’s time for this lovely color to make a comeback. Sadly, it doesn’t render well on a computer screen. Imagine it bolder and richer, with a little more green. Surprisingly, teal hasn’t really taken off yet (it’s not as easy to find in stores as, say, purple), so I predict that anything you buy now will wear well for at least a couple more years.
- Dark Gray: Ubiquitous on the runways, goes with everything, and flattering on more people than stark black.
- Light Gray: Gray is everywhere this season, so it’s worth having some variety in shades. Don’t stop with dark and light, try medium gray, too. You don’t have to limit yourself to a palette of 5 colors like I did.
- Plum: From a blueish to a more magenta-ish hue, plum (dark, rich purple) is very current. This is one of the fashion industry picks that I think people will actually warm up to.
- Gold: Another color that doesn’t render well on the computer screen; you’ll just have to imagine that it’s metallic. I believe that gold jewelry, gold accessories, even gold nail polish will appeal to a large number of people this fall.
“Heat Miser” Fashion Editorial in Papercut Magazine
Again I have another editorial in Papercut Magazine, and I am extremely proud of the work we produced! I worked with an incredible team and the images (in my opinion) are quite striking. At this point in my career I am working to define my style a bit more, and I feel that my style will (maybe?) end up having a similar feel to these images. My most successful images are bold, bright colors, clean and just visually striking. But we’ll see what happens in the next few years– I just love so many styles!
About a month ago Papercut Magazine sent me an email saying the next issue’s theme was “Holiday, Winter and Celebration”… so I had to come up with something interesting. To me, “Ice Queen” has been done a billion times, and I even did one a few years ago (that was pretty successful, so no use doing it again!). So the obvious holiday/winter/snow themed shoot wasn’t going to cut it for me. My first thought was to do something with furs and perhaps fake snow in the air. Then I thought I could do an icy beauty shoot, but again I had seen that done before too many times.
Finally I started thinking about how I might work in a theme from a Christmas movie or TV show… maybe “Its a Wonderful Life”, or “Rudolf” or something. Finally I remembered the children’t program “A Year without Santa”… what I remembered actually wasn’t the cartoon but my little sister ALWAYS singing the “Snow Miser/Heat Miser” song around Christmas. And then it struck me. I could do a holiday shoot with white and red, and have it be themed “Heat Miser” and still have a holiday feel to it.
I instructed my stylist to get all white (or light colored) clothing, and told my hair stylist I would need red wigs and outrageous hair styling. I sent a few inspiration shots, chose my model from Muse Models, and then we were ready to shoot.
If you’d like to purchase a print version of the magazine, you can do so on MagCloud.
Click on the images below to see a few larger images that appeared in the magazine, out Dec 17th 2010.
- Heat Miser editorial in Papercut Magazine by Lindsay Adler
- Heat Miser editorial in Papercut Magazine by Lindsay Adler
- Heat Miser editorial in Papercut Magazine by Lindsay Adler
- Heat Miser editorial in Papercut Magazine by Lindsay Adler
- Heat Miser editorial in Papercut Magazine by Lindsay Adler
- Heat Miser editorial in Papercut Magazine by Lindsay Adler
My incredible creative team was:
Wardrobe: LSC for 4Season Style Management
Hair and Makeup: Johnny Gonzalez
Its always amazing how you never quite know exactly how a shoot will turn out. It all comes together on the day of the shoot. While I was shooting this one I could tell instantly that the imagery would be fun and engaging to look at. Our model, only 16 years old, brought along her mom and our entire group had a really great time during the shoot. Below you can see more behind the scenes video/images, as well as the spreads for how the images appeared in the magazine. Finally, I have attached many of the images that did not make the cut for publication… so you can see a bit more of the looks we did!
Unpublished Images from Heat Miser Editorial (see below)
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