#I actually already do have a big neon orange one but it looks more cartoony than the one I saw

[simplyghosting]

There was a big, weighted green plush brontosaurus at the store and gosh if my mother wasn’t there neither would have been my self control

[patricianandclerk]

i’ve been thinking a lot recently about like

the kind of clothes that i currently wear, and the kind of clothes that i actually want to wear, in terms of like... my every day. i have certain clothes and i wear the same things a lot, and certain things are beginning to wear out, especially my jeans and some of my favourite shirts

and i want to make my wardrobe more... me. bc in recent years i’ve not been dressing all that flamboyantly, because a lot of the flamboyant things i like are just too cold to wear, and i’ve not stuff to appropriately layer

and i’m thinking about like... what my ideal wardrobe would look like, and what i actually want to wear

in general... i like brocades and i like patterns - especially paisley, florals,and snakeskin, and i love anything that just looks like a grandmother’s wallpaper.

i like reds and greens and golds; i like black and brown. i love mustard yellow and venom green, i love crimson, i love dark, luxuriant purples, and i love different browns - dark chocolate hues, lighter leathery ones, dark tans... the only browns i don’t like are like, camels. 

i don’t like to wear silver, although grey can be alright; i don’t really like blue that much, and i like burnt oranges that tend toward brown, but not really bright oranges. i also don’t really like brighter yellows or neon colours. 

i like leathers and silks; i like embroidered fabrics and brocade; i like to feel the weight of fabric, whether it’s multiple layers or one. i like furs and fleeces. i love lace and i love ruffles, and i love being able to look at something and just see the volume. i love military bits and pieces, i love pockets, i love little chains and i love textured/carved buttons. 

i like cinched waists, i like to be able to show off my wrists and my ankles and my neck; i like things with a stark silhouette; i like exaggerated shoulders and i like wide skirts on coats versus the narrow waist. i like to billow when i walk, especially because i walk with shoulders back and hips swinging.

and i like shoes that make a noise, i like to make a noise when i walk, and i like to feel the weight of everything i’m wearing, and have that pressure on my shoulders especially, but i want everything to be warm, and to be very comfortable to walk in no matter the weather. 

in general, if i were to pick like... specific styles, i would pick the obvious dandy, for more understated things; i like rogueish/piratical styles, but especially piratical a la dustin hoffman’s costuming in hook (or jason isaacs’ in the ‘03 peter pan); i like sailor’s clothes in general, especially when it comes to jumpers and shirts for wearing around docks or on a ship; i... to my own surprise, i’m actually pretty down with a lot of elements to cowboy gear, but especially, you know, like sidney zweibel style Gay and Cartoony about it.

outerwear: 

i like coats with brocade and colour - i like bold reds and golds, i like blacks. i love old-fashioned military style, like of the 18th and 19th century military styles, especially with big sexy epaulettes and a lot of brocade fronting. i like long coats, with big sleeves. 

i think i would like to wear a cloak, or like, an inverness style coat with a cape - i love the victorian style of coat-with-cape, and i’d be well down for that. i also like brown leather, and as well as the brown suede coat i already have, i’m gonna try and nick my da’s brown leather coat with paisley lining

i also like. desperately want a yellow oil coat, like you wear on a boat. you know like if you imagine a lighthouse keeper in a yellow mackintosh? those are perfectly easy to buy, because i live beside the atlantic ocean, i just haven’t, because i’m kind of dim 

general wear:

i like jeans. i do like jeans. but with that said, i think i want like... heavy jeans? like i want workman’s jeans, i think - i want the kind of jeans that if i went to a farm and expected to be working with horses and riding and jumping fences, they’d be perfectly serviceable, you know? 

i also like trousers with patterning, with front-flaps or with buttons etc; i like trousers that have designs around the pockets and i really like to have them high-waisted that accentuate the hips and the ass, and remind me to keep my posture. i don’t know if i’d wear a corset, but i do like the victorian figure, and i don’t think i’d be opposed

i want more shirts with like... detailing. i really like shirts with lacing and ruffles; i really like shirts with exaggerated cuffs. i like bright patterns, and i like bright colours. i thin i also want to get some engineer’s shirts and heavy cowboy shirts that you wear undershirts beneath - again, workman’s shirts that are made to take some wear and keep you warm, but look very bright and sexy?

i want to wear the waistcoats i own more often. way more often. i want to wear suit jackets more - in general, i like things with embroidery and brocade, and i like to wear ties and bowties, and i should wear them more often, because i like them. 

in general, i like cinched waists, i like to accentuate my wrists, my ankles, my neck; i like plunging necklines; i like tight-fitting stuff that’s warm, and i like to layer clothes, which is why it makes sense for me to transition toward wearing more suits

as for jumpers and cardigans, i like the ones i already have - i like sailor’s patterns and i like corded wool. 

shoes and accessories:

i want some hoops for my ears. i tend to wear one earring on the left side, but i want some more sexy dangling ones - a gold hoop would do perfectly well, and i want stuff along those lines, like the smaller hoop with something dangling from it. i like it. it’s camp, it’s gay, it’s a little silly, i like it a lot

i think i’d also like a new pocketwatch, because mine gave up the ghost like seven years ago and i never got around to replacing it. i think i’d like to wear more rings??? 

i need more gloves, and i’m going to invest in proper leather gloves for the winter, ideally lined with fleece or cashmere or something - i want proper gloves that you can work in, and that i can like, keep on to do things. i want more scarves, i think - i only really use three? two are red, and one is mustard yellow, lmao, because i’m Predictable Like That

and for shoes... i want cowboy boots. i love them, and i want them. i had cowboy boots before and i will have more. in general, i think that i prefer boots to shoes - i like wearing steel toe boots for work, i like the weight, and i like how they fit to my calf. i LOVE chelsea boots, and i like snakeskin, i like red leather, i like brown leather.

white leather is... very sexy, but i think the BDE is a bit more than i’m ready to pretend i have just yet lmao

i favour chelsea boots and cowboy boots because i’m shallow about how short i am and i want the added boost - in a pair of good heeled boots, especially in like, cuban heels, i go from 5′6″ to 5′8″ which is like, average height rather than a little short

also SPATS???? yeah......

underclothes:

broadly happy with my choices of underwear, actually, but i want to wear more vests and thermal undershirts, and i think that also like... i want some long johns. i wouldn’t get a load of sets at once, but i would get one set and just... see how i go. i think i’d like them.

honestly, for formal occasions, i think sock suspenders are extremely sexy and i should wear them. i don’t need them. i just. i like them.