Heart Shaped Box

'I know what you're thinking. Is this an ad for eczema or what?'
 

Yesterday I had my first dressmaking class with the cutest selection of old biddys. Being the pationceless, impulsive, frivolous fairy I am, I expected to come home after the first lesson with my dress finished but all I did was zone out whilst she told us everything we needed to know and practice straight lines...which if my ability to do so was a representation of my sexual orientation, I'd have to make some major lifestyle changes.

Buuuut, by the end of the lesson I learnt that you didn't have to put the pedal down all the way and go at a gazillion miles per hour and you had to actually hold on to your material during the process. Thus, unable to face ending the day without producing something I could wear, I went home and straight away churned out not just something wearable, but something I've wanted for fashion YEARS.

A Clueless Barbie Top! ;)

My first attempt at sewing clothes and it actually turned out suffieciently aesthetically pleasing.

 

Here's the top in Clueless:

 

Here's the top on my Barbie which I forever wanted a human sized version of:

 

And here's my baby.

 

What I like about it is the juxtoposition between the almost childlike, sickeningly girly ness of a heart t-shirt and my style history as a goth/punk. Wearing with irony is everything when I sport Clueless style and girly clothes, but in the words of White Goodmand from Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 'half of what you say when you are joking is true'. Thus, the irony I sport walks hand in hand with the blatant truth that blares from my chest.

 I've got an awfully big heart.

 

(clueless, diy, dressmaking, barbie, barbie clothes, fashion, 90s fashion, nikki minaj)