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Carrie Bradshaw Month 2: Love Letters of Great Men
OK, so this jacket doesn’t look like it has heaps of potential, but bear with me!
The swing tag is missing, but I paid £4.99 in the British Heart Foundation in Whitby. It’s Marks and Spencer, size UK 20, so plenty to work with.
For this remake I will also be using…
…one large full-skirted light grey skirt. This one is size 16 and came from the Children’s Society Shop in Upminster. For this I paid £2.49.
So, what could kind of outfit could be drawn out of these two unusual garments? Read on to find out…
Carrie Bradshaw Month 2: Your girl is lovely, Hubbell
This is the third post in a series I’m doing about Carrie Bradshaw. You can read the rest of the posts here.
One of my favourite moments in Season 2 is in episode 18. Carrie and the girls discuss how her relationship with Big has parallels with the 1973 movie “The Way We Were“, starring Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand. She heads over to the Plaza hotel where Big is leaving his and Natasha’s engagement party and the rest is a total pastiche of The Way We Were. She even tells him, “Your girl is lovely, Hubbell,” not that he gets the reference, of course, before getting back into the limo and driving off with ‘the idiot stick figure with no soul’.
In this scene she wears a beautiful silk slip dress, cut on the bias, which I read somewhere is by Christian Dior.
The dress is really, really low cut. You can see underwear peeking through the neckline in a lot of the shots.
To make a dress like this, I needed something white and cut on the bias… enter this yucky skirt!
Carrie Bradshaw Month 2: Scout
This is part two of a series in which I pay tribute to everyone’s favourite fictional fashionista. To read the other posts, click here.
For my next project, I chose this red and white skirt from season 4 episode 7. The location is ‘Scout’, Steve and Aidan’s bar in SoHo.
The skirt is Prada spring 2001 RTW and it was also styled with a black long sleeved top on the catwalk.
I’m making my own version from…. tshirts, of course!
Carrie Bradshaw Month 2: CARRIE’S BACK!
CARRIE’S BACK!
Yes, that’s right, ladies and gentlemen, because I enjoyed April’s ‘Carrie Bradshaw Month’ feature so much, I’ve decided to do a sequel. Only this time, it’s going to be bigger and better. The pictures are going to be shot ON LOCATION IN NEW YORK CITY!
That’s right, Charity Shop Chic is going global! :) I will be posting this series throughout this month, so stay tuned for more coming up shortly.
For my first trick I will be attempting to recreate a white jersey dress in the manner of this Halston Heritage number that she wears right at the start of the sequel. Of course, I am using my favourite source of recycled cotton jersey… old tshirts!
I picked up these two white men’s tshirts at the Cancer Research shop in Whitby for £3.50 apiece. One’s marked large, the other small, but crucially they are both completely plain.
Designs on Denim: Part 6 (of 6!)
This is the final part of the denim series, at least for now… hope you have enjoyed reading.
It’s a good old denim jacket!
Again this came from Thrift Town in San Francisco ($7.99). I had several denim jackets that I was looking at, trying to decide which one to get. I eventually settled on this Calvin Klein jacket in traditional indigo blue. It’s really well worn; the cuffs are falling apart and the collar is fraying. It’s so well worn that the denim is really soft to the touch and not at all cardboard-y. It just feels good to wear!
Designs on Denim: Part 5
It’s time for part 5 of the series! Yes, it’s another pair of jeans. These also came from the Mind shop in Whitby, but these were only £4.25.
The fit is a lot better than last week’s pair, but still, they were pretty boring and needed a bit of something special.
Out came the scissors…
Designs on Denim: Part 4
Here’s Project #4 in my denim series. It’s a pair of jeans; possibly the most unflattering jeans in the world.
I paid £4.50 in the Mind shop in Whitby for these babies.
Designs on Denim: Part 3
The third piece in this denim series is also from my massive Thrift Town haul – this time it’s a denim dress. I paid $7.99.
This dress is made of lightweight denim and has a polo-shirt style collar and cuffs. There’s a button missing too!
Designs on Denim: Part 2
This story starts with a pair of jeans.
They fit relatively well when I bought them as part of my massive haul from Thrift Town in San Francisco a few months back ($5.99). Unfortunately boot cut is not the most flattering on me… I only wear skinnies!
Inspiration for these jeans came from Isabel Marant S/S 12… aren’t they fabulous!
Designs on Denim: Part 1
Oooh, another mini-series! This one is going to be about refashioning using denim.
For my first denim refashion in this series (I have earlier denim refashions here and here), I’m working with a denim shirt. I picked this up at Thrift Town in San Francisco for $3.99.
To make this a bit more interesting, I’m adding some…. LEATHER. I put this in caps because it’s the first time I’ve worked with LEATHER and it was rather daunting…
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