What kinds of fashion-y things do you guys like?

[Opalwhisker]

Hey all! just an open discussion thread on:

Your favorite outfits!
Favorite types of accessories!
Favorite Seamstress or shop!
Favorite things you like to put on your doll that are really hard to find!
or really anything crafty!

Just like to see what kinds of things people like!

[Nunubit]

I love ruffles.

Ruffly shirts and skirts are great, along with tiny vests.

I also wear a pocket watch.

[magkelly]

Transparent shoes, any shoes that look like they could be worn by a character in Frank Baum's Oz books or a character in a Tolkien book. I like unusual shoes, but I also like them wearable. The recent trend toward stilt shoes in painful shapes, those I don't like. Boots of all kinds are a major thing. I used to be more of an evening gown person but lately my dolls are getting dressed more in day wear. But I still like really over the top things like the crystal corsets and stuff with major beadwork and metallics. Oh and leggings, tights, I'm crazy about making tights and leggings.

I also like historical outfits, from different periods, anything that looks like it could have been made by Chanel, Dior, Schiaparelli, any of those really iconic designers It really depends upon the doll. I have dolls dressed in everything from Titanic era clothes to 40's clothes to 60's mod clothes, the eras really range wide. The Mel Odom dolls they're in his Hollywood 40's outfits and in anything that looks like it could be a costume for stage or screen. My MA fashion dolls, the Tonners, mostly modern clothes, but with a high fashion couture flair. The Barbies, Bratz, Liv and MT's anything goes.

I've got one Midge in transparent pink platforms wearing a glittered Fashionista outfit that basically otherwise looks like it could have been made for the musical Grease.Her hair is totally Frenchy. I call her "Bombshell Midge" usually because she just has that 50's casual look only it's updated a little like she was playing in a semi-disco revival Broadway version. Another of my Barbies she's a 60's That Girl with a little Twiggy style. You walk into my house and look at my doll shelves and it's like a fashion museum exhibit, or so I am told. They're all different and they all have their own unique look.

I love to do that, shake it all up and make each doll look distinctive. If an outfit doesn't totally "pop" on a particular doll, give that doll a really memorable look, then she (or he) doesn't get to wear it. I'm very fussy about what goes on my dolls. I've been known to sit there and fuss for hours with every single outfit in their not inconsiderable wardrobe if necessary to get it right and if that doesn't really work then I often will resort to designing and making a whole new outfit for a particular doll.

My one roommate at first she never got my doll thing. She was pretty dismissive of it at first, but then over time she started to get it. That it wasn't just me playing it was an "art" thing and that really I was totally into fashion and design, that the dolls were basically a 3D canvas for me. I've always done the outfits thing via purchasing, but it's only recently that I've started to full out design whole outfits and to even OOAK my dolls via painting, rerooting and stuff.

I've always been into fashion in a big way though. I used to try to make Barbie clothes like the ones in the big fashion magazines when I was a kid. I'd raid my Mom's scrap bag and go to town with it even if I couldn't really sew. It used to drive her crazy actually. I'd steal her fabric to make sarong dresses and evening gowns and stuff and I'd cut up my socks (or my Dad's laugh) if I had to to make Barbie/Ken shirts. I suppose if the fashion design business wasn't so cut throat I'd have ended up working in it, but you have to be too nasty and competitive working in that industry for me.

I'd rather just design for my dolls, shrug. Maybe at some point if my sewing skills get to the point where I can actually do professional work I'll make pieces to sell but I'd have to get a lot better at basic sewing for that and I'm still learning to sew with a machine. It will be a while before I start making anything like what they make at Tonner...

[richila]

I love girly girl dresses with petticoats on my girls and make pants and jackets for my boys. I recently found super thin ultrasuede and am making leather jackets for bitty bitsus.

006 by richila9098, on Flickr
I have the leather to make an orange one for Cordie and a black one for Russell T.

[Evelien]

Fun topic!

Because of my height (6'3") I've always struggled finding fun clothes. As a teenager I used to wear shapeless men's T-shirts and jeans and gym shoes mostly. Now that I'm 28 there's more and more on the market to be found for tall ladies with big feet, so I'm only starting to discover my own style. I still can't wear most things I like. In dresses/blouses/shirts the cleavage/waist area is placed wrong once they're on my body; sleeves are too short (I don't own a single sweater/shirt with sleeves that are long enough, so I often borrow my even taller boyfriend's vests), and now that there are finally trousers and jeans on the market that are long enough, they're still not wide enough and I'm not fat at all .

If I could decide on my style myself 100%, I'd mostly wear fourties' skirts and dresses, I think. I like feminine shapes, puffy skirts, booties with mid-high heels, cowgirl boots and tube dresses. Right now I mostly wear skinny jeans, jeans shorts or skirts with black tights, long shirts with bolero vests over them... I mostly wear basic shirts because those are the only ones I can find that are long enough. I'm happy that the extra-extra-long shirt trend seems to be here to stay.

About my dolls (I thought this was a topic about both our own style and our dolls' styles?): I put on them what I can sew myself and that isn't much . But I hope to develop some sewing skills that can help me dress my dolls the way I'd like to dress myself.

[Lamia of the Dark]

I like T-shirts that say funny things on them, long skirts, leather jackets, skull or bone-themed jewelry, and approx. 85% of the clothing I own is black.

I NEVER wear socks or long-sleeved shirts inside the house, no matter how cold it is outside!

[Linteia]

I don't really have a favorite outfit or style and I don't do accessories. My favorite stores are Goodwill and Joann's, both for me and my dolls. I've started making my own clothes and as a result my already eclectic wardrobe has gotten even more random and uncoordinated.

[Jobee]

I guess I'm odd in my simplicity and practicality. I wear feminine cut t-shirts that are either purple, nerdy, or both. I wear flattering yet comfortable stretch denim jeans. I wear crocs. I wear ankle socks in bright colors that are mismatched. My only primary accessories are my glasses and rings from my hubby. You could prolly outfit me just from going to Lane Bryant, but a few things from Torrid spice it up a little. I'm mainly just focused on being comfortable and attractive to myself.

My dolls are more interesting. Lola and Gabby wear whatever I feel like making for them, and it's certainly not boring. Feebee is a sweater girl. Sharlindra and Jouselle wear the closest thing to WoW gear that I can make.

[Alopecia No Hime]

Of my style it's anything. I love wearing black, purple, pink ect anything that looks good. I've been a trend setter so to speak ever since I was little. That was me always marching to the beat of my own drummer.

As for my dolls whatever I can find or sew for them that looks good. Haruka has countless dresses, shirt's, pants (thank you so much Moonwillow!) And Kaname...Well he has pants, his yukata, and a few shirts. Riven...He's my cross dresser/boy lolita lover. If I can ever sew lace he would have it lining half his wardrobe.

[magkelly]

Alopecia your name was stuck in my head for 2 days, laugh. There's something about the whole thing that whenever I read it on here it sticks with me for a long while after.