A New Blog To Add To Our Links

... the Metropolitan Museum's brand new fashion blog, blog.mode: adressing fashion, that will run through April 13th 2008 (although it would be nice if they stay for ever).
The quality of the posts is top and the information, priceless.

// El Museo Metropolitano de NY acaba de empezar a publicar un blog sobre moda, blog.mode: adressing fashion.
La calidad de los posts es realmente buena y la información que da no tiene desperdicio. (en inglés)

Fashion as Inspiration

Über famous New York street-art artist Bast is using fashion as inspiration...

in SoHo.- NYC

Not Boudicca's and yet So Impressive

One of the things I used to enjoy doing on Christmas when I was living in Madrid was going to the Reina Sofia Museum very late in the evening (they close at 9pm) and enjoining the art works with the city's Christmas lights outside the windows as a background.

The Metropolitan Museum last night at 8.15pm

Reading the New York magazine yesterday I saw an ad advertising a "special holiday opening" for the Metropolitan Museum; Dec 24 & 31 open till 5.30pm and Fri and Sat open till 9pm. I put my coat on and quick to the MET last night at 8pm.
Friday is a wonderful day to visit the MET in the evening also because there are classical music performances that you can hear all over the museum and it's wonderful to visit a museum with soundtrack.

As every year for Christmas, the MET presented an impressive Christmas tree framing a Neapolitan Baroque Nativity Scene from the XVIII Century. It's not what Boudicca made for the V&A but still... beautiful. [There were signs all over the show saying "no pictures" but I'm glad everyone was taking them and so did I ... :) ]

Christmas Tree and XVIII Century Neapolitan nativity scene at the MET

The tree and nativity scene are located at the Medieval section of the museum so I couldn't help but walking around to enjoy this type of Art which is my favourite art whatsoever: it's so dark and moving.
I spent the whole hour looking at the different "Virgin with Child" that covered the whole space. I took pictures of some of them but there were much more featured.

The clothes were really beautiful, long dresses and tunics that i wouldn't mind to see them coming back...
These outfits seem to be inspired more in what women wore in the Middle Ages than in the Roman Empire, but still they are like something in between, or that's my impression, I can't really tell...




// Una de las cosas que más me gustaba hacer en Navidad cuando vivía en Madrid era el irme al Reina Sofia por la tarde noche aprovechamdo que cierran a las 9. Me encantaba mirar por las ventanas y ver todas las lucecitas de colores en la ciudad mientras yo estaba ahi dentro disfrutando de las obras de arte.
Ayer en la revista New York vi anunciado la apertura del Museo Metropolitano los dias 24 y 31 de Diciembre asi como del cierre tarde del museo los viernes y los sabados, y ayer era viernes... no dude un segundo en ponerme el abrigo (eran las 8) e irme para alla.
Como todos los años por estas fechas el MET ha puesto un árbol gigantesco de Navidad con un belén Napolitano original Barroco que es una maravilla. Y aunque no es como el árbol que Boudicca preparó para el Victoria & Albert... vale la pena.
El árbol esta colocado en la sección de Arte Medieval y no pude resistirme de darme una vuelta por los alrededores porque el Arte Medieval me encandila, tiene algo de "oscuro" que me encanta.
Había un monton de Virgenes con niño y me puse a hacer fotos como loca porque me encantaron los trajes que llevaban y la postura de todas ellas. Los trajes parecen estar más inspirados en los trajes de la Edad Media que en los del Imperio Romano, pero tampoco sabría decir porque esta un poco todo mezclado...

Marco Wagner

It's been quite a while since I don't post about illustration so taking advantage that Suzanna just did a wonderful post on Abstract Illustration, I browsed some of the illustrators at Dripbook and discovered the work of German Marco Wagner. To keep an eye on.



// Hacía tiempo que no publicaba nada sobre ilustración y aprovechando que Suzanna acaba de escribir un maravilloso post sobre Ilustracion Abstracta, he aprovechado para darme una vuelta por Dripbook donde he descubierto el trabajo del alemán Marco Wagner. Para no perderle la pista.

It's This Time of The Year...

... when the windows at Bergdorf Goodman get at their peak.

This Christmas the work of American designer Tony Duquette inspired the people behind the windows display at Bergdorf Goodman.

Duquette was discovered in Los Angeles by one of the greatest pioneers in interior design, Lady Elsie de Wolfe Mendl, under whose patronage the designer was able to meet people in the movie industry (who knows who worked at the time too).
He created costumes and set designs for directors such Vincente Minelli and was a regular in designing for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (although not credited, he designed costumes for the famous film Ziegfeld Follies).

Tony Duquet designed interiors for actress Mary Pickford (she was her "matron of honor" at his wedding), for the Duchess of Windsor, Elizabeth Arden... and he was the first American to exhibit at the Louvre in Paris. Not bad, huh?.

Christmas 2007 at Bergdorf Goodman ...





/// Navidad es la época del año en que los creativos detras de los escaparates de Bergdorf Goodman se ponen de gala creando los escaparates más espectaculares y los que más atención acaparan. Este año ha sido el diseñador americano Tony Duquette el que ha servido de inspiración.
Tony Duquette fue descubierto en Los Angeles por la gran pionera del diseño de interiores Lady Elsie de Wolfe Mendl con la que tuvo oportunidad de entrar en contacto con lo mejorcito de la industria cinematografica.
Duquette trabajó como diseñador de vestuario y escenógrafo en diversas producciones para la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (aunque no fue acreditado, el desarrollo diversos trajes para la famosa
Ziegfeld Follies) y trabajaria con directores de la talla de Vicente Minelli.
Tony Duquette diseñaría interiores para la gran Mary Pickford (quien fue dama de honor en su boda), para la Duquesa de Windsor, o para Elizabeth Arden... y fue el primer Americano en exhibir su trabajo en el Museo del Louvre en Paris... nada mal, no?.

A Flower Child

Marilyn Monroe played in movies for the first time in 1947 with tittles such Dangerous Years, Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!, Green Grass of Wyoming and Ladies of the Chorus.
But it wouldn't be until 1950 that her name would start to be known thanks to Joseph Leo Mankiewicz's All About Eve.

For the following 10 years Marilyn would become a star thanks to movies such Niagara, The Seven Year Itch or Some Like It Hot, until her terrible death in 1962 when she was just 36 years old and working in the "most notorious unfinished film in Hollywood history" Something Got To Give.

She lived and become the symbol we all know today during the 50's, and hers is the typical figure of a 50's sex-symbol, or the three B's; Bosom, Belly and Bottom.

We seem to know her body to the inch, thanks to dresses that would become part of our fashion history collective memory: has anyone forgotten the sheer gold lame dress that Billy Travilla designed for her to go and claim her award for Hollywood's "Fastest Rising Star" of 1952? Anyone?

Marilyn has always been a 50's symbol, obviously we never had the chance to know her otherwise. But, what if she lived through the 60's? How would the new fashions affect the star?

New Yorker photographer Bert Stern took pictures of Marilyn Monroe in 1962 for Vogue magazine, just six weeks before her death. These pictures show a very different woman, more relaxed, free and somewhat vulnerable, adjectives that would describe a woman in the 60's decade more than in the 50's where all women were supposed to be perfectly groomed, energetic and happy.
Edith Head, who was never able to dress Monroe but was a good friend of the actress, wrote a beautiful comment on her in her autobiography:


" Every designer who worked with her cinched her and harnessed her. Marilyn was a free spirit who should have been dressed in such a way that she would be able to forget about her clothes. When a woman is sexy, she knows it and she doesn't need clothes that constantly remind her. Marilyn should have been a star in the late 1960's -- she should have been devastating as a sensual flower child. I hated the hippie look, but Marilyn would have love it. "

Edith Head's Hollywood
page 106

// Aunque Marilyn Monroe apareció en la gran pantalla por primera vez en 1947 en un total de cuatro peoliculas: Dangerous Years, Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!, Green Grass of Wyoming y Ladies of the Chorus, no sería hasta 1950 y gracias a su papel en la pelicula de Joseph Leo Mankiewicz, All About Eve, que se convertiria en la gran sensación del momento.
Durante los siguientes 10 años Marilyn se convirtiría de la noche a la mañana en una gran estrella, gracias a peliculas como Niagara, La Tentación Vive Arriba o Con Faldas y A Lo Loco, hasta su fatal muerte en 1962 con tan solo 36 años de edad, mientras rodaba la que pasará a la historia como la pelicula no acabada más famosa de Hollywood; Something Got To Give.
Marilyn se consagró como sex-symbol durante la decada de los años 50, de ahí que su cuerpo pasase a ser el epítome de esa década: una mujer con pecho, tripa y culo (las tres B's en inglés= bosom+belly+bottom).
Su cuerpo es probablemente uno de los cuerpos más emblemáticos de Hollywood, gracias a los miticos vestidos que la actriz vestiria a lo largo de su carrera, cómo olvidar el vestido dorado que Billy Travilla diseñó para ella para la recogida de su premio a "La carrera cinemátográfica más precoz"?
De cualquier forma la muerte de Marilyn nunca nos permitió saber qué hubiese sido de ella durante los 60's, qué hubiese vestido la actriz en una época en la que libertad corporal significó tanto.
En 1962, justo seis semanas antes de la muerte de la actriz, el fotografo Newyorkino Bert Stern fotografió a la actriz para Vogue. Marilyn poso desnuda para el fotografo y el resultado fueron una fotos mas intimas de lo que el publico en general estaba acostumbrado, Marilyn aparece como una mujer totalmente libre, fuera de prejuicios, sensual y frágil al mismo tiempo, más en la línea de lo que sería la actitud de la mujer en los 60' que en los 50'.
Edith Head, gran amiga de la actriz que por desgracia nunca tuvo la oportunidad de vestirla, escribió en su autobiografia algo al respecto:

" Todo diseñador que trabajó con ella se empeñó en ceñir su cuerpo y atarlo. Pero Marilyn tenia un espiritu libre y tuvo que haber sido vestida de tal manera que hubiese podido olvidar la ropa que llevaba. Una mujer sexy lo sabe y no necesita de la ropa para ser recordada continuamente. Marilyn debió haber sido una estrella durante los ultimos años 60.-- hubiese sido arrebatadora como una sensual "hija de las flores" (hippie). Personalmente odio el look hippie pero Marilyn lo hubiese adorado"

Edith Head's Hollywood

pagina 106

On "per click" ads... are they really "per click"?

When shopzilla contacted me months ago to place an ad in my blog it was a very happy day for me; I needed money at the time for milkshake chocolate's expenses and it also gave me the chance I was craving for, getting paid for my time and ideas.

They were very honest with me from the beginning and we discussed different wages until we got the deal.

Months later they offered me to place ads "per click"; I would get paid regarding the "clicks" those ad-links would get from my readers.
I thought it a good idea and placed those ads for a couple of months... until I realized I was advertising those companies (others than shopzilla) without getting paid. Then I decided to remove them.

Since then I am still trying to figure out why these "per click" ads are so popular (google is a favourite) among bloggers who want or need to earn some money. Many of these bloggers are quite followed thus their traffic permits these ads to do "their job".

Those ads have the name of the company big and bold and so it gets stuck in our heads somehow. Therefore, companies are advertising in the blog without paying a penny. Aren't those companies playing with the bloggers' "hope" that someone will click?.

I wonder how many people click those ads.
They (the ads) are rather dull and uninteresting, we are reading a blog and don't want to be bothered. The months I have them up not even one person did a single click.

This is my opinion and the reason why I removed those "per click" ads. They're not for me, thanks.
>>> More on blog-sploitation* by the great Liberty London Girl.


//El día que shopzilla me contactó para poner anuncios en mi blog fue un gran dia para mí porque por una parte necesitaba dinero para pagar algunos gastos de milkshake chocolate y por otro por fín veia hacerse realidad mi sueño de ser pagada por mi tiempo e ideas.
Desde el primer momento he de decir que fueron muy legales conmigo, negociamos durante algun tiempo hasta que me ofrecieron algo que nos convnia a los dos y cerré el trato.
Despues de aquello me volvieron a contactar para publicar anuncios "per click", esto es, recibiria dinero dependiendo de cuantos click esos link recibieran por parte de mis lectores.
Pronto me di cuenta de que estaba haciendo publicidad sin cobrar un duro porque al fín y al cabo el nombre de la empresa estaba bien claro escrito con lo cual mis lectores se quedaban con la copla sin necesidad de clickar. Entonces decidí eliminarlos.
Desde entonces todavia no me explico cómo estos anuncios "per click" son todavia tan famosos. Esta es claro mi opinión y seguro que hay gente a quien le funciona. A mí no me funcionó y mi experiencia me dijo que la publicidad estaba ahí y yo sin cobrar nada. No gracias.
Liberty London Girl publicó un post sobre publicidad y otros problemillas de bloggers, si sabes inglés no dudes en leerlo, vale la pena la información que tiene.

Here It Is...

The winter issue
I hope you enjoy it.
Thanks to all the people that make it possible :)

// Ya está aqui, el número de invierno de milkshake chocolate.
Un millón de gracias a todos los que hicieron posible que este número viese la luz.

The Famous Hat

This is me in "front row" on the right, at Marc Jacobs with my friend Ainne (although she's not happy with the way she looks in the picture, but i think she looks cuuuuute ^_^) at the same spot where Jennine took her picture with her bf (although she was in SF and I was in NY) wearing the famous hat I was wearing when I met lovely Jesica from Ropa Vieja.
This image is a little present for those bloggers who liked my style and wanted to see more of it.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!


// La que esta sentada en primera fila a la derecha soy yo, en la tienda de Marc Jacobs con mi amiga Ainne, la cual no esta nada orgullosa de como sale pero que yo creo que esta moniiiiiisima. El lugar es el mismo en el que Jennine de The Coveted se hizo la foto con su novio, aunque ella en San Francisco y yo en Nueva York. El gorro que llevo es el famoso gorro del que Jesica de Ropa Vieja habla en este post.
Dedico esta foto a todos aquellos que me pidieron ver mas fotos de "mi estilo".
FELICES FIESTAS!!

Two For The Road

When Audrey Hepburn arrived for the first time to Hollywood to work in a movie, it was to play in Paramount's romantic film Roman Holiday in 1953.
Edith Head was head designer of Paramount at the time and so she was assigned to design all the costumes for the young (only 24!) Belgian actress.
This film meant the beginning of a very successful career for Audrey and the 5th Oscar for the American costume designer.

The following year the two women coincided in another project, this time Billy Wilder's Sabrina, and this time Audrey, more powerful and self confident than the year before, demanded her friend and French designer Hubert de Givenchy to dress her, fact that she continued demanding for many years.

In 1967 though, Givenchy's sophisticated costumes were not appropriated for Stanley Donen's Two For The Road, a road-movie that demanded more casual and comfortable cloths.

7 designers are credited as "costume designer" for this movie;
Marion Foale, Michele Posier, Mary Quant, Paco Rabanne, Clare Rendlesham, Ken Scott and Sally Tuffin.

I found some of the sketches that Ken Scott did for this movie, which shows the precision and the tiniest particulars that the wardrobe designer put into this movie's costumes. So different from nowadays "shopping" list for contemporary movies; it is so rare the chance for a designer to actually design the wardrobe instead of just buying whatever the market offers.




// Cuando Audrey Hepburn llegó a Hollywood para trabajar por primera vez fue para actuar en la pelicula Vacaciones en Roma producida por Paramount en 1953.
Edith Head era por entonces la diseñadora oficial de Paramount asi que le fue asignado el vestuario de la pelicula. El éxito fue tal que la diseñadora consiguio su 5º Oscar y Audrey se convirtio en una estrella de la noche a la mañana.
Al año siguiente las dos mujeres volvieron a coincidir, esta vez de la mano de Billy Wilder y su Sabrina. Esta vez Audrey pidio que su vestuario fuese diseñado por su gran amigo el frances Hubert de Givenchy.
Desde entonces la colaboracion entre Givenchy y Audrey fue continua, aunque en 1967, para la pelicula Dos en la Carretera, se decidio contar con la presencia de otros diseñadores, un total de 7 Marion Foale, Michele Posier, Mary Quant, Paco Rabanne, Clare Rendlesham, Ken Scott y Sally Tuffin, ya que el vestuario tenia que ser mas sport que los diseñados por el frances.
Encontré algunos esketches realizados por Ken Scott para esta pelicula, donde se puede ver que, aun siendo una pelicula "contemporanea", el diseñador tuvo la oportunidad de diseñar en lugar de comprar la ropa como por desgracia, se suele hacer actualmente.

Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road

I said I would be away from blogging for a week and here I am posting something again... blogging is like a drug!

After two days straight in front of my computer editing the winter issue of milkshake chocolate i needed some fresh air so I went this evening to see the exhibition Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road coinciding with the 50's anniversary of Kerouac's On The Road with my friend Ainne (a beatnik herself for a couple of years) at the New York Public Library.

Although this exhibition has little to do with fashion, I say, it has nothing to do with it, i post about it because it is really worth a visit. And it reminded me the post about "Beatnik" style that Jennine posted not long ago or the "beatnik-like" wardrobe of Hepburn in Funny Face...

This mega exhibit features the work of the father of the Beat generation, his complex world and work together with his friends Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and William S. Burroughs; manuscripts, photographies, correspondence, diaries, drawings, music from the author music-library (classical music and radio tunes) and the famous "scroll" typescript from On The Road.

I couldn't finish to see the whole exhibit because as i said, is enormous, but i plan to come back soon.

/// Aunque anuncié que no escribiria en lo menos una semana para encargarme de editar el proximo numero de milkshake chocolate, no he podido resistirme... esto es como una droga!
Despues de estar literalmente pegada al ordenador por dos dias seguidos necesitaba aire fresco y me he ido con mi amiga Ainne a ver la absolutamente maravillosa exposicion Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road en la Libreria Publica de NY.
Este año se cumple el 50 aniversario de la publicacion del famoso libro On the Road (En el Camino) de Kerouac y asi se ha aprovechado tal fecha para sacar a la luz manuscritos, fotografias y toda clase de parafernalia, incluido el super famoso texto de En el Camino, taquigrafiado en un solo rollo de papel como si fuese un pergamino.
La exposicion no tiene nada que ver con moda pero me recordo el post que Jennine de The Coveted hizo hace poco sobre el estilo Beatnik, asi como el look de Audrey Hepburn en Funny Face.
Si estais por la ciudad no dudeis en ir a verla, vale la pena. Es gigantesca, y yo no he podido terminarla entera pero aun asi espero volver muy pronto.

Bobble-Bee & Vanidad

I knew it was going to happen but i didn't expect it so soon...
Vanidad, one of the most read fashion magazines in Spain, is turning 15 years old and to celebrate it they just launched their new website.
One of the current features is the link to their favourite blogs, "Rock on the Blogs", where they included mine...
When Julia from the editorial office at Vanidad contacted me weeks ago to ask for permission to link my blog I couldn't believe what she was asking me for... my blog in such a big publication? Please, go!

So from here, thanks for choosing bobble-bee and place it together with such faves of mine as katelovesme or Nothing to Wear. And congratulations to everyone.


/// Sabía lo que venía, pero no me lo esperaba tan pronto...
Vanidad, una de las revistas de moda y tendencias mas leidas en España, cumple 15 añitos y para celebrarlo acaba de lanzar nueva pagina web.
Una de las nuevas secciones incluye la publicación de sus blogs favoritos, "Rock on the Blogs", y entre ellos han escogido el mio...
Cuando Julia desde la redacción me contactó hace semanas para pedirme permiso para publicar mi blog no podia creer lo que mis ojos estaban viendo... mi blog en una publicación de las dimensiones de Vanidad?, por favor, adelante!

Desde aqui queria agradecerles mi presencia en sus páginas junto con blogs como katelovesme o Nothing to Wear, a los cuales sigo muy a menudo. Felicidades a todos!

milkshakeCHOCOLATE Winter 07-08 ... working on it

Hello dear readers, I'm going to be absent from bobble-bee for a week because this next Saturday December 22st is the launch of the winter 07-08 issue of milkshakeCHOCOLATE.
For those who doesn't know, I'm the editor, designer & fashion director of this web zine that I created two years ago. It is still very small but it gives me so much work already!.
The launch of every season is the hardest part... editing images and text, contacting late collaborators and working on everything to be ready on time...
For this issue we will publish interviews with Boudicca, Poltock & Walsh, Reality Studio (interview by Mahret at F&Art), Magda Malina... and more.
I will try to post little news in bobble-bee but if i don't, now you know where my mind and computer will be working on...

In the meantime, a little scoop: the amazing cover Anita from Champagne Valentine did for this issue. ^^^
x.

// Queridos lectores, voy a estar ausente por una semana porque se acerca el lanzamiento del número de otoño de milkshakeCHOCOLATE.
Para aquellos que no lo sabeis, yo soy la editora, diseñadora y editora de moda de este web zine que cree hace ya casi dos añitos, y aunque todavia es muy pequeñita, no sabeis el trabajo que da!.
Lo peor llega ahora, los "lanzamientos" es lo que más laborioso: editar fotos y texto, contactar colaboradores que se han ido quedando atras, dejar todo listo en definitiva...
Para este número publicaremos entrevistas con Boudicca, Poltock & Walsh, Reality Studio (la entrevista la hizo Mahret de F&Art), Magda Malina... y más.
Aunque intentaré publicar aunque sean noticias cortas en bobble-bee, no os lo puedo asegurar.

De todas formas ahi os dejo la portada del numero, que la gran Anita del equipo artistico Champagne Valentine ha realizado para este número.
beso

Where Are My Pictures?

Sorry for this temporary (I hope) disability of my pictures... what's up with photobucket?? i even signed up for a pro account! Hello??!!
I think I will need to follow The Paris Apartment's advice and archive my blog in the form of a book because I'm afraid that one day flickr, the already mentioned photobucket and all the hosts I use go out of business with my images in their files...

Did You Know That...

Katherine Hepburn played Coco Chanel in 1969's musical "Coco" at the Mark Hellinger Theater in NY?

Left: Katherine Hepburn as Coco Chanel in the play "Coco"

Her script from the play and other papers can now be seen thanks to the gift the actress' estate gave to the New York Public Library, (the best library I've ever seen in my life by the way, and i promise they're not paying me for saying this!), in the form of all Hepburn's stage career related documents: photographs, scrapbooks, journals, scripts, playbills, fan mail ...

The gift was given four years after the dead of the great Katherine, that is, this year, and now these materials are part of The Billy Rose Theater Collection, "the largest and most comprehensive archive devoted to the theatrical arts". As I said, the NYPL has some pretty good things...

"THE" script >>

Above Katherine Hepburn signed LP "Coco". For sale here

Linus Ricard

My friend Lu introduced me the work of Swedish photographer Linus Ricard, with whom she has worked as stylist in different photo shoots in her native Beijing, where Linus currently lives and works.

Ricard started his career wanted to be a fashion stylist and so he went to study at the prestigious Istituto Marangoni in Milan. But after two years of studies he felt the "call" of the camera.

I must say I thank the providence for making him change his mind and decide to take the camera as a profession because, although I haven't seen his work as designer, his work as photographer is over the top. You tell me...










all images © Linus Ricard

A Punk Lady in 1944

And this lady is not other than the great Edith Head ...

I'm writing about this woman quite a bit in my latest posts without really explaining who she was. And maybe she is not as known as I might think, as not everyone has read the whole lot I have about her. (Actually I'm currently reading Edith Head's Hollywood by the designer herself and Paddy Calistro)

Some of you might "know" her face thanks to Disney's cartoon movie The Incredibles where she "played" the character Edna Mode.

Edith was the head designer at Paramount (although she would work for other studios as Universal or United Artists later in her career) for about 60 years and the first woman to succeed in a man's world: Costume Design. She is probably one of the most important costume designers in Hollywood's history together with MGM Gilbert Adrian, and the woman with more Oscars in her house (8 total).

She created Hollywood mythical outfits as Mae West's in She Done Him Wrong (this movie meant the beginning of Edith 's successful career), Audrey Hepburn's in Funny Face or Paul Newman and Robert Redford's in The Sting (this movie would give her the 8th and last Oscar in her career). She claimed to have worked on 1,131 films (Edith Head's Hollywood, page 163) in a time where costumes were actually designed and made, not bought as often happens nowadays. That's quite something!.

During World War II she was (and this is the point of my post's tittle), frequently quoted in magazines to advice women how to economize by sewing and designing their own clothing (those were rationing times ladies).
To support her own words she modeled in one of her DIY creations: she hand-painted safety-pins in a plain white blouse and used safety pins instead of buttons for the closing.

A : safety pins instead of buttons
B: hand-painted safety pins
C: you can't really see in my scan but she's wearing safety pins in her ears...

D: a safety pin keeps blouse and skirt safe in place

Hard times are hard and we wish they don't happen to us but we can't deny they are the ones to make our brains work...