I’m pretty sure a lot of you have caught on to my blue and yellow color scheme obsession, but if not, I’ll spell it out for you in the third person: Abigail thinks the color blue goes very nicely with the color yellow. I find that the combo works best when the blue is anywhere from cerulean to navy, and the yellow ranges from mustard to macaroni and cheese. Those colors make sense to me but if you can’t figure them out, open up a box of crayons. The 124 pack works best.

Jonathan Saunders Spring 2012 RTW

I’m not going to pretend like I’m qualified to critique designer fashion, ‘cause I’m not, but I will venture to say that this blue and yellow combo doesn’t do it for me. The colors are too light and faded and kind of wash the model out.

The Z Zegna Spring 2012 Menswear Collection is more along the lines of what I’m talking about. It’s called My Abstract Sunday, and Tim Blank of style.com described the color scheme as “sky blue and sunshine yellow.” I noticed also that the bright blues and yellows were further subdued by shades of brown and maroon, two colors that accent yellow and blue every well.

Also! I went to a nerd convention the other day at BU where we saw seminars on powerful women of the ancient world. Both of the seminars I watched were on Cleopatra and she was pretty kickass. Anyway, when I was there, I sketchily took a picture of this girl’s jacket, which I really like. A lot.

Isn’t it preeetty?

Anyway, here’s me:

Thrifted dress, sweater from Elizabeth, vintage beads, F21 leggings and oxfords, navy blue bobby socks, vintage bangles

I’ve realized I’m now at that stage where I always look awkward, no matter how I pose for a picture, and my face always looks evil. Also, I’m a little Cinemascope crazed …

10 December 2011   •  3 notes   •  View comments

Finally, I can get these photos up!

Okay, I know it’s a little late in the year to be wearing bright pink and yellow floral prints, but you can’t go wrong with a $2 skirt from Target.

That yellow shirt thing was a hand-me-down, and I got the pink sweater to wear over my dress for my friend’s Bat Mitzvah (shoulders couldn’t show) from Old Navy.

Oh, and you gotta love the Seargant Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band pin.

10 November 2010   •  View comments

GRUNGE

29 October 2010   •  2 notes   •  View comments

This is just a little poem I wrote at camp …

Envy’s bedroom walls aren’t green
aren’t battlefield camouflage
or an immaculate lawn.

They aren’t orange with downfall
like a leaf preparing to plunge
or a home soon to be ash.

They aren’t yellow with joy
like the brightest marigold
or the jackpot winner’s riches.

No, they’re smeared pink
Flushed with jealousy
like a nursery rose strewn away
or a brick worn to smoothness.

It’s the color of wanting to be red
to be a wound well tended to
to be a fire hose saving lives
but not quite getting there.

Well, whaddya think?

3 August 2010   •  View comments