Carousel -- Week Ending 25th May 2007

[ 25 May 2007 ]

<3 How To Plan Your Very Own Vintage Roadtrip from Fashion Is Spinach.

<3 Stylish people, as always, from Facehunter.

<3 I like this & I suspect you will too.

<3 Amazing, award-winning hair!

<3 whatclaudiawore.blogspot.com features excerpts from The Babysitter’s Club (omg!) about what Claudia was wearing. SO GOOD, in fact, almost genius.

<3 1960’s beauty tips from blackcigarette.

<3 Europe’s Fictional Fashion Faux Pas — how not to look like an American tourist while you’re on holiday! (Though really, as long as you avoid khaki pants, big white sneakers, a baseball cap & a “fanny pack”, you’re pretty safe.)

<3 I found this girl on everything2.com, dustfromamoth, & fell head-over-heels for her writing. Here are some of my favourite pieces: fluffy duck; honey jumbles; nobody sends snail mail anymore; my self portrait; the right way to take a bath; the art of looking sideways (good quotes); the empty notebook; star language; Melbourne; Lolita.


Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala <3


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  1. All of those passages from “What Claudia Wore” suddenly came flooding back to my memory as soon as I read the first entry!

    I’m positive that when I was a kid I read every single one on the first page of this blog.

    I always wondered why girls like Claudia and Stacy kicked it with the rest of the babysitter gang?

    They always seemed so much cooler.

    Thank you for sharing this! It sparked a nerve in my brain. :)

    <3 rachel · May 25, 03:13 PM · #

  2. p.s.

    also thanks for the links to dustfromamoth’s writings…

    i want to send her a surprise snail mail because it inspired me so much.

    <3 rachel · May 25, 03:21 PM · #

  3. It seems really weird that you found dustfromamoth – Two worlds colliding :) She hasn’t really been active on the internet in years, now.

    <3 Natalie · May 25, 05:42 PM · #

  4. rachel; claudia and stacy were indeed the coolest girls! i actually read a BSC book the other week (ahh, nostalgia) and stacy was wearing a skirt with ballet flats and footless tights. i now hold the belief that most girls today read that as a child and went ‘when i grow up, i wanna look like stacy!’ and lo, the footless tights trend was born.
    just a theory. because they were 500% cooler than the rest of the club!

    <3 nico · May 25, 06:17 PM · #

  5. oh my goodness, BSC!!! asdfgh. super mega ultra joy, i was looking at a cover of a bsc book and clauds was on it and it inspired my outfit for the day hee hee!

    <3 simone · May 25, 07:39 PM · #

  6. Haha the whatclaudiawore blog really is brilliant! If I have time this summer, I’m going to dig out my old BSC books and have a look through myself. Mmm, childhood.

    And I LOVE that hair, although I don’t know how she’s holding her head up!

    <3 Katherine · May 25, 08:13 PM · #

  7. There’s also claudiasroom.blogspot.com where the blogger is re-reading all the BSC books and she blogs about her observations. It’s funny and she includes outfit descriptions too. : D

    <3 Tiffany · May 26, 02:50 AM · #

  8. i love the whatclaudiawore blog too, especially when you recall it was all written by a not-teenage woman :P

    <3 hoyan · May 26, 07:04 AM · #

  9. I feel left out.
    I never read the babysitters club books. :(

    <3 lalumiere · May 26, 08:39 AM · #

  10. The vintage roadtrip is a PERFECT idea! I’m gonna plan one. It shall be documented in photographs!
    Thank you for posting that. :D

    <3 Samantha · May 26, 11:27 AM · #

  11. I love carousel! Gives me lots to read on lazy summer days when the pool is closed. I live in Las Vegas, so it is literally as hot as hell. I survive by drinking lots of watermelon-mint ices.

    <3 Sherry · May 26, 12:44 PM · #

  12. Rachel — Yeah, I know what you mean! Kristy was SUCH a dork. Claud/Stacey were always my favourites followed by Dawn, who I thought was kind of interesting at least. The rest of them were just AWFUL, like Mallory? Ugh! Hahha. Also I liked Laine, even though she was a “super snob” ;D

    Natalie — Oh wow, do you know who dustfromamoth was/is? I was so excited to see that she lived in Australia, I thought maybe she had an LJ or something & I could befriend her, you know. I always have plans like that, haha!

    Tiffany — Haha! That site is awesome. A bit bitter, but you know. That’s the writer’s prerogative! I added the feed to Google Reader anyway. I wish I still had all my BSC books, I think if I do they’ll be at my parents’ house in a closet somewhere.

    Lalumiere — Don’t worry, BSC was ridiculous, you weren’t missing much!

    Sherry — Aww, thank you, kiss kiss! I envy your watermelon-mint ices, they sound good!

    <3 Gala · May 26, 11:05 PM · #

  13. ahhh, lovely links! :)

    <3 j. vorwaller · May 29, 04:21 PM · #

  14. I cannot believe there is a blog about Claudia Kishi fashion!! This is a subject so many of my girlfriends and I randomly come up with. I luff it! I must blog it, with some props to you of course!

    <3 AgentLover · Jun 6, 08:08 AM · #

  15. Again I’m practically a year late, but darn I’m a slow reader!

    Just needed to mention that The Gymnasts also had fantastical BSC-esque fashion on the covers. Slightly more erratically 80s, but hey that’s cool.

    Bye!

    <3 Jem · Jan 2, 02:59 AM · #

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