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[nny]

I adore the fashion at the moment - chunky knit and tweed and suchlike. I bought a lovely pair of herringbone brown trousers for pretty cheap, which will go nicely with the tweed jacket. I also bought a Peter Wimsey book for £3, which has an old-style bike and old fashioned brown shoe and GREY RIBBED SOCKS on the cover, which fills me with similar geek-squee. I seem to be having a huge 20s/30s glee at the moment; old typewriters and balls of string and brown paper packages and clattery bikes... I guess it's stuff I've always loved a lot, but now I'm beginning to connect it together and establish a label, to make it easier. And right now the world is making it easier to indulge in it all, which is great.

I've also been to work and got £100 in lieu of getting paid, which is enough to sort out my council tax bill, at least. And next weekend I should be paid two months worth of wages, as far as I can work out, which'll be pretty damned shiny - I can pay off my outstanding rent and... um...

I kinda accidentally reserved a book that costs £50.

I haven't actually paid anything toward it, not yet, but DAMN I want it. And y'know, a treat for first full-time-job-paypacket is okay, right? XD It's from a limited edition run of 'The importance of being ernest', a set of 1200 that were produced in about 1906, I think he said. And it's lovely quality paper, with rough edges, which is something I always find aesthetically pleasing. And, I just... it's Oscar!

Whaddaya reckon?

Comments

[flyakate]

I think that as long as you can still eat and pay rent, a treat is excellent. And, limited edition Oscar? HELL YES :D

[miraielle.livejournal.com]

Dammit! Style over here is retro-80s. Why can't *I* have tweed and knit?

[tropes.livejournal.com]

Dude. You are shopping at the wrong stores. All I wear to work is chunky knit and tweed pants.

[miraielle.livejournal.com]

I think perhaps the problem is that I, um, just plain don't shop much. It makes me twitchy.

[scarah2.livejournal.com]

Oh lucky. I guess this means non-ugly clothes should be coming to America in about five years.

[chains-of-irony.livejournal.com]

Hee, I know! I bought a blue frock-coat this week, hurrah!

And the Wilde? Dude. Do it.

*whines* Nnnnnyyyyyy? Is that icon of yours gankable? It's gorgeous, my dad used to take books back to the library like that, in a belt.