Personal Elements of Style

[Joie DeVive]

I have a few. One that isn't terribly obvious, but is probably pretty unusual for this time, is that I have absolutely no piercings (not even my ears!) or tattoos.

My second is hiking boots. If I'm not frou-froued up, I'm in hiking boots. I started wearing them in college when I went to school in a veritable swamp, and needed something water-proof. I kept wearing them because they are so darn comfortable and I've found I really get my money's worth out of them.

Lastly, in the summer I'm rather well known for my fans. Especially in church, I carry one and when I get too warm I pull it out and start flapping. One of the older ladies from my church has even started buying them for me when she sees them.

 

[Big Man]

... Lastly, in the summer I'm rather well known for my fans. Especially in church, I carry one and when I get too warm I pull it out and start flapping. One of the older ladies from my church has even started buying them for me when she sees them.

I'd forgotten about "Church fans" until you wrote this. I remember when the fans with a picture of Jesus on them were seen all over our Church. That seems like so long ago ...

 

[Rachael]

I refuse to mix color tones. Warm colors with warm, cool with cool. This includes belts and shoes; brown with warms, black with cool. Goldtone jewelry with warm, silvertone with cool. There are no exceptions, except for my silver claddagh which doesn't come off.
A few years ago when designers were mixing brown with icy pastels, it drove me crazy.

And I won't mix prints with stripes either. Too noisy.

 

[Joie DeVive]

I'd forgotten about "Church fans" until you wrote this. I remember when the fans with a picture of Jesus on them were seen all over our Church. That seems like so long ago ...

I haven't seen those since I was a wee one. The last ones I really remember were at my Great-grandmother's funeral. That was a long while ago....

The fans I use in church aren't actually "church fans", they are pretty folding ones, but they serve the same purpose.

 

[Tomasso]

I have absolutely no piercings or tattoos.

Ozzy Osbourne, who has many tattoos, said recently: “If you want to be different, don’t get a tattoo.” He went on to say that when he got his tats it was a sign of rebellion, but these days his lawyers, accountants and children's schoolteachers have them.

 

[anon`]

Ozzy Osbourne, who has many tattoos, said recently: “If you want to be different, don’t get a tattoo.” He went on to say that when he got his tats it was a sign of rebellion, but these days his lawyers, accountants and children's schoolteachers have them.

Ah, but were any of them self-administered using a sewing needle and pencil lead while spending the night in the cooler?

(Edit~ I appear to have forgotten a smiley! )

 

[Tomasso]

self-administered using a sewing needle and pencil lead while spending the night in the cooler?

Details, details........

 

[Brooksie]

My personal element of style is that I wear gloves durring the winter everytime I go outside, no matter where I am going or what I am doing because my hands get very cold and they really pull an outfit together.

Brooksie

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

I rotate through all levels of dress, some vintage most not, and mix and match. The one constant is I always have some form of leather wristband on my right. Presently it's one made of buffalo hide, but I've been through several over the years. I've made a few of them myself. Some have had steel bits that held them together and had some surplus leather 'tails' hanging an inch or so from the arrangement. These are symbols to me of the things l like: Being at the top of the food chain. Real leather. Real metal. Being free of bonds.

 

[Delthayre]

Just being 'me'

I always wear a card of piece of paper in the band of my hats. I began this in my senior year of high school when I was a writer for the school paper as a tribute to the, "press," cards of the past and have continued since. Presently I have a train ticket stub in the band of the Sesquipedalian, a part of an index card with a pattern drawn on it in the band of the Selcouth and a film ticket stub in my bedraggled panama hat. This habit has attracted a few questions that have been followed by salutary comments.

I always wear my eyeglasses lower on my nose bridge than most people. Some time in the future, I expect that I will replace this with, "I wear pince-nez spectacles."


I walk with a derby-handled cane. I don't need it as a practical matter, save for when my left ankle becomes inexplicably inflamed, but I enjoy having it with me; it has been useful as a probe for ice and to ease the bother of forging through snowbanks on a recent misadventure. I also someday hope to trip a drunkard with it.

 

[Lotta Little]

Most of my earrings are actually buttons that I've cut the shanks off of and glued on posts.

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Most of my earrings are actually buttons that I've cut the shanks off of and glued on posts.

That's clever, and creative. :eusa_clap