Image: All About You || FH Cafeteria || Monday Afternoon

[blonde-elle.livejournal.com]

This week the students need tables. Oh yess. On each table is a stack of magazines, Cosmo, Elle, Glamour, Lucky, YM, GQ, Maxim, and FHM.

Elle is wearing a bright pink suit with black trim. Her hair is pulled back and she is wearing pink framed glasses. She totally looks the part.

"Super, you're here. Ok. This is the image workshop, so before we can really begin, I need you to understand your style, as well as what style you aspire to. I brought in magazines and there are scissors and glue and tag board and markers. I'd like you to spend the first half of the workshop making a collage for yourself. Label things you like and hate, and make sure you add why. Is the shirt too short? The pants to tight? The suit too formal? All these things will help us get together to understand the do's and don'ts of what you are doing now with your appearance.

The second half of the afternoon will be taken up with dress up. I have my digital camera, so boys to the left and girls to the right. There are racks and racks of clothes kindly donated by the Delta Nu sorority and the Sigma Nu fraternity. I want you to try on at least three outfits and we'll add those to the collage next week once I get them printed out. And totally talk about color choices and fit and stuff. Have you ever watched "What you shouldn't dress yourself in?" Today is our own little mini-show.

By the end of the workshop you will understand why you dress the way you do, why others dress the way they do, and what to wear when. But the most important thing about any fashion is having the attitude to pull it off. I'm sure that's how those British ladies get away with some of those hats at weddings. What are those about, anyhow?"

Xander Bly
James Ford
Philip J. Fry
Gwynn Hood
James
Blair Sandburg
Buffy Summers
River Tam

Comments

Collage Making

[blonde-elle.livejournal.com]

Feel free to talk, and linkage to good and bad clothes are love.

Re: Collage Making

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy was pretty sure this was heaven. She grabbed a pile of magazines and went to get updated on what's hot in 2006. And make collages, of course.

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[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair grabbed a few magazines and took a seat next to Buffy. "Hey there, man. I'm Blair, I don't think we've met."

Re: Collage Making

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy smiled. "I'm Buffy. Isn't this the best class ever?" She spotted an image and grabbed her scissors, before showing it to Blair. "Like, depressing, much? (http://pics.livejournal.com/1ordinarygirl/pic/00071xc4/g9)"

Re: Collage Making

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Nice to meet you, Buffy." Blair leaned closer and nodded. "Yeah, she does seem really sad. But at least she's looking at the camera. All the guys in the magazines seem to be looking (http://www.dannysteyn.com/images/male-model-portfolio-019.jpg) off into the distance. What do you think they're all looking at?"

[now with less stupid code!]

Re: Collage Making

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy pondered. "Maybe they're not looking at anything? Maybe they're just scared of the camera?"

Re: Collage Making

[blonde-elle.livejournal.com]

"Nice work, Blair! And the Man gave you your pants back."

Re: Collage Making

[blonde-elle.livejournal.com]

"Oooh, yours is fantastic! You're, like, already a fashionista, huh?" Elle asked as she peered over Buffy's shoulder now that the mun is off work.

Re: Collage Making

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy beamed proudly. She was especially proud before of the ten years thing. That she could catch up on a decade of fashion in such short time just proved her keen fashion sense.

Re: Collage Making

[blonde-elle.livejournal.com]

"There's a ton of stuff for dress up, and keep in mind that next week we're going to the salon for the day." she said a little more enthusiastically than a normal person. "Oooh, I like that one (http://www.joblo.com/images_movie_reviews/cruel_intentions.jpg). Good choice." she added, pointing to an image.

Re: Collage Making

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy's eyes went big. "Really? A salon?" she asked, breathily.

Re: Collage Making

[conathon.livejournal.com]

Sawyer grabbed a few magazines and began cutting. It was obvious what he liked: jeans and plaid button up shirts. Compared to the hate for anything too girly.

Re: Collage Making

[blonde-elle.livejournal.com]

"Good dichotomy, Sawyer." she chirped, "Consider for a moment why you hate some of those outfits."

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[mmmanchovies.livejournal.com]

Fry dropped down into a chair next to Sawyer and grabbed some magazines. "Oooh coupons!"

Re: Collage Making

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

James was rather enjoying himself, grabbing a few magazines from every walk of life he could find and cropping out pictures of anything from sleek school uniforms (http://pics.livejournal.com/rocketbitch/pic/00006rpd) to long jackets (http://pics.livejournal.com/rocketbitch/pic/00004wrq). Some clippings of note were perhaps the assorted advertisements, including such characters as Marie Antoinette (http://pics.livejournal.com/rocketbitch/pic/00002rhh), a sock puppet (http://pics.livejournal.com/rocketbitch/pic/000036xx) with a cigar, and Little Bo Peep (http://pics.livejournal.com/rocketbitch/pic/00005cfy).

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[thenamesxander.livejournal.com]

Xander grabbed some magazines and started making his collage. His likes, strangely enough, gravitated towards greens. His dislikes? Purple. He kind of hated the Rock Porium uniforms.

Re: Collage Making

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

James glanced over Xander's shoulder and watched him work on his collage, keeping an eye open for any outfits that were left behind that he would like to snatch up for himself.

Unfortunately, a good deal of his prospective dislikes ended up on Xander's 'likes' list.

He didn't say anything, perusing a similar magazine or two in order to hunt down the same outfits or something not unlike them to put onto his 'distasteful' portion of the collage.

And just because he wanted to do some justice to the outfits that he noticed Xander was discarding as bad fashion, James made a point to cut out the single most tasteful purple outfit (http://pics.livejournal.com/rocketbitch/pic/0000800k) that he could find in order to give it a place of honour on his collage, between Bo Peep and Ed the Sock.

Re: Collage Making

[blonde-elle.livejournal.com]

"Let's try to shake up your color palatte. Shirts are so obvious, you can start small with accessories if you want."

Re: Collage Making

[blonde-elle.livejournal.com]

Elle looked over James' shoulder to check his collage, but there were simply no words.

So she pointed. And maybe squeaked.

Re: Collage Making

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

James took the pointing and maybe squeaking as a good sign.

So he pointed too. And maybe grinned.

Re: Collage Making

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn signed in and started flipping through the magazines and her jaw jjust abut hit the table when she saw some of the clothing that the women were wearing.

"By the crown of Phillip!"

Re: Collage Making

[blonde-elle.livejournal.com]

"Oh, don't be surprised. That's haute couture and nobody really wears that except for models." she explained.

Re: Collage Making

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn looked her. "Hot what?"

Re: Collage Making

[blonde-elle.livejournal.com]

"Not hot. Haute. Haute couture means high seam literally, and it refers to high fashion from designers for the very rich and very gullible."

She leaned down to whisper, as if it were a dirty secret, "Most of them don't really know what to do with a real body."

Re: Collage Making

[mmmanchovies.livejournal.com]

Fry flicked through a bunch of magazines and came up with things he liked.

Jeans (http://datapacks.com/CW_Coupons/cw2/Assets/product_full/guysJeans.jpg), t-shirts (http://www.swagshop.com/products/images/PL30101.jpg), jackets (http://www.alverno.edu/images/bookstoreitems/red_jacket.jpg) and parachute pants (http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006MR4G0.01-A3O0A8H3IVTQPL._AA260_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg).