When I was your age, we didn't HAVE Hot Topic

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

No, if we wanted fabulous gothy party dresses, we hit up the thrift stores, learned to make alterations, and sweated over pots of Rit dye, hoping the vintage synthetic fabrics would take.

And we got results like this:




That dress started out the day as my mother's wedding dress from 1964. She was just going to give it to Goodwill, so I asked if I could turn it into clubwear. I couldn't be happier with the results.

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[mr-bad-example.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

So true...

[mhaille.livejournal.com]

Except in my day, it was bleaching jeans to that perfect level of disrepair, and the infamous DIY pillowcase skirt.

Being a freak took WORK, man.

Re: So true...

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

And you know who was one of the admirers, at the club? A dear little babybat with blue bangs and a Lip Service PVC-and-lace minidress that I'd passed up buying two seasons back because, really, it was a bad idea for anyone past 30.

She seemed to understand the modification process, when I explained it, but was a little bewildered at the idea that $60 was a CHEAP corset, and that mine usually sold for about $250 and was a bargain at that.

[pink-ladi-3.livejournal.com]

i remember when hot topic came out. i was about 15 so it had to be mid 80's. i remember dragging my mom in their after sweating over chores (not the piddly crap these kids do today but REAL WORK borderline sweatshop crap LOL) to finally get me a brand new pair of zipper & chain leather granny boot spike heals. oooh i was sooo FIERCE!!! I wore those suckers EVERYWHERE ~ sometimes even to bed!!! LOL