Fashion Tragedies / Damage Control

[Curious]

^ Have discovered that with a sulfur mask too Basically has the effects of bleach

 

[cbcb]

Oh yeah, and Carbona has a line of several - maybe eight? - different little bottles of stain remover. One's for like 'grass and blood' and another for 'makeup and whatever' and another for 'ink and something else'... so you get the thing that removes whatever you spilled, and they're only a couple to few dollars. The makeup-and-whatever one saved a pair of jeans that wound up wearing serious lipliner (???) after a Sephora visit.

 

[eugenius]

What perfect timing! My tragedy just occurred minutes ago..

I just told my co-worker about these 2 strange little threads that were poking out of the lining of my coat & stabbing me in my chest...My co-worker saw them & told me they were "bones", inserted into coats to give it shape, and that it's usual for them to stick out (which I had never heard of before)...He pulled one of them out, and I pulled the other one on the other side out too...Now, I have a whole row of said bones sticking out on both sides...I pulled one out, and 3 or 4 more followed, which means I have 2 whole rows of bones sticking out at me...Its really quite uncomfortable and annoying...I'll take it back to the store I bought it from & see what they can do, but if they cant do anything, I wonder how much money it'll fetch on ebay...Sigh!

 

[Papercut Crisis]

What perfect timing! My tragedy just occurred minutes ago..

I just told my co-worker about these 2 strange little threads that were poking out of the lining of my coat & stabbing me in my chest...My co-worker saw them & told me they were "bones", inserted into coats to give it shape, and that it's usual for them to stick out (which I had never heard of before)...He pulled one of them out, and I pulled the other one on the other side out too...Now, I have a whole row of said bones sticking out on both sides...I pulled one out, and 3 or 4 more followed, which means I have 2 whole rows of bones sticking out at me...Its really quite uncomfortable and annoying...I'll take it back to the store I bought it from & see what they can do, but if they cant do anything, I wonder how much money it'll fetch on ebay...Sigh!

You could clip them?

Gunpowder, maybe you should play with the washable markers from now on.

 

[clavdiachauchat]

My one great fashion tragedy was the reason for my one act of conscious cruelty:

Imagine a fourteen-year-old having received her first pair of designer jeans...they fit wonderfully (I was already 5'10 )and I was excited to wear them for school once the weather turned a little cooler.

I place them in my chest of drawers to be stored.

One day, a few weeks following purchase, I open the drawer to find...BABY RODENTS!

A lovely little mommy mouse had decided to use my jeans as fodder for her nest, chewing holes all through them. She then proceeded to give birth in the nest created from my jeans.

What did I do? picked the jeans-nest up (babies included) took them outside, and called the cats.

No salvation for the jeans, though my mom did suggest strategically placed embroidery.

(now you know more about me than you ever wanted to know )

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ Too funny clavdia

Rodents

 

[softgrey]

clavdia...that is a very good story...
survival of the fittest baby!!!...



don't mess with the wardrobe...!!!

...

 

[clavdiachauchat]

I'm glad my actions are understood here...anywhere else I've told this story I've been met with disapproving stares. I guess people don't understand how someone could value rodent babies on a less-PC level.

But hey, cats are way cooler than mice anyway

 

[fashionista-ta]

I'm glad my actions are understood here...anywhere else I've told this story I've been met with disapproving stares. I guess people don't understand how someone could value rodent babies on a less-PC level.

But hey, cats are way cooler than mice anyway

You have come to the right place if you want to avoid the overly-sensitive

Seriously, though, I will coexist with little geckos in my house (I used to catch & release but I accidentally pulled a leg off of a tiny one, so ever since then I just leave them alone), spiders are our friends, I wouldn't think of using pesticides in my yard, but there are a few things that must die: rodents, cockroaches, and grasshoppers. Most especially grasshoppers that are eating my roses

 

[fashionista-ta]

TrophyBrown, I know exactly how you feel ... I have had an underwire fail first thing in the morning & be literally stabbing me in the heart Like I have time to leave work and go bra shopping ...

What happened shouldn't be happening ... if it's a recent purchase, the store should take care of it.

 

[meowmix]

i'd need a novel for all of the terrible things that happen to my stuff... and it almost always happens the first time i wear them out... but that i can think of...

was in the gate area waiting for flight and just about to sit down... had huge duffle on shoulder and handbag in the crook of other arm and was holding a SCALDING hot cup of coffee while trying to set the two things down when my duffle slides from my shoulder and PLOPS on the ground, sending my scalding hot cup of coffee all over my new black loro piana sweater... semiburning my wrist in the process. then i ran to the bathroom and tried to squeeze and soak out all of the coffee... and of course i had no idea what i was doing, so now it's stuffed in the back of my closet.

went out for lunch once and bought a box of macaroons... was on my way to blockbuster afterwards and helped myself to one of them when i stopped in the parking lot. forgetting that my fingers were sticky from macaroon filling, i reached over for my lilac lambskin chanel 2.55 and made a giant thumbprint on it. first time i wore it out as well... and the print is still there.

wore my big, ivory cashmere LV stole out once for the first time and spilled coffee on it as well.

wore my favorite black leather manolo pointed toe pumps out not too long ago... it started raining randomly (ah parisian weather...) and i tried to find the nearest bus to take me home... waited on the wrong side of the street, and SPRINTED across to catch the bus that just arrived on the other side.. and as i was sprinting in my heels, i sliiiiiiid and completely ruined the sole and toe of the shoe.. and now that's stuffed in the corner of my bedroom.

 

[fashionista-ta]

Ohhhhh ...

Your shoe tragedy reminded me of one of mine from years ago. I had this really gorgeous pair of Joan & David tobacco polished leather flats. Not patent, but glossy. Remember how shoe leather used to be a lot more beautiful than it is now? Hard to describe the shape, except that they reminded me of a pair of slippers my father had had. They were beautiful. So one day I was walking across an icy parking lot, fell, and the asphalt made this horrible SCRAPE across the top of one of the shoes. There was no recovery from it ....

 

[Luxury's Lap]

So Saturday I went to a club with a few friends....wore one of my favorite bracelets - multiple strands of silver with a strand of rhinestones, a jeweled magnetic clasp with a fringe of the silver and rhinestones. I'm not sure how to exactly describe it, but it's very art deco looking. Anyways, TWICE while I'm dancing something on the ground catches my eye...it's my bracelet. So it had fell off twice already without my even noticing...So when it fell off for the third time it was lost for good. I know I should have put it away after the first or second time, but I guess I just wasn't thinking. It was just Kenneth Cole, nothing expensive, but it was so unique...sniff sniff. The good thing is that during the same night I had lost two of my friends driver's licenses, one friend's money and my car key (I was the only one with a purse), but we found the two licenses and the car key.

 

[fashionista-ta]

Some of you may remember how I lost a stone out of my Hollywould Nadia ballets and sent them back the beginning of October. Well, I got them back toward the end of the month, and wore them again for the first time today. I was running a few errands on my way to work, and as I arrived at my first errand, I looked down at the floorboard of the car (which is a pale beige) and darned if the stone isn't out of the shoe and on the floorboard!!! At least I *have* the stone this time ... let me know if you guys have any suggestions.

 

[Melisande]

Oh Ta-ta how annoying!! My delicate Charles Jourdans kept falling apart after each use, had to get them fixed twice...but they did it for free each time, which was good. I'm sorry I don't have any good ideas for you...do you have a photo?

This thread is GOOD...it's like group therapy...good to know I'm not alone. Some of the stories break my heart...

I'm so bad with burning my clothes...it's all because I'm such a coldy-cat and get too close to the fire... I've lost too many sweaters, jackets and skirts that way...

The worst was when I lost my gorgeous long wool skirt with unique pleating. It had been my wardrobe cornerstone for years, supporting me through some of the most important events of my life...until the hem caught fire by the stove...I had to make it a knee-lenght skirt, losing all of the intricate and unique pleating.

 

[softgrey]

Some of you may remember how I lost a stone out of my Hollywould Nadia ballets and sent them back the beginning of October. Well, I got them back toward the end of the month, and wore them again for the first time today. I was running a few errands on my way to work, and as I arrived at my first errand, I looked down at the floorboard of the car (which is a pale beige) and darned if the stone isn't out of the shoe and on the floorboard!!! At least I *have* the stone this time ... let me know if you guys have any suggestions.

return the pieces of crap and demand your money back???...

 

[Baebis]

My mom gave me this beautiful, heavy, solid silver bar necklace that was original given to her by my beloved, deceased uncle. I lost in in my move from NYC to Europe. I'm still not over it.

 

[fashionista-ta]

return the pieces of crap and demand your money back???...

I definitely considered it ...

I will definitely think about this experience when buying shoes in the future ... I have those ones with coral clusters (not Hollywould), and I did lose a few branches (I have them if I want to put them back), but the nice thing about those is you can do that & no one's the wiser. Same thing with black ballets with clusters of "jet" beads ... I have replaced the ones I found, but they're still wearable with some missing. These if you lose a stone you can't wear them ...

So I called them & they suggested what I had thought of, replace the entire ornament, which has never been right (it rattles & the other one doesn't). So now I get to pay shipping again & wait another month ...

Melisande, yes, it's the shoe in the lower right corner here (ilovehollywould.com

What a bummer about your skirt I find replacing pieces you've depended on like that, even (especially?) when they are more basic, to be the most elusive thing ... I can't figure out whether it's just impossible, or I don't have the patience for it

Maybe you need some kind of fire screen

 

[lovely_lady]

I don't have too many fashion tragedies yet, but my mother dropped her custom made suede and fur bag (that costs thousands of dollars) in a lake once. Thanks goodness she had another one similar to it, but that was pretty upsetting to watch. I was about seven and I cried. It wasn't even my bag. It was just upsetting to see such a wonderful piece of fashion destroyed...tragic, right?

 

[Velouria]

I bought a wonderful pair of pink and grey flats that were just so ME over them summer. Somehow I managed to lose them while I was moving to a new apartment. I think that I accidentally threw them in the dumpster along with the rest of my trash. I never got to wear them or anything . I'm still not over it.