Does anyone remember fashion plates? They were these plastic plates that set in a holder with grooves over the outlines of the person and outfit. Then you put a piece of paper over the holder and rub over it with a crayon. The plates represented the three parts of the model: head, torso, and legs so you could interchange all the outfits and accessories. I had a set when I was in elementary school, but they were New Kids on the Block. There wasn't much changing them up for me because putting Joey's head on Danny's body was just too weird. Sidenote: the outlines never looked as neat as they did on the box because you were 6 years old rubbing a crayon furiously over the paper to get the outline to show up.
The other day I discovered the upgrade to the fashion plates: Polyvore. This site allows you to search user-submitted outfits by keywords as well as being able to find where the items are sold. When you select an outfit to view, you mouse over the piece of clothing/accessory you want to know more about, and it brings up a thing that shows you who made the outfit and a link to the website. It's amazing! You could search by person, phrase, color, season, etc. For example, I chose winter to look up cute ideas for wearing a skirt in the wintertime and checked this one out:
Vintage:
Cows:
Marilyn Monroe:
Endless amounts of fun!
Today is also a special day because it's my Giraffe's birthday! I'm cooking him dinner and sticking to what I know I can fix: steak and potatoes. No creativity this time. Just a sure thing man pleasin' type of meal. And I get to cook it on this thing:
I won this in a drawing at Home Depot before Christmas! It was a lucky few months because I won the drawing at the book fair at work in October and scored a free cookbook and then got a call about this beauty in early December. I keep thinking I should go buy a lottery ticket to see if my luck continues because these things come in threes.
Tomorrow night is going to be the big party for Giraffe so pictures to follow!
2 comments:
OH. MY. GOSH.
I love fashion plates! I had a travel set. I wonder if they're still at my parents' house somewhere.
Ah! I totally had fashion plates! I had one that was just regular folks though, and I'd play with it while listening to my New Kids on the Block tapes! :) Good memories. And that site looks awesome!
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