Has DS ever influenced what YOU wear?

[Heather]

Last year in Zara's they had a pinkish tweed suit that i wanted to buy to freak out my JuliaList pals!  haha!

I would have loved to have seen that... 

[Luciaphile]

I think I threw out all my headbands after a surfeit of the episodes where seemingly every single DS female character was wearing one or had a bow...

[Julia99]

I think I threw out all my headbands after a surfeit of the episodes where seemingly every single DS female character was wearing one or had a bow...

Julia must've been in the past or at Wyndecliffe that day . . .no headbands for the medical professionals. . .

[michael c]

d.s. hasn't directly influenced what i wear but i guess the character i most dress like is joe haskell.

jeans,steele-towed workboots,plaid hunting jackets,dark cropped hair.i'm often told i look rather "butch".

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I think I threw out all my headbands after a surfeit of the episodes where seemingly every single DS female character was wearing one or had a bow...

Now, now - we all know that you secretly LOVE all the bows that Vicki and others wear over the course of the show and the only reason you profess to hate them is because you don't want us to suspect the truth.    Isn't it about time you finally give up the pretense and admit the truth?

 

[michael c]

vicki sort of loses the bow after 1795.

she then frequently wears her hair in a ponytail or down completely.this saddened me.

[D_Friedlander]

I had two Empire-wasted "granny gowns".  Dressed as Pansy Faye on Halloween 1969 in one of my grandma's old ball gowns and some other junk I threw together.  My best purchase of the period I still have and use--- big black wool cape with a tasselled hood (very warm, one little mothhole.)  I used it once at some DS event but it was too hot, and too heavy to pack for DSFs.  I also had my hair up a lot in imitation of the 1800's episodes, though mostly in braids since my hair can't keep a curl to save my life.

I think old DS stuff is magically appearing at our local GoodWill. As "haunters" of GW stores know, they usually have a 'vintage clothing" rack.  Mostly old disco dresses, bridesmaid atrocities, and leisure suits, but once I saw Maggie's old quilted skirt (too small for me, or I'd have bought it, as it was in very good condition and looked comfortable as well) and an olive-drab 2-pc. women's suit a'la Julia's typical garb (ditto.)

[Professor1985]

I bought some few old neckties at the faith home, that inspired some DS wardrobes, I got one plaid hunting jacket, it's blue, also I got some few dress shirts. Plain-front pants, plaid shirts (just similar to a la Sam Evans), knit ties, old records, I used to have few sportcoats, suits that out of my size. Now I got one blue blazer (just like Quentin Collins in PT, and pre-1840, not the plaid jackets). Dress shoes, sweathers, even when I watched the 1795 episodes, I have my hairstyle looked like Lt. Nathan Forbes. Also I have one b&w hounstooth pants, dark-grey pants, etc.

Gotta love fashion and KLS' sexy minishirts that she knows how to show her legs!

[BuzzH]

I think old DS stuff is magically appearing at our local GoodWill. As "haunters" of GW stores know, they usually have a 'vintage clothing" rack.  Mostly old disco dresses, bridesmaid atrocities, and leisure suits, but once I saw Maggie's old quilted skirt (too small for me, or I'd have bought it, as it was in very good condition and looked comfortable as well) and an olive-drab 2-pc. women's suit a'la Julia's typical garb (ditto.)

Once a bunch of us were in Newport hanging out at the Black Pearl (aka The Blue Whale) and Seaview and in one of the shops on the wharf we saw a green tweed suit that I SWEAR looked like the one Julia wore on the show!

[Willie]

I don't wear anything from DS myself, but it is pretty entertaining watching the show with my mother - who's REALLY into clothes - and listening to her tell about how popular certain styles were back in the '60s.  Like that thick, quilt style dress that Maggie wore ocassionally, some of Cassandra's lime green dresses, etc. 

[Raineypark]

There was a teacher at my high school who wore those quilt skirts, circa 1970.

Actually, she was so tiny the skirt pretty much wore her!