This time next week...! Diacon ball outfits

[lokifan_import]

So, kids, what are you wearing to the Diacon Victory Ball? :DDD Even if you're far too cool for actually dressing up for it and going in jeans, do tell me! Is anyone cosplaying? Personally I've not been out in MONTHS, due to work and then losing my only form of ID, and I am going to dress up and dance with anyone who'll have me.

I just spent over an hour looking through my favourite fashion sites looking for a dress for the Diacon Victory Ball; the search confirmed my decision to wear a dress I already own. I haven't worn it out yet, though – and being the very definition of a fatshionista (which is one of those terms that wibbles between stupid and just. so. fitting) I do not consider any of the time looking at dresses wasted :D

The dress I'm wearing is very pretty, but it's coral. I always aim for attention when I buy Going Out Dresses – not necessarily sexual attention, but if I am going to spend money on an evening dress I want people to look at me in it. Still, coral. Wearing a tan dress in daytime required getting one with a black lace hem to help me make the transition. I am a fan of black. Also silver, grey, and purple. Occasionally blue or green. This orange-red is a whole other palette.

BUT. It is terribly pretty, and has batwing sleeves that make me feel like a more orangey Morticia Adams. It is also terribly short, but not so short that I cannot dance without flashing people, which makes it a Happy Medium when it comes to my evening wardrobe.

Most crucially, it's perhaps not so much coral as orangey red – and I have black tights and purple shoes. Also purple tights and black shoes. Either way, I will be going to the Ball in Diacon colours. :D

And, fingers crossed, with a terribly good-looking redheaded young man in a purple shirt on one arm. For grate co-ordination win.

I do love me a redhead. Almost everyone I've fancied since I was about seventeen has been either redheaded or black, with a few brunette diversions. I don't generally think of myself as having a type, but... yeah.

Comments

[wickedblonde.livejournal.com]

Your dress sounds lovely.

I'll be cosplaying everyday (I mean how often do I get the chance to do that?).

I'm too tired to go into detail with all my costumes, all I'll say is this: Narcissa will be at DiaCon :)

[lokifan]

Thanks! :D It's made of a slip and then the main dress is in the same colour, but translucent. Which allows for lots-of-cleavage-except-not-really :D

HURRAY! I'm really, really looking forward to seeing that - you're such a gorgeous Narcissa! Plus your outfits are always so cool and detailed.

[lizardspots.livejournal.com]

Pics of the dress :D??

[lokifan]

Have not gone out in dress yet = no pics! Plus I didn't get it online so cannot provide link :( I will make sure there're pics post-Diacon, though :D

[elainemalfoy.livejournal.com]

Well..
First, I'm insanely jealous. Second, I want to see pics!!?
And third, redheads ftw! :)

[lokifan]

LOL. I could say there's no reason to be jealous but it would be a heinous lie :)

There will pics post-Diacon! There are none right now, unfortunately. And my sozzled parents just got back from a party and left the digital camera there.

Redheads are teh sex.

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Not cosplaying but will be wearing a black shirt, black flowy skirt, black and burgundy corset this one and a black and burgundy pashmina/wrappy thing. And some sort of boots. :)

Am highly jealous that you have a ginger man as an accessory though. :-D

[lokifan]

OOOOH WOW. That sounds gorgeous - the corset is divine!

Ahahaha. He loves a woman in a corset too, maybe you'll get to borrow him :p

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

That company makes really nice and affordable corsets. I haven't worn this one before (I just bought it for the con) but have another one I got for a friend's Steampunk wedding last year and have worn out a few places including Aeternitas. Of course, when it's on me, it may not be quite as pretty as there is the rest of me to go with it. :-/

Hee -- I would only borrow someone's partner/escort/whatever with their permission. ;) But I have a serious penchant for ginger men...*swoon*

[lokifan]

Very cool. *bookmarks* And I'm sure you'll look gorgeous :D

LOL, he's not my date or anything... however, while his girlfriend won't be at the con, his mistress will be (who isn't me, btw!). Said boy is ever so shy, but you never know. I am going to attempt making him dance with me :D

Ginger men, they are teh hot. In the first part of the DH film, when Harry and Ron are all *CONFRONTATION* outside the burrow? I pay no attention to the emotional fight, I just stare at Rupert Grint and his awesome shoulders!!

[koishii-hime.livejournal.com]

! I am a fan of coral so I am all for this dress haha. You are going to look absolutely smashing. :D Also crossing fingers for the lovely redheaded gent! Would be the best co-ordination ever.

[lokifan]

Ahahaha, thanks :D I like coral generally, but I am super-pale and I tend to think coral is a colour for darker-skinned ladies. BUT SARTORIAL BRAVERY IS MINE.

Ahahaha. He will be indeed! His girlfriend isn't coming, unfortunately, or I would be making them both wear purple and then wriggling platonically between them :D

[cu-sith.livejournal.com]

Your dress sounds gorgeous. Can't wait to see how it looks.

I'd offer to lend you a girly pretty redhead if yours falls through, but it might be a little difficult to ship him up there.

[lokifan]

Thanks! :DDD

LOL. Thanks, darling, but I prefer the strap-on used on me, not by me :p

[cu-sith.livejournal.com]

:p Well, he really prefers them flesh and blood, so you two are officially incompatable on, like, eight different levels.

[creatore-magico.livejournal.com]

Why are there no pics? D:

I am glad you are choosing diacon colours as well! YAY! You are welcome to my arm if you can't find a good looking red head. XP

[lokifan]

BECAUSE.

LOL. *thwaps you upside the head* Silly Kulet.

[annephoenix.livejournal.com]

I'll probably be cosplaying at DiaCon ... as long as I can find my stuff in this building site of a house .... and get it washed in time!
Dress is all sorted -- black & red it is!

[lokifan]

Fingers crossed! Just got back from seeing the film and I'm in the mood for some whiny Draco :P

Ooh, is that the one I saw on Facebook? I didn't comment on the pic cos I couldn't think of anything non-pervy to say ;)

[annephoenix.livejournal.com]

LOL yeah that's the dress!

I am always up for a WHINE!!!

[annephoenix.livejournal.com]

Or wait ... should that be I am always up for wine?

[lokifan]

Combine them both and be a bitchy drunk?

[annephoenix.livejournal.com]

Always.

[daiseechain.livejournal.com]

Your dress sounds lovely. Love coral. And redheads.


I'll be in costume at least some of the time. Or possibly all of the time given I'm taking four costumes with me. (If I get off my arse sometime today and get the fourth one sorted.)

[lokifan]

It is a very bright coral. :D

OOOOH. I AM EXCITE.

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with coral! It's a lovely color. Have fun at Diacon.

[lokifan]

:D It's rather pretty, I just generally fear it as I tend to think pastels = awesome on darker-skinned people (although Marcia Cross rocks 'em, lol) and I am an English rose :)

It was AMAZING fun!