Oh, how I would love a present. But, alas, I am not creative. So I will just wish all a Happy New Year.

My New Year's fashion resolution is to pull off human hair in my wardrobe.

-Z

My New Year's Fashion Resolution is to remember my original hair color in a photographic series entitled "Before Loreal."

Barring that, I want 2009 be the year that I started training for Project Runway.

~Maharhar

A small, workable resolution: to stop wearing my hair like a 7-year-old (I'm looking at you, headbands and little Goody clippy thingies). Probably not a winner, but oh, so sincere.

Most importantly, Happy New Year to TLo and all you kittens and poodles that make the TLo blogs a source of giggles every damned day!!!!

Does anyone else think it's a little odd that the author's name is so much bigger than the title of the book?

Happy New Year, TLo! No apologies necessary--you never let us down. Thank you for the 2008 merriment/bitchery, etc. Looking forward to what's next.

As for the resolution, I think you win with the Daisy Dukes 'n leg warmers.

No more will I view carharts and cow poop as appropriate work attire. Maybe I'll even invest in some shoes that aren't rubber and don't come up to my knees.

Well, maybe just a little cow poop. Everything in moderation, yes?

Because of the dismal economy and the seemingly subdued fashion statements at work, I plan on breaking open my plastic tub of bedazzlers. I think its time for rhinestones, sparkles and glamour to make a comeback on my drab navy blue scrubs. Surely, this will bring joy to my broken down and oftentimes, inappropriately dressed patients.

My 2009 fashion resolution is to gradually go back in time—that is, to amp up the Victorian aspects of my wardrobe. My muttonchops are shaping up nicely, I just got a brush for my top hat, and I'm the proud owner of seven waistcoats. My sophomore-year colleagues won't know what hit them.

(A lambskin glove. Across the FACE.)

My New Year's Fashion Resolution is to break my shopping addiction and apply all the insight and inspiration gained from PR to my current wardrobe and to make it delicious and amazing. i know i can do it!

I used to be the fashion maven of my peeps...then I spawned twins and woke up two years later and realized I WAS THAT WIERD WOMAN AT THE STORE SHOPPING IN STAINED SWEATPANTS and not only that THEY DOUBLED AS MY PJ'S THE NIGHT BEFORE! Gasp! I had a come to Jesus meeting with my self, put on my best Jack em' to Jesus bra and headed to the mall to trade in my UGG's for some biker bitch boots. I made a promise to myself that PTA meetings and Pilates class at the Y can be pulled off in stilletos and that, my friends, is just a taste of what suburbia is gonna see from me in 2009!

I got this book for christmas. I'll have to pull out of this contest too, because, once again, I'd wipe the floor with all of you if I entered ;)

Happy New Years everyone!

Time to redefine in 2009! In this sprit, I resolve to not buy clothes in the same store I buy my kitty litter.

My New Year's Resolution is to cop a feel of Andrae's bald head. I'll settle for Rami's if I have to.

My New Year's Resolution is to reunite Andrae and Tim so that they can star in a passionate love scene in As The World Turns that would make Luke and Noah blush.

My New Year's resolution is to tell TLo everyday just how fabulous they are!

avajoseph@earthlink.net

My New Year's fashion resolution is to stop dismissing Designer Duds by sniffing, "If I just took the time, I could make that ... for less." The corollary: I WILL actually make such clothes for myself, starting with the fabric I already have.

And I vow these clothes will be things I can wear in public, unlike the Naughty Ms Santa outfit I designed LAST time I sniffed "I could make that."

-Naughty but nice needlewoman

Having visited EMC2 during Emmett's 1st holiday party (the weather outside was frightful), I resolve to lose weight and get in shape so I can wear all of the amazing clothing he makes.

Reverting back to the old Lose Weight mantra...

Won't even try to make a fashion resolution, 'cause I have dang little taste & talent to put a resolution into action! Plus, I'm retired and entitled to look it.

Happy New Year to all, and a HUGE thank you to TLo for your fabulousness in '08!

My new Year's resolution is to stop dressing like a pterodactyl out a gay Jurassic park (e.i no more Streamers flying off my shoulders when I stroll to the supermarket,less glitter encrusted mini dresses, and toned down shoulder pads.)
Happy new Years!
-Cara

monosyllabicman:

I loved your piece! I hope you love your Jay scarf! Gratz! (get it, monosyllables...)

My New Years fashion resolution is to start wearing pants instead of leggings so my girlfriend Samantha has a place to store her coke.

xoxo
lindsay lohan

I am SO glad you all had a great holiday, TLo!! "Tanned and rested" is what everyone should aspire to during the holidays!!!

My fashion resolution is to stay out of Saks and Bloomies, and to feverishly hunt great retro bargains in thrift and consignment shops. The thrill of the hunt sounds like fun!! Ahhh, to find a great Pucci dress or a vintage Hermes scarf....sigh.
Happy New Year to All!!!

I will not defend the shoe.

-N

My New Year's fashion resolution is inspired by TLo and my current work situation. I resolve to get a whole closet full of BITCH PANTS!!!! In every style and color with extras for Mondays. So the next person that rides my ass for no apparent reason... The BITCH is in the house!

My New Years resolution is to attack anyone wearing Crocs and to burn the shoes upon confiscation.

Once upon a bright gay New Year
A vow of fashion to hear,
Out with the discount rack!
In with sexy, leather black.
The return of pink what I fear.

In all seriousness though, I'm going to find every designer who thinks the difference between a "small" and a "large" is that the large size girl is simply *taller* and hit them with a clue-by-four. ^_^

-Tachikoma01, via the gmails.

Hmm, I usually don't make New Years resolutions. I gave up most of my vices years ago and the ones I still have, I have to avoid
losing my mind.

I was hoping you'd have have a contest to see who got the gayest Christmas present. That I would win. I'm sure of it.

Oh, Sewing Siren, I would just love to hear what your gift was!

My New Year's resolution is to stand up to winter. I was doing great through the fall--walking miles in stylish flats pushing the double stroller, defiantly wearing dry-clean-only blazers and sweaters. But once the temp plunged below 20 here in MN, I kinda gave up. Old Timberland boots, giant puffy coat, ear covering hats, backpack instead of handbag. I need to get back in the game. We've still got about 4 months of winter to go, plus next year. I can do it!

My New Year's resolution is to floss daily, which is also a great fashion/grooming resolution. However, that's not gonna win the prize, is it? GOT IT! My sister sent me some gorgeous Christian Dior panties that she said she was never going to fit in and she had been holding on to them for awhile. I put them on and they came up to the middle of my rib cage. I will not wear empire waist chonies with low waist jeans again. Happy New Year and Cheers!

Re: Cute little Chris Paley going to beat up anyone wearing Crocs.

Good for you, Crusader Chris, a noble pursuit. I saw Zandra Rhodes wearing shocking pink Crocs two years ago and was utterly shattered by the experience. I still love her but it's not the same.

Due to the current "global economic downturn" I will be recycling as much as possible. I shall be using fingernail clippings, used Kleenex, belly button lint, and toe jam to create my ensembles. It is the way of the future, and I expect to show my work on Project Runway in the very near future.

-allmyjunk444@yahoo.com

After reading Kristi's entry, I must respectfully withdraw from the competition. IMHO, she has clearly won!

My new year's resolution is to make those shoes that I designed somehow fit, even though they are way too big. If this fails, I will just submit them to an art contest. :D

-Hannah

My new years resolution is to not be the girl who wears the mini skirt, uggs, a north face, and carries Vera Bradly. I will be my own person and not a sycophant of college fashion. I will dress my body type and not my little sisters.

No matter how cute that Vera Print is or how warm my uggs and north face are.

Well, I have recently learned that I am officially Oprah-sized!! So my New Year's Rez is to drop 50 lbs and never look back! I will have to do it in a totally un-Oprah manner: no personal chef, no private trainer, no best friend Gail cheering me on...so I need Daniel's pretty coffee table book to cheer me up when I'm feelin' down!

To be honest, my New Year's Resolution is to wear fleurchons everywhere. They could only make my North Face (necessary in northern Indiana) cuter.

I. vote. Lindsay Lohan.

My New Year's Fashion resolution is simple: no more facial piercings, no more purple hair, no more fishnet shirts. This is going to be super hard.

Should old raiments be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should old plaid pants be left for naught
and ponchos kept behind?

No more old undesigned, my dear,
no more old undesigned.
I resolve to plan ahead this year
and appear more refined.

So little room in the closet,
so many drawers confined,
I cannot find a thing to wear
so odd clothes combine.

No more old undesigned, my dear,
no more old undesigned.
I resolve to plan ahead this year
and many things consign.

My shoes have walked many a mile
and thoroughly lost their shine.
To say that they have kept some style
would be all too kind.

No more old undesigned, my dear,
no more old undesigned.
I resolve to plan ahead this year
and dress less color-blind.

No more old undesigned, my dear,
no more old undesigned.
I resolve to plan ahead this year
and be ready in half the time.

info@aloetile.com

For 2009, I resolve to get rid of all of the sweatshirts with their myriad of stains on them. I want to look like an episode of "Mad Men" after work.

My New Years fashion resolution is to go to Scottsdale and pick off all the old leather faced socialites wearing shirts that bare their bellys, leggings, sequined baseball caps and/or crocs!

My news years fashion resolution is to start wearing panties. Never know when you're gonna get in an accident. ;)

Seriously, I'm fabulous as it is. I wear what I like and what looks good on me - damned the latest styles. I wouldn't change a thing from my wardrobe.

I resolve to be a soldier in the war on fashion terror. For too long I have been visually attacked by the cretins who foisted low, or as I call them, no rider jeans on the fashion bottom dwellers…literally. You know the ones who believe if it makes it on a hanger in Walmart, it is fashion. I will never again have to know whether my co-workers wear tightie-whiteies, foxie boxies, thongs and heaven protect me, those who go commando! I love the information age, but this is just too much *f***ing* information! I will track these fiends to their lairs. It will probably be a Starbucks where the laugh about this abomination so hard their lattes spew out of their noses. I will not rest until I have destroyed them and wrapped their twisted bodies in neon polyester double knit! I vow to turn assual Friday back to casual Friday. And on my way I might go after the Croc folks, unless I get too swamped.

Peace, not piece of ass, y’all!

Happy New Year!!

My fashion resolution for 2009 is to wear more fabulous shoes...I always resort to the ugly comfy ones and i know better than that! So thats my goal.

Mine is to get into FIT--where Vosovic graduated from. I mean, selfish, yeah, but I want to be able to sew as well as he can!

First, Happy New Year to TLo and all the readers here! Best wishes for a healthy and prosperous 2009.

My New Year's Fashion Resolution is to accept that my body can be beautiful, whatever its size, and not hide behind shirts that hang over my pants. I WILL dress like the professional I am, will style my hair every day.

Being an overweight mother of two (wonderful) kids in a 13-year old marriage does not give me the right to let my fashion sense run away.

I have several Fashion Resolutions, condoms as clothing are definitely on there. A pink speedo with an apron will also be happening. I also really would like to model myself after Patrick Dempsey as much a humanly possible.

I vow to stop trying to convince myself that the snot-and-mac-and-cheese splatters on my shirts look like a newfangled fabric print.

I promise to buy one pair of shoes that isn't flip-flops...and maybe, even wear them.

andrew, will you marry me? perchance? i can go Victorian - high button boots, a hat, a dress with bustle, whatever you like.


fashion resolution? how about: GET some damn fashion in a tangible form (ie, actual garments, not just reading this blog).

oh, and trying to tone down the cat hair that currently serves as my primary accessory. lint roller stock will be UP in 2009.

My New Year's Fashion fashion resolution is to somehow work in these fabulous purple velvet gloves my girlfriend found into everyday wear.

For the new year, i'm going to change my overall appearance.

Frizzy out of control hair? Crazy, bordering on clown makeup? Redneck gun earrings with live ammunition?

I'm gonna join the Wendy Pepper Glamor School! :D

Crazy paranoid behavior sold separately

- Richard

My new year's resolution is sinple. I have been growing out my hair for a year (I'm a girl, by the way), and I will refrain from shaving my head... again.

My New Years Fashion Resolution is to not only improve my own look but to do my civic duty by helping others. This will be hard, but putting an end to tragic afflictions such as crocs and the ever-popular 'leggings in lieu of pants' trend is a task I am both willing and morally obligated to undertake. Doing the right thing is, of course, its own reward...however that book would look darling on my shelf next to the Nick Santino Barbie I got for my birthday (wink wink).

My New Year's fashion resolution is to, first, pull my head out of the toilet where the stomach flu put it. I think that would do a lot to improve my appearance. And, secondly, I'm going to go buy my daughter something lovely to augment her wardrobe. Teenagers who take of their mothers? Who knew?

As a SAHM of 3 girls, I vow to kick my appearance up a notch. I know all those "what not to wear" shows blast the moms in sweats. I just cannot be like Laura B and all her fabulousness, sporting a cashmere blazer or little black dress. I cannot picture myself wearing these outfits while cleaning up smushed banana from the floor.
So, I will be a better version of myself both inside and out!

Note: I actually saw stirrup pants in a store last week. Please tell me that was a figment of my imagination and that those are NOT coming back.

Since it's supposedly the worst economic condition this country's been in since The Great Depression:

I resolve to make overalls hot again!

Yes, it's the 'Tom Joad' look! Forget Hugo Boss, Ralph Lauren or Thom Browne - it's Carhartt and Dickies all the way!

And speaking of Dickies, underwear is purely optional...easy access for any partner of hard workin' 'blue-collar' man!

Hope this at least made you guys giggle. Happy new year, and best wishes to you two. Thanks for the opportunity to get all the great swag.

Boy, I must of been on the sauce early last night because that post I made didn't make sense.
I was supposed to read:

Hmm, I usually don't make New Year's resolutions. I gave up most of my vices years ago, and the ones I still have I have to keep to avoid losing my mind.
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Happy 2009. I'm cooking collard greens and black eyed peas today.

Sewing Siren said ---

Happy 2009. I'm cooking collard greens and black eyed peas today.
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Ooooohhh ---- yums, Sewing Siren! I didn't know people still cooked "bep"s on New Years Day. I've practically begged my dear, but neglectful mum to prepare this for me the way her mother did every New Years, but as usual, no such luck. Enjoy!

***The competition here is fierce
---still working on my entry ***

- edina -

Oh, Meredith, so did I! Thought I was seeing an apparition, but those horrid stirrup pants were really there! (And full disclosure: I wore 'em back in the day. At 5'9" tall, it's hard to find stirrups that are long enough, so I was stooped in stirrups!)

I will find a FABULOUS WEDDING DRESS and lose a few pounds so that it fits!

What a coincedence! My new year's resolution is to wear more legwarmers too. And Famolare shoes. Ebay is definitely a girl's best friend.

Happy new year! And thanks for the many chuckles in 2008.

my resolution is to make my crappy navy blue 3 sizes too big labcoat into something cute and feminine... I'm thinking lace, rhinestones, fringe... with maybe some glitter...the flashier the better

In 2009, I vow to reproduce and wear every outfit pictured in this book, using only corn husks, Twizzlers, seat belts, and a bag printed with the words, "For Nuts Only." But no leathuh, because I'm vegan.

Happy New Year, bitches! I miss you and love you mucho!!

XOXOXOXOXOX

Happy New Year, Tlo!!!!!!!!

I am 6'1", and have never had the confidence to wear heels.

But you know what? I am 22, tall, striking, have a fabulous new haircut and there is absolutely NO reason NOT to be confident!

So my new years resolution is to learn how to wear heels, and be utterly fabulous while I do it. (I bought my first pair three days ago, and am already in danger of spending all my money on more!!)

I'm a junior in a culinary university, which means checkered pants and white coats all day. Outside of the classroom, my daily outfits consist of sneakers, baggy jeans, and an assortment of ridiculously oversized hooded sweatshirts. I OWN nice clothes, but I never wear them. Fancy dates with my boyfriend are essentially black stretch pants and a spangled top. Not the nicest outfit. I struggle to be fashionable, but the daily stress of school, internships, work, and library study sessions make me feel that spending time on my appearance is a waste.

Not in 2009. I firmly resolve to put more effort into my appearance. I'll not only look good, but I'll feel better about myself. I want to impress my friends and boyfriend when we go out and I want to feel sexy when I strut down the street in the middle of the day.

My New Year's fashion resolution is to start a Fashion Revolution, which I plan to begin by leaving the house looking as fabulous as if I'd been dressed by a team of gay bitches.

Let the revolution commence.

My New Year's fashion resolution is to stop buying so many damned black coats and jackets. I've bought three black coats in less than a month. And sometimes when I look out into the crowds of people passing on the street, I actually feel ill from seeing so many in black-black-black --- coats, jackets, hoodies, sweaters, etc.

In 2009, I resolve to experiment more with actual colors, patterns, prints and textures when I feel the need to go shopping and indulge in more new outerwear, which in itself is obviously linked to another issue entirely, but that I'll leave for another TLO contest.

- edina -

Before I begin, I just want to point out how when it was Daniel Vosovic’s season, the judges said that they couldn’t give him the win because he was too young. However, last season they gave it to Christian Siriano. If I were DV I’d demand a recount. The whole thing reeks of the Florida 2004 election conspiracy more than Bush wearing Steston (I don’t know, he just seams like a Steston man). Maybe DV should start wearing hot Vogue Flock of Seagulls hairstyle that defies all laws of gravity. Wonder what Tabatha thinks? Lets lock them in a room together and see what happens.

My New Years fashion resolution is to fall back in love with my tailor. The romance in our relationship died a long time ago and while I’ve tried to fight it, I now realize that McGuyvering my outfit is no way to live. Excessive use of safety pins and elastics to tuck and pull fabric is not OK. Wearing rhinestone studs as buttons to turn an otherwise rated-R dress into a more NC-17 dress is wrong. EARINGS should be worn on your EARS- guys don’t need another reason to look in that area, an area reserved for tailors. Oh, how my tailor could work a needle and thread! Every time I went in I wanted to sing “Do-Ray- Me” but ended up singing “I’m So Pretty” instead (The endless spinning was a hit, the singing- not so much.). He made me feel beautiful but the distance was too long, the price of gas to expensive for us to be. Now, there is hope.

my new year's fasion resolution is to paint on my clothes ala sports illustrated swimsuit issue to save money from buying clothes and to help save the enviroment!

As the great Somebody Cool in Fashion once said, "A woman who does not wear perfume has no future."

So, yeah. Perfume, I suppose.

I already commented. But I have two notes to make:

1. If I spend all my money on heels, I won't have any left to spend on Daniel V's fabulous new book.

2. Including the deleted comments, you should count what number comment I was above (I am, of course, too demure to write down the actual number, and only bring up the issue because I am competing with witty people and poets, both of whom I cannot hope to beat without some sort of leverage).

My New Years Resoluntion is to start wearing everything my mother bought me from QVC, which includes a white blazer with large green and turqoise flowers on it...with shoulder pads and matching turqoise tank and the bedazzelled demin jacket.

My mother does have good taste so whenever I get clothes in the mail from her the the giant QVC box I will jump for joy and wear every single thing.

It's not exactly a resolution or a change, but I am determined to improve my fashion reputation in the following way.

My friends call me the Queen of the Flip Flops"--hey, we live in Arizona, where shorts and flip flops are what you wear 8-9 months out of the year. (Then you throw them out.)

In 2009, I am determined to be not just the Queen, but the Galactic Empress of the Flip Flops. I have a few months to prepare, and here is what I propose to do.

First, I am going to research Tiffany's, Cartier's, Harry Winston's and more to see what they have in the way of toe rings and ankle bracelets. No more Tommie Bahama for me! Not that I can afford REAL jewelry, but it will give me some ideas for upping my flip flop fashion.

As for the flip flops, I am of the opinion that designer flip flops are not REALLY flip flops at all, but knock offs of the real thing. It's like Tom Cruise pretending to be a regular (or real) person. It just doesn't work. My flip flops will come from Walgreens and Wal-Mart--maybe Target, as long as they don't have a designer name on them.

Tan legs are a necessary part of the look, and I usually rock the Jergens Natural Glow. Maybe I'll upgrade a little to L'Oreal or even Lancome. After all, the stakes are high.

I have actually had people tell me that, at our workplace (where flip flops are prohibited but I wear them anyway), my flip-flopping calls to mind sea breezes and salty ocean air in the midst of our brutal, 60+ hour weeks. Anything I can do to improve this experience, I will do. Any suggestions?

Lindsey said...
I am 6'1", and have never had the confidence to wear heels.


You go Girlfriend !! If Elle MacPherson can wear 5 inch heels so can you!

TampaBay

edina monsoon said...
My New Year's fashion resolution is to stop buying so many damned black coats and jackets. I've bought three black coats in less than a month.


Edina,

I think you may need another black jacket. Go for it.

TampaBay

This is a tough one, seeing as, I'm already perfect.

--GothamTomato

My New Year's Fashion Resolution is to only wear clothes that make me feel good. I've struggled with my weight my whole life, and I tend to hide behind my clothes instead of wearing them. I hold on to clothes that make me feel bad, and I know I shouldn't do that. So my goal this year is to dress like I mean it. To celebrate the body I have, not hide because it's not some mythical ideal body I wish I had.

Thanks for the support, TampaBay!

Lol....

- edina -

T-Lo,

I know that you are more than capable to judge your contests your own self, but, I just have to lobby for the post by Anonymous - info@aloetile.

Should old raiments be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should old plaid pants be left for naught
and ponchos kept behind?


Sing it aloud, it's brilliant.

I honestly think my Fashion Resolution would be to get a style. I have none. Nada. Zip. Zero. I think I need to get rid of the holiday sweatshirts and tshirts. And maybe, perhaps I need to shop somewhere other than Wally World? BUUUUUUUUUT TLO! They carry jeans (most of the time) that fit me - at a price that I can afford!

whine, whine, wine, wine, margaritas, bellinis, martinis.....

One word: epaulets.


; )

I've already done my resolution!

Threw out all my flip-flops out yesterday! NO MORE FLIP-FLIPS EVER!
(I'm turning 50 soon for gawd's sake)

Determined to be a Nifty Fifty!

TLo-Happy 2009 to you! and Alex!! and Laura! and to all our fellow minions!

My New Years Resolution is to wear more dresses. I've worn nothing but jeans since the age of 12 or so (I'm now 20). Besides my choir uniform and formal dresses, it was just jeans and T-shirts for me. I wore a dress the other day and shocked the heck out of my sister and I was surprised at how much I loved wearing the dress. So more dresses for me this year!

Due to the economic downturn, I resolve to wear my old curtains. I hear that making outfits out of drapery is a great way to meet older rich captains.

Penntastic

My new year's fashion resolution is to wear jeans and sneakers only when absolutely necessary. That and to get my hair long enough to bring Princess Leia braids back for 2009.

This New Year, I resolve to look kick ass in a unitard as frequently as possible. This will include: losing weight, buying some sort of underwear that won't give lines, and a remarkably supportive pair of Spanx. Oh, and leg warmers. All thanks to my high school, for making us do Cats as our school musical. MEOW!

love,
Your Kitten

My fashion resolution for 2009 is that, as God, TLo and this blog are my witnesses, I will nevah shop for clothes in Kmart evah again!!!!!!

And, yes, TLo, I know, in your hearts of hearts, you Do give a damn about where your kittens and poodles shop!!

MWAHHH! Wishing all a fabulous 2009!

My New Years' Resolution:

To realize that "healthy" is always more chic than "skinny."

This year I resolve to make the tricky transition from jeans and tees college student with great style potential to truly chic young adult while always being myself.

I resolve to do my part in the fight against the evils of hipsterdom such as skinny or bleached jeans, shiny American Apparel spandex and anything neon.

I resolve to attain a Rick Owens leather jacket by any means necessary.

But most of all I resolve to never allow my style or shopping habits to waver so long as I still have a say, because while the world is going to shit and falling apart all around us, looking and feeling good are the best and only form of escape.

Happy New Year, TLo, & to all of the fabulous denizens who frequent Project Rungay!

My New Years Resolution is to continue wearing/buying as much Couture as humanly possible!

My New Year's Fashion Resolution: Look as as good as David Beckham in a Speedo.

Happy New Year!

Wishing you boys the happiest and most prosperous of new years! Health, Wealth, and Peace to all!

My New Year's Resolution is to pull a Tim Gunn Guide to Style on my closet. It's out of control!

I will ruthlessly purge the un-cute, non-fitting, and just plain not right for me items. Once I'm done, I'll make a list of only those additional article I may *need* from the list of 10 and that is it.

1. To get older, fatter and add more brushed cotton fleece to my wardrobe.

2. To be a harsher critic of the clothes, hairstyles and makeup of the celebrities and fashionistas that come across my computer and TV screens.

3. To be way more judgmental of the talent and behavior of reality show contestants.

Welcome back, cuties! I miss your daily humor and snark - keeps me laughing. Schaudenfraude is a reason for living!

I, Gotham Tomato, hereby resolve that in 2009 I will:

1. Finally reach my diet goal of getting back to my original weight: 7 pounds, 7 ounces.

2. Stop wasting money making silly mortgage payments and instead invest that money in botox. (I will look quite fabulous pushing my shopping cart down 5th Avenue, and no one will ever know how upset I am to be homeless - and isn't that what really counts?).

3. Since the British press is claiming that orange is the new black, I resolve to wear fuck hunting vests to all the best places.

4. I will bring back the pointy bra. (In traffic cone orange, to avoid parking tickets.)

5. I will try to be more welcoming to the tourists by dressing as they do; like Easter Eggs with fanny packs and bad perms (perhaps even trying to reserve them free parking with my new bra).

6. I will try to be clean in thought, word and deed.

7. Or at least try for best 2 out of 3.

8. Or just give myself permission to accept that trying can be too, too trying for someone of my delicate sensibilities and short attention span, and thus deserves to be rewarded with chocolate; delaying resolution #1, for which resolution #3 will come in quite handy.

So, if you are visiting Manhattan, and see an emotionless 7 pound woman, with a chocolate smeared face, wearing nothing but a pointy orange bra & duck hunting vest, pushing a shopping cart, please do say hello. I will try to be friendly before I tell you to fuck off back to where you came from. Happy Easter!

--GothamTomato

OOOPS!:

Resolution #3 should read 'duck hunting vest', not 'fuck hunting vest'. Though come to think of it...

--GothamTomato

I, for one, bow down to the greatness that is GOTHAM TOMATO!

And I promise that if I should see you lurking outside the dumpsters of Parsons (THE New School for Design) I will take you to Mood and buy you a yard or two of fabric. Then take you to the nearest chocolate shop for a refueling.

As for the fuck a duck hunting vests, your first challenge will be to repurpose it into a ball gown for the upcoming inauguration.

I will actually buy some new clothes. I will do this by remembering not to look in the dressing room mirror until I am fully clothed. Fully. Clothed.

my NY fashion resolution is to finally purchase a full-length mirror so i can see my whole self at once! my normal routine is to view the top half, then jump up on a chair to view the bottom half! this must stop, for fashion's sake!

My New Year's fashion resolution is to bring back moon boots, puffy sleeves, thrift store suits, and boondoggle. Napoleon Dynamite is retro and yes, I'm from Idaho.

My fashion resolution is to stop dressing like a frumpy soccer mom/librarian cliche and embrace my inner Laura Bennett.

Welcome back!

Girls, I FEEL YA about the rum punch.

My fashion resolution for the year 2009 is to invest in a sexy pair of cowgirl boots.

My New Year's fashion resolution is to transition from an American Eagle-clad college student to a young woman who looks the part of a graphic designer in professional and polished pieces that still show her personality. I am getting rid of anything I wore in high school, investing in accessories, and strategically deploying every almost-black shade of nail polish I own.

my new years fashion resolution is to wear my leggings with boots and a tunic to my house even though my sister and mom are part of the "leggings aren't pants" facebook group and will laugh at me.

My fashion resolution is to wear all things shiny, tight, and short. I've dressed conservatively my whole life, and where has it gotten me? Okay, I work in the ministry, so conservative would SEEM to be the right avenue, but is it really? Think of the publicity I could get for my ministry. Look at the success Ms. Klum has had dressing the way she does. If Heidi can do it, so can I!

Oh, and I really want to win this time guys. I mean it! I'm desperate! Now if only you would throw in a Tim Gunn bobblehead. My hubby did not get me one for Christmas. Wah.

Happy New Year TLo! Face down in rum punch, you say? Sounds like a merry christmas to me darlings!

My New Year's Fashion Resolution is to be able to wear ruffles and puff sleeves without looking like a linebacker for the Chicago Bears AND do it without radical surgery on my shoulders.

Happy New Year to you ALL!

I actually have several, more heartfelt than funny (at least I hope so), New Years fashion resolutions. These not-to-be-forgotten-by-the-end-of-January-goals are as follows:

1. Sketch for at least a half hour every day.
2. Sew at least once a week.
3 (and this can work in tandem with 2). Start a small-time tee shirt line.

To give you a bit of back story *cue violin*, I just turned 21 and only recently accepted my love for fashion design and styling. I am in school for Political Science and planned on being a lobbyist until about a year ago. With only a year left at my staunchly political University, there was no possibility of switching majors to design, and it seemed pointless to quit my program.

So for the past few months I have been working on a portfolio to get me into programs at FIT or Parson's once I graduate. However, teaching yourself sketching and sewing sucks sometimes, and its hard to fit in my crazy schedule. But this year I really have to. I'm going to be applying for programs with peers vastly more experienced than myself, and 2009 is the year I start really investing in my own human (FASHION) capital! I will cling to these resolutions like the DV clings to his ego! Wish me luck ^ _ ^

By the way, ajspokane, I too receive those magical QVC packages from my mother. It's like the grab bag things you could buy when I was a kid where you didn't know what it was until after you bought it and opened the package, and you were usually horrified by what you got. Hey it's free, but at least I'm too small for Quacker Fctory . . .

Did Daniel V. resolve to stop designing boring, Calvin Klein-wannabe clothes in 2009? Cuz that's the only fashion resolution I care about.

My New Year's Fashion Resolution?

Two words: Lavender. Coif.

OH! And Ben, darling, FIT sucks. Try for Parsons, or even Pratt. I've given to much blood and money the the Fucking Institute of Technology.

I also resolve that in 2009, whenever I post something heartfelt, it will be accompanied by a picture of me flexing in my underwear (thighs that can crack walnuts optional).

--GothamTomato

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Didn't even think about it! Oh well, who cares. ^ _ ^

"Ben said: Oh well, who cares."



I do. Thighs are an important issue.

(Next time, don't crop so tightly.)

--GothamTomato

Feels good to write this down, like I really mean it. No. more. blouses. I find shoes, jackets, pants, jewelry etc that I like but every blouse I ever buy looks like shit on me. Button-downs, pullover sweaters, all of them. I kept on trying but I finally get it. Topless is an even worse look for me so I'll depend on other stuff to dress up tee-type shirts. And somebody who has blouse issues should wear dresses, not separates, right? More of those.

Colin
CTWHITWORTH@bama.ua.edu

My new year's fashion resolution is to lose some weight, forcing me to buy a fabulous new wardrobe and look even better than I did in the clothes I own, because if I am going to bitch about other people's slobby asses, I need to keep my 'end' out of that weed garden.

Am I too late?

My New Year's Fashion resolution is NO WIRE HANGERS!

(And get some new bras that will lift those girls until they point to the heavens.)

My New Year's Resolution regarding fashion must, in the spirit of the holidays, extend beyond myself to the loved ones around me. As a teacher, I can usually turn my head with my eyes closed, open them, and start crying immediately upon seeing whatever unfortunate sweatsuited wretch is before me. My resolution is to help these people who rightly suspect that I am critical of them - but, unlike before, by complimenting them on what they're doing right. Which is perfect, because this only has to last one year.

-William

My resolution: to stop buying clothes that I will see someone else wear the next day, and start finishing my 289,537,546 projects of changing damaged vintage clothing into wearable and workable me.

-Zoe M

Also, I think I'll try to pull off pleather pants this year

-Zoe M

My number one resolution is to drink much more wine this year as last year I was much too conscious to enjoy most of it. But to get back to the question at hand my fashion resolution is to single handedly bring back a debatably terrible fashion trend of the past to mainstream fashion culture. (PS: this will be a challenge seeing as I live in Alabama and have no chance of actually influencing anyone and will therefore just be resolving to look like a fool all year!) I am thinking multi-layer bubble skirts with lace leggings and sneakers, or... oh wait... this is it... HAMMER PANTS! Happy New Year!

PS: I am totally late responding to this and I can't believe you didn't have more comments! Daniel V is amazing and I never doubted that this book would be great!

My news resolution is to bring couture to my scrubs--yards of tulle anyone? The wilma scrub top? Sequins?
They will be both fashionable AND utilitarian--I can distract my animal patients by weaving an outfit out of catnip and adorn it with dog treats. Animal prints for when I want to blend in with the kennel. It will be FIERCE in every sense of the term. I will call it cature.