Romper revisited

Ages ago, I posted about my desire to buy a romper, if only just to be the proud owner of a romper. Over a month ago, I finally ordered one online (pictured above). After it arrived, I wondered why it looked so familiar....

... and it's because I had commented on this EXACT romper in the aforementioned post (A million little things, six degrees of separation), where in addition to writing about onesies, I also wrote about the play "Six Degrees of Separation" and fashion photography featuring Gisele. 

Over a year ago on Thursday, May 7, 2009, I wrote:

"This item below is fucking adorable... but not really class-appropriate now, is it. Perhaps with a little denim jacket thrown over it?"*

Ah. How prescient of me.  In person and on said person, the romper is obscenely short. Which is obvious from the photo below.... but I think I was swept away by the romantical lighting of the first photo and figured I would Make It Work.

 

But I was also right about something re: this very abbreviated piece of clothing -- it is adorable with my denim jacket. I've resolved to keep it, and wear it with bike shorts under the romper or real shorts over the romper with the peplum part showing over the shorts. Or for this season, maybe tights or leggings under the romper with a blazer on top. And in the summer, maybe I can wear it alone as a beach coverup with a colorful bikini ... and après beach, while casually biking back to the rental house on Fire Island with my friends. Or something like that. Either way, I eagerly await warmer weather.

On a related note, the Early Spring Catalog has been printed for Urban Outfitters, and there's nothing in it I'm dying to buy. Maybe they save those pieces for the Proper Spring Catalog.

I do like this shirt though. I'd like to buy some similar well-fitting button-down shirts going forward in both light and heavier cotton.

*I think as a general rule only tools and geniuses quote themselves... I won't make a judgment call if you don't.

MOMA

I went to the MOMA on Sunday, which is where this new painting in the banner is from. It's entitled Gaea by Lee Krasner (American, 1908-1984) 1966. Oil on canvas, and it's large at 69" x 10' 5 1/2" (175.3 x 318.8 cm). The colors are much more vivid in person.

My companion and I went through the museum pretending it was a store, contemplating whether or not to purchase each piece of art/furniture and in which room we'd display/use them in our houses (I stole this idea from a friend who lived in the city last Spring). Ugly or slightly disturbing items were relegated to the second guest bedroom, but we were both stumped as to where to place the brass boat propeller. (Master bath??) After the museum closed, we went to the MOMA store and did the same thing, except every object on display there was actually for sale -- and they were each just as clever as their counterparts in the real museum.

Some other paintings from the MOMA under consideration for the banner:

 

Girl with Ball, Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997) 1961. 

Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 60 1/4 x 36 1/4" (153 x 91.9 cm). 

   

No. 3/No. 13, Mark Rothko (American, born Latvia. 1903-1970) 1949. 

Oil on canvas, 7' 1 3/8" x 65" (216.5 x 164.8 cm).

  

Mark Rothko. No. 10. 1950. 

Oil on canvas, 7' 6 3/8" x 57 1/8" (229.6 x 145.1 cm).  

     

Shimmering Substance, Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956) 1946. 

Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 24 1/4" (76.3 x 61.6 cm).

They're all so much more beautiful in person. Maybe the next banner! Can you tell what my favorite two colors are?