“You can just see a little peep of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing-room wide open: and it’s very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond.”

“Let’s pretend there’s a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let’s pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it’s turning into a sort of mist now, I declare! It’ll be easy enough to get through — “

have you seen the new ‘alice in wonderland’ movie yet? i was both excited and hesitant. i’ve always loved the ‘alice’ stories. i was given a beautiful copy of ‘alice’s adventures in wonderland’ when i was 7- a blue hard bound book with gold engraved letters, and watercolors throughout.

the aunt who gave me the book enscribed it with a note- ‘to my very own little alice in wonderland’, and for years i thought it must be a code, and that my aunt was trying to tell me i could travel down a rabbit hole or through a mirror. 

well, i’m still waiting for my trip to wonderland. but over the rainy weekend i enjoyed flipping through my old book. inspired by the movie, and a talk at work about socially-shared retrieval-induced forgetting, i was curious to re-remember the parts of the ‘alice’ stories that are typically included (and left out of) the movies.

i’ve always wondered why movies focus on ‘adventures in wonderland’ and not ‘through the looking glass and what alice found there’- i prefer the latter book. i can bitterly remember my disappointment in junior high when i found out it was meant as a satire about the industrial revolution. i just wanted it to be a fairy tale. and in fact, i refuse to think of it any other way.

today’s outfit is inspired by some of the new movie’s costumes. i love the way the many costume changes were cleverly worked into the story. i wish my day-to-day life would work the same way. anyway, a quick note about my own costume: the skirt is actually a dress i found in the junior’s department of century 21. i think it’s just about the ugliest shape one could imagine for a dress.. but a pretty good shape for a skirt. and my shirt is by robert rodriguez, courtesy of ruelala. i hope to be wearing a lot more one-shoulder shirts once it gets warm outside- i have grand plans of transforming an old gym shirt into something like this. 

now that i’ve put it in writing, i can’t change my mind!

oh, and one last thing- i have a feature on linda’s blog today, complete with one of her misketches!! i’ve loved looking at her drawings of other bloggers, so i was SO excited when she told me she was going to do one of me.

robert rodriguez blouse, dres worn as skirt, miu miu shoes