https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:26:44 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267414 Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:00:50 +0000 Carla 2267414@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>LOL! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267412 Wed, 15 Jun 2022 12:35:07 +0000 wpashmina 2267412@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Electrifying !!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267279 Tue, 14 Jun 2022 11:49:01 +0000 Chris987 2267279@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks all! </p> <p><b>Rachylou</b> - hmm... a book with pictures... what a fun rabbit hole that would be!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267255 Tue, 14 Jun 2022 07:33:40 +0000 Anonymous 2267255@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This could be an ode to a sale rack. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267231 Tue, 14 Jun 2022 01:58:08 +0000 Jaime 2267231@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>:) ! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267226 Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:29:16 +0000 Lana 2267226@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267220 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 23:26:48 +0000 bj1111 2267220@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Bring back the guppy prints! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267187 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:05:49 +0000 Gaylene 2267187@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Loved it!<br />Reminds me of the loaded sales racks at Nordstrom a few years ago: endless racks of last season’s trends jammed together, haphazardly hung, and trailing sequins and other bits of embellishment. A perfect fashion graveyard of dispirited dreams and dashed hopes… </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267167 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 16:34:23 +0000 Angie 2267167@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sublime </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267157 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 16:13:52 +0000 RobinF 2267157@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Haha, cute.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267156 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 16:10:18 +0000 rachylou 2267156@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes! I remember! I think it needs to be in book with pictures now </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267152 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 15:07:40 +0000 Mainelady 2267152@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rhymes sublime! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267150 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 15:05:02 +0000 Chris987 2267150@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks all!&nbsp;</p> <p><b>BlueJay</b> I consider it a supreme complement to be compared to Edward Lear!&nbsp; I LOVE that poem and can almost recite it from memory. My Mom read his stuff to us when we were very young and I think it found a permanent spot in my consciousness.&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267136 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:06:21 +0000 BlueJay 2267136@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I remember this, but couldn't remember who was the poet! They're both very well done! The poem about the prints is my favourite because it reminds me of Edward Lear:</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43188/the-owl-and-the-pussy-cat">https://www.poetryfoundation.o.....-pussy-cat</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267126 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 13:46:07 +0000 lyn67 2267126@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Chris, you are a trully tallented poet!:-) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267124 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 13:33:18 +0000 Janet 2267124@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>:-D </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267119 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 13:06:57 +0000 Anonymous 2267119@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>:) Just read it out loud to mom. She liked it! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-about-fashion-embellishment#post-2267113 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:24:29 +0000 Chris987 2267113@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Angie's post today reminded me of this poem I wrote and posted in Feb of 2018 called "Ode to Our Embellished Fashion Era".&nbsp; Hard to believe it was over 4 years ago!&nbsp; It covers a range of styles a bit broader than frills, puffs, and florals.&nbsp; I. have never been a fan of these styles, but I did have fun writing this poem! I don't do much creative writing but I probably should.&nbsp;</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ode-to-our-embellished-fashion-era--">https://youlookfab.com/welookf.....hion-era--</a></p> <p>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p><i><u>What we wear...</u></i><strong><i><u></u></i></strong></p> <p>Plentiful embroidery and whimsical cajolery<br />Cut out, stressed out, burned out, and thrown out<br />Ripped, shredded, worn, torn, and forlorn<br />Laced, disgraced, displaced, maced, and defaced<br />Pompoms, crampons, hanger-ons, and unmowed lawns<br />Ruffles, truffles, muffles, snuffles, and kerfluffles<br />Straps and buckles, surrounded by chuckles<br />Frills and lace at a frenzied pace<br />Shoulder holes, mayday poles, singing bowls<br />Big bell sleeves that make you sneeze, seat belt weaves and table leaves<br />Hardware, malware, gagwear, flagwear, snagwear<br />Sequins, shark fins, cookie tins<br />Rings and wings and mattress springs<br />Sparkle and glitter, princess Markle on twitter<br />Fringed, singed, cringed, tinged, and unhinged<br />Non-functional zippers, beluga whale flippers<br />striped socks, bird flocks, department of silly walks<br />bow ties, cow pies, fishing flies, waist ties, pleated thighs, jeweled eyes<br />Grommets, plackets, eyelets and pockets<br />over the knee, under a tree, backless shoes, chimney flues<br />Ruching and smooching, double hems and colored gems</p> <p><b><i></i></b><i><u>…and oh the prints!</u></i><b><i><u></u></i></b></p> <p>Grumpy cats, pretty bats, pugs in rugs, bees in trees<br />Gee gaws, hee haws, flee flaws, lobster claws, jackdaws<br />Bowers and towers of flowers<br />cranes and owls, peacocks with jowls<br />hedgehogs, warthogs, big dogs, groundhogs, green frogs<br />horses and llamas, camels in pajamas<br />flamingoes and dingos, puppies and guppies, foxes in boxes<br />checks and plaids and polka dots, fruits and nuts and nautical knots<br />window pane with cellophane<br />leopard and snake, cookies and cake<br /><b>westies and yorkies</b>, teddies and butterflies</p> </p> <p>nothing plain, nothing simple, every face must have a dimple<br />around and around and around it goes, where it stops, nobody knows!</p> </p>