Wednesday, February 27, 2008

COMPETITION/GIVEAWAY THINGY...

I'm giving away a copy (thanks Penguin!) of The Meaning of Sunglasses - A Guide to (Almost) All Things Fashionable, written by Hadley Freeman, deputy fashion editor of the Guardian and contributor to Vogue. I'll let the winner make up their own mind about the book, but it's a very light read, full of pithy fashion related observations that are best taken in small bite size chunks.

To win the book, look at the following picture of well dressed young groovers at a fancy dress party, taken sometime in the early 1980s.


The first person to correctly identify which partygoer is me in the comments gets the book. This is not quite as easy as it sounds, since I am not given to flooding the internet with images of my likeness.

So, from left to right, am I:

1) Little Red Riding Hood
2) Miss Japanese
3) Wonderwoman
4) A Bee
5) Brown paper bag person

Good luck!
I'll announce the winner on Friday (don't forget to include an email/link so I can contact you)

18 comments:

Abi B said...

I really, really hope you are the paper bag person! tis an inspired costume!

Anonymous said...

are you little red riding hood??

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NB said...

I'm thinking Wonderwoman. Something about her stance. That, and she's clearly predicting the leggings trend years in advance ; )

monika said...

hmmm...

my guess is nr 4! but I'm secretly wishing that nr 5 is the correct answer because it's soo cute! haha.

Anonymous said...

I think you're Wonderwoman! (the cute shoes gave you away...)

Anonymous said...

i guess, miss japanese. although i sort of hope its brown paper bag person.

(kimberley_forster@yahoo.co.uk)

Cherryred said...

Oh, oh let me guess!
Little Red riding hood?

I have no idea but its a cute outfit!

Anonymous said...

i'm going with wonderwoman!

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Life with Sofia, Gus and Jim said...

I think you might be wonder woman as that is a pretty amazing costume.

RD said...

This is hard! I'm going to go with Little Red Riding Hood. BB

Anonymous said...

ummm... Wonderwoman?
Though I must admit that the brown paper bag costume is sheer genius!!!
xxx
Mia

indigo16 said...

Miss Japanese?
catch me via the blog if im the lucky winner!

miss milki said...

Brings back happy memories of fancy dress parties in the 80s! Proper home made costumes... not like the fancy shop bought things they have these days!

I'm just going to give a guess...Is it 3 - Wonderwoman? Just because I love her costume...and that fab gold crown!

Hope you're having a better day today.

www.missmilki.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

great photo! hadley is also my daughter's name - maybe i will be lucky - - i'm going to guess that you are the bee (?) - - kristin

Anonymous said...

omg-- this is the cutest photo ever-- what a fabulous bunch of costumes-- man, I have NO idea what you were into then so can only extrapolate from the fashion savant you are now and guess the Japanese girl since perhaps you were studying the drape and fabrics of kimonos as a young fashionista?

~bp

la femme said...

the bee?

priceless photo :)

Anonymous said...

Miss Japanese!

indie_disco@yahoo.co.uk

Anonymous said...

Wonderwoman!! Oh sooooooo cute! Kids in costumes are the best!