Mary Anne Spier and Kristy Thomas: Mal’s First Meeting

Posted on November 1, 2015 by wanderingfrog
Mary Anne and Kristy: Mal's First Meeting

Mary Anne Spier and Kristy Thomas: Mal’s First Meeting

“On the day of my first meeting, [Mary Anne] was wearing a baggy yellow sweater with a silver squiggle pin near the collar, a short skirt made out of sweat-shirt material, yellow tights, and ballet slippers” (p. 23-24, BSC #14: Hello, Mallory).

“Kristy, who was wearing this visor and had stuck a pencil over one ear, was perched on a director’s chair” (p. 25).

“Kristy . . . was wearing faded jeans, sneakers, a pale pink turtleneck, and a dark pink sweater” (p. 21).

on Polyvore

Since my last post was about what Mallory wore to her first BSC meeting, I thought I’d show you Mary Anne and Kristy’s outfits from the same meeting. I know there was a long time between those two posts, though; my posting is definitely going to be sporadic for a while because this is a really busy month for me.

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Mallory Pike: “You Look Like a Valentine”

Posted on October 22, 2015 by wanderingfrog
Mallory Pike looks like a Valentine

Mallory Pike: “You Look Like a Valentine”

“. . . I finally decided on my red jumper that said Mallory across the front, a short-sleeved white blouse, and white tights with little red hearts all over them.

” ‘You look like a Valentine, Vanessa told me, but I didn’t care.

“I put on my penny loafers” (p. 11, BSC #14: Hello, Mallory).

Mallory’s outfit for the first Baby-sitters Club meeting she attends, when she decides that she can’t look the way thirteen-year-olds do when they get dressed up, but she can look nice anyway. I also owned white tights with little red hearts on them at the time this book was published, but I was younger than Mallory, so it’s less embarrassing. (I also had a pair with little pink hearts and a pair with little baby blue hearts!)

on Polyvore

I chose to recreate a red outfit in honour of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party winning a majority government in the Canadian federal election. (That’s why I added the maple leaf, too.) The BSC members may be unlikely to care about Canadian politics, but I think they’d sit up and take notice that the Prime Minister-designate is hot enough for Stacey to show an interest in foreign affairs, so to speak, and for Kristy to perhaps pursue a second Canadian boyfriend. . .

Justin Trudeau

Justin Trudeau

Justin Trudeau boxing promo shot

Yes, this man is a world leader.

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Claudia: Lobster Earrings and Clock Tights

Posted on October 19, 2015 by wanderingfrog
Claudia Kishi: Lobster Earrings and Clock Tights

Claudia Kishi: Lobster Earrings and Clock Tights

“Today, for instance, I’m wearing purple pants that stop just below my knees and are held up with suspenders, white tights with clocks on them, a purple-plaid shirt with a matching hat, my high-top sneakers, and lobster earrings” (p. 7, BSC #2: Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls).

I chose red for the high tops because the way Claudia phrases “my high-top sneakers” makes it sound like she just has one pair, and her red high tops were mentioned in the first book, but her purple ones aren’t mentioned until #22. The red also matches red lobster earrings, and Claudia and Stacey both wear the red-and-purple colour combo a lot for some insane reason. I guess I could’ve picked red suspenders, too, but I didn’t.

on Polyvore

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Stacey McGill: First Impression + Bonus Claudia Outfit

Posted on October 18, 2015 by wanderingfrog
Stacey McGill: First Impression + Bonus Claudia Outfit

Stacey McGill: First Impression + Bonus Claudia Outfit

“Claudia answered [the door] again, this time wearing a baggy yellow- and black-checked shirt, black pants, red jazz shoes, and a bracelet that looked like it was made from a telephone cord. Her earrings were dangling jointed skeletons that jumped around when she moved. I noticed she wasn’t wearing any makeup… .

“Stacey had on a pink sweat shirt with sequins and a large purple parrot on the front; short, tight-fitting jeans with zippers up the outsides of the legs; and pink plastic shoes” (p. 30-32, BSC #1: Kristy’s Great Idea).

Stacey’s sweatshirt is a RUUM girls’ bubblegum pink sequin sweatshirt that I Photoshopped to make a darker pink, and obviously I also pasted a purple parrot on it. Claudia’s outfit is one I put together two years ago and was surprised to find still in my Polyvore drafts!

on Polyvore

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13-Year-Old Madonnas

Posted on October 17, 2015 by wanderingfrog
Claudia Kishi and Stacey McGill: 13-Year-Old Madonnas

Claudia Kishi and Stacey McGill: 13-Year-Old Madonnas

Remember, this book was published way back when the Material Girl was 28 years old!

“Claudia … was wearing one of her usual outrageous outfits: a black leotard and skintight red pants under a white shirt that was so big it looked like a lab coat. Claudia’s a wonderful artist and she had decorated the shirt herself, covering it with designs painted in acrylic. She had pinned her long, black hair back at the sides with red clips… .

“Stacey’s blonde hair was permed, and what with that, her purple nail polish, and her Swatch accessories, she looked, well, kind of like a thirteen-year-old Madonna. (If Claudia weren’t Japanese, she’d look a little like Madonna, too.)” (p. 23-24, BSC #6: Kristy’s Big Day)

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Mary Anne Spier: Reality vs. Fantasy

Posted on October 17, 2015 by wanderingfrog
Mary Anne Spier: Reality vs. Fantasy

Mary Anne Spier: Reality vs. Fantasy

“My father lets me dress like a model, too — a model of a six-year-old. I have to wear my hair in braids (that’s a rule), and he has to approve my outfit every day, which is sort of silly since he buys all my clothes. And what he buys are corduroy skirts and plain sweaters and blouses and penny loafers.

“Just once, I’d like to go to school wearing skintight turquoise pants, Stacey’s ‘island’ shirt with the flamingos and toucans all over it, and maybe bright red, high-top sneakers. I’d like to create a sensation. (Well, half of me would. The other half would be too shy to want to attract any attention.)” (p. 6, BSC #4: Mary Anne Saves the Day)

on Polyvore

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Claudia Kishi: First Impression

Posted on October 17, 2015 by wanderingfrog
Claudia Kishi: First Impression

Claudia Kishi: First Impression

Our first introduction to fashion icon Claudia Kishi, back in August 1986!

“I rang the Kishis’ bell. Claudia came to the door. She was wearing short, very baggy lavender plaid overalls, a white lacy blouse, a black fedora, and red high-top sneakers without socks. Her long black hair was carefully arranged in four braids. I felt extremely blah compared to her.

“I was so used to seeing Claudia in outfits like that that I didn’t bat an eye. What I did notice was that she was wearing makeup. There was blue stuff on her eyelids, gold stuff above her eyes, and magenta stuff on her cheeks” (p. 25, BSC #1: Kristy’s Great Idea).

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Introduction

Posted on October 17, 2015 by wanderingfrog

Hi there. I’m wanderingfrog. I think I’ve owned this domain name since 2007, but real life kept getting in the way of me doing anything with it. The other day I started bradfordcourt.tumblr.com and realized I might as well cross-post material from that blog here, since the username is the same and this site has been sitting empty for way too long! The Bradford Court tumblr is a Baby-sitters Club blog focusing on recreating characters’ outfit descriptions from the BSC books with Polyvore sets. I plan to eventually branch out beyond this claudiascloset feature and post other things on bradfordcourt.org, too, but I don’t know if I’ll ever bother posting anything besides the outfits on my BSC tumblr. I’ll see what happens.

Regarding claudiascloset, although I’m most inspired by Claudia Kishi (”Anybody else would have looked ridiculous in that outfit, but on Claudia it was totally cool!”) and Stacey McGill (trendy New York sophistication), I’m certainly not going to limit myself to them. Not when there’s also Mary Anne’s preppy style, Dawn’s “California casual,” and Mallory’s commitment to life, liberty, and the pursuit of sparkly sweatshirts. Not to mention Jenny Prezzioso’s frilly dresses, Ashley Wyeth’s hippie clothes, and Mrs. Arnold’s addiction to over-accessorizing.

I’m not planning to pick outfits in any particular order. In general, I’ll probably tend to do outfits from earlier books when I’m first starting out, but I’m definitely not going to post outfits in strict chronological order from the books.

I’m aware that this has been done before, but it hasn’t been done by me. I’ve thought for a few years that this seemed like a fun idea (and I was surprised and pleased to discover that I still have a couple of BSC-themed sets-in-progress in my Polyvore drafts from two years ago), so now I’m finally going to try to make some time for it. And away we go!

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