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!