Polyvore Lit Takes: Don Quixote
July 16th, 2008 § 4 Comments
In a jovial attempt to combine fiction with fashion, Chris and I came up with the idea to post Polyvore sets of ensembles from classic literature. In doing this first one (a challenge if I do say so myself), the fun was in doing something resembling my taste while remaining relatively faithful to the original text. But feel free to judge for yourselves.
“In short, the innkeeper’s wife outfitted the priest in the most remarkable fashion: she dressed him in a woolen skirt with black velvet stripes a hand-span wide, and all of them slashed, and a bodice of green velvet adorned with white satin binding, and both the bodice and the skirt must have been made in the days of King Wamba. The priest did not permit his head to be adorned, but he did put on a cap of quilted linen that he wore to sleep at night, and tied it around the front with a band of black taffeta, and with another band he fashioned a mask that covered his beard and face very well; he pulled his broad-brimmed hat down tightly on his head, and it was so large he could have used it as a parasol; he wrapped himself in his cape and mounted his mule side-saddle; the barber, with a beard somewhere between red and white that hung down to his waist and was made, as we have said, from the tail of a reddish ox, mounted his mule as well.” -pg 213, Don Quixote, Miguel Cervantes (trans. Edith Grossman)
… I think I love you. I just finished reading Don Quixote, stole a look at Liebemarlene’s site, and then the title compelled me. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Don Quixote set before. Excellence.
Oh, and nice outfit, too.
What an amazing idea! cheers!
Great idea! I might try a Doctor Zhivago one … although that has probably been done.
(Although have sneaking desire to do a Nancy Drew Polyvore … not great literature, of course, but …)
And forgot to close my brackets there )