All in the Family

Gracing our blog with her presence a third time, here's MC for another sisters shoot!

Summertime Badness

Under the heat of the desert sun, we sweated and swore but took lots of shots

The City of Sisterly Love

Hard on the heels of the post I just put up 10 seconds ago comes this sisterly shoot we did with Vikky's great great great sista MC! We were cold. We were tired. It was late. All in all I think things turned out pretty well! More after the jump!

The "September" Issue

We're not Anna Wintour and Grace Coddington, and this blog is certainly not Vogue, but the issue of "September", or rather "the beginning", looms just as ominously on our horizons for this Rack Diving #14.

Blood Ties

In celebration of 1 of 4 finals being taken and put to bed, I decided to take a break from maniacally scribbling flash cards to present to the internet the sublime gift of my little sister's face (and bod).

In the Middle of a Lonely Night

Good Lawdy Wawdy we've reached the big ONE-OH! That is to say 10. Ten whole Rack Diving posts! It feels like way more! I never thought we'd get much past 3, mostly because I'm a hopeless slacker/procrastinator and never get up on deadlines. So sue me. Anyways, these were taken in the DEAD of a cold cold COLD night, and I'm sorry to poor Vikky who put up with my "vision" and braved the chill of my backyard to do this for me.

A Good Wrap

Rack Diving: 08

So we decided to do something new and post up the entirety of the Rack Diving here on the blogger, pictures and text, while the pictures only go up on tumblr. Seemed like a thing to do. Anyways, we've been pretty absent for a while, and that's pretty lame, but you know school and life got in the way. Winter break was pretty productive, despite the extremely convincing whispers of laziness in our ears, we got a whole bunch of shoots done and they're all pretty cool! So thats for the future! Anyway, let's get down to it!

The Flower Kingdom

Unfortunately for all of us, my apartment is experiencing ridiculous Internet problems, thus I must eschew my usual tidy formatting and fancy textual footwork and term to simpler, more barren means if achieving a decent post. So I'm using an app for now >>.

Anyway, here's one of the new ones, never before seen on the Internet, our lovely girly shoot, done to counteract the definite masculinity of the one done prior to it. Vikkys absolutely ethereal looking in this natural setting, with thunder hair and this completely gorgeous dress. Where from? You ask? Why, it's thrift! And a damn good find if you ask me! Pair this bad boy up with a smooth leather jacket and boots and you've got yourself a great 'fit for nearly any situation.

Dress - Thrift
Hair - Thunderhair

A preview of things to come!

Vikky's unusually youthful look this time has a pretty strong contrasting
feel with the other look we shot last night.

To Do with The Rack Girls

So we're working on what exactly we're gonna have up on this blog, but here's just a small example of the kind of things we like to do. With Vikky as the model, we do outfit shoots to show how we would style certain items, usually thrifted, from her wardrobe. We have a Savers in town we like to frequent and that usually yields a lot of excellent, unique clothes for a fraction of their original prices. It's nothing too incredible, it's not like a Buffalo Exchange or one of the larger thrift places, but it serves its purpose really well, especially if you know what you're looking for. 

Everything Vikky wears in this look is thrifted
except for her jewelry.

We try and do different things with the "shoots" but since she is not a professional model and I am not a professional photographer, it's usually just a bunch of experimentation. You can find most of what we've already done on our tumblr therackgirls.tumblr.com or, if you don't want to go through our whole blog just our The Works page for direct links to our Rack Diving posts and some pictures of our works.

It took us so many shots to get
anywhere near this effect and in the end
this one was the only shot that looked right >>

This underwater shot I called "Memento Mori" and
was one of the few really nice shots we got
from our experiment with the underwater camera

Anyway, that's just a few pictures from the "shoots" we've had over the past few months or so. We'll be trying to do some OOTDs and the like on here too because, after all, it is a style blog dedicated to exploring and expanding our outlook on plus size fashion, and to applying current trends to our wardrobes when straight size stores don't fit and plus size stores don't carry it.

Pussy bow tie front shirt in this lovely green color
found at the thrift store.