User:Mabalu

I am a quirky Brit with a strong eccentric streak. I hate talking about myself, so I'll just say the following things:

My interests are very wide-ranging, but foremost is an interest in fashion history and related subjects, particularly British fashion design, though I'm well-versed with other designers as well. I also know quite a bit about social history, and am fascinated by the lives of people and personal histories, and often surprise myself with the random things I know about random things.

I never use a greengrocer's apostrophe^[1], and I know how to use words. In fact, I learned the written word very early on (pre-school) as one might a mother tongue. While I'm not terribly good at parsing sentences or explaining language in technical terms, I instinctively and intuitively know how words should be. I do tend to repeat words and phrases in close proximity to each other within a paragraph or even sentence, and cringe when I realise I've done so. While my spelling is generally good, I often confuse "tion" and "ton" endings and have a tendency to malaprop place-names and celebrities. This causes much amusement amongst my friends.

I have a deep-dyed dislike for the misuse of there/their/they're and similar, although I never actually learned the rules of grammar. I just picked them up as I went along, and I know what's right and, dare I say it - what ain't.

• WP:Twinkle
• Earwig (copyvio checking)
• Reflinks (fills in bare URLs)

• Italics denote an article that I have heavily edited or significantly worked on, rather than created.
• A name marked with an asterisk was created from a redirect or completely rewritten from scratch.
• My Did You Know? articles can be viewed here

Created - A-M

Created - N-Z

Significantly contributed to

• Coty Award
• Dress of the Year
• Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers
• Neiman Marcus Fashion Award

I have contributed significantly towards the following Good Articles:

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  Green Versace dress of Jennifer Lopez
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  Crinoline
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  Metal corset
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  Paper clothing