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On The Bright Side

May 7, 2013

There are rules that you're supposed to follow if you want to wear denim-on-denim. I've even written about them; they include things like making sure the denim pieces are different weights and colors, breaking up the look with pops of color, et cetera et cetera.

But honestly? To me, the key to this look is dealing with the fact that you're wearing head-to-toe denim and maybe overdoing it just a bit. Nothing wrong with that.

How I broke up this particular denim-on-denim look: with brown leather accents (and a touch of floral), and - most importantly - a shot of neon. Ooh, those heels.

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For All The Evenings

April 29, 2013

You know how some people have a shoe thing? I don't really. I mean, I'd hardly kick a pair of silver Jimmy Choos out of bed, but honestly: fancy footwear stresses me out because you have to...you know...walk in it. On the ground.

Purses? Now that's my thing. I adore them, I collect them, it's rare that I leave a flea market or vintage store without some new find or another.

So it's sort of weird that the one purse I've never owned is a black evening purse. For years now, whenever I'm headed out to someplace fancy I've ended up defaulting either to a daytime bag (because whatever), or this crazy over the top bedazzled gold thing that a friend gave me years ago when I lived in LA and that is extremely wild and fun, but not exactly sophisticated.

I had an elegant black purse for a minute, but it was beaded and from approximately 1827, and when I took it out with me it ended up disintegrating almost immediately. I've kept an eye out for the right evening bag for awhile now, but haven't found anything perfect - I wanted smallish (but big enough for my phone), black leather, classic shape, interesting details, slim gold chain strap, and not-two-thousand-dollars.

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Whatever, Heat Makes Me Wacky

April 26, 2013

Alright, so this is what I've been wearing for most of this week. Sort of a Parody Of A Tourist On Vacation, what with the ridiculous (by which I mean amazing, of course) hat, completely beach-inappropriate (yet also amazing, of course) jewelry, comfortable t-shirts (but with a touch of pizazz), and denim shorts (I love the print on these).

From the neck down it's 100% me, and then from the neck up it's sort of like me if I were the kind of extremely wealthy that makes you dress weird, and maybe forty or fifty years older.

I think it's fantastic. And it hides my hair, which is in a sort of in-between bang stage thanks to the fact that I haven't had any time to make it to the salon for a trim, and has decided to transform into an Angry Humidity Creature unless I pull it into this twisty updo thing (I'll show you later on; it's actually a pretty handy trick for those of you who might be growing out your bangs in the summertime).

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Flowers In The Market

April 19, 2013

During my junior year of college, I decided to take a semester to study abroad in London. I enrolled at University College London, and ended up living in a dorm room that looked very much like a prison cell (complete with a serious mildew-and-spiders problem, oh my god) but was fortunately located in a part of town that - to my mind, anyway - was definitely the coolest.

The best part of where we lived: it was about a two-minute walk away from the Camden markets, a sort of linked-up bunch of retail shops that sold everything from souvenirs to club wear to food and antiques. (If none of this is still true, apologies - we're working from 10-year-old memories here.) I didn't do a lot of shopping while I lived in London, actually (because of the whole Terrible Exchange Rate issue), but I did buy a few things.

And my favorite thing that I bought was this skirt.

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