During our trip this last weekend to New York, Jim and I went to see the American Woman: Fashioning a Nation exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was a pretty fantastic exhibition. Fashion and its changing styles and meanings was presented through the lens of feminism and identity. The styles only went from late 1800s to the 1940s, ( Read more... )

Holy cuteness, Batman!

I kinda want this. I just don't need it:


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This is how you wear statement jewelry! (I love her ring, especially!)


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Must tell myself that I Do. Not. Need. More. Shoes.

But if I were to get new shoes...

( Ooooh, these. )

I waaaaaaaaaaaant:


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Productive? Whuu? What's that?

( Looks I love )

Thursday I fly out to California to attend Jim's old Tucson roommate's wedding in Santa Barbara. For once neither of is in the wedding, so neither has a pre-chosen outfit. Now there are two events that I need to dress nicely for at the very least. One, of course, is the actual wedding--but this wedding is on the beach. Having grown up in Wisconsin ( Read more... )

People are also dumb. They've had to ban the Anya Hindmarch "I'm not a plastic bag" bag in Hong Kong because a number of people got trampled yesterday trying to get one. Seriously, yo, it's not even as cute as the envirosaxs, or as practical as the baggu non-plastic bags. And you know that people weren't buying them because they thought, oooh, ( Read more... )

I went to the gas station after work to fill my tires some. The front left tire always seems to be underinflated. Well, when I got there this man was already pulled up in his minivan and I could see him looking over at me. When I went to the machine to put in my quarters he stopped me and ran over with his air tube and offered to fill up my tires ( Read more... )

Apparently I'm in full-fledged consumerism mode right now. I will have to come to grips with the implications later. Right now, I want to pimp my new community, affordablestyle (aka "Yeah, so I shop at malls, what's it to you?), a community for people who like pretty things but aren't/won't/can't shill out the $$$ for the designer stuff that's just going to ( Read more... )