Colette est magnifique

C'est vrai!!! I love that store. Located in beautiful Paris (213 rue Saint-Honore) they sell everything from Lanvin dresses to Pamela Love rings. Vinyl, books, magazines, art, and Coca-Cola bottles designed by Justice are not excluded. The website is great too, because of the music player that plays only the best of the best.

I'm a spy

About a week ago, I was looking for an alternative pair of tights to wear with my black dresses and skirts, specifically because I don't like the severity of complete black. At least not all of the time, I need some variety. After looking and looking and LOOKING, and buying a few pairs of knitted textured black tights, I purchased a pair of chanel-esque tights from urban outfitters. The only problem is, I think i have a small hole per every half an hour spent wearing them. thank YOU, Urban outfitters... But I guess it's too be expected with tights that thin...







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Circle Circle Dot Dot

I want a circle scarf. Both versatile and stylish, the circle scarf has found it's way into my heart. The one below is from Urban Outfitters.



The circle scarf that is being sold at American Apparel is not as great in my opinion, but listed on the website are 13 different ways to wear it.


Now I think if I bought one of these, the only problem I would have in life is having to live with hearing the stupid high school football game from my house.
(DRUMDRUMDRUM... DRUMZ)

Image Source: UO, AA

Like an electric eel...

I've come to the astonishing realization that I need more pants in my wardrobe. I have two pairs of jeans (black and gray), and two pairs of American Apparel leggings. I don't know how it ended up this way... But now that it's getting colder, I'm really starting to crave a couple more pairs of pants. I want a pair of pants like those below:


Sahaaaaara pants!




I actually hate them and love them, both at the same time. They're so structural and avant-garde... Very Comme Des Garcons. But then again, they do look a little like a stretched out diaper attached to a pair of leggings. I recently bought a pair of harem pants, maybe I'll restitch them to represent something like above. I have a feeling I'm not going to be wearing either pair of pants very often anyway.

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Vintage tattoos and such

Usually, I am not a fan of tattoo print clothing. Actually most of the time I reel back in horror upon seeing it. Especially those Ed Hardy t-shirts. Oh, God help anyone who pays more than $100 for something like this:


Earlier, I was making my rounds of online shopping(believe me there are NO good stores around where I live) and I saw this in the new arrivals section at Betsey Johnson:


I have to say I really "dig" it. From far away the heart things sort of look like Jupiter or something. Betsey Johnson, I love you. Another thing I've never liked until it's been Betsey-fied. I'll have to add that to the list along with blue leopard print and black corset mini dresses.
I remember seeing a similar dress while looking at the fall 08 runway photos on style.com, and it was paired with knee socks! Which in my opinon made the whole emsamble look 237489734X cuter than ever.

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Today's "thrift" stores

I went on a four-day shopping spree in DC and Mclean's Tyson's corner which inspired me to write this post. I went to Georgetown to try to find some nice thrift stores, and I saw Annie Cream Cheese(I had heard about it before)... So I walked in and I liked the music and atmosphere immediately. I continued to browse and found a dress I liked. Since the whole store was buy one get one 1/2 off I decided to try to find one more thing. But I couldn't.


So then I began reconsidering making my purchase. Everything in the store looked like it came from goodwill, the store smelled like goodwill! Yeah, and that's okay for as long as it's goodwill, but the dress I was holding in my hands was $50! I peered at the label in hope of some recognition of a designer name or even a good brand name. But no, $50 for a polka dot dress with a no name label, OH and that somebody else has already worn! Half of the store was a designer botique. I didn't look that closely but I saw a couple Fendi dresses priced for over $1000, and they weren't even fantastic looking. Wouldn't you buy a new Fendi dress if you had that kind of money anyway?


As I walked out of the store and put the dress back on the rack of even more expensive dresses(ranging from $75-250), the girls who worked there were still talking about the day Victoria Beckham came into the store. OOOkay?

What I bought for the $50 I had left after my other expenses?



A ring from Betsey Johnson! I love this crazy ring. And i think it's a much better decision than that dress.

So, I was going to say... I think it wrong that there's so many "vintage stores" like that around today. OMGDAKHGAKDHG and can't you just call it a thrift store instead of vintage store? really? Isn't the point of thrifting to find some treasure that's really really great for a really really low sum of money? Isn't that the exciting part? There are so many online thrift stores too, that charge way too much and sell clothes in only sizes XS or S. I guess you really have to hunt around the find the good stores...
What's cool: finding the good stuff for under $20.
What's not cool: spending more money than you would on a dress at H&M for some no name used dress that's cool only because it's in a "vintage shop"

Image Source: Annie Cream cheese, me