Borrowed computers
posted by Colleen Shirazi
on
Monday, April 30, 2012
at 8:39 PM (Pacific)
Top: J.Crew Bettina in White Ash (also worn here and here)
Cardigan: J.Crew Jackie in Wild Mushroom
Earrings: made by me (tiny pearls on gold chains)
Skirt: J.Crew...tailored linen pencil skirt? in Wet Peat
Nude fishnets
Shoes: Cydwoq Category
Being linen, this skirt gets creased over the course of the day, but I love it too much (greyish-brown, textured). My Bettinas have held up well (got this and the Warm Taupe one in 2010).
I've concluded that Mondays are the worst possible days for wardrobe experimentation. Tuesdays are fine, mind you...and I actually like Mondays, deranged as it may sound, if only because no one else does, and the nascence of anything—even something prosaic as a work-week—should be special.
Tom Servo, part 2
posted by Colleen Shirazi
on
Saturday, April 21, 2012
at 11:55 PM (Pacific)
Dress: Garnet Hill (also worn here and here)
Skinny belt
Shoes: Arche
Got this dress a while back, endeavoring to find one sack-y enough to wear a belt with. Back then there weren't many, and reviews for this dress complained about its "sack-like" aspect. It's held up well over many washings, proven quite versatile, is sufficiently heavy not to require ironing (and doesn't wrinkle easily), and actually has pockets. (This is the same belt I want to get in brown.)
Top: ASOS
Skirt: Stewart + Brown
Nude micro-fishnets
Shoes: J.Crew Camden brogues (black)
Basically the same outfit as here, only without boots and tights! I ditched the cardigan for the picture, as it finally got (relatively) smokin' hot today. This top feels cooler than it actually is, what with the butterflies and overall flowiness.
Let it roll, baby, roll*
posted by Colleen Shirazi
on
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
at 10:20 PM (Pacific)
Top: J.Crew Suzette blouse in Night Floral
Cardigan: J.Crew
Skirt: gifted
Shoes: Cole Haan
I drew a blank on the name of this blouse—had gotten it a while back, when the 'Crew had percentage-offed Final Sale items—until locating it here: Review J.Crew. Isn't that a lovely site?
This is why J.Crew (or other intrepid outfitters) should carry more of this stuff. There is nothing handier than crinkled silk, preferably in a nifty print, to have hanging around for just such an occasion (we had a meeting, so I wanted to look nice).
* Something about this persistent "door" backdrop makes me feel like...The Doors, featuring Eddie Vedder(!):
I made the earrings (which you can't see) from rose quartz and little grey moonstones.
Which only goes to show ya, he who hesitates is...
J.Crew Silk pintuck blouse in Antique White
...screwed! This colorway sold out the same day 'Crew dropped their 30%-off-final-sale-items sale. On the one hand, I can appreciate the wallet support (even with 30% off imo it's a tad overpriced)—yet, why don't they just make more crinkled-silk blouses in the first place? Or why don't more companies employ this (fabulous no-iron) material?
* ...Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.
--Spike Milligan (from a search for quotes about "iron")
I was reading some of The Goon Show on Wikipedia today... I had a vinyl record of it back in the day, and it struck me as funnier than Monty Python. :)
Even the description of how they met cracked me up:
[Spike] Milligan and Harry Secombe became friends while serving in the Royal Artillery during World War II. Famously, Milligan first encountered Secombe after Gunner Milligan's artillery unit accidentally allowed a large howitzer to roll off a cliff - under which Secombe was sitting in a small wireless truck: "Suddenly there was a terrible noise as some monstrous object fell from the sky quite close to us. There was considerable confusion, and in the middle of it all the flap of the truck was pushed open and a young, helmeted idiot asked 'Anybody see a gun?' It was Milligan." Secombe's answer to that question was "What colour was it?" Spike met Peter Sellers after the war at the Hackney Empire, where Secombe was performing, and the three became close friends.
Top: Modaspia Cardigan: J.Crew Necklace: designed by my daughter; made by me (it's a row of little tourmalines in various colors) Skirt: Stewart + Brown Black tights Boots: La Canadienne
When these glasses darken, I feel I am channelling Peter Sellers. heheh
New toy*
posted by Colleen Shirazi
on
Monday, April 9, 2012
at 10:00 PM (Pacific)
Top: L.L.Bean
Scarf: from a Japanese gift shop
Cardigan: Sundance Catalog
Skirt: gifted
Shoes: Cole Haan
Jacket: distressed leather
Kind of hard to distinguish the scarf, but it has a pattern of fans on it, and each fan has a picture of a pretty girl doing something (fixing hair, reading a book, putting on makeup):
* I finally got new glasses. Yay! Been wanting to do this since forever...
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posted by Colleen Shirazi
on
Thursday, April 5, 2012
at 8:00 PM (Pacific)
Top: J.Crew Crinkled Chiffon Tunic in Orchid Shadow (also worn here and here) Jacket: gifted (dark brown suede) Skirt: gifted Shoes: Cydwoq Category
Currently digging this belt (made in the U.S.; we appear to have a belt industry going on):
...and the dress, too, though I'm not sure I have much use for it. It's plaid, it's blue, it's a lot of things I'm a sucker for, and it's a shirt-dress, which I like. Hm. There should be a percent-off sale right about now, right? coughs
I'm jonesing for this skinny belt as well, but in brown leather with silver hardware.
