Welcome to Berkeley
posted by Colleen Shirazi
on
Sunday, June 25, 2017
at 9:57 AM (Pacific)
Dress: modaspia
Cardigan: J. Crew
Hat: old
Shoes: Cydwoq
Due to the gargantuan Oski Bear, the shoes did not make the picture, but you can see them here (with the same cardigan!)
They installed Oski outside the School of Law in late 2013 to increase school spirit and enrollment. (Okay, this is actually from our 2017 Staff Appreciation Week.)
Me:
Hoodie: American Giant
Dress: Modaspia
Sandals: Arche
My daughter:
Jacket: US Army
Jeans: gifted
Shoes: Arche
Hey, we get to be tourists! You can also see why hoodies are endemic to the Bay Area: the winds felt as if to bluster us off the Headlands.
This was pretty cool (yes, I posted it on our work Slack):
How meticulously this has been preserved over, say, the past 530 years give or take. (Jacopo del Sellaio)
A bit tempting to speculate, how ladies of the era would consider our routine to "get out the door" these days. But how much has really changed?
Her: I can't take it, this hair is a fright.
Her friend: Not a problem, borrow my wig!
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
Welcome to 2012!
posted by Colleen Shirazi
on
Monday, January 2, 2012
at 8:14 PM (Pacific)
Black turtleneck: Eddie Bauer Navy blue cardigan: J.Crew Necklace: made by me Modaspia aubergine skirt Dark grey tights Cydwoq boots
I hope to stay more focused this year...haha (must figure out how to take indoor pictures with this camera).
I love this skirt. It is linen, which you normally associate with summer I suppose, but the rich, dark reddish plum color, paired with the heavier fabric—have you noticed? is it me? materials are simply becoming thinner in just about everything? Which can work (e.g., J.Crew tissue turtlenecks), but here the heavier weight equals warmth, plus a noticeable tendency to shed wrinkles.
This skirt runs fairly large...they were sold out of medium, so I got large, and it's...large, actually. The first time I wore it, it totally belled out, so I ran it through the dryer, where I'd say it shrank between 1/2 and one size. If you tumble it, it doesn't need ironing (for winter I like to touch it up though).
posted by Colleen Shirazi
on
Monday, December 19, 2011
at 9:30 PM (Pacific)
I did something a bit unusual for me...I got this dress. The unusual bit is it's wool, and they do recommend drycleaning it. You may also hand-wash, which again I'm typically against. I hand-washed a load of stuff back in the day, before I had kids. Still...for this dress, hand-washing might well be worth it.
The gathers in the center of the dress are a stroke of genius; they make the dress appear fitted, yet the section is flexible. So it would appear similarly fitted on just about any body type.
Modaspia notes
posted by Colleen Shirazi
on
Sunday, October 16, 2011
at 10:04 PM (Pacific)
Yes! I finally got hold of a Modaspia item. Mind you, I'd lost out on a couple of Fiji dresses this summer:
Modaspia is a local brand (Placerville, in fact), and the clothes are made there and in Oakland and San Francisco.
I haven't brought the green top out yet; we're experiencing another Indian summer in the Bay Area (didn't this occur last year as well?), so I'm squeezing the final seasonal wears from my warm-weather clothes. But I have tried it on. Mmmmm! The neckline is higher than appears in the photos, which is great (no "must wear camisole"-ness), the green is intense...what I'm really craving for though, is the print. It is now quite easy to find outstanding solid-colored clothing items, but difficult finding beautiful prints.
General drool-o-rama
posted by Colleen Shirazi
on
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
at 10:26 PM (Pacific)
Totally jonesing for this dress. It's a cotton print, and made in the U.S. When first I saw it, I didn't think of, well, jonesing for it, but the more you look, the more useful it appears. Cotton and sleeveless, yet work-friendly, with lovely black piping detail—not only does it have pockets, the pockets are even piped. In back there are rows of shirring to make more fitted, yet it's not one of those dreary butt-cupping things. I don't normally gravitate toward prints over solid colors, if only because most prints don't appeal to me, but this print looks special.
Dire Straits - "Romeo and Juliet" (1981)
Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start And I bet, and you exploded in my heart And I forget, I forget the movie song When you gonna realize, it was just that the time was wrong?
This is one cataclysmic song; it has something of everything: touches of country & western, lyrics from an early 1960's pop song, a reference to the Romeo and Juliet play itself:
You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin Now you just says oh Romeo yeah you know I used to have a scene with him
...a dash of West Side Story, a description of a musician (Knopfler, presumably) writing the song and playing it, all within the song itself. It's just fascinating. I remember this song, of course, and had liked it...oh well, I suppose I'm just having an 80's moment.
