Florida Part Un

Well, I don't even know where to begin... the trip was absolutely amazing and definitely needed. I had such a great time and it was so nice to just be warm for a change! So the first day... after my sister picked me up from the airport we headed down to this tiki bar on the beach that some of her friends work at. We had a few beverages, waded in the water, and played a pretty brutal game of beach volleyball. Not a sport I recommend playing in a vintage dress.




(from top to bottom: my sister in the sunset, a view down the beach towards Miami, my sis and I, the moon over a hotel on the beach)

Style Collage

One last style collage post from the weekend. I forgot to put it up before. Sorry the photos are so big, I've had it with photobucket, seriously. It shut down Safari when I tried to resize the photos on three separate occasions. I have so many problems with that site. What other photo hosting site should I use? Please give me your ideas. Anyways... out to a friend's gallery opening in town. I'm standing in my office/workroom. I don't think I've shown pictures of it before. Love that chair, it was a yard sale find from last summer.

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Hat: handmade by Frieda
Shirt: vintage thrifted
Tee: Gap
Dress: Forever 21
Leggings: Target darling
Boots: vintage ebay
Earrings: cheap store in downtown Newport
Coat: Steve Madden

Counting Down the Minutes

Can't wait to get on the plane tomorrow!! All orders received from now until next Tuesday, the 18th will be promptly shipped out on Wednesday the 19th. Thank you and look forward to many sunny posts!!

Sunshine State

Well, it's official, one week from today I will be on a plane heading down to the sunny state of Florida to visit my sister. I am so excited! Warm weather, the beach, and maybe most importantly, warm weather style collage posts! I can't wait to break out all my summer frocks, short shorts (without leggings), tank tops, and vintage sunglasses. It will be so much fun to play dress up again without having to worry about freezing to death upon walking out the front door.

Bergdorf's

I recently got my hands on the Resort/Holiday 2007 (better late than never) Bergdorf Goodman Magazine. It's the one that they send all their wealthy clients but you can pick them up at the store too. I love Bergdorf's. I know it's obscenely expensive and a bit snoody at times, but whenever I was there doing market research projects for school or just looking around, everyone that worked there was helpful and accommodating. Except when I had to return about $10,000 worth of clothing for work and they weren't too psyched about that, understandably. Of course the clothing that they carry is phenomenal, that can go without being said. Anyways, I love this photo shoot. It's got a great vintage feel, the model is beautiful, and her makeup is flawless. Note: of course they have to make the magazine about one inch bigger than my scanner so the photos are cropped a little.



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Neet Magazine!

Hello all! My favorite online mag, Neet Magazine, just came out with a new issue. Check out the great photo editorials and the amazing illustrations by Lucy Claydon. Fidgetfinds has an ad in there too! Click here.

Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor

Well it's the middle of winter and I don't have cable, so yes I have been watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Monday nights and it's kinda pretty good. I had never seen the original Terminator (I was a year old when it came out in 1984), so we netflixed it and watched it last night. Totally cheesy, totally 80's, and the visual effects where horrendous. However, Linda Hamilton was great. Here's a clip of the last scene when she's taking off to Central America in her red jeep, pregnant with her son, the saviour of mankind. Love the shades, bandana around her head, and jumper with tee.

Terminator Clip.
(the video isn't embedded with html, so I have to give a link)

Life of Ediot

My site and blog were featured on this really great blog, Life of Ediot, run by this darling girl in Sweden. You should definitely check it out, here



http://hanmedhatten.blogspot.com/

Style Collage

I had such a fun night last night and I'm sure part of it was wearing out this amazing dress that I was lucky to find thrifting the other day. I bought it thinking that it wouldn't fit me, but to my pleasant surprise it fit perfectly!! I think that I might have to wear the seashell belt all the time now too.




Cardigan: TJ Maxx
Dress: Thrifted
Belt: Thrifted
Boots: Ebay
Earrings: junk jewelry store on Broadway and 31st in NYC

Old Nylons

In an effort to have less stuff, I have been going through the boxes and boxes of old magazines that I have; tearing out sheets that I find inspiring and throwing the rest of them in the recycling bin. Some of the fashion from the late nineties early 2000's is so horrendous but some is just as influential and exciting now as it was then. The below photos are from Nylon about 1997 to 2001.

Fashion is Fickle (but maybe it's just me)

Some seasons it seems as though I love every look that every designer puts out, even from designers who I rarely ever like. Call it the mood, theme, feeling or whatever else of the season. Other times I find it hard pressed to even find one look that remotely interests me. I'm sorry to say that by what I've seen so far, Fall 2008 belongs to the latter category. Maybe it's just because it's cold and I want to see bright summer frocks, but I'm not very impressed. Looking through show after show on style.com, I only found a few things to post here that I thought showed fashion going in a good direction. Hopefully the best is yet to come.




Top: Monique Lhuillier / Middle:Philosophy, Ports 1961 / Bottom: Karen Walker, Jovovich-Hawk