This is proof that knitted bags are just weird. Also like yesterday. This one costs like three times as much as any of them. It’s a sweater! It’s a handbag! It’s a sweater! It’s a handbag! Better if you saw Chinatown, and even better if you missed it when we made the same joke last week. Most importantly: how does this not get filthy in fifteen minutes?
Blumarine wool bowling bag, $1160
From the lovely Blackbird, and if you haven’t checked out her equally lovely blog we truly recommend it.
Help. I’m just hoping against hope that you will make an attempt to talk me out of this.
First: We will say that we’ve traveled from here to another continent with our stuff in a plastic Safeway bag, so: whatever. Travel bags are, as far as we are able to ascertain, a …. well, we don’t want to use the word “luxury,” because we always think of things like baby-blue mink furs as a luxury, in the sense that we only think of things we would actually not want to buy as luxuries. It’s like … a nice thing that you don’t need. Don’t need it! That’s what we keep trying to tell ourselves. We fail at that, too.
And for this specifically: We have to say. We would not spend almost $300 on it. The handles look a little off. We know this from making a horrible weekend bag mistake: Handles are everything. We would be conflicted. We are sure the leather is lovely. But we would say no.
And then, of course, we would turn around and spend even more. Above: Anthropologie’s Sky’s the Limit bag, $298
That said, they are quite nice, and less prone to embarrassing, inconvenient holes than grocery bags. We are guessing that part of the hesitation is about the price. We don’t like paying more for anything than, say, $15. Unfortunately, this Orla Kiely bag misses the mark by about $470. Making it $485. Tsss. This picture is weird, but the colors are lovely.
This is described as a hobo bag. Have you heard about John Hodgman’s many, many names for hoboes? Oh, they’re amazing. Hobo weekend bag, $305
This is way cuter in real life than it is here. Jocasi Weekender, about $500
We’re not saying $428 is cheap, but knowing this is Marc by Marc Jacobs and also that it is leather, we would have guessed it’d be quite a bit more. Not sure how much of a victory that’s supposed to be. MXMJ tote, $428
This is, we would like to say, our weekend bag of choice. And it substantially less than $428. American Apparel gym bag, $17
Again, we open this to the floor.
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to go along with our Reader Question. (Below.) We think this is beautiful packaging. (Sorry it’s fuzzy.) Does anyone else agree?
Apologies for the earlier resizing negligence.
We love smoked gouda cheese so much that we, seriously and truly, just discovered a few slices, still in the plastic wrap, we’d bought from Whole Foods two days ago and bizarrely forget in our handbag (don’t ask), and still we say to ourselves: This might be okay to eat.
We didn’t eat it. We love this picture of this cow. It is from the Winchester Cheese Company, a top gouda supplier. We recommend them for all your cheese-centric needs.
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We would like to add that we also found some of those sour cherry gummy candies in the handbag as well.
We ate those. And they were delicious.
We are going to make this post ever-so-slightly less random by saying that the handbag in question was the beautiful Thursday bag from La Voleuse, possibly one of our favorites ever. This one is in black velvet. Ours is blue. (Oh, we love it.) La Voleuse black velvet bag [lacking cheese, candy, etc.], $220
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Are these ugly?
We open it to the floor. Until we can get the poll thing going, we leave it to the comments.
Pagliei Collection large cozy (on left), $285
We are realizing it is just that time of year: more than cider, more than Halloween, more than apple-picking (hello, Katie!) it is the blessed time of year when all of the fall things go on sale. Monday we discussed Le Train Bleu. Today we discuss net-a-porter. This sale is better than the former one for one crucial reason: It is only just about to start, today. We came in rather late to the Le Train Bleu one, and ended up scowling in a plastic-surgery-suggestive way because so many of the things we wanted most, and there were so many of these things, had already sold out. This is our chance to start over. This is our brand-new baby, whom we won’t screw up like the last one.
Ooh, baby jokes. Those are really good at dinner parties. To be honest, we sort of gasped a little when we saw this bag was going on sale, which is pretty much exactly why we, at least at this point in our lives, really should not be in a position of responsibility over anything, including a baby. Or even with a plant. Mulberry Elgin tote, was $995, now $497.50
IMPORTANT NOTE: The sale doesn’t start til 9 a.m. This is so we can get in early.
We usually shy away from the random explosions of color but these seems to have been put together in quite a lovely way, we’re thinking. It is so time to pull out the thesaurus on “lovely,” we’re also thinking. This could easily be our holiday dress of choice, particularly in that it looks completely winter-impractical but also not summery. Chiffon! Lauren Moffat strapless dress, was $445, now $222.50
Chloe Paddington! Erm, we want this one, too. We are feeling very, Please, sir, can we have some more? about all of this. Greedy, greedy, greedy, we know. Chloe Paddington, was $1790, now $895
We featured this previously, so now we must announce that it is currently 50% off. This is either excellent or highly aggravating news. We can see both sides here. Nieves Lavi bird print dress, was $360, now $180
Gray skinny jeans. Like toothpaste and cookies in our list of necessities. By the way, we just want to mention here, since we had recommended it earlier, we were brushing our teeth, as normal, with our much beloved Arm & Hammer toothpaste, when we accidentally swallowed a little bit—which turned out to be so disgusting we spit our entire mouthful of toothpaste on to our bathroom mirror. That’s the extra power of Arm & Hammer, we are thinking. Er, back to gray jeans. Sass & Bide stovepipe jeans, were $198, now $99
Ooh, we wore exactly this outfit last night. Except with a top, which, obviously, was a key element. Gray jeans + black heels = TLF, as far as we are concerned. And gray is one of those denim colors we would never wear except in their skinniest incarnation … so we’re saying, enjoy it while it lasts.
Habitual gray skinny jeans, were $210, now $147
While we deal with the technical gremlins that seem to have devoured this morning’s post—er, more likely the result of drinking so much wine at one point we just put our head on the table and had a little nap, which is news we are sure our mother will be delighted to hear—we realized it has been far too long since we have featured any lovely art things on this site. That is terribly wrong, so we offer this picture, and book, from Sam Taylor-Wood. We are really thoroughly heterosexual, but we’d give it all up for Sam Taylor-Wood. Not really, but in any case, we’re sure our mom is delighted to read that as well.
We would like to add that this book includes her “Crying Men” series, which itself includes Ryan Gosling, who, we must say, makes our little heart go pitter-patter.
It took us like three days to realize the shadow of the chair is missing.
We were innocently walking to the store in our shorts and t-shirt this morning, when this guy in a car pulled over and said: “Are those American Apparel shorts?” Usually we are annoyed when people we do not know try to speak to us, but we found this question so unexpected that we said yes, indeed, they were. Then he leaned out his window and handed us his business card. “It kind of smells like chronic.” Honestly. Honestly honestly honestly we did not know people used that word non-ironically. But that’s great. That made our day.
We have been in one of those moods where all you end up doing is walking around with your headphones and, pretending that you are starring in your own little movie about yourself. Or whatever. You know what we mean. And so we are thinking: mix! Sharing music, ooh, as lovely as sharing candy, and fewer dental ramifications.
On repeat at Bunnyshop HQ:
“On the Radio” by Regina Spektor. Oh, we are obsessed with this song.
“Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” by Joan Jett
“Can’t Get It Right Today” by Joe Purdy. We find ourselves disturbingly susceptible to Grey’s Anatomy song-selection powers.
“Hotel Room” by Regina Spektor. We are equally obsessed with this song. We are trying to keep all the Regina Spektor apart so it doesn’t like as obsessive as it actually is.
Philip Glass’s Metamorphosis, because we are even more obsessed with Battlestar Galactica
This will be even better when we can link to iTunes. We’re working on it.
