We just think these are lovely. What an odd color. But still lovely. We always end up buying black shoes in various categories first, but we have been thinking it might be nice to branch out a bit. To lilac. Etc.
Above: Zadig et Voltaire Sicilia sandals, were $289, now $173
We’ve only ever seen these at Loom, our neighborhood go-to gift emporium, and now we have found them online. That shine is really quite nice in real life, and they are currently leading the pack in our whole anti-It Bag thing.
Above: This is so suitable for the office-y type environment, and is three inches thick, so just right for all the magazines we will be collecting. Tano Depeche bag, $175
And we also like this one. There’s like a class of bags these belong to. Reasonable bags. Right. Tano bucket bag, $179
Because sometimes you want examples for what to wear when you’re going to roll around in mud for three days straight. And okay Kate Moss’s leather pants are grosssss. In our opinion. Even if she is all fashion icon or whatever.
We’re willing to bet she’s wearing peep-toe shoes. This makes us want to go buy a belt. Yay, Lily Allen!
Beth Ditto. We see this and think: ‘This is why we need eye primer, because our turquoise eye shadow never, ever stays like that!’ And, er, blue metallic-plastic dresses. And we totally own that bra.
Very little of this is flattering to anyone involved.
Bangs + black = now you are in a rock band! We have some hipster friends who will be using this as a dressing guide.
We have been seeing this outfit at art school a lot lately.
Overshorts. We’re still not fans.
We have been thinking lately of how much we like Julian Opie. You may remember him from the Blur portraits:
We know not everyone likes him, but we do.
We cannot, however, believe there is a Julian Opie Swatch. And yet it is so.
Anyway: see his site for super-fun screensavers and etc!
The dress on the woman in the illustration at top looks like Missoni to us. Which is … not the point, maybe, but still makes us think of shopping.
Missoni crochet bikini, $345
Honestly we love Le Train Bleu more and more every day, not least for their little mini-portfolio of their ($$$) things with (-$) things from Forever 21. Oh, Le Train Bleu! We love you. This is so the only way to be, with the mixing and the … er, not matching. Actually, just the mixing. Hurrah!
We are so getting a pair of high-waisted jeans, by the way.
Above: Lips jeans, $198, and Forever 21 blouse, $17.90, which we can’t find online but would be quite happy to swap with this heart blouse, $17.80
Our apartment is so often just a tiny bit sad—possibly because it misses us, since we are never there, or, you know, not at all, since it is essentially inanimate. Or maybe because it has no furniture, except for a drafting table we bought at a garage sale when we were 15 (and we almost puked at the idea of spending $25) and a farmhouse table (and also almost puked over.) Also, a bed, and now, that $12.99 IKEA table that everyone has. And it will stay that way, until we stop doing things like driving to Mongolia instead of living a normal life, in a normal apartment, with things like sofas. (Oh, dare to dream.) But that is why we love Domino so very, very much: because someday we will be able to buy things like lamps and wallpaper and magazine racks. Until then, we will continue to cut up our Dominos and store our clippings in a little blue binder, and dream about painting our walls the way some people dream about babies.
Anyway! We also totally love the website. Above, they discuss vases and things.
In today’s Reader Mailbag:
Dear BS:
On the rare days when it is still cool enough to wear jeans, I keep seeing people wearing high-waisted denim. This trend sort of freaks me out. What’s your position on it?
M.K.
Ooh, we are resolutely pro. First of all, we believe it is one of those things that look bad on basically everyone but model-types, so that—we think the word we want here is “perversely”—perversely, no one has high expectations of how you should look in them—even if you look sort of a size bigger than usual, everyone who sees you is like, “I bet in reality that person is actually one size smaller.” (Er, not that we recommend that anyone give a shit about any of this.)
Really, what we are trying to say is this: They look bad on loads and loads of people. But then, doughnuts are bad for us, and we had two today. (Thank you lovely Dunkin Donuts man, for giving us the two-for-one special!) And we love doughnuts! And we believe, and this is a central plank in our platform, that you should do \ eat what you love, and that when you do so, with enthusiasm, there’s this sort of magical thing that makes even awkward looking jeans look fantastic.
Goobledygook! But we stand by it. In short: We will be buying a pair of the 18th Amendments, below, or the Sevens, above.
That is kind of a silly picture.
And then in shorts. We feel like we could almost wear these to a work-ish function. Dittos, $132
Er, maybe exciting goes to far, but we quite like all of them, and they are at least new to us. Because everything from yesstyle.com is from Asia, and we have never been there. Ergo, newness. (Again, at least to us.) And these are specifically all Japanese brands, just because we are so excited about Rootote and … Asia, being a continent and all, is quite big, and much too big to just be like ‘blerg, bags from Asia.’ Er, you know what we mean. Summer malaise, we’re thinking.
Anyway: We like basically everything Rootote has ever made, but this is one of our favorites. All $15 tote bags should be so … rainbow-y. Rootote tote, $15
Really, we just like this because it’s like … not another bird print, we’re thinking. Buden Akindo bag, $22
Again. Just slightly not-everything-else-we’ve-seen. Aya Ori bag, $25
This was our favorite vendor from the Renegade Craft Fair: the Red Prairie Press, and their posters. They are like those posters from the ’60s advertising Woodstock or whatever, but before they are famous. We love the one above, which is sadly sold out. But we also quite like the one below. And so cheap!
And of course we loooove Ted Leo. TL hand=printed poster, $10
Today’s discount! Courtesy of Al Amirah handbags and shoes. We are most enamoured of the bags—like the Monique, above, $245—but we’ve been offered a lovely 20% discount on the shoes available via Amazon. Yay, discounts!
