- And Last Night. Oh, oh, oh, we could not recommend this movie more highly. We saw it like a week before the millennial New Year’s and it made our head explode.
Anyway. That was a digression. We are hear to talk about Lululemon (born in Vancouver, and appropriately Canadian), even if it’s practically impossible to get their stuff online. (Why do they make it so hard? It must be some customs thing. We mean, we have no idea. Because it makes no sense to us.)
This made us laugh, as we were scouring around for an online vendor that’s not eBay. From Yahoo! Answers:
Question: Why do lululemon pants make girls’ behinds look so good?
Answer: I think its cause the girls who wear lululemon pants work out alot so their bums are developed
Also, from Urban Dictionary:
1. lululemming: (noun) A person who is the unfortunate victim of Lululemon.
But we are sure we can say, with confidence, that this picture of Keira Knightley from Atonement (in theaters in the US in December or something completely ridiculously far from now) has totally set off a run on swim caps. Er, at least the Guardian says so. We completely believe it. Because we have never before wanted a swimming costume, as it were, and now we totally do. And red nails.
It kind of reminds us of last week’s knitwear insanity at Louise Goldin:
Ooh, our favorite shipping-to-the-US French shopping place is offering 10% off anything this week. (If we are translating correctly.) Wheee! Etc. We love these jeans. We also quite like that top, but this is about the bottoms. They are as close to the treggings—trousers+leggings—as we’ve seen. We’re just thinking of the discount as the buffer against that fucking ridiculous US dollar, as far as its conversion to the Euro is concerned.
BA&SH trousers, were $176, now about $160 with discount code CODE-REDU-PREM-ANNI
We recently received an email from an old BS friend; she wanted to share with us an excellent charity event that BRIDES magazine is doing. Now, before you look away in horror at wedding talk here, let’s remember that many of us, at some point, may get married. Rather than wonder why BRIDES is always in all caps, or where you can find a dress that doesn’t make you look like a lumpy mermaid ensconced in white satin (this happened to us. Not pleasant), why not go to a wedding dress charity event?
The Something Pink Gown Sale actually seems kind of awesome. Had we not already used up our wedding card, we would totally go to this. First off, it supports an excellent, excellent cause (helping people with breast cancer, as well as breast cancer education and research). Secondly, there are goodie bags. We’re suckers for those. Third, having an objective person (in this case, a BRIDES editor) help you find a dress is seriously invaluable. Like this is worth the price of admission alone. The $200 price tag seems steep, but for two people, drinks, objective advice and goodie bags – it’s not a bad deal. This is something they’re calling the VIP event and takes place on Oct 4. Follow the link for more info.
If you can’t swing the $200, you can go to the general sale on Oct 5 and 6; the best parts about these dates are it’s only $20 – and they’re refreshing the inventory throughout the days. So if you don’t make it to the evening event, you can probably still find something awesome.
If you’re like us, and have played your wedding card, you can also donate your dress to be re-sold. BRIDES is matching up with Good Morning America to do it on air – while we can’t be in NYC at 7:30am next week (if you can, you can donate it while the show is taping, we believe) – we are going to send it here:
Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation 12708 SE Stephens Street Portland, OR 97233
but there is seriously a ton of info on the site. We love doing good deeds.
So everyone knows that Frye makes excellent boots. We had a pair of Frye boots once. The harness/motorcycle kind in black. We were working at a fancy shoe store, and we bought those for some insane discounted price. We wore them once, and then lost them. This was approximately a hundred years ago. We have no idea where they may have gone, but we like to think our 3.5 legged cat (he was born like that) has borrowed them and is clomping around the house like a pirate when no one is home.
Ever since then, we’ve always really liked Frye. We like the classic Campus boots, and the new stuff they’ve come out with has been awesome. We don’t love a $400 price tag, but maybe someday. Boots are what they do best, but when we were walking through Nordstrom today, we were genuinely impressed and surprised to pick up the shoes shown above to see they’re made by Frye. So, in honor of them, our favorite non-boot styles from Frye!
Holy freaking cow, do we love these t-straps. They look like dancing shoes! T-straps! And glittery without being TOO glittery or sparkly. We love these shoes and we would wear them ALL the time, like with jeans and dresses and skirts and possibly even sweat pants. Love love love.
Recently, we saw a girl wearing blue flats with her regular clothes (jeans, shirt, possibly a hoodie?) and we were blown away by how something so simple could be so striking. We’ve been looking for a pair that isn’t from 1982, plastic-y, or stripper-y. These are pretty perfect. The styling is a LITTLE Euro for us, but we like them overall.
Frye also has a slew of really nice looking bags and satchels – but the prices are far higher than we’re used to seeing. We will stand by Frye generally having excellent quality, though. We’ll have to think about those.
Preloved! We love Preloved. One of our favorite tops is from Preloved. It’s strapless—does that make it a tube top? er, probably—and it’s so tight we actually sort of stopped wearing it, because wriggling in and out of it was too stressful. Not Preloved’s fault, though, that we were our clothes too tight.
Preloved doesn’t have much of a web store—we’re guessing because most pieces are one-offs—so we content ourselves with a few photos from their gallery.
This is all we can find of Preloved for sale online.
I know you just talked about how much you hate oxford-y pumps. These L.A.M.B.s are described as oxford pumps. Please advise. I don’t want to buy into some trend I’m going to hate by Halloween.
XO
DM
Well. Here we are. We are going to say: The sort of oxford pumps that make our hair stand on end—that are like nails on chalkboards—are the lace-up sort. These are like almost Mary Janes to us, with a double-strap, and even though they’re a bit orthopaedic-y, we bet they’re the sort of shoes we’d see in the store and be like, “Hein!” and then see them in someone’s cute outfit and be like, “Ooh, we want those.” So, aggravating.
Man, this Agyness person is freaking everywhere. And now with brown hair! Anyway: This is Burberry’s spring show, and we thought we’d pull this image because it’s like basically what we talked about yesterday, with all the belts, just in a lighter, springtime-appropriate way. We feel like it’s all Project Runway and Christopher Bailey’s all like, See what a consistent point of view I have? But in Milan, and he’s already famous.
We recently broke our favorite watch. It wasn’t so much that we were in love with it – just that we had it for approximately a hundred years. It would always faithfully tell time, it never stopped, it held up to our abuse. Even when we would go shopping for a new one, or see nice ones in magazines, we just couldn’t do it.
Until one fateful morning. We were doing wind sprints (horrid things that they are) and POP. CLUNK. It was not Batman, or a Roy Lichtenstein painting come to life. It was our beloved watch, tumbling to the ground, band broken. We picked it up and continued running. It made this clunk-clunk-clunk sound while it hid in our kangaroo pocket. We were so sad that not only was it 7am and we were sweaty, but that our watch had finally bit it.
So! Never one to shy away from a reason to spend money, we spent the next day trying to find a watch. We once worked in a store that sold only watches, so we know a bit more than we’d like to admit. We wear a watch every day, and we don’t believe in changing out our watches to match our outfits. We have one friend who does this, but he also matches his underwear to his socks to his shirt. We find it all a bit weird. So for us, a watch has to be simple, understated, relatively classic, and functional! It is probably the most conservative thing we wear, and we understand that.
Ok, honestly, we just got incredibly sidetracked because the ball-bouncer on the other side of the cubby just had to DISCUSS how to spell Oregon. Our brain just blew up.
Anyway. Simplicity. Function. Two key things in a watch. That’s why we were so, so, so excited when we found the Swiss Army Officer’s Watch discounted on Amazon. It’s normally $295, and never goes on sale. We were REALLY hesitant to buy it at such a cheap price, but once we realized it’s discontinued, we felt better about it. This is pretty much the watch we’ve always drooled over but could never justify buying.
We don’t want to say ‘deal of a lifetime’ because really, it’s a watch. But if you need one – and you like this - I’ve never seen it at this price before and probably won’t again.
There’s a weird momma-bear, baby-bear thing to this photo, no? We’re still totally into the bags. From m0851, who are based in Montreal, and thus perfect for day 3 of our celebration of all things Canadian.
