Empty, cracked-out eyes—pass. Lovely psycho braids, hurrah! There were so many crazy braids at this show, it is our everlasting sorrow that we can’t find more images of them.
08.21.2008
Best quote from the Times’ story on the potential turnaround:
“I just about died when I went in the store,” said Jennifer Black,
the president of Jennifer Black & Associates, a research company
focused on the apparel industry. “I don’t know how traffic’s been, but
from an aesthetic perspective, I think it looks great. For me to be
taken aback is kind of a big thing.”
The chicken-counting has not yet commenced, but we’re hopeful.
08.20.2008
We feel like some readers may be all WTF about these, but we love them. Click here for the sale item of the day.
08.20.2008
Yesterday we were talking with Dear Friend about jeans, and she showed us a pair she was most interested in. They were worn, with holes and such, the cut was cute, but our eyes nearly fell out of our head when we saw the price tag. They were $240 for a pair of jeans with holes. We couldn’t believe it, and promptly told Dear Friend that we would fight her if she spent that much money on a pair of jeans with holes. We then got into a discussion about pricey jeans and we told her about our recent find.
Delia’s jeans.
We know we’ve posted about them before, and we generally try to stay away from teeny stores. BUT. In this day and age, with our economy as it is, and our money managing skills still not where they need to be. We will always need new jeans, and we got an email from Delia’s today – jeans and pants are buy one, get one half off, and get a $10 coupon for trying a pair on. We figured out the math:
1. Try on 1 pair of jeans
+
2. Buy 2 pair, with an average $45
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$57.50 ($45 + $22.50 – $10)
Two. Pairs. Of. Jeans. For $57.50!
Not a bad deal, and we’ll be heading over to Delia’s this afternoon to see what we can find. We don’t claim these are the best jeans ever, but we’ve been pretty happy with them (and the minor sting on our credit card).
-LB
08.19.2008
So this Reader Mail dovetailed amazingly with our experience last night:
Dear BS:
I know summer’s not quite over, but it’s on the way out, and I am so sad to think that my lovely light tan is about to evaporate. (I know, I know, but I can’t help it.) I think this year I’m ready to get into the fake stuff for the fall, but I don’t know where to start. Could you advise?
Love, S.
Now here is our story: We were walking through the train station last night—when we looking at the ground, which we’ve realized is something we’re always doing, when we saw these legs in orange tights. And we were like, that’s so weird, (a) that she’s wearing tights in August, and (b) that they’re that color! So we looked more closely and realized they were actually orange skin! And her whole body and face were orange as well! It was sort of a nightmare! And we said to ourselves, that is why we do not do the fake-tan.
She was remarkably well put together in all other respects: She had a really cute haircut with these choppy bangs, and a nice outfit. That was part of the dissonance, that she couldn’t see that she was orange—or maybe it was some horrible accident with orange food coloring, we have no idea and maybe that makes just as much sense. We have this Clinique face self-tanner that we’ve been carrying around with us all summer, and we swear we’re going to make a little video of us applying it. (Maybe so we can sue Clinique if it all goes orange.) But we’re wondering, as S. is: Who has had particularly good experience with self-tanner in the past? Or who is on our team, more or less, and is too freaked out to do it?
Above: Bliss’s A Tan for All Seasons, $36
08.18.2008
Pursuant to our question last week (Could these actually be Mary-Kate Olsen’s real legs?:
M. very helpfully supplied us with this presumably non-Photoshopped look at the munchkin’s—perfectly normal and knee-like!—knees. Why Photoshop the knees! They were perfectly fine to begin with! We are once again disturbed by the air-brushing. Honestly, we support a moratorium. It’s just not good for any of us—man, woman, or child.
08.18.2008
RueLaLa has a Kate Spade sample sale coming up this morning at 11am EST. If you want in, post your email address in the comment section, or email it to us here and we’ll send an invite your way. We’ll do our best to accommodate everyone! James Perse sale later this week, Fendi next week along with Ferragamo!
-LB
In today’s Reader Mail:
Dear BS:
I’m wondering if you have any regular purchases that you know cost too much money—or I guess another way of saying it is, What do you really love that’s worth the extra cash? Like, I’m devoted to Bumble and Bumble’s Seaweed Conditioner, even if it’s $42 for a (giant) bottle. I guess I’m looking for new obsessions for my fall shopping list…
Love, N.
Oh! We have one of these, and it is, as well, conditioner, but it’s Kiehl’s Creme with Silk Groom. It’s $18 for 4 oz. (that’s more than twice as much as the B&B, per ounce!) but we swear, a tiny little bottle will last us six months—we’ve been too pained to lay out the cash since running out a couple weeks ago, and it is driving us insane, because we’re already halfway through a bottle of Pantene. Plus it sucks, at least for our hair. (Fine, wavy hair: there is no future for you without Kiehl’s! Or some other product we haven’t thought of!)
In other Kiehl’s news—the new Derek Lam \ Kiehl’s collaboration ("Derek Lam for Kiehl’s Travel Kit") is now online—we like both labels, but $225? For pre-selected items? Eh. If we owed a boss an extremely nice present, maybe (and even now, we are thinking, without success, of an occasion when we’ve wanted to give a boss a $200+ present we paid for with our own money)—and that is an extreme maybe.
In any case: Who else can suggest a much-beloved splurge?
08.15.2008
We are so, so ready for our weekend. We’re not going anywhere, but still. (except maybe to a dog event. Seriously. We’d rather go to Hawaii). Here are our parting thoughts for this week:
-Questionable attire aside, the Olympics continue on. We’re looking most forward to table tennis. Seriously.
-American Apparel has our fave early Fall look, and surprisingly enough, our little story got picked up and tossed around the interweb for a day or two. We had our highest traffic day this season! Woo!
-We question the Photoshop factor of an Olsen twin’s knees (and we’re only two shades green with envy)
-Barney’s has an amazing sale online, and we believe the Barney’s Warehouse sale has started! Hop to it!
-Sample sales, sample sales, sample sales. We love you.
Quiet week at BS HQ – happy weekends to everyone!
-LB
08.15.2008
We understand that this Chanel nail polish is limited edition and everything, but $50? And that’s on eBay? It’s weird—we think it looks totally gorge in the bottle, with the nice black top, but we’ve seen it on actual human hands and to us, anyway, it looks like a whole lot of yellow—and not even the lovely lemon-y yellow we still want from Rescue Beauty Lounge:
Fall! We are preparing to be fleeced, literally and metaphorically.
Rescue Beauty Lounge Square Pants, $18 and Chanel Facettes d’Or on eBay (buy it now), $49.99
