We just wanted to remind everyone that November is Jocasi discount month! This week, our featured bag, more or less, is the A-Line Dagger bag’s small version. Lovely! And temporarily 10% off!

So, that’s: the Dagger bag, formerly about $170, with discount code “bunnyshop”, about $153

We also have a belt of the week. We love belts, except when they are all shift-y on how tight it’s getting. Sigh. Pringles! Argh. Teardrop hip belt, was about $120, with discount, about $108

Belts! We have been talking about belts practically non-stop these days, and that is because they are, to our view, utterly ubiquitous. Lately we have been doing this thing where we’ll say to ourselves something like, “Belts outside the coat? And how is this done?” and then going and finding photographic evidence of it actually being done. As above, at Burberry Prorsum. We are thinking that all we need to do this is (a) a belt and (b) a nice coat. Well, we’re waiting for (b). But: belts!

Here’s the original version. Burberry Prorsum quilted belt, $275

We don’t know. It just seems so freaking random to have a belt around your coat. Doesn’t that look a bit random? We’ll, you know, play along. But we maintain that it’s random.

Marc by Marc Jacobs webbing belt, $98

Shiny things! Occasionally so much nicer than not-shiny things. We are pretty sure that our nightmare is, like, seeing a shiny penny on the ground, trying to pick it up, and then falling prey to one of those pranks where some moron yanks the penny, and then we chase after it, so we look like coin-addicted losers. This is maybe not a common nightmare. But it is ours.

Anyway! Shiny belts. More correctly referred to, in this case, as patent belts. Above: isn’t that quite a bit of “graphic impact,” as they say, for $46? We are not entirely sure about the proportions in the rest of this look, but we do, as we say, like shiny belts. Hanii Y patent belt, $46

And then this one is winning our shine-to-dollar contest, even if it is not quite as chic. Forever 21 patent belt, $8.80

This is quite a bit more but we’re thinking this—wear the nice dress and the $9 belt; wear the nice belt and the $9 dress. Or wear the $9 belt and the $9 dress. Realistically, that is probably the direction we’re going, but we’ll keep hoping for the, er, $300 belt, too. Elegantly Waisted patent leather cummerbund belt, $275

This is a totally nice-and-normal belt that might, actually, just a little too nice and normal. The price, however, is delightfully so. Aldo patent belt, $30

And then, finally. With the right nipped-in, retro-sort-of dress, we’d be all over this. We like how it’s really not asking that much of us. We’re not wild about it, but it could do wonders for the sad, lonely, beltless dress. Orciani patent leather belt, was $215.71, now $129.42

We are just wondering: Couldn’t Oprah organize the rebuilding of New Orleans? Could someone ask her about this? All we know is that if someone destroyed Brooklyn, and the president didn’t do very much about it, we think we would ask Oprah. (We will say here that we recently had a very disturbing conversation with an actual South African about the efficacy of the Oprah school there, but that we are resolutely living within our pro-Oprah bubble.) Or Mayor Bloomberg. Etc.

Anyway: We are so anti the anniversary notice, especially with something like this, because it is always like: So sorry, but is this not a problem every day of the year, in addition to this one? We are falling into our own trap today, and we are sorry for it, but we think we are going to take the entire BS enterprise south this fall and revisit this at a less obvious time. In the meantime, though, we are where we are, and below, some questions to, and some answers from, one of our very favorite NOLA designers: Heather Elizabeth of Heather Elizabeth Designs.

Above: Rebuild NOLA belt, $90

BS: What can every American do to assist in the rebuilding of New Orleans?

HE: They can come down to volunteer. They can go here to find out how to volunteer in our area and see what kind of services are needed. Additionally, they can support New Orleans businesses online. Since we have lost much our tourism, it is crucial that we get outside support. You can go here for a listing of online retail places to shop. I encourage everyone to shop New Orleans for the holidays.

New Orleans Watermeter belt, $90

BS: What do you love most about New Orleans, pre-Katrina or post?

HE: I love my city because of the people. The people are the kindest and warmest you would ever want to meet. Some are taken aback by the warmth of my people, but being friendly to strangers is second nature to us. Next I would have to say I love the food and the music. Our food is known the world over and I can’t find it anywhere except in New Orleans! Our brass band music is so energizing and I am so grateful that I can go and listen to these bands anytime New Orleans. Laissez Le Bon Temps Rouler!

Faux pearl charm bracelet, $59.95

Tangerine: The whole site’s 35% off. That is the kind of discount we can live with. We’ve already discussed the really-very-big selection of CYDWOQ belts, which is definitely our favorite thing there, but it might also be worthwhile for basic tank tops (like above, Splendid’s shadow-stripe cami, was $42, now $21)

It drives us crazy when stores put reasonably nice pieces of clothing on ugly Barbie-type plastic mannequins, but … 35% off is quite a bit. And in any case, here’s another CYDWOQ belt—though! Going fast!

CYDWOQ hammered gold buckle, was $96, now $39

We love CYDWOQ belts, particularly when they are like 1/3rd of the price they usually try to charge.

CYDWOG teardrop buckle belt, was $118, now $39

Last fall we bought a $200 belt marked down to $49 at Anthropologie, and we were even thinking that $49 is at the upper limit of our belt-budget, but that belt has solved so many problems (including what to do with a shapeless $15 dress from Oasis) that it may be one of our very favorite accessories ever. Here: shapeless dress rescued by amazing belt. (The dress above, btw, is Paul & Joe, but sold out everywhere we’ve looked.)

We were thinking maybe this Elegantly Waisted was related to this Elegantly Waisted, but it is not.

Very sadly no longer available in the brown but available in the black: Elegantly Waisted belt, $286

We are also sort of into the double-ring belt ($355) if not quite as much.

Anthropologie belts: some of our favorite. Too expensive. We are still working our head around the idea of a belt that costs more than $100. There are so many other things that could be bought with $100. But then we bought a belt that was once $179, and we got so many belt-compliments, something we had never previously known existed, we thought: We are totally investing in nice belts from now on. We are not sure if this is true. If it is, we would certainly spend our money on this one, because it is red, which means it’ll go with basically everything, except green, at least for the next six weeks.

“The Perfect Waistbelt,” $128

Suze Orman, we are thinking, and we think about this quite a bit, would not approve.

Honestly, if we had more than $13 in our checking account—er, if we had more than approximately $130 in our checking account—we would blow it all in the Jocasi summer sale. We hesitate to even mention it, because at some point in the future we hope to have more than $13, and all we can do is hope and pray a few sale bags will be left at that point. Of course, it’ll probably be 2008, so really, not much to seriously worry about.

This one may very well be our favorite. Java bag, $140

This is so similar to the Jovovich-Hawk belt we were just talking about but $100 cheaper. Gatecrasher belt, about $50

We have no idea how big this bag is, because we have only a vague idea of how long 37 centimeters is, but we mostly like it and we’d be pretty happy to wear it with the red polka-dot dress and black leggings as here. Visage bag, about $95

Note this is actually only available in black. Santana bag, about $130

We actually saw a girl here wearing this belt, with the buckles turned to the back, over a very simple tunic-y top and jeans. It looked pretty fabulous. As we were typing that last word, we were like, “Did it look fab? Fabu? Or just fabulous?” Argh. Triple Exile waisted belt, about $50

And this one is really our favorite. We are just greedily hoarding it like we do everything we want but cannot have. Lombok bag, about $130

On Wednesday night, we washed our hair (not that that is so unusual, but stay with us) so that we would not need to wash and then blow dry it before a meeting Thursday afternoon with someone who deserved to see our hair in a relatively orderly state. And all day, as we watched our little dreams wither and die, we said to ourselves, “At least our hair is clean and orderly, because otherwise, this would be the shittiest day ever.” And then, as we killed ten minutes before the meeting at a Sephora, we were once again lured to the Frederic Fekkai section, like a ship to the sirens. Sirens with rocks. The rocks, in this case, being his Glossing Cream. And because we knew that this Glossing Cream could render even the cleanest, sleekest hair an oil-laden wildlife trap, we applied the smallest, smallest dab of it to our bangs, in an effort to stop them standing at 45 degree angles to our forehead. We did. And we looked in the mirror and saw the same duck-killing oil trap the Glossing Cream always makes of our hair. Ugh, Frederic Fekkai: You beat us this time. We will not let you do it again!

Thank God, thank God, thank God, the evil month of March is ending. Julius Caesar was right about that shit.

Moving on: It’s Bunnyshop Bazaar Friday! We’re totally into these Shi Studio brocade belts. If this week hadn’t been an awful, miserable, Frederic Fekkai-influenced disaster, we would have sent over some nice little questions to the designers or something, but to be honest, we were wishing we could drink ourselves into forgetful oblivion versus 1/2 a glass of wine-induced slumber. We’re not quoting from the press release. Moving on. Shi Studio belts with brocade belts, about $100

Er, did we mention they’re custom? Like, you choose the shape, fabric, belt color, etc? No. We didn’t. Argh.

Bunnyshop Bazaar runs every Friday, and always features work by independent designers. Do you make things? You should share them. We can help. We know that sounds like an insurance commercial. E-mail us with info here.