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Miami: Topshop

So! We're reporting from Miami for the next couple days. We love Miami, because we always get to see people dress like they would never, ever dress in Manhattan. Er, maybe in the Meatpacking District. But definitely not in Brooklyn. One of the emails we got when we figured out how to use the wi-fi was from Topshop, which said "Welcome to Miami," which we thought was weird. But: fun collection! Not as glitzy as the actual Miami, we're thinking, but fun, nonetheless.

We stood in the taxi line behind three Danes we are sure were international DJs, and all we wanted on earth at that moment was to be a fluent Danish speaker, because at least they weren't showing their boobs off everywhere, if you know what we mean. Eh, it's what happens when you travel on your own. We got over it.

Based on what we witnessed downstairs, these shoes might be the most Miami things in the Miami collection. Can we mention here that our dinner just showed up, and not only is there a pat of butter for the bread, but that butter has a little frosting of salt on top of it. This may be our new favorite food. Topshop platform shoes, $135

The funny thing (er, to us, anyway) is, we were just about to say something about how this would have to be about two inches shorter to rival the dresses we saw outside. And yet, this is officially a top. Um, not in Miami, apparently. Topshop color-block "top," $36

And again—we bet someone could maybe remove the bottom two layers. Topshop body-con skirt, $44

And we have to say: We do not endorse this hat. We add it only so we can mention that we just saw someone wearing it in the lobby, only it was covered with silver sequins. Ooh, we know we sound all complain-y, but we're totally into it after five months of Uggs, winter leggings, and black sweaters. Straw trilby, $40

We Take It Back (More or Less): McQueen for Target

We went back to Target to give McQueen for Target a second go—after a number of positive comments about the collection here, as a matter of fact. It was cuter than we gave it credit for after our first look (still bitter after Thakoon, we guess.) We still say the sizing's off—nothing fit us right, anyway, if you'll excuse the extremely prejudiced assessment. But: as we were told here, the military jacket is cute, as was the one-shouldered dress with the pink detailing—of course, sold out online, but available in stores. We're scouring nearby locations for anything else we missed—but we're still more excited about Matthew Williamson for H&M.

The dress above is still available, and the whole collection's on eBay if you have the stomach for it: McQueen for Target tattoo dress, $79.99

We Actually At Least Like-Like This: Thakoon @ Target

So! All of yesterday's votes for Target as the one-stop-shop reminded us: Thakoon @ Target's Go International! After what we personally felt were a bunch of mediocre collections—well, we loved the color palette. We personally had some problems with fit, but all in all, we really liked this one. Everything's relative, we guess.

We actually really love this cardigan above, though we totally don't get how they styled it. Maybe it's cute full length. We're convinced it'd look so much less...waist-eater-y with jeans. Thakoon Shibori print cardigan, $32.99

Okay so: Any dress that makes the *model* look like she is about to deliver a child should be avoided, and this is a topic of discussion in the very mixed user reviews for this dress on the Target website. (It made us look like a blue-and-green striped sausage.) However: Some of them said all it needs is a belt. We really love about half of it, so we're open to the idea. Thakoon maternity [sic] dress, $44.99

Unlike the dress above, which actually is as [un]flattering as it looks, this is, in our opinion, quite cute in person. Camo cami, $24.99

Fall Fashion Wish List Part 1: An Orla Kiely Mini-Dress

Strangely, this looks a lot better on the site's smaller model image—er, maybe it's not that strange, but it's a *lot* better. Er, she does kind of look like a big pile of laundry, but we love it.

Tragically, this dress is over $500, but that's why we're calling it a wish list. Orla Kiely dress, about $520

Can we add here that we saw this dress in the Orla Kiely shop yesterday (which is ridiculously gorgeous and makes us want to spend all our time carving Orla Kiely designs into our hardwood floors, as someone there has done) and the sales staff totally did the we're-following-you-around-so-you-won't-steal thing. It's called yoga clothes, people. Harrumph! When we find our pot of gold coins we'll be buying our Orla from Anthro, tyvm.

The Jocasi Reader Mail Contest: This One Is A Strange One

Whoa! Well, our Jocasi contest rolls on: In short: send us a Reader Mail question—the most-commented entry wins the author the Jocasi bag!. Today's question—it's a doozy:

Dear BS:

I know this is not your usual type of question, but here goes: Just a little while ago, I thought I might be pregnant. I swore to God that if I wasn't, I would go on the pill. I'm not—thank God! But now, I don't want to go on the pill (all those nasty hormones). On a scale of 1-10, how badly am I testing karma if I don't? I am very conflicted about this.

I know you usually put something to buy along with these questions so maybe you could just put up this dress that I as thinking of for my shotgun wedding.

Love,
C.

First, we want to say that we did not write this. Okay. Now that this is resolved, people-reading-this-to-whom-we-may-be-related, we move on. We would say, on a scale of 1-10, this is tempting fate a 9. At least an 8. 8.3 That is our vote. We would love to know yours! Comment below!

Above: J. Crew dress, $385

Our Favorite Spots: Reader Mail

In today's Reader Mail:

Hi BS,

I feel like I should probably already know the answer to this, but! I was wondering if you could just give us your straight up answer: Where are the last five places you spent money online? And then I would be interested in what other people have to say. I bought sheets (really cheap!) at Overstock.

Thanks!
B.

Ours are totally weird and non-representative:

The Brooklyn poster we mentioned a while back
Mini DV head cleaner at B&H
A Powershot Canon camera at Best Buy
Fancy art paper at Dick Blick
and jeans at the Shopbop sale.

We love this question. What about everyone else?

If we thought about it, maybe we would have bought this dress: School of Women dress, was $154, now $61

Sales Sales Sales!

We swear we had no idea it was the sale time of year. May? Does that mean spring is over? Tss, we say to that. We basically want everything. We made a list of everything we need to own—we just realized our ballet flats have holes in them! It's Grapes of Wrath all over again, except with the dust!—and there were so many things on it. A sale is exactly what we need. A list is what we need to handle the sale, so that we do not buy crap. It's all coming together.

Like this LBD that's also SFW. And by that we mean 'safe for work,' rather than what we meant when we would use those letters when we were 14. Paul & Joe Sister dress, was $350, now $245

We hate to put something so expensive on the site, but we freaking love this dress, and it is half off (a thousand, more or less.) Work of art! Is what we're thinking. Temperley London dress, was $995, now $498

We don't know what it is but we still totally want a T Bags dress. We can never write 'T Bags' without thinking of Prison Break. T Bags dress, was $175, now $87.50

This is just the tip of the sale iceberg, as it were. Follow this link and you'll find all the newest sale offerings organized by price—lowest to highest.

It's the Friday Sponsor Shout-Out! (Continued!)

Ethnic sexy! Generally impossible to do, but not here. From our beloved sponsor, Zenys Boutique. Sky Pipper mini dress, $248

Madras! The Round Up

All of a sudden, we feel like we're seeing madras plaids everywhere, in a way we haven't since, like, 1989. Fair enough. We are most interested in the APC version—or, as the case may be summery diffusion line. At first we weren't so in love with this, but now we see it for what it properly is, which is we would wear every Saturday afternoon for all of July and August. APC Madras dress, $120

We are trying not to let all the preppiness interfere with our honest enjoyment of this skirt. J. Crew madras skirt, $64

We love description from Cape Madras: "Mini Mini skirts came into our line by demand from the local high school girls. We’re hoping they’re still not too long." Ha! Cape Madras mini-mini, $88

 

The Graduation Ceremony: Reader Mail

In today's Reader Mail:

Oh, congratulations! There are truly few things we enjoy more than a graduation ceremony: Honestly, we tear up from the opening bars of Pomp & Circumstance. This is true even for our own ceremony, at Columbia, which had so little actual pomp and circumstance that we—and we actually mean ourselves and our friends here, rather than the royal we—kept sending our friend Jay off to get us snacks from the store. That Sex and the City scene where Carrie realizes she spent the down payment to her apartment on shoes? That us and school. Who needs a house, we say! We're small. We fit in an apartment. We actually know someone who is graduating, and we just bought him what we are convinced is the platonic ideal of the American graduation present. We are exceptionally pleased with it.

Back to the matter at hand: We say, as we do with basically all special occasion dresses, think multiple uses. We'll also say that while we have quite a number of graduation photos, we're in our CU gown in all of them, so all you can see is Columbia blue and these J. Crew shoes that we loved until we moved to California, painted a wall, and splatted them with white paint. Wear whatever you like, we say as always, but we're going with a floral theme, because florals are very of the moment, we're thinking, day-appropriate, and possibly also for a wedding-type event. Trust us: If you're graduating, they're not that far behind.

We tried to lean toward chains here in case you're buying in a pinch and can't wait for mail order.

We love this Anthro dress. That is all. Searchlight Floral dress, $148

Now okay, we know we just said floral, but as long as this isn't too wedding \ white \ linen for what will likely be a long-ish day, we think this dress has like the nicest silhouette of any we've ever seen, ever, not that we are prone to exaggeration. But: lovely, no? Lauren Ralph Lauren linen dress, $140

This is a bit pricier than we wanted it to be, but the one we liked first actually has a fish print (seriously) rather than a floral print, as we'd hoped \ expected. Giverny-print dress, $350

This is a little bare, but we love BCBG dresses. BCBG jersey dress,