Just Add Rock Star, In Three Easy Steps!

Jenny Lewis from Rilo Kiley is our new rock heroine. First of all, she has an awesome voice and writes these nice songs about affairs with a friend's husband and foxes and cougar's nests. But she is also becoming a little bit of our fashion heroine. This is partly because she is a babe, but it is also because she has found a formula and gone with it. And the formula is not t-shirt and jeans, which is our formula, sadly. unless we are properly motivated. (By, say, presents of Balenciaga coats.) The formula is, as clear: Mini-dresses and knee socks (or boots, as we've seen her in person and as these pictures fail to suggest). Our step-by-step guide for indie-rock-fashion-stardom:

1. One mini-dress, preferably vintage, available from ebay, like this one, Vintage 60's MOD green stripe white TENNIS mini DRESS (at the moment $1.99)

or this one, Vintage 60's MOD yellow pleated SCOOTER mini DRESS, currently $4.99:

or this Avocado Crochet Mini-Dress, from our very favorite vintage store in the world, Incogneeto, for $39.99:

2. Add knee-socks. The most porn-tastic of which can be found at American Apparel, unsurprisingly.

3. Optional: Oversized sunglasses. We like these Samanthas from Coach. $148