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Slowly Wrapping Up On A Friday Afternoon

First: We are pretty sure we have emailed all of the individual contestants with news of the contest delay (if you entered and did not get a message, er, let us know): Our judge has resurfaced, and we will get the winner announced absolutely 100% as soon as possible. We are so sorry. It is Mercury retrograde. It is our only defense.

And the rest of the week:

- Guest stylist! What to wear, when exes attend the same parties as you do.

- DVF, Barbie style. Barf.

- Ashlee Simpson continues to make our head explode; however, we like her Lanvin shoes.

- Maya Brenner discount week! Twenty-five percent off! We return to our favorites.

- Prada socks? Er, thanks. But no thanks.

And above: our favorite outfit of the week. The shoes: Frye Anna flats, $140. The jeans (plus or minus): Earnest Sewn cigarette leg stretch jeans, $210

Wrapping Up On A Friday Afternoon

Okay, so that's Friday. We end, as always, like the malcontents we are, by asking for various things:

1) We require, just require, a "short and curvy" volunteer for a little SF shopping trip. Could not possibly be more fun, we are thinking.

2) The Most Beloved Item Contest stumbles on. There was one excellent entry. We would be so happy to see some more.

3) Our stylist is looking for more questions, as always.

4) We humbly hold out our tin cup and say, If you click on our ad links, to the left and right, we will love you forever.

5) All questions, request, etc., send them here.

Friday Night Express

This is just one of the most exciting things ever, because we have a special guest editor \ stylist for our little Friday Night Express situation. Of course we are horribly lazy and love it when anyone volunteers to do our work for us, but this was doubly, triply excellent because the volunteer in this case is Holly Suan Gray, who makes brilliant bags that happen to be vegetarian friendly. As she says: "I'm a vegetarian and so make animal friendly bags from PVC and raffia." We don't know what raffia is, but we didn't mention this. "They are also sold in some New York stores—Dernier Cri, TG170, Shop and La Di Da." Anyway, we asked Holly to make up an entire going-out outfit based around one of her bags, and this is what she came up with. We totally love it. We feel all street cred-less getting all rave-y about things, but her work is beautiful, and she saved us a day of work: There is only one possible result here.

Moving forward, from Holly:

"Starting with my stripey duffle bag ($240) from www.hollysuan.com. It’s an animal friendly bag—I don’t use leather or suede. This would form the basis of the outfit."

"‘Accessorize’ it with this organza dress by Anna Sui—I especially like the sleeves." Anna Sui organza dress from Blaec, $660

"At $660 the dress will blow the budget—so economize with these cute brown slingbacks with a wooden heel and flower cutouts. They're faux leather, of course, and only $55.

"Big gold studded cuff bracelet by CC Skye $290 from www.shopintuition.com."

"Finish off with this 18-karat gold ancient coin-inspired ring by Kenneth Jay Lane ($45) from www.shopbop.com. I wonder if he’s ever seen the British version, the good old sovereign ring available from most East End jewelers."

So that's it! Hurrah! Now, let's do a nice little wrap-up and take another look at some of Holly's work:

This is the slouch bag. Unfortunately, it is sold out in this color. However, it is still available in black. We just liked this picture.

And this mini-duffle is sold out, but we like this picture, too.

So: yay Holly! Check out her website at hollysuan.com and enjoy all the vegetarian-friendly goodness.

Friday Night Express

Consider this our very own version of Casual Fridays. Because it is summer and there are parks and places to shop and hot soccer players to ogle, we've been farming out our extremely-semi-regular Friday feature, wherein we construct a suitable-for-going-out outfit. This week, we asked our friend the Anthropologie buyer to make us her favorite going-out outfit. The only stipulation was that it include these shoes from Topshop, because, as our helpful commenter Emily pointed out, they look almost exactly like the more-expensive Beatrix Ongs. Unless we've completely misinterpreted her. But we're betting we're right.

Anyhoo, this Friday night's outfit:

"This is just a simple little outfit, very bright, with lots of white and just a few dashes of color. I hope you like it! It's very Wimbledon-meets-dinner out, if that makes any sense. First is this simple white shirtdress. You can't really see it from this image but really the bodice is quite detailed and beautiful." Mia dress, $288

"Love this Londontown belt.... ($168)"

"And these Grecian sandals, too." ($78)

"And then the Sienna leather shoulder bag ($288)." (This looks a lot like Jocasi-lite to us.)

This is when we reminded her about the Topshop shoes (about $150).

"Oh, I totally forgot about that. I'd wear dark skinny jeans, a white blouse, and a black u-neck vest."

Well, there you go. This is what happens when rely on outsiders for assistance. It's Trust Fall in high school all over again. Argh. Still love the shoes, tho.