bunnyshop shopping fashion blog

BS Hearts: Scarlet Johansson's Cargos in Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Ever since we (finally) saw Vicky Cristina Barcelona (two and a half stars, we say), we've been obsessed with Scarlett Johansson's cargo pants, which is basically the only sort of pants she wears throughout the entire movie. Now, we do not especially like wearing pants, and consider the winter months a sort of pant-jail that we are always extremely eager to break out of as early in the season as possible. However: We may be willing to break from our warm weather pant-ban if we can ever afford our top choice cargos, which are, tragically, from Madewell, and cost $115. (We'd picture them but Madewell's stupid website is so impossible to use that we can't spend five hours fiddling with it. They're "Look 3" on Madewell site if anyone is curious.)

We will say here, and this is completely counter-intuitive, that since the whole economicalypse, we've bought many fewer, but more expensive things, and we now see the advantage of this policy. Moving forward, if we are not all living in caves and trading seashells for food, we will definitely make use of it.

Anyhoo, for the moment, we're probably circumventing our own Gap ban and buying these:

Gap cargos, $54.50

Spanx? Reader Mail

In today's Reader Mail:

Spanx, yea or nay? Love 'em? Don't know? Rave reviews? Etc...

Just curious!

Thanks!
A.

Our main problem with Spanx is its packaging, which we decided is just too Spanx-y to put on the site. Instead, we're going with American Apparel's winter leggings, which seem to offer the same sort of smoothing thing as Spanx, without the hassle of wearing something called "Spanx." (We like the name as much as the packaging, btw.) Anyway: We don't know! We're too freaked out by them to get on with it. But we invite anyone who has an opinion to please share it here because we're in no position to be helpful, unfortunately.

At top, winter leggings, $38

And here: Spanx full-length hose, $22

Properly Hyping Our $500 Raffle, Day 3

Raffle! $500! With the most complicated rules ever!

1: Donate $5 (or more) via the button on the left
2: Earn ("earn") one raffle ticket for every $5 donation (to the charities Mercy Corps Mongolia and Send-a-Cow)
3: Possibly win our $500 Shopbop gift certificate giveaway, with the winner announced absolutely no later than Saturday evening!

We are thinking today that if we won the contest (which, obviously, we can't, just to be clear) we might spend it all on basics: from left, a Bop Basics cashmere sweater ($198), yoga pants ($59), hoodie ($88)....

Tank top ($34), Erin Fetherston for Glamour tee (benefiting Malaria No More, $68), and long-sleeve tee
($45)

Alice Temperley at Target

We are just wondering if anyone is enjoying Alice Temperley @ Target a bit more than we are. Which is to say, at all. Because we love real, super-classic, all crochet-y Alice Temperley, above. The problem is that this dress costs $1292. We mean, please.

But fake Alice Temperley isn't entirely doing it for us. And we've been in Target a billion times looking to be all seduced into buying some. But. No. These, in our opinion:

Are not her best. AT overalls, $39.99

We mean, we sort of like this coat. If someone was like, "Have our free coat." AT coat, $59.99

You know, we just spent ten minutes looking for something else to recommend, and we just can't do it. Disappointing. That the only thing in this post we would buy, if our kitchen faucet spewed gold coins (because we were looking for an alternative to the money growing on trees), costs $1200. Tss. We are wondering: Did anyone find something they liked?

Work Clothes: 100, Lil Bunny: 0

We honestly hate work clothes - shirts with buttons and pants. We hate how they make us feel (frumpy and boyish), we hate how we look in them (surprisingly short and rather rotund), and we hate how they feel (bare legs 4eva). We understand we have said this all before, but the clothing gods have just given us the big FUCK YOU because we just, just found out that our work dress code is shifting to slightly more professional.

Now, lest we forget, part of the reason we work where we do is because of the "no dress code" dress code that the entire company - from bottom to top - embraces. They even make a big to-do out of it during your new-hire orientation, complete with not-amusing clip art. We are currently feeling dressed nicely in gold ballet flats, a khaki green (vs. khaki tan) pseudo-cargo skirt that is a bit short with frayed edges, a white shirt with a green squirrel screenprint and a white tank top underneath for modesty. And a turquoise wool sweater because we're cold. And 3" silver hoop earrings. But when our boss came in - she who wears running pants and cat sweatshirts to meetings with VIP - in a suit jacket (we think it's older than we are, but that's ok), we knew something was up. And she told us. And, the best part. It's just our department. So everyone else? Carry on in your flip flops. I will be wearing heels (I like heels, though).

These gray pants from Urban might not be too horrid.

Lux Skinny Menswear Pants, $58

This Diane Von Furstenberg dress is kind of awesome, too. And definitely long enough so we KNOW it is a dress and we will not feel the need to run out and buy pants.

DVF Bilboa Wool dress, $365

Because our office will always be cold, and our turquoise sweater will need to go to sweater heaven.

C&C California Cashmere Kimono Cardigan, $249

For once, we are not stoked about having to go shopping when we go to lunch.

-LB