Fall fashion 2011 is here- hurray! But after cruising around the www, I am amused to the hilt by the some of the fall trends that designers pushed out… Pom Pom Headbands Sonia Rykiel presented them in her fall show and the trend has cropped up on starlets like Dita von Teese below. I [...]
Entry Category 'trends'
Honestly, WTF Fashion Trends?!
November 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Fashion
Tags:fall fashion·trends·wtf
Fugly or Not?
September 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Fashion
While perusing the NY Times Style section, I stumbled on these Miu Miu sparkle sneakers: Um, they look oddly similar to my daughter’s Skechers, no? As Oscar Wilde said, “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
Bipolar Fashion Trends
December 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Fashion
“Winter” is upon us in Austin. Highs today are in 50s and we can all break out our cableknit sweaters and heavy jackets. The weather here tends to be bipolar-extreme highs and lows in the span of a week and sometimes a day! Knowing how to dress for the weather is a real pain if [...]
How to Make a DIY Circle Scarf
May 11th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Fashion, how-to
The fashion world’s drive to reinvent the wheel has now given us the Circle scarf. Also called an Infinity scarf, it is really a circular piece of fabric looped around the neck to add visual interest to an otherwise plain t-shirt or tank. I’ve been feeling kinda crafty-like and wanted to see if I could [...]
Tags:accessories·crafts·DIY·Fashion·trends
Nerdspeak? You Decide.
April 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Ruminations
/-\ 11 I30Iz R 7rub1e Can you read Leet? Or L337? It stands for “elite” and is a way of writing which uses symbols and acronyms. Gamers, programmers, tech-types and youth employ leet-speak while texting and IMing. I throw in a generous U and OMG and such, but writing in leet is pretty difficult. You [...]
80's flashback
March 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Fashion, Personal Story
A black hole resides in my ’80s pop culture and historical memory. My family did not own a television until I was 7. The only memory I have of current events was my mother listening to an English news station coverage of Nancy Reagan’s war on drugs. As far as that decade’s current events, I [...]
