JANUARY 22, 2010

Jacket: Old Navy
Scarf: American Apparel
Bag: Dooney&Bourke Hand-me-down from Christie
Boots: Chinese Laundry
Leggings: The Gap
Dress: From Katie
Vest: Lux
Cardigan: J Crew

I got this new coat over break. It is fantastic because it has a hood which I use often. Boston weather.

January 2nd, 2011

This morning Dave and I went to Ristretto for coffee and scones.  There we met a nice man who talked trash with us for a stretch about Ohio and the death of manners and which restaurants are overrated and which are not overrated.  This delightful conversation made me desperately want to go thrifting in Ohio, where Thomas (that is his name) assured me I would encounter a seriously mind blowing number of pristine vintage things at real thrift store prices.  Then we (Dave and I) took the bus down to the southeast, had a breaky at Broder and popped into Xtabay and Green Light Records.  Now we are at home, on the couch, having a laptop party and listening to Dave's new records.

Coat: thrifted in Colorado at the Hospice Care Thrift.

Sweater: cashmere, thrifted for less than $5 (!) in Colorado at Salvo.

Bag: Oldie Coach, scored at Buffalo Exchange.

Gloves: the $1 grocery store kind.

Have I talked yet about how freezing cold and yet sunny and cloudless 2011 is?  It's dry and feels almost like a Colorado winter.  It's very odd to me how a 15° drop in temperature (and humidity) + sun in Oregon makes me feel significantly less cold than the normal warm + slightly damp cloudy days we're more used to by now.  God, I talk about the weather all the fucking time, don't I?

Dave (1): Eating at Broder.
Dave (2): on Christmas Day, in China Town, on the way to Jewish Christmas (we ate Chinese food and went to see the new Coen Bros. movie.)  Our roommate Matt is to Dave's right.  To Matt's right is Judy.  That's Matt's car behind Dave, if you're interested.  Also, the sweater Dave is wearing used to belong to his mom (also named Judy.)  It says, "Holy Ghost School New Orleans LA."

January 1st, 2011

 

2011 has so far been an incredibly sunny year for Portland.  I spent half-an-hour yesterday just taking photos of the late afternoon sunlight through our dining room window.  Our neighbor Lowry's overgrown yard looks like a wild jungle from where we usually look at it.

Dress: Plenty by Tracy Reese
Wrap: Mink Stole (see previous Marika post.)
Blouse (not shown): sheer pink and brown abstract printed silk thing. 

This dress has a rather high, square neckline (with a fabric bow you can just make out in these photos.) The blouse I wore under it has a rather low and wide square neckline.  Thus there was a little outline of skin between the straps of the dress and the collar of the blouse.  It is probably not terribly easy to visualize but I thought the two pieces looked very nice together.  To be totally certain, I just asked Dave and he agrees that it looked nice.

DECEMBER 30th, 2010

This is my new dress.  I'm not saying the outfit is anything hot (I know a few ladies who judge the heck outta footless tights with flats.)  This was Christmas Eve, in which Dave and I nogged ourselves silly and danced to old soul records.  

 

Dress: Weston Wear.

Tights: Target.

Shoes: Thrifted (they were NWT so it wasn't that gross.)

Mink wrap: given to me by my friend and former radio co-host Daniel.  It belonged to his dead grandmother.  I've been wearing it around the house like a housecoat almost every day lately.  (It's getting cold in the NW - and by cold I mean 35°, which yes, is about as cold as it ever gets.)

About the dress: (here's why it's special)

Well, I bought it from where I work, so I paid more for it than I typically would for a dress.  But that is not really why it's special.  It's special because last fall I went on a buying trip with my boss Carla and we met with the Weston Wear rep.  Weston Wear is, well, at it's worst it's nylon mesh shit that looks straight outta the 90's.  

 

Lately, they've been classing it up and romancing stores like Anthropologie (where this dress also happens to be for sale.) So the rep shows us a bunch of styles ("bodies") in different fabric options.  One of them was this dress.  In this fabric.  And I swooned and lost my shit inside but of course Carla ordered a different one.  Which sold out in two days, so she called Weston Wear and asked for anything else they had in that print.  They happened to have a lot of this dress (because Anthropologie placed an enormous order) and so they sent it to us and then I bought it and it was my Christmas dress and I've worn it for three days straight and it's perfect.

Here's a better photo of the dress proper because I want everyone to have the right idea about it and because I took this photo and because the above photos weren't really intended to be blog photos anyway.

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Love Squared Plaid Shirt w/ Lace detail (Nordstrom)

Edme & Esyllte Skirt and Woven Belt (Anthropologie)

Locket Watch Necklace (Nordstrom)

Brown Sweater Tights (Target)

Librarian Heels (Bongo (from...8th grade.))

DECEMBER 26, 2010

Silence & Noise Blazer

Sparkle & Fade Sweater

Urban O. Skinny Jeans

Diba Winter/Hiker Boots

Nordstrom Locket Watch

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Dress: American Apparel
Vest: Lux
Long Cardigan: J Crew
Circle scarf: American Apparel
Leggings: A sale at mountain fair of Boogies things
Boots: Urban Renewal

(So I went to American Apparel the other day only to find two of my friends working and the surprise that they could offer me their fifty percent off discount. I didn't go to crazy because it was overwhelming. But I got a circle scarf and a dress (both featured here)... The circle scarf will be seen again you can be sure, but double wrapped which is how I normally wear it.)