DKNY meets dishrag

This skirt reminds me of those cheap dishrags we always had to use in home-ec:

Cardigan - Target

T-shirt - American Apparel

Necklace - thrifted

Skirt - thrifted DKNY

Shoes - thrifted Candies

I'm growing out my hair, so it's finally long enough to wear my "mouse hair" (which is what the girls at my previous school used to call it... because it made me look like Minnie Mouse?) I attempted to take some hair pictures, but it's hard to aim the camera accurately at the back of your own head at 7am... so here's what you get:

Directions: Be born with curly hair. Pile hair on top of head. Stab with bobby pins till it stops falling. Done!

I have tomorrow off work! Hooray! I can finally stop stressing about getting enough t-shirts done for my thing at the museum and hopefully list some stuff on etsy too! I need to update it and get selling stuff to make up for all the dough I dropped in Korea. Oooh, and I'll probably do my last Korea post tomorrow too, discussing the fashion, last impressions, the wonder that is Nori Bang, and the devil that is Soju. Byyyyyyye, I'm off to go hand cut and hand stamp 150 more business cards for my tiny t-shirt company!

shoe boo or bag hag?

Ahh the age-old question, are you a shoe girl or a bag gal? (apparently some people include hats in this?? Does anyone out there have more hats than shoes or bags? I'm curious!) I am FOR SURE a shoe girl. For the longest time, I didn't even carry a purse. Yes, in high school and college I carried a MAN'S WALLET in my jeans pocket or coat. Jaws. (Do people understand it when I say that? I say "Jaws" instead of "Jesus" or "Geez"... it started with a friend in high school... when something is really outlandish I tend to draw it out to a Jaws/Jesus combo which is "Jaaawsus") Anyway...

I probably have close to 100 pairs of shoes and sandals... somehow it just makes sense to me! You need wedges, stilettos, classic pumps, strappy sandals, closed toe, peep toe, chunky heel, boots of different heights, etc and all in different colors. Duh! Ok, not duh, but it makes sense to me. They finish off the outfit. I just don't care about purses. Which is good. I can't care about everything. So I have two main purses I carry, a big black Hayden-Harnett, and a small caramel brown Etienne Aigner.

(Um, yes, I bought a little purse jangle in Korea (and a cell phone jangle) - EVERYBODY there has them. LOTS of them. So I got this little string fellow with pom-pom hair!)

So, I went to the thrift store last night and the purses have a new brother. An early '80s Coach bag that is so incredibly soft and awesome and $18 (and real!)

 So, while I'm not ready to become a bag girl yet, I'm excited to have a third regular purse (although it is pretty much the love child of my other two purses... can you tell I like across the body bags - that is due to a purse snatching incident and now I am paranoid. Don't worry though, I ran the mugger down about 8 blocks later in my wedge sandals and skirt and got the purse back, minus the cash. Still, I'm traumatized!)

I obviously have some special occasion purses like everyone else, like these three here:

Ok, detour over. Back to today's outfit! Which was inspired by this photo of Shala Monroque on B.Jones Style that she described as exotic-tribal-70's-prepster:

I didn't have a necklace similar to hers, but figured the overall outfit had a similar vibe.

Shirt - f by faconnable (inherited from aunt)

Necklace - thrifted

Jeans - Paul & Joe for Target

Shoes - Juicy Couture (I know, I know... I didn't think I'd ever own anything by Juicy, but I love a good wedge! And it was 50% off clearance day at Off 5th - the Sack's 5th Ave outlet store!)

Although, looking at that picture of Shala Monroque again, I'm pretty sure I NEED a tiger bag, yes?

bulletproof shoulders

It is a very grey day here, so I decided to match. It's good though - the bits of green are finally arriving and the flowers will start soon! Hooray for spring! I am so excited to do some sailing, BBQing, porching, baseball playing, bike riding, and generally being outside finally!

Shirt - Namdaemun Market (huge street market) in Seoul, Korea

Belt - thrifted

Skirt - vintage via www.stephaniegeisler.etsy.com

Tights - Target

Shoes - Michael Kors

Shoulder awesomeness:

I did in fact pass out after work yesterday for a few hours, and woke up drooling heavily and really confused about whether it was 6am or 6pm... luckily it was only 6pm so I had some dinner and headed over to the boy's house to watch the MN Twins season opener (they lost, which is too bad but not shocking).

I'm pretty excited, I didn't really look at the April calendar at all before I left, so to my surprise I have Friday off work! Wahoo! I'll be screenprinting and heat-setting all day long, since I'm going to be selling my t-shirts at the Walker Art Center's Local Artist T-shirt Mart next Saturday as a part of MN Fashion Week! So, so, so, so, so excited!!