Autumn Fashion PHASE TWO MOVING ON!

The Dunlops are only £19.99.

The boots are $170.

Hmmm.

My red shoes are BROKEN and need fixing!

And, FWIW, all the shoes I've previously purchased from Parade have actually held up surprisingly well, and I don't take care of them at ALL (they're lucky if they end up back in boxes half the time).

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I need more jumper advice! I am currently in a tshirt and feeling foolish.

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it is $60 marked down from $366! Diesel! perforated silver leather!

I've been looking all over for hooded men's velour tracksuits, but god DANG, it's not an easy article of clothing to come by.

DUHNT DUHNT DUHNT ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

the high today was 78 degrees. I'm still wearing flip flops and tshirts.

weirdos.

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Even cooler would be red sparkly maryjanes that looked like Dorothys ruby slippers, I could wear them with stripey tights!

Mary, shhh. It is still ok for me to wear a cardigan therefore it's autumn. Although fair enough, perhaps winter has started today as it's RAINING! This lunchtime I may look into legwarmers, cardigans and PIE.

which reminds me...those sparkly tops. do people actually have christmas parties that they wear them to? i tend to get them and wear with jeans to go dancing or whatever, but have to stock up at christmas. what do you wear them to?

I've come across lots of low-top hiking boots, wtf? They're like Sport Utility Tennis Shoes! Besides, I needs me some ankle support!

x-post I'm merely private first class wool sweater with 7

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Its a bobcut with two very long pieces at the front, one one each side, ie lone fringe pieces. Sort of like catfish wiskers. It seems goth de riguer these days.

I dont know if we have John Fluevog - I should have a look in Chapel st sometime!

OMG to those legwarmer things with the ribbons! Rock the casbah! I would never wear them with those hideous brown platform sneakerboot things tho wtf. Those things need black or shiny pvb moonboots or something.

As for the catfish fringe thing, turns out my friend Nadja invented the phrase, so she claims anyhow. She didnt really invent the style - I see it around a lot - but the word for it is cool.

that and argyle.
wait, all of it. argyle and shirt and tie and dress pants and suit jacket.
thats what I'm wearing this winter.
dressing up is the new dressing down.

I normally despise Hilfiger shit because I personally hate being called "Tommy" and can't imagine what sort of person would go around advertising themselves as such, but they had the best looking shoes in the department store and a lot of the best ties as well.

Costco had Haggar teflon-coated wrinkle-frees for like $14 a pair. Raided. My dad let me keep his Costco membership card, too. Got you all in check, etc.

I got nothing at Target. I was in there for like 10 seconds before heading over to COMPUSA and Circuit City.

*yeah. This was in the evening after shooting clay pigeons with shotguns and firing a potato gun at an old barn for a couple of hours, and after we finished dinner* and dessert and got into the keg of Foster's.

I am fighting with my new tshirt today, I've washed it 3 times, and it's still a little stiff & rough. I can't use fabric softener, because I'm allergic to it. I was debating filling my sink with hot water & soaking it in there overnight, but I think it's more the washing motion that softens them than the soaking.

Also this weekend, because I am in ARIZONA and there is nothing to do here besides GO TO THE MALL, I have spent an inordinant amount at Frederick's of Hollywood, where my sister gets a 50% discount. I am now the proud owner of a really crazy leopard print get up and SLUTTY CHRISTMAS WEAR. Also underwear and bras but I'm not sure if I like these bras? I had to buy them all in 36D!!!!! Anyone who has met me in person and seen my breasts in person will testify to the unreasonableness of this.

Then when I left Frederick's, I actually set foot in Charlotte Russe!! I havent' been there since I was like 16. SCORE for me because I picked up a strapless uneven hem leopard print dress and a satin silver halter top with sequined neck bit. My mom, strangely unphased by my purchase of some kind of whorebag santa outfit, was aghast at these purchases, which I found odd.

I also got bored enough to walk into a mall salon and get my hair done again. I need to find other things to do with my time besides murder my hair. :\

Don't they sell those lobster tights at H&M? I know I have some and I know I had to have bought them there as I never invest in hosiery since I fall down and run into things a lot.

I just dropped nearly $300 yesterday on bright green and bright blue sweaters, dark red pants, and some super cashmere socks as well as some argyles. I have no business spending this kind of $$ on clothes. Oh well. It could have easily been near $400. Credit card debt? everyone's doing it.

dude in London t.j. maxx is called t.k. maxxx?!

Also, I went to the Midwestern designer outlet shopping mall from hell that I sent amateurist to last summer and got a black velvet bustier like I wanted (well actually my ideal one is made of black coq feathers but I have no idea where one would get that), two-ply unseasonable silk chiffon mosaic-print skirt to wear with black tights now and with a ladylike jacket next spring. At Designer Shoe Warehouse on Belmont near Sheffield (around the corner from Jack's on Halsted where I brunched) I got black t-strap stiletto shoes. I don't know how picked over DSW in NY is but DSW in Chicago is pretty wonderful.

Ha ha, the mother-scandalizing Charlotte Russe is wonderful but last time I went I literally could not fit into a single item of clothing there. It is wise to skip over the lingerie-inspired overpriced Jazz Age wear the magazines are pushing and proceed directly to Frederick's.

These fur collars/tippets/whatever, particularly with ribbon closings, are everywhere! ardenb.com has them in pink, black and white for $36 but they are made from genuine bugs bunny. I saw a wonderful sweater with a detachable fur turtleneck but the real fur seemed a little morbid somehow.

nabisco, if you go to APC, dont forget to try on the jeans. they're great. and the black/white striped sweater with the neon cuff is pretty cool too.

i want to go to the century-21 in bay ridge sometime soon, someone wanna go?

Does anyone actually wear all of these initial-emblazoned shirts I'm seeing in all the mall stores? I've never actually seen a human being wearing them, but they're all over.

Mary, I forgot to tell you, but last week when I went to Loehmanns, they had some Vivienne Westwood red label sweaters in red, maroon, gold and white on the top floor. Still kind of pricey but doable. But they have the cardigan version all over ebay right now too.

Your tennis partner filled me in on the VW at Loehman's, Carey, but I didn't know about the VW on ebay. Off to look now. Last time under cardigan all they had was this ugly collaboration they did with some lame lingerie company or something.

The more I think about it though, I may want a red Vivienne Westwood logomania cardigan in the same way that Gareth wants a Paul Frank watch, a tie, and an '70s airplane bag.

I checked the VW bizness on eBay. Not much I needed, really. Considered buying a fab yellow & green vintage 50s cardigan. I have a couple already, but eh, one can always have more, especially because I seem to have collected a bunch of 3/4 sleeve jackets and need something to wear with them..

this clothing obsession is taking up way too much of my time.

I forgot to list my 2 Olga Kapustina frocks from the Steven Allen sample sale I got at the end of November. One is a black deep V neck babydoll sweater (it's so soft!) dress with kind of weird poofy sleeves that look like leaves to me. The other is a longer cotton (?) black dress with white... I just got tired of thinking how to decribe it.

If you see a non-Westwood rack with a bunch of discarded, tossed aside, inside out VW sweaters on top of it, well, that's probably my fault. Women kept walking by me disdainfully, all "excuse me." They were coming from the bikini area -- why are they shopping for bikinis?

I really should have gone sooner. It was exactly what I was looking for, very light wool, and cheap. All they had left in red was a V-neck small (non-cardigan), which I ended up getting. I tried on the cardigans in white, mustard, olive, and tan, but the colors weren't really doing anything for me.

I seem to wear an S in the cardigan, in case anyone wants to get it for me, like for Christmas? like from England? It's Red Label by the way. The cashier gave me such a hard time: "Is this all you're getting? Just one little top?" Then tried to sell me a L. card and gift certificate. Um, no thank you.

I asked my ballerina friend about legwarmers, and she said she doesn't even really wear them! She did say scrunchy is best though.

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I am wearing something boring upon which I have just spilled a glass of water.

I am cool!

Starry I must remember to email you the action photos of you knitting and then modeling your sparkly goth legwarmers.