$99.99 at Cabela’s
So if you’re loyal reader, you know I spend a lot of time out west. I’m heading out there again in about a month and in preparation for this trip, I bought some of these heavy duty lined Carhartt overalls. They arrived today and they look a whole lot cuter than I thought they would. Not exactly DVF-wrap-dress-dead-sexy, but I don’t really care about looking chic while I’m out hiking around in the Lolo Wilderness—staying warm is my main priority. These actually cinch in my waist nicely and the pants have a bit of a boot leg flare. Carhartt recently opened up one of their Works in Progress stores in Soho where they sell hip versions of their old standards. I might just have to stop by there today and get myself a little something… it is after all my birthday!
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$64 at Penelope T
I was joking with a friend the other day that lately I’m either dressed like a member of The Avett Brothers or the Cherokee nation—because my closet is stock full of plaid and tribal prints. So when I saw this vintage-esque top on the Penelope T Facebook page, I could not resist picking up the phone. (No online store yet!) It definitely needs to join my tribe.
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$15 at A+R Store
Milo is the bestest friend your smartphone could ever have. He’ll hold it up for you to adore, sort of like the wind beneath its wings, and won’t ever let it fall.
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$36-$38 at Bandit Brand
I discovered Bandit Brand tees in a little store in Greenpoint. Now I’m addicted. In addition to the fact that their shirts are incredibly soft and sport super cool designs or old logos, the company use real people to sell their tees—not underfed models.
p.s. I’ve been to Thermopolis.
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12.99 (was $17.50) at Old Navy
I’m heading out west for a while and this is like the perfect thing for just after sundown, when a little bit of the chill takes hold, but you can’t stand to go inside just yet because the mountains are lit from behind like the trees are in that one Gone with the Wind poster and its breathtaking and beautiful and you can’t believe that this spectacle actually happens like 300 or so days a year because it seems like it should just happen this one time, this one special night—instead of with regularity like reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond. God I can’t wait to get out there.
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$18 at Oak
They will be mine. You’ll see.
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$216 at Wildfox Couture
The coolest museum I’ve ever been to had to be the Georgia O’Keefe museum in Santa Fe (I was in town to see a Widespread Panic show…so you should start being impressed I remember it riiiiight…now!). The adobe style museum fit right into the landscapes she painted of Northern New Mexico and there were plenty of her still life pieces of steer skulls dried out by the desert sun. I wish I’d been wearing this dress when I went there. It would have felt inspired like, “Hey Georgie! Look what you made us other hip white girls dig?” Yeah, yeah, I know the Indians were sort of onto this trend like a millennium before O’Keefe, but she honored that then elevated it. Badass.
Here’s a little more detail:
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$28 at Soludos
As I sat shivering on the softball fields of McCarren park this past Sunday, I dreamed of a real Spring. Not this cold, decrepit excuse for a warm season that we’ve been backhanded with since early March. I dreamed of wearing calf length skirts paired with open-toed wedges and cropped khakis with flat oxfords, but most of all I fantasized about slipping on that shoe that is almost not a shoe—more like a the love child of a sensible flat and a rugged flip-flop: the espadrille. Its time, dammit, has come.
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$11.97 (were $34.50) at Old Navy
I wanted a pair of boyfriend jeans. But I did not want to spend $230 on the J Brand boyfriend jeans I coveted. Then I noticed these, across the internet, we made eyes at each other, they winked and whispered “I’m on sale,” and I ordered. The one catch? They were a size 2. I thought, They’ll stretch, life isn’t perfect. Well dear God, let’s hope I’m right, cause I barely got them on this morning.
That said, they’re adorable. I really like them. I think we were destined for each other.
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$69.95 at DSW
Ok, technically I’m a groomswoman—not a bridesmaid—but just to keep things pretty for the pictures, I’m wearing the same thing as the bridesmaids. At first this sort of bummed me out, I imagined going all Ellen Degeneres in a cool lady tux and black Converse high tops, which would be fun a) because my mother might pass out in horror and b) I’d be wearing Converse high tops.
But I’m going along with it and, luckily, I’m not dealing with a bridezilla who is sticking me in pink taffeta. She just told us to pick any JCrew bridesmaid dress that came in aluminum. I went with this one. Now I realize this dress will not go with black converses, but I was a bit wide-eyed when the bride sent a follow-up email requesting that we wear yellow shoes. Other than dear, dear Dolly Parton, I’m not exactly sure who can rock a pair of yellow heels. Then I found these. Pretty awesome right? The big bonus is that the navy lining will act as an integral buffer between my pale skin and the yellow satin.
(Tho at least it was yellow shoes, not a yellow dress. I’m pale and I’m tall—in a yellow dress, I’d either resemble a banana or Big Bird.)
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