Sock Weather

Mmmmm toasty!

If you have size 6 feet...

...and $150.00 to spare, then you have no excuse. You are hereby commanded to buy


these shoes, if for no other reason than to keep me from buying them and hanging them on my flippin' wall!

Winterized

When youre on a budget, you have to get creative. As much as I'd love to be able to splurge on a new winter wardrobe, that's just not gonna happen, alack, alas. So instead, I'm trying to focus on finding ways to wear lighter, summer items in warmer ways.

Back in August, I wore this dress (that I picked up back in San Francisco when I worked at Crossroads) out in Santa Cruz for a bicycle trip to the fabric store on a rather warm, windy day. Today, I wore it again, on a different coast, in a different season, and for an entirely different purpose.


A cold, clear November day in New York City, working in a stuffy clothing store. I did wear the same shoes though! Some things never change...

On their way!

Well, I've gone and done it! I've made my first shoe purchase on eBay since moving here. You have to understand, when I was living in Santa Cruz, buying shoes on eBay was like a second full-time job for me. I think I actually started this blog to rant about all the shoes I wanted to/was buying on eBay. Amazingly, I had managed to control myself until tonight, but when I saw these babies at a ridiculously reasonable buy-it-now price, I crumbled.

I really haven't bought more than a couple pieces of clothing since moving here, which is another wonder. Back in Santa Cruz, I went shopping multiple times a week. Granted, it was at the Salvation Army and flea markets (and on eBay) almost exclusively, but when weighed against my sad little income, I was spending far too much. But sometimes, the only thing that could lift my worried spirits was pawing through racks of funny old things, searching for little treasures that made my heart race. Here, I've been too busy with school and work to mind, and too broke to bother anyways. But my wardrobe is feeling so stagnate, and I'm hoping to find time to get to Buffalo Exchange in the next week or so to jettison some things and come trotting home with a few more.

EDIT: Oh gosh, so, I had to edit this because I just bought these:


I have just enterred into dangerous territory indeed, and I fear there are slippery slopes ahead! But come ON, it was worth it right????

My LBD

Today as I was getting dressed, I reached for my black pinafore dress, and I realised that ever since I found it in a thrift store in Santa Cruz right around this time last year, I've probably worn it I at least twice a week, if not more. It's my immediate go-to on days when I don't have the extra brain cells to spare thinking about something clever to wear. So I decided I'd round up all the photos I have of myself wearing it, oldest to newest, coast to coast, as a sort of tribute.






Here's lookin' at me wearin' you, kid.