I stumbled upon this fantastic vintage store a few weeks ago. I was in the area looking for a yarn shop, and found Playclothes instead. The place was jam packed with copious amounts of vintage clothing, shoes, hats, jewelry, coats, knick-knacks, and other various pieces of yore.

After well over an hour in the store, I finally came away with this gorgeous hat (along with a couple other pieces which you will see later). Black felt and velvet, with a long, swooping feather adornment, this hat is probably …

In keeping with the theme from yesterday, let’s show off my new, ridiculous sunglasses. Ridiculous in price, ridiculous in size, ridiculous in lens thickness.

When I got my new prescription, I decided I wanted ridiculously huge shades. Lindsay Lohan on her way to rehab huge. Even though such large shades meant extra-large, extra-thick lenses, I still had to have them. Of course, I fell in love with these huge Chanel shades. I was a little embarrassed by the tiny interlocked C logo dotting the frame all …

I have worn glasses for most of my life. Getting new frames are always a pain in the ass, but very exciting. It is a long process of switching between sample frames and my own glasses, squinting at a mirror trying to figure out if these are the frames that will best represent me for the next couple years. If they weren’t so damn expensive, I would have multiple frames to match different outfits and moods.
My first pair of glasses at age 8 were a pale pink …

I know what you are thinking. “Great, another stupid iPhone article. Can’t I even escape that thing on a fashion website?” Well, no, not really. But I am not here to talk about the usability of the phone, the maybe, maybe-not technological breakthrough, or anything like that. I am here to talk about this phone as an accessory.
I was not planning on buying the iPhone opening day. My husband, of course, was. My plan was to see how he liked the phone, and …

Ok, this isn’t really couture. But every self-respecting fashionista has dozens of painful shoes… so these are must-haves.

First we have the Band-Aid Blister Block Stick. It looks like a travel-sized stick of deodorant, and promises to create an invisible barrier of protection – no stickiness, no stains. And it really delivers. A few weeks ago, we were in Vegas, and I put on the Blister Block Stick before going out in my Marc Jacobs Bronze Pumps. I applied to my heels, the outer edge of …

I adore my father-in-law but… well… he’s a geek, in every sense of the word. He knows he is a geek; he embraces it.
One of his geeky indulgences is Dr. Who, a British sci-fi show that has been going on, in several incarnations, for about as long as I have been alive. One of the good doctor’s trademarks is his obscenely long, wide, 1970s-inspired scarves. So when I first took up knitting, my husband immediately found a Dr. Who scarf pattern for me to make. He …

My adventures knitting up a sock monkey hat