Stuff Fashionistas Like Thursday

Maybe it’s the scandalous ads, maybe it’s the fact that most locations are open until 11pm on the weekends, maybe it’s the fact that a store full of overpriced, solid clothing is just too good to pass up… Whatever the case may be, fashionistas are drawn to AA like a moth to a flame.

I am usually filled with a sense of awe and amazement upon entering an American Apparel store, although I wouldn’t classify myself as “rocker chic”  or “indie hipster” and I definitely wouldn’t wear a see-through bodysuit and leggings like the people who work there (true story), I do own a fair amount of AA.

The main reason I can determine for why fashionistas love American Apparel is it looks good on everyone. After all, it’s hard to go wrong with a solid tee. Secondly, AA sells great leggings at a reasonable price. Leggings=fashionista staple. AA leggings are durable, only moderately see-through and they don’t do that embarrassing/silly butt sagging thing that other leggings do.

Why do you love AA?

Wordless Wednesday

Photo is from Dropular

More skirts, please

I have an unhealthy obsession with the show Mad Men. Not only is it incredibly well-written and exciting, I also lust after the fashions in the worst way. The one thing I covet the most are the skirts and dresses. It is hard to believe that women wore skirts and dresses almost every day just a few years ago. I want us girls to dress like that again!

Well, unfortunately I cannot dress exactly like Betty  without being a total creep. However, I found some frocks that come close. Here are some dresses I found:

1. Staten Island Dress- $49.99 from ModCloth

2. Spot Through The Heart Dress- $64.99 from ModCloth

3. Senatorial Staff Dress- $54.99 from ModCloth

Now that I have found the perfect Betty Draper dresses, who would like to buy them for me? Anyone? Hello?

OOOHHHH and I got an award  from B a la Moda today! Hurray! Thank you sooo much!

With this award I am supposed to name five guilty pleasures.

Totally kidding about the last two, ya’ll.

I would like to give this award to all of you! I literally LOVE all of your blogs… and I wanna read all of your guilty pleasures!

Color Me Spooky

I was a coloring book for Halloween.

I got the idea for this costume from a girl I went to grad school with. Being a coloring book on Halloween is easy and fun. It is also an interactive costume. and who doesn’t love interaction??

To transform yourself into a coloring book you must:

• Leave your dwelling (house, apt, etc.).
• Go to the store.
• Purchase a white top and white leggings (yes, white leggings…).
• Purchase Crayola washable magic markers.
• Go home.
• Draw Halloween themed shapes on your white top and bottoms.
• Put costume on.
• Force your friends to color in the hollow shapes (by any means necessary).
• Tadaa! You are now a coloring book!

Here’s a full few of the coloring book ensemble

Me coloring myself.

Okay your turn… tell me what you were for Halloween!!

Do the clothes really make the man?

To answer the question above. No.

Just in case you haven’t gotten a chance to watch tv, read anything or go outside over the past year, we are in a recession. Those $30 dollar skinny jeans at Forever 21 are flying off the shelves like hot cakes and fashionistas all over the land are improvising to save money. I don’t know about ya’ll, but a textured jersey necklace tee for $58 from J.Crew is completely out of my budget. No matter how cute it is.

Luckily for us, there are a few things we fashionistas can wear for free that will always make us look fabulous, confident and fashion forward.

It might be cool on the runway to look perpetually furious, but just like the see-through tops models wear in fashion shows, it doesn’t translate in real life. Audrey Hepburn said “happy girls are the prettiest girls”. She is right. Smile whenever you can. Happiness is contagious.

Good posture can literally make anyone look good. Everything gets a healthy lift and you end up looking oh, so confident. Plus, practicing good posture now can help you avoiding getting a pesky hunchback when you are fierce and over 65.

America is one of the lucky countries with a free and unlimited supply of fresh, clean water. I happen to think that is pretty sweet. Not only do we have something free to drink every time we are thirsty, water is also fabulous for your skin. Most of those annoying skin problems like blackheads and minor blemishes can be flushed away with a tall glass of water. So skip the soda (besides it is $1.75 these days… such a rip off) and opt for water. It’s what the cool people do.

See? You can save your money. You don’t have to wear the latest styles to be totally fabulous!

Stuff Fashionistas Like Thursday

Have you ever looked at a fashion magazine or a runway show and though “Who wears this stuff”? Well, folks, your endless quest for answers is finally over. Fashionistas wear it. Not only do they wear it; they look pretty darn good in it, too. Trends are to fashionistas as wings are to a bird (pretty poetic, eh?).

Allow us to go back to basic communications theory according to Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations. Have I lost you? Okay well basically, in this case, the fashionista is the innovator and everyone else follows suit. Still don’t understand? Let’s take a look at some fashionistas who are absolutely trend-tastic.

Becs from Style with Benefits rocks every trend in the book to fabulous perfection! Did you know she has a twin? She is a pretty fabulous chicka, too.

Mel from Wrecked Stellar is super trend-tastic as well

Pretty fabulous, eh? Who are your favorite trend-tastic bloggers??

Wordless Wednesday

photo from Dropular

Taylor Momsen: You’re Halfway There!

One of the crappiest parts about being a 16-year-old, millionaire actress is the fact that you have to “find yourself” (and your sense of style) in front of the whole world. Miss Taylor Momsen is doing just that. She wants to be a rocker chick, but half the time she ends up looking like she just got robbed. However, Taylor seems to be finding a way to give her look that rocker edge and still look moderately normal.

Her attire is still far from age appropriate, but that is not a battle not worth fighting.

What do you think of her red carpet look?

Okay, this is random and it has nothing to do with Taylor Momsen. HOWEVER, can someone please tell me what is going on with Lindsay Lohan?? For crying out loud, if this isn’t proof that you shouldn’t do drugs than I don’t know what is!

Okay, I definitely never want to be a celebrity. It seems really dreadful.

Love or Fug?

I came across this model when I was perusing the pages of Fashion Gone Rogue. Lindsey Wixon, the model’s name, was photographed by Troy Jensen.  She has a very exotic look. So, I ask you:

Do you love her look or hate it?

photos via Fashion Gone Rogue

It’s a beautiful day!

I L O V E, love, love when I find editorials with models that have personality. Sometimes fashion photography can be so depressing: a sullen, half starved, partially nude model brooding into the camera like her kitten just got hit by a car or something. I just wanna say, “Perk up supermodel; fashion is fun!”

Anyhow, this editorial made my whole day! The styling is superb (I wish I could dress like this every day and that I had an old school Cadillac). And the models are animated and beautiful.

These photos came from Fashion Gone Rogue | Photography duo, Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello |“The Chic and the Cars”