So, I’ve just discovered Polyvore on a friend’s blog when she created this Madeline Set (which I love!). On Polyvore, you can easily create sets of items from stores like Urban Oufitters and Luck Lady Rules (so, many options from big to small!). You can even install a “Clip to Polyvore” button on your browser’s tool bar, so if you ever see something lovely you want to share with the world, you can add it to a set.

You can search for what you want (ie: donuts, sprinkles, candy, circles, and tiered dresses were a few search terms I used to create my Donut Set <–click here and you’ll see my set on the Polyvore page, with all of those products linked to the web-site where they can be purchased). Once you find the items, they are (more…)

I love these cute necklaces which are light, 2D versions of other things you might be carrying or wearing (a bow, a heart, a camera). (more…)

Recap: My co-workers thought my outfits were anything from “crazy” to “interesting” to something only I “could pull off.” And so, I decided to see for myself and began taking a picture of my outfit every morning.

So, yes, I’ve updated my Flickr set since the “62 Weird and/or Fashionable Outfits” post so that it now has about 90 of the outfits I wear everyday, mostly to work.

You can view all of the outfits here (the newest (more…)

Lady Luck Rules Ok carries tons of bright & cute necklaces for your fashion consumption (esp in the Fun Rocker Necklaces Section). Yum.

$35 is a little pricey for my cheap-self, but I do love these cute totes (vinyl rather than canvas)! They’re also over at bang bang you’re thread.

Pretty little bowtie rings in bright retro colors ($4.50, 31 Corn Lane). Maybe spice up a sundress?

$3 + $1 for shipping & these cute buttons from Bang Bang You’re Thread can spice up your fashionable attire! (I’d add them to a vest or a blazer.)

Poketo has a sense of humor! Since we all can’t afford the *real* thing Poketo as offered us a “Louis Vuitton” tote bag ($80, still a little steep but it’s one of only a handful made for a Wake Up, Andy Warhol! exhibition in Korea), a “diamond” ring ($10), and a “Medal of Honor” brooch ($18). Not the cheapest fashion statements you could make… but much cheaper than the alternatives.

Here are photos featuring the fashion industry’s love of boyish figures and super-skinny women. Fashion’s exclusion of all other sizes is ridiculous. Nonetheless, these photos from The New York Times have been sitting on my desk for weeks, and I just now decided I couldn’t let these bright colors slide by, no matter the size of the model within them. (Check out the New York Times Spring 2008 Fashion & Beauty Magazine online. It’s got some amazing stuff, and beautiful web-design, too!) (more…)

Here is a whimsical, Alice in Wonderland-esque inspiration board featuring puffy sleeves, large ruffles, bright pastels, and overflowing baby doll dresses.

Although I am not fond of the skinny-model obsession, there are few other ways to get such depth and breadth of fashion inspiration than what high fashion (and with it the skinny models) provides. And thus, I (more…)

Clockwise, starting top left: Maria Carla Boscone in Harper’s Bazzar, Gwen Stefani, Model for Louis Verdad, Salma Hayek (who also plays Frida in a movie about her life), Model for Rafaella Curiel, Model for Christian Lacroix

Check out the Frida-Inspired images above, and then dress yourself Kahlo-esque using this list of How To Dress Like Frida: (more…)

I love this article from New York Magazine about five different people who only wear one color. Sounds to me like they all have some absurdly fun mental illness!

“I actually wore turquoise for eight years, but last September, I switched to gray. I’d had a bad year and needed to get out of it.” -Rebecca Turbow

To clarify my title: the top ten things currently available online in lime (neon, florescent, highlighter) green that are not a million dollars. (I love lime green. See my room.) Even though neon brights are popular this season, it’s harder than you’d think to find lime green merchandise outside of a costume, Halloween, or clown store (seriously). But with a little hunting I’ve come up with a pile of lime green merchandise that is sure to injure your retinas (yay)!

1. American Apparel’s Strapless Ruched Dress in Fluorescent Green ($36)
2. Target’s Lime Green Party Set for 96 People ($50)
3. Manic Panic’s 8″ Synthetic Glam Strips in Electric Lizard ($5)
4. Alice + Olivia for Payless, Aidan Wedge in green ($30)
5. Ikea’s Saxan shower curtain in green ($5)

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I thought I’d share the thrill of having an inspiration board. I hang mine between my closets (yes, closets, but they are both very small) in an alcove with my jewelery. This (above) happens to be my current fashion inspiration board, and this month featuring mostly bright colors, many of which I found in Vogue, as well as as few tags and logos from places like Target and Urban Outfitters. (A fashion inspiration board doesn’t always have to include photos of clothes because “inspiration” can come from anything. I hung up the Jenna Malone photo in the lower right hand corner because I like the style of the photograph, not because I particularly like the clothes.) I like using magnets because they make it easy to switch images, but a bulletin board or sticky-tack directly on the wall works, too!

I bought these bright pink, pointy, graffiti-ed high heels for $15 at a little store in Cape Cod. I don’t know who made them, but I would buy another pair in a second if I could find them. They’re like a work of art, more comfortable than you might imagine, and always get some kind of comment when I wear them. (more…)