Showing posts with label wedges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wedges. Show all posts

16 May 2010

Dear Detox,

Why do you have to be so difficult? I only want to not buy clothes for a whole year. Nothing near that big of a challenge. Sheshhh. So how difficult do you really need to make this?

You're always tempting me with sales and hot trends. Pushing magazines and fashion blogs in my face. Repeatedly making me look in a closet much in need of a stylish update. Why must you constantly tease me with fashion fixes that I cannot attain?

I will admit you almost had me a number of times this past week BUT in the end I resisted.

First, an Outnet email featuring the likes of Antik Batik and Alexander McQueen about killed me. It contained such good deals as 70% off fabulous designer duds. Massive markdowns and hot labels: What could a fashionista want more than that? Not much except maybe a front row seat at Paris fashion week or a job at Vogue.

Second, Urban Outfitters had free shipping as well as J Crew (on their sale items!). If you're going to buy clothes online, why not buy them when there's free shipping? (I think it pretty much legitimizes an online purchase ha!) It also did not help that Urban sent out a link a couple days before to their new dresses. Can I say I only wish I could have a little pardon in my no shopping diet to buy a couple of cute summer day dresses. Check their dresses out. You won't be disappointed.

Third, I went to Target. I was only supposed to see if they had a pair of these brown Cynthia Vincent wedges that my friend and I have desperately wanted. She checked in LA and they were out. Same deal in Atlanta and Macon. All hope was left with me in Orlando, and once again no such luck. Side note, if anyone knows where we can get these beautiful wedges (picture below) or ones similar to them in the same price range for a college student and an aspiring actress, we would greatly appreciate it. Anyways, back to my trip at Target. So Zac Posen is currently their featured designer. Not good. No no, I don't mean his designs are not good; I mean not good for someone not wanting to shop. His gold metallic bathing suit almost killed my detox. I even tried it on, which was a bad mistake because it was just so gosh darn fab! I daydreamed about wearing it to summer pool soirées or on future cruises or on a beach in the south of France with a chilled drink in hand and a dashing gentleman at my side. Okay, enough with the dreaming. I somehow said no, but I was sooooo unbelievably close to buying it.
So detox, I almost had a relapse into shopping. But I hope you're proud of me for saying no. It wasn't easy just so you know.

Sincerely,

Kiki

PS: Here are the wedges. Please help in the quest to find them.

25 April 2010

Design on a Dime #1

The average college student is poor. Student loans, weekend shenanigans, parent's cutting us off financially; we have no spare money. Look at our diets: ramen noodles, ramen noodles, and more ramen noodles. Satisfying both in the stomach and in the bank account. Okay I lied, not satisfying at all. If the dwindling digits on our accounts was not enough, we also have classes to worry about AND the ever important task of looking fly. Yes, I just you used the word fly. Don't hate.

Lucky for you readers, I too feel the strain of wanting to look stylishly fabulous while not breaking the bank. So here I present you with great spring ensembles at GREAT prices! Please don't jump up and down in your lecture hall seats with excitement, you might disrupt your painfully fascinating class on the homogeneous second order constant coefficient linear ordinary differential equation describing the harmonic oscillator. Oh boyyy, just typing that makes me want to study! Hmm...

This first post of styling designs for those of you on a dime is of great casual day outfits for spring. They're perfect for a walk in the park or a bite to eat al fresco.
Spring Fling
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Burn Baby Burn
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Now stop reading this post and pay attention in class! Once you've hit the books and aced those tests, unscrew the piggy bank and reward yourself with stylish treat.
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