thrift star of the day: geekier than thou



Sat Jun 14th – Anniversary, originally uploaded by closetbug.

Eek! There comes a point where geek chic is so geek that it’s more chic than geek.

thrift star of the day: grampa chic



, originally uploaded by guiltyquilty.

Never ever ever wear dark socks with sandals. It never works…. fabulously.

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thrift star of the day: flying trapeze



, originally uploaded by nemrešpobjećodnedjelje.

I love this! She looks like she’s ready for her daring tightrope walk… or maybe just a walk down the proverbial fashion runway which is the life of The Amazing Nemrešpobjećodnedjelje.

Her hair is the perfect sole accessory.

LL Hip Pick of the week: this vest has pockets. pockets for your extra dough.

The ever-generous Michelle from LadyLanguage (despite my having previously described her store name as sounding like “the title of a lesbian romance novel” – sorry Michelle!), let us do some shopping for her store last month and then sent us some of the clothes we chose. In exchange, we decided to help her out by styling a publicity shoot entirely with those clothes. What a completely unselfish and totally humble good deed – y’know? Because every girl hates getting dressed up in brand new lovely free clothes and getting obscene amounts of photos taken. Anyway, we scratch a virtual friend’s back and what else do we get? A 20% discount for our readers on every LL Hip Pick we feature. This week is this amazing double-layer satin vest with a silver chain-linked front.

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only $25.60 with code HIP20


photos by Nick Avey
hair by Joshua Michael of Article Salon
clothes provided by LadyLanguage
makeup and styling by me

electroshock fashion show: pretty cheeky

Another fashion show! Lucky me. This time it was at a mustache party for my favorite local designer boutique, Cuffs Urban Apparel. Lacadia is the sweetest and most talented girl!
My hair was pretty insane at first, but thanks to the mercifully taming wind it ended up a tad bit more demure and went well with my awesome secretary outfit (with handpainted indianhead screenprint by Pretty Trashy). Later on in the evening, we all got accosted by an overzealous blush brush.

Photos by Eve and others:

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basket weave hair

Photos by Nick Avey:

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disney boy


It was a really fun night- the tunes were bumpy and the DRINKS WERE STIFF.
More cool shots and bar scene photos here.

SACRAMENTANS:
If you like things like, I dunno, dancing your face off and drinking bubbly and/or burny things which improve your dance moves, and if you are someone who is anyone, then you must attend HELL WEEK. It’s pretty much a citywide summer kick-off party which will melt your mind and it starts TODAY.
See you there.