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hip hunting: !!! at Harlow’s

OK, this happened like 3 weeks ago, but whatevs, the fashions remain fresh as ziplocked leftovers. !!! were amazing. ‘Twas a great and sweaty show.

BTW, can someone recommend a good, cheap camera? The photo quality makes it look like my camera was manufactured out of cardboard and tin foil by a 6 year old. Sorry ’bout that.
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jillian


This is my friend, the lovely Jamaica Cole. She is the designer of overtly opulent Sapphire Cordial. Check out a gorgeous News & Review article here and her recent werewolf-inspired fashion show here.

thrift star of the day: colorblind grampa chic

mixed plaids

There’s nothing more satisfying than pulling it out of one’s ass and making an outfit work with 3 very different plaids. Totally nailed it.

thrift star of the day: tombird


originally uploaded by rockandrolllovesyou for wardrobe_remix.

I adore this bird-themed tomboy outfit, but answer me one question: What do I need to do to get rockandrolllovesyou’s amazing denim-finding karma?? Sell my soul to the ghost of Levi Strauss? Is that all?

thrift star of the day: against the grain

tiered dress
originally uploaded by CMYKaboom for wardrobe_remix

I don’t know why it is, but I seem to really enjoy paradoxical outfits. Self-contradictory dressing is the new black.

thrift star of the day: fall florals

fashion fillers
originally uploaded by fashionfillers.com for wardrobe_remix

I’m not sure what it is I completely adore about this outfit. Perhaps its the fact that she’s pulling off an oversized double-breasted blazer worthy of David Letterman circa 1992? Or maybe its the unexpectedness of the cobalt tights and patent gladiator heels? Whatever it is, it’s a beautiful mess.

thrift star of the day: ascot luv


originally uploaded by toilette for wardrobe_remix.

overtly masculine elements (buckle boots, black, blazer) plus overtly feminine elements (lace ascot dress, lace slip, costume jewelry, pleats…) equals hardcore WINNING.

thrift star of the day: big damn pants


originally uploaded by ibelieveinunicorns for wardrobe_remix

If someone had said to me, “OMG, I saw this girl today, she looked so CUTE. She was wearing, like, these beige pinstriped pants that are 3 sizes too big and rolled up to the knee, a trompe l’eoil t-shirt with a striped scarf printed on it and then a floral scarf tied around her neck with a big bow in her hair…!” I would never have pictured this and the unabashed way she is pulling it all off.

Well, knock me over with a peacock feather.

thrift star of the day: here’s to stylish moms

vitamininmotion
vitamininmotion
originally uploaded my vitamininmotion for wardrobe_remix

Boy howdy. Vitamininmotion has it all. Piercing blue eyes, cute hair, amazing personal style, and - considering that most of the pieces (same blouse, shoes and reversible jacket) from these outfits were burgled from her mother’s closet - a mother who likely was the reincarnation Coco Chanel herself.

Yowza.


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thrift star of the day: unadulterated pretty


originally uploaded by fashion rubies (fashion-rubies.blogspot.com) for wardrobe_remix

When I get dressed, if something looks too “pretty” I have this incessant, unreasonable need to uglify it a little. But his lovely lass is wearing the outfit-equivalent of an endless field of blooming irises. And I totally love it.

dear diary,

day three in bed with the flu.  

i’ve exhausted all un-read options in my google reader many times over, and re-organized my collection of must-have jeffrey campbell-bookmarks into the order i will acquire them in.  (i am now in the process of figuring out how that will happen.)

obviously, after those things have been done, the only thing left to do on the internet is obsessively hit the “refresh” button on the page i have devoted AT ALL TIMES and ONLY TO wardrobe_remix.  duh.

which is how i found yarn over movement.  (there are reasons to be ocd.)

  

see this?  this is exactly how one gracefully transitions from summer to early fall. cute mini skirt and tee combo?  check.  covetable jaunty cap and scarf? check.  slightly muted colors?  check.  i now see the error in the way i have been lurking around my apartment for the last three days in a mint green american apparel one-piece and my stretched out black beanie, in a fever-induced stupor.  

no, diana!  wrong!  

since i had plenty of time to lurk, i also discovered that this girl who has saved me from total fall-fashion self-humiliation also has a great blog and an etsy, (which she promises to re-open in the beginning of september,) where she sells hand-made goodies such as cowls, lace and cable berets, and cable fingerless gloves. 

i’m wondering if she takes special-requests for a mint-green combo of all three, to match my fall one-piece?

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