The Skivvy

I am not a handbag person, it’s just not my thing. I used to be a Marc Jacobs person, before he took over Bleeker Street and lost weight and got all shiny - but now I’m more of a Phillip Lim person. I used to be a purple person, it was the age of Purple Rain and I adored Prince and Purple above all else - well, that hasn’t changed. So, perhaps my love of this bag is more of a Prince/Purple thing and not a Marc Jacobs handbag thing at all.
…also, it’s huge and I have always loved a big bag.
Marc by Marc Jacobs Dr. Q "Riz" Hobo, $528.00

I am not a handbag person, it’s just not my thing. I used to be a Marc Jacobs person, before he took over Bleeker Street and lost weight and got all shiny - but now I’m more of a Phillip Lim person. I used to be a purple person, it was the age of Purple Rain and I adored Prince and Purple above all else - well, that hasn’t changed. So, perhaps my love of this bag is more of a Prince/Purple thing and not a Marc Jacobs handbag thing at all.
…also, it’s huge and I have always loved a big bag.
Marc by Marc Jacobs Dr. Q "Riz" Hobo, $528.00

So, I promised myself that I would only buy two things for winter…a really kick-ass, investment-level coat and a pair of flat black boots. I am in love with this Stella McCartney coat I want, want, want, want, want…although, unless it gets marked down like 95%, there’s almost no way I’ll actually buy it, but a girl can dream.
Stella McCartney Wool Tulip Coat
$2,595 at Net-a-Porter (via Net-a-Porter)

Becoming a homeowner has forced my ridiculously expensive, or as my husband would put it - "fancy" tastes into stark opposition with my financial realities…as in - I have no money, a furniture-less home and some big budget design ideas. So, I’ve bee searching and searching from DWR to Ebay to even - gasp - JC Penny (seriously, they have a mirrored vanity that I wouldn’t be ashamed to own) and finally settled on this high-style, low budget beauty at Target.
Venetian Mirror Table, $99 at Target

I am a headband girl…granted, generally speaking there’s really only one headband and it is black, unadorned and worn (in several different varieties) every single day - it’s my thing. However, as of late, I’m bored with the prerequisite black headband - and at the same time I also came to the conclusion that metallics and animal prints are going to be my new neutrals…and viola my obsessive compulsive, accessories-related analysis has yielded this: J Crew’s Double Mirrored-Metallic Leather Headband - need both gold and silver - right now. (via J. Crew)

I’ve known the searing pain of pounding the pavement in 4-inch stilettos. That pain that starts out as a tingle dead-smack in the center of the ball of your foot, the pain that just keeps growing until the entire bottom of your foot feels like it is on fire - each step agonizing…so bad in fact that even after the offending shoes have been removed, the pain continues, sometimes for days. In spite of this I refuse to give up the heels, I refuse to wear "commuter" shoes - I just keep on steppin’ - with the help of Hue’s Ball of the Foot Pillows my stiletto saving grace.
Hue Ball of the Foot Pillow - $6 or 3 for $15 at Bare Necessities (via Bare Necessities)

I wear scarves all year around…As I type, I am sitting at my desk swathed in a summer muffler and a cashmere sweater - I’m getting old, I get cold. So, I’m thinking this $8.80 scarf paired with a DVF dress and some Gucci shoes in a low, middle, high combo could work for me.
Burnout Camo Scarf, $8.80 at Forever 21 (via Forever 21)

So, in prep for Fall, I am investing in way too many pairs of opaque and semi-opaque tights to brighten an otherwise completely black (as in totally, utterly, completely black) wardrobe. My fave, affordable, comfy tights are by Hue and these come in a multitude of colors - from bright pink to basic black to Fall’s all important jewel tones.
Hue Tights, $12.50 or 2 for $20 at Bare Necessities (via Bare Necessities)

I am especially snobbish when it comes to three things (okay, really like 15-20 things but for the sake of this post, let’s say three)…
#1 - Shoes, they don’t have to be designer, but the have to be really, really good.
#2 - Coffee, it has to be espresso and it has to be really, really good
#3 -Pens, they have to be felt tipped, fine at least minorly stylish…
…so while perusing the art shop, i rediscovered my favorite pens of all time (literally, since I discovered these forever ago and kinda forgot about them) Le Pen - perfectly sleek, smooth and stylin’.

Gloves are my absolute favorite accessory…cold weather or warm…it’s a Karl Lagerfeld thing. So, even though it’s still not cool enough to sport my fingerless perforated driving gloves (unless you’re Karl Lagerfeld) I am dreamily, materialistically, lusting after Lauren Urstadt’s Quilted Fingerless Gloves ($75). (via Intermix)