Wednesday: red Louboutin espadrilles

I’ve been dying to wear my new dresses, but the weather just won’t cooperate! It has rained every morning this week, and though it eventually got sunny in the afternoon (for a moment anyway), I couldn’t chance it when I left the house. I couldn’t allow mud splatters on my perfect new white dress!

But I’ve figured out that there’s more to my dress obsession. I just can’t get into the pant trends of the season: Skinny jeans? Um, not for me. (I have to say, not too many women could look good in these Roxy Skinny Jean, New York Rinse by 7, whether they’re super skinny or curvy.) I don’t care, I’m not giving up my bootcut jeans! I haven’t worn Bermuda shorts since maybe middle school, so I just can’t take the plunge, especially not in the office, and not even in Robert Rodriguez’s admittedly cute Tuxedo Crop Pant… And god knows you won’t ever catch me wearing short shorts. (Seriously, who would take you seriously in these Pucci Stretch Solid Shorts?)

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Monday: gold Jimmy Choo sandals

I decided that this season would be all about the dresses — you know, easy one-stop dressing and all that. But I think maybe I’ve taken it a little too far. Help me! I’m overdosing on dresses! First there was the green silk print “obi” dress. Then came this blouson bright print silk dress:

Both, I rationalized, were for weddings I was going to this summer. But now I’ve gone and had this bib dress made from a fabulous vintage white Courreges fabric:

And… oops, then came this cream silk shirtdress:

Somebody stop me before I order again! I managed to walk out of the first fitting for these last two dresses without ordering anything else — and let me tell you, that took a lot of will power! — but then at the last fitting, I just had to poke around the racks and of course I stopped dead on another dress, and another fabric, that I’d long been eyeing. I couldn’t help it; the silk print matched my new linen and yellow floral Gunmetal peeptoes! Yes, dear reader, I confess: I was weak. I ordered another one… and a coordinating jacket. Help me!!!!!

To be continued…

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Friday: yellow floral Gunmetal peeptoes

You know how they say what’s old is new again? Well, this season I keep coming across things that remind me of my early years:

• Famolares, which I was pleased to find out, are back in stores! I had a pair like these, but flats (well, waves, I guess). I was around 9.
• Embroidered dresses like the one I begged my mom to get me when we went to Mexico — I think every girl in fourth grade had one. I’m pretty sure mine was either pink or yellow.
• This season I’ve bought a couple of items — a made-to-measure shirtdress in cream silk, and this white Nanette Lepore top — with puff sleeves. I was big into puff sleeves when I was about 9. I remember one outfit of navy pants and a puff-sleeve white blouse with a tiny floral print. I might have even worn it for a school picture.
• Hey, what’s up with these jellies? Totally middle school. That and Swatch watches.
• Huaraches… Hmm. Was that high school?

And that’s where it starts to become a big blur — and thankfully so, because it was the ’80s… shudder! I have to draw the line somewhere. Some things just aren’t meant to relive. My mom used to cringe when my sisters and I wanted to wear miniskirts in the ’80s, because she’d worn them to death in the ’60s. So now I‘m the old fogey: Sure, girls born after 1985 (and it still blows my mind that babies born when I was a teenager are actual adults!) probably think legwarmers are so novel and cool, and they can probably get away with wearing them in some sort of ironic way. But no matter what Madonna does, I’m not going back there! Been. There. Done. That!

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Wednesday: camel Manolo slingbacks

The news just in the L.A. Times this week: Pugs are the new “it” accessory! Some of us have known all along, but the fashion world has finally caught on: Barneys catalogs, the Beverly Hills Neiman Marcus’s store windows (which I really need to check out), Gianna Rose Atelier soaps… As the writer of the Times article points out, the smushed-nosed dogs are what the French might call jolie laide — or my preferred term, ugly-cute.

A friend of mine jokes that he took the idea of dogs looking like their owners to heart: he chose a miniature greyhound, the skinniest breed he could find! Me, not so much. While I do hope one day to have a pug — my obsession has even led me to go to pug meetups, which makes me feel like a stalker-slash-dog molester, though I must say I’m seldom the only dogless attendee! — there are a few things keeping me from doing it. First and foremost, I work long hours and that would make for a lonely pug — and a potentially misbehaving one. Can you imagine what shape my shoes would be in? Heaven forbid! Oh yeah, and I think I’m allergic to dogs. But that’s fixable. My shoes wouldn’t be!

P.S. Die hard pug fans should also check out my friend Alison Pace’s fun new novel, Pug Hill. And if you’re in New York, she’s doing a signing at a pug meetup on Saturday!

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Monday: gold snakeskin Gucci thongs

I’m not sure what’s come over me, but I’m seriously digging the gold this season. Well, all metallics actually. In addition to the bronze Manolo d’Orsays I bought earlier, not to mention the gold snakeskin Prada wedges, I’ve just picked up some gold strappy Jimmy Choos during the Saks pre-sell. Can’t wait to get them! And I’m still tempted by this pair of silver python Chloe heels.

I think it’s just something from childhood I never outgrew. Doesn’t every little girl love shiny, pretty things? And doesn’t every woman love shiny, blingy things? Diamonds, gold, metallic shoes… It’s nice that metallics are actually in fashion so it’s okay to wear something that in any other context might be deemed borderline tacky. After all, even gold lamé had its moment in the ’80s!

I do have to draw the line at buying a matching metallic bag, though this Jimmy Choo hobo is pretty cute (and looks like it could hold a lot!).

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