Tuesday, November 20, 2012

since you asked.....


This is my holiday "dress." (Center, coral.)

I've been lusting after Raquel Allegra for three or four years now.... ever since I saw one of her tie-dyed dresses in the window at the old Mohawk General Store. (Which was on Mohawk, incidentally.) That dress used to torment me. It was so well lit, and so gorgeously ACID GREEN, I could see it from my car every time I drove by.

So you'd better believe I snatched this one up when I found it at Wasteland last week. NWT, people!!

Did I just turn into one of those assholes who brags about her resale finds? Oh well.


p.s. The model seems to be rocking it with some sort of leggins (not to be confused with "legginGs") but I think I'll go with jeans. That shit is SHEER.
Posted by esb at 2:28 PM

12 comments:

  1. CeliaNovember 20, 2012 at 2:41 PM

    oh, that's GOOD. and very you.

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  2. RachelNovember 20, 2012 at 2:46 PM

    I think those are extra long spats? I don't know. I'm confused.

    Keep bragging about resale finds! You finally managed to convince me to go into Wasteland (years of post-traumatic-vintage-store-stress-syndrome had kept me away previously) and now I'm not looking back.

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    1. esbNovember 20, 2012 at 2:50 PM

      i tried to google "leggin" -- aren't those sort of like civil war chaps? -- but all i got were results for "legginGs"

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  3. ToniaNovember 20, 2012 at 3:30 PM

    WHOA. That is an incredibly cool dress. Well done!

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  4. laurenNovember 20, 2012 at 3:35 PM

    i call my mom when i find a particularly good bargain. i mean, i call her when i get hired and published and stuff like that as well, but sometimes i savor her pride re: the shopping most of all.

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  5. wmbg.November 20, 2012 at 7:42 PM

    hotskies.

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  6. caraNovember 21, 2012 at 2:05 AM

    I would like to see that on a real person, it makes absolutely no sense on the model with chaps who appears to be inexplicably weighed down by the diaphanous fabric.

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    1. caraNovember 21, 2012 at 2:05 AM

      (which means: photo please.)

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    2. esbNovember 21, 2012 at 1:55 PM

      i'll try for some sort of close-up. the fabric is actually not diaphanous, it's shredded t-shirt material.

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  7. H.H.November 21, 2012 at 1:52 PM

    love love love

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  8. AnonymousNovember 23, 2012 at 5:15 AM

    I WANT THAT.

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  9. jamieNovember 23, 2012 at 2:54 PM

    dear. you turned into someone who brags about their score when you tweeted about it like, 3 times. xx

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