all my little words

I have to point out, I’m really excited that I’ve finally been able to start wearing my coats and scarves (at night at least) during the past week. Fingers crossed we are no longer dealing with sweltering temperatures here in LA LA Land and autumn is officially here. I do hate that I go on about the weather so much these days but I was thinking about it and, as style bloggers, isn’t the weather a huge part of it all? Think about it... it changes what we wear, when we wear it, how we wear it, etc. I guess I shouldn’t be so hard on myself. Anyway, bottom line, I’m loving the change in weather and the wardrobe changes it has brought along with it.

Now, as promised, here is one of the dresses I picked at the Loved One’s sale last week – if it looks familiar, it’s the one I was holding in the dressing room shot last post. However, I wanted to show it off here so I didn’t cover it up with the cool weather items I was waxing on about in the above rant. But I feel many remixes coming on with this amazing frock so you’re likely to see it again soon. PS: Yes, it’s another red dress, don't judge... “I have an addiction, sir”.

outfit details:
dress: vintage from the Loved One
tights: cynthia rowley


Now I'm off to get my hair done (finally)! Enjoy your day!

musical notes: magnetic fields - all my little words

up on the roof

One of my favorite things about where I live is that it really doesn't feel like LA at all. I hope that isn't a terrible thing to say, but it's very true! For instance, I know most of my neighbors names and have their phone numbers (that never happened to me anywhere else in this city)... we have a lovely little yard and our house is surrounded by greenery on all sides...Lily, the lovely blond-haired Iranian woman who runs the coffee stand knows me by name and asks if everything is ok if she hasn't seen me around for a while...should anything big happen in the neighborhood I'm most likely going to find out about it within a day... and some nights I fall asleep to the sound of coyotes chirping in the hills above (yes, they chirp. scary to me at first but it's such a novelty now).

All of this and I am basically 4 blocks from the Sunset Strip - pretty incredible, non? So I suppose I've learned to be more opened to the great things Los Angeles has to offer thanks to the magic of the Canyon. It makes me want to explore the city further. Or, in this case, to explore my own surroundings further. Like yesterday, when "the Brit" and I decided to brave a makeshift ladder and hop onto the roof to see what the view up there was all about...

I'm a bit squinty - it was really bright up there! I also left my cardigan down below.

 

I look really weird here but I managed to capture the ever elusive "Brit" so I had to post it :)

outfit details
dress: marc by marc jacobs (you've seen it before)
cowl: yarnovermovement (circa last fall)
tights: dkny
necklace: vintage (gift from the Brit)

Happy Monday!

it wasn't me...

Hello, lovely people! I hope you each had a fabulous weekend and are relaxed and ready for another week.  It does seem like a lot of people I've been bumping into lately (both on the internet and in real life) have a case the summertime blues and I've been in a strange sort of funk too with no apparent explanation. It hasn't really been hot enough here in LA to blame it on the weather or anything like that. However, I've decided to try and snap out of it! Care to join me? great! moving on...

The dress in these photos (most of which "the Brit" snapped)  is one I mentioned in a post last week but I never got around to wearing it until the weekend (unless you count this...

 haha...what a nerd!).  Anyhow, I found the dress at a vintage store on Melrose called SLOW - where I usually never find anything so it was a nice surprise finding this 1950s number in such good condition and fairly cheap to boot!  It has also been a while since bought anything red so it was defintely time to continue with the red dress obsession.

 

(there was wasp above me here - hence the ridiculous expression which I, of course, had to post)

outfit details
vintage dress: SLOW on melrose
flats: UO
sunglasses: ray bans (circa 2005)

jenny lewis - it wasn't me

red & blue

I didn't plan on posting again until tomorrow but then I came across this...

How can you not love Tavi?  Plus, she's on a RED bicycle!

shot by: Jak & Jil for Vogue Paris - article preview here.

In other color related news, I watched the film BLEU last night (for the millionth time) and I forgot how much I love it...

laura viers -- life is good blues