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

Sweet and Lowdown

I've been sitting on this editorial for a few days because I wanted to do an outfit post first - though I did post a few images on my tumblr. You may have seen it elsewhere by now but it's so lovely I thought it was worth posting it here! so beautiful...

 

 

 

Sweet and Lowdown

Photographer: Nicholas Lawn
Stylist: Lyson Marchessault
Model: Nia @ Select
TEST MAGAZINE 2010

(found via vain & vapid)

another summer weekend

True, it was a fun-filled, fast paced weekend but I was definitely feeling it by Sunday afternoon when we took these - and boy does it show! I spent most of the day in our hammock watching clouds go by and wishing I'd said no to that last glass of wine! but, oh well. It was a lovely weekend of best friends, great food (and, yes, good wine. ugh...), lots of walking, talking, movie watching - oh, and a semi-successful Melrose shopping adventure which I'll tell you more about in the near future.

I'm actually really glad I waited on these green print shorts from Urban because, low and behold, they ended up in the sale rack for under $20. I had almost bought them at least twice before that. They're a little wrinkled here due to hammocking though!

photos by "the brit"

outfit details
cardigan - vintage
shorts: uo
top: xxi
shoes: a gift 


happy Monday! I love this jimi hendrix cover...

a little thursday night

Nothing is better than spending a Thursday night as if you have nothing to do and nowhere to be the next day (even if, in reality, you do)! It almost feels like an extended weekend that way. Here is a little bit of my Thursday night...

this is "hungry me" ^ (please excuse the unidentified elbow behind me!)

yummy Thai iced tea

yummier still, coconut soup and...

 hey, look! it's the Brit.

 The restaurant we went to had green ceilings and mod-looking light fixtures.

After dinner we stumbled upon this little pink Smart Car that thought it was a wind-up toy.

Then off to see a film in LA's best moive theater, the arclight - we went to SALT because I love Angelina.

But we got there a bit early - here's me waiting and I'm pretty sure eating caramel corn (so good there) when this photo was snapped, can you tell?

The movie finished we went back home to let Charlie explore the yard.

 me and little Lola. She says hello!

So there's a glimpse of  last night.  I have a busy weekend ahead of me involving music related things AND  my friend Brittany is coming from Santa Barbara to stay with me!! I am told there may be wine involved.

Be safe, have fun!

x djrd

musical notes: the cardigans - i need some fine wine, and you need to be nicer

ps:  

outfit details

dress: xxi (an old favorite)

vivienne westwood pirate boots

vintage: bracelet

last resort: Givenchy

I know, I didn't post anything about the resort collections up til now and it's been about a month since the shows happened, bad fashion blogger. At the time I felt like the collections had been pretty well covered by most of the fashion blogs I read and  I didn't really feel like I had any thing to add. But. While going through the Givenchy Resort show again on style.com I felt compelled to post some of my favorites from that collection for you all. I'm pretty sure it was the bold reds that first grabbed my attention and then the romantic Victorian-esque silhouettes. Anyhow, see for yourself.

{click collage to see larger version. click here for more from this collection}

In other news, a nail found it's way into my car's tire some time in the past week. I guess I won't be buying anything new clothing-wise for a couple weeks :(  Classic that I just bought a raaather expensive plane ticket for an upcoming trip.(I guess part of that last thing is good news but boo to the rest). ok, end of rant.

musical notes: It's no secret that I've been a big supporter of florence from the very early pre-record label days AND all of her videos thus far have been beyond incredible. Here's one I haven't posted yet (sorry about the ad!)...I love this song. xdjrd

sail on, sunday

I had every intention of taking photos of our quick day-trip to Laguna Beach to visit my mother and sister but we were simply too busy to stop and snap anything - not even my nautical-esque outfit in it's element. By the time we got back to LA this is the lighting we were left with. Still, I wanted to take a few so "the Brit" and I goofed around in the yard for a bit and here's what we came up with...

I still need to take this fletcher by lyell jumpsuit in a little - I love it but it runs pretty big if you ask me. I'm wearing a small and it's pretty darn baggy - especially in the top area; I am not a small-chested gal! so, just a little warning to anyone contemplating getting it.

outfit details

jumpsuit: fletcher by lyell

clogs (again, I know!): mia

sweater: "the brit's" closet

that is all.

xdjrd

kings of convenience - I'd rather dance  (I still love this song)