I'm a carpetbagger, baby

As usual, this time of year makes it next to impossible for me to post regularly but I promise to do my best! Meanwhile, I have been wanting to share my new winter coat with you all and now is as good a time as any so... here it is!  I suppose it is a bit like wearing a carpet (really heavy fabric) but it keeps me quite warm and it's such a fun 1960s pattern PLUS the lining is a lover-ly burnt orange color.

Though I bought it several weeks back, I have only been able to wear it a handful of times due to the crazy LA weather - ie: pretty cold until about 11am and then it shoots up into the high 60s or 70s (!) and makes you feel ridiculous for having put on SO many layers that morning.
outfit details:
coat - vintage 
shorts & shirt - h&m
tights - hansel from basel


musical notes: jenny lewis & elvis costello - carpetbaggers


I hope you all have a wonderful weekend... x

handle me with care

Well, it's probably high time I did a conventional outfit post, isn't it?! With all the events happening in my world this past month I haven't done too many of them.  What I've been wearing hasn't changed that much, expect for the fact that it's basically summer weather here in LA (with the exception of a few chilly evenings) and thus...the shorts with bare legs have emerged!

Recently, I received this cool little bag from a label called Fabric & Handle in the mail.  It's called the Maryl tote and its simple, comes in a bunch of fun patterns AND my camera fits inside which is a prerequisite for bags in my wardrobe.  Incidentally, it can also fit a small chihuahua quite comfortably...

I love the pattern but my favorite feature has to be the adjustable "snap-on" handles.

Fabric & Handle is also offering a special 10% discount for DJRD readers. Just enter the following discount code at check out: FAH2010

 outfit details
top: primark 
shorts: alexandra grecco
bad: fabric & handle
shoes: vintage


See you soon! xdjrd
 
 musical notes: handle with care - jenny lewis (traveling wilbury's cover)

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

the reality of blogging

I've come across a few posts and articles lately about the outfits that style bloggers post and whether or not they are a fair representation of how we dress everyday. Only putting up photos of you in your best outfits and not what you wear when you are unmotivated or running late and have less that 5 minutes to get out the door, for example.

While I don't post every outfit every day (because seriously, who has that kind of time?!) I think what I do post is a pretty good sampling of my everyday wardrobe. (I think people like Erin at calivintage do a much better job with this btw) Occasionally, I'd say a couple times a month, I wake up with no motivation and/or no time so I reach for the closest, easiest sartorial solution.  In all honesty,  I haven't posted many of those outfits but it's not that I'm trying to hide them. Usually, if I'm running late at the start of the day I end up exhausted by the end of it and in no shape to pull out the camera and tripod to document it. Since I pride  myself on being an honest blogger, I thought I'd post what I wore yesterday when I missed my alarm and woke up when I should have been in the car already...

If I'm in jeans, chances are I am having one of those days or have been in the garden digging things up (OR I've been horseback riding -see post from last week!).

outfit details
jeans - bdg
tank - xxi (forever ago)
pin, beret & woven oxfords - vintage


PS: jenny lewis has a new project with her bf jonathan (aka: "johnny") rice - yay! This song is perfect for an LA summer...

the right to shoes and peace of mind

Did you ever have one of those moments when, all of a sudden, you become so irritated you are practically inconsolable because... your hair isn't laying the way you want it to OR your eyebrows are unevenly plucked (and seriously how could you have missed that earlier!) OR because your clothes are fitting really weirdly at that exact moment and you have no idea why (perhaps a phantom seamstress snuck in during the night?)  OR your nails are grossly chipped but there's no time to re-paint OR you can't figure out which of your 8,598 pairs of SHOES to wear (ok, I have nowhere near that number, it was for effect)? The point is, you get so worked up that you have turned this little insignificant (in the grand scheme of things) detail into a pseudo-existential crisis! and on top of that, you should have been out the door at least 5 minutes ago! We've all been there, right?

Well, I had one of these moments the other night as I was getting ready to go out and I got so flustered that I finally just started laughing at my silliness and quickly decided that I needed to capture some of the madness with my macbook's camera - as blog therapy.  *disclaimer* this is the first time I've used iMovie to edit anything, I only had about an hour to do it, AND the lighting in my house at night is notoriously dim - we like it that way. the videos... do not.  

So, take a deep breath, people...it's gonna be OK.

PS: which shoes would you choose?  

***UPDATE: I chose the black & white oxfords!

fernando

This is by far the best video I've seen in quite a while...

Jenny Lewis "See Fernando" from Team G on Vimeo.

have a wonderful weekend kiddos!!

money, money, money

I have a love/hate relationship with the stuff.  For this reason, while I sat there sorting out my taxes (weeks later than I had intended) I needed some serious distraction from les finances...

did you ever see this?


Jenny Lewis & Rodarte...does it get any better? Well, I suppose a $1000 tax refund would be nice too...if only! 

more zooey

I can hardly wait for She & Him vol. 2.

Meanwhile...in case you aren't aware, Zooey also appears on Jenny Lewis' new album ACID TONGUE which came out on Tuesday.

so cute!

acid queen

Somehow I managed to completely forget that my favorite chanteuse, Miss Lewis, has a new record looming - which made me even more excited when I stumbled on this today..
 

 New artwork is great. I'm glad she went so different for this album compared to her last which I also loved. nice work :)  I adore her...