April 25, 2014

http://www.californiamarketcenter.com/faq/samplesale.php

It's Friday and the field trip was to the 

Last Friday of the Month Sample Sales at the California Mart in LA.

Incredible deals on thirteen floors of designer showrooms.

What I Bought to Wear

One pair of shoes

One blue cloth jacket

One pair of print pants

Two black & white sweaters

and 13 unique, cool tops

total cost: $145

Sometimes I love LA

April 23, 2014

Every time I wear this free form vest from the ISDA & Co. outlet in San Francisco 

I feel like a groovy chick.

Wasn't even sure I liked the vest when I spied it on their $10 rack.

Now I love it.

Accessory Close up

Blue canvas espadrilles by Aerosole
Silver bracelet from my Grandma's Arizona Indian jewelry purchased in the 1960's
Funky, chunky necklaces picked up from resale stores over the years

April 22, 2014

I cannot remember the last time I've worn a dress to work.

It's so easy!

Accessory Close up

Three color leather sandals that I keep forgetting I love.
Gold bangle blitz
Teensy gold ball earrings

Happy Easter; April 20, 2014

With nobody to see, nowhere to go and nothing to do on a beautiful Easter Sunday,

 Hubster and I took a leisurely drive to Solana Beach.

Where everything was closed but, 

we did stumble upon some bunnies free to a good home...

so I took Mr. Yellow Fellow home anyways :)

Hope your Easter was a good one.

April 18, 2014; American Apparel

If it's Friday it's a field trip 

and today was a really GREAT one to the American Apparel factory in LA.

Two giant buildings and a dozen floors of manufacturing.

I loaded my my gang of fearless fashion students into a 12 passenger Saddleback athletic van and drove everyone to LA.

 Our tour was given by the hilarious, informative American Apparel employee extraordinaire; 

Jonny Syzmanski ( in the lavender sweater )

American Apparel is the Charlie Chocolate factory for fashion.

Hundreds of employees designing, promoting, manufacturing hundreds of items.

Truly a vast complicated vertical business.

Plastic injection machine making plastic sandals.

And now American Apparel is selling shoes so they are also now manufacturing shoes.

Shoes assembled from raw goods

This was taken at the end of a loooong day.

And OMG: thought my sweater was black stripe but, it's navy blue strip!!!

Good thing mixing colors is popular right now :)

At the end of the tour we were given a 35% discount at the factory " Flea Market ". 

I got all this ( mostly for my girlies ) for $109.

Everyone agreed it was a great day.

April 16, 2014

Finally figured out a look to go with my striped skinny pants.

And nothing like a triple wrapped circle scarf to hide a blossoming turkey neck.

Accessory Close up

New scarf ( probably my 510th one ) that I sewed into a circle from Nordstrom Rack
Gold bangle blitz
Faux leather Beatle boots from Zara ( love! )

And as much as I wanted to stay funky, I had to change it up for my evening meeting at the City Council Chambers. 

Tried to look serious, artsy and not too corporate...

for an artists roundtable on how to make the arts relevant in Dana Point.

Great ideas that will probably be ignored by our City Council :(

April 15, 2014

Went to my closet determined to wear boots and a skirt but, it just looked so dated.

So rekindled my love affair with pointy toe sling backs 

( they're suppose to make legs look longer ).

Accessory Close up

Patent leather black shiny sling backs with perilous kitten heels
Kate Spade bracelets
Vintage brooch from favorite online resale store