Cool Kenneth Cole shirt dress: $58.90
If the weather is getting warmer where you are, then you’re probably thinking about ways to dress a little cooler, a little lighter, while maintaining your dignity (seriously, I have an almost pathological dislike of most floraly, printy summer clothes. Blech).
The first few weeks of spring/summer are the worst in terms of accepting that yes, that muggy feeling isn’t the flu, and that no, your boots, leggings and snug sweaters (or baggy, however you roll) just won’t cut it anymore.
Enter the perfect cross-over dress, like the Kenneth Cole New York number from Nordstrom.com. The price is great (half off!), and if you get cool in the evenings, you can still get away with tights or leggings — even boots.
But on its own, it’s cool, short-sleeved and yet, tailored enough for the warmer days. I also like that it’s a shirt dress that doesn’t make you look like you’re heading out on a safari or something. Kind of a more urban version. Also, check out the detail shot below – sweet, right?
Met Gala: Some kind of pukey bridal show?
I’ve been rather swamped with work and life and stuff, but today, I found I had the time to click around to see what people wore to the Met Gala. Kind of liked a couple things, but I’m a bit baffled by what I can only describe as Bridal Chic trend sweeping the red carpet:
Country Bride, Sexy Bride, Rave Bride, Prom Bride, and Amish Bride: Together at last.
See what I mean? All that white fabric. Sure. There were black dresses and blue dresses and red dresses. But so damned much white…
Very subtle, Jessica.
It was just odd. It’s not like this is one of those Black & White balls or some tacky P. Diddy affair.
And yet, it looks like half of Hollywood woke and thought, “I’ve made it through the wilderness. Somehow I’ve made it through…being invited to this event makes me feel like a virgin. Dressing for the very first time. Yes! Bridal/virginal white it is!”
Then again, perhaps there was some wishful thinking at work…
Either way, if these heifers think they’re going to make white the new black, I’m first going to call the NAACP, then I’m calling BS on the whole trend. Unless they come up with a way to keep white dresses white and make them look totally non-bridey, this is a total failure. Just looking at these women makes me want to get drunk and hit on someone totally inappropriate while dancing to “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” And that ain’t a good place to be, my friends.
So viva LBD!!! Fight the Power!
And with that, I leave you with…well, I…there are no words…
Et tu, Whoopi & ALT? (From Gawker.com)
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