Feb 25, 2012 | Fashion
I just love it when a company takes something fairly entrenched in our culture – and makes a design improvement upon it. Case in point: these Goody DoubleWear hair elastics and headbands I recently spied at my local Target.
I’ve been growing my hair out for awhile, and it seems almost every day I’m wandering around with a hair elastic around my wrist and a headband on, since I just like having my hair up and off my face most of the time (but I’m determined to wear it down since I went to all the trouble of growing it out). But yes, the elastic around my wrist looks like precisely that…a boring black bit of elastic…and my headband often hurts my head after awhile but I can’t just slip it off when I’m out and about and stick it in my pocket or something. (I go through plastic headbands like candy because I always misplace them somewhere and then sit on them or snap them in half somehow.)
Enter these lovely things – actually chic, affordable (around $4.99 for a set!), surprisingly well-made elastics that sport a thin metal tube. The headbands come in a set of gold and silver – and the hair elastics come in black with silver, black with gold, or shades of blue with silver. (There may be more, I just haven’t found them yet!) They look amazing with a plain white blouse, or even dressy when worn with an LBD. A
nd they look fabulous stacked with other jewelry too! I can easily pull my hair back with them when I want things off my face. And then drop them back onto my neck or my wrist when my hair needs to come down for awhile.
They’re just brilliant. And you can buy them anywhere that Goody is sold. (Like Target!)
I’m just loving their minimalist, chic sleekness!!
xoxox
Carly
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Jun 4, 2011 | Fashion
Here are a few things I’ve bought in the last couple weeks that are quickly turning into favorites:
(center) gilligan by Gilligan & O’Malley Ruffle Balconet Bra I’m in love with the whole line of lingerie from this brand, available at Target. All of their pieces are decorated in chiffon, lace, and ruffles, and the prints are sweet (but not too twee). And they all look so much more expensive than their Target pricetag. Now I’m not sure where I’m going to wear this ruffled bra…but I loved it so much I had to add it to my lingerie drawer.;-)
(bottom left) Scunci Soft Cloth Rollers: I know it just looks like a wad of tissues…but these rollers are meant for curling your hair at night and then sleeping in them! They’re each like little tiny pillows with a thin wire through the center…surprisingly comfortable. And my hair looked great as soon as I woke up in the morning.
(bottom right) Goody Simple Styles Spin Pins
: my hair is finally getting log enough to where I can twist it up in a [small and anorexic-looking] chignon. These pins are amazing, even on shorter lengths!
(center) YSL Arty Oval Ring lookalike from La Dama (but Etsy seller Snefter was also selling these on Etsy for awhile…using the same photos…so I’m not sure if they’re selling to La Dama or what, since what I received didn’t have any Snefter branding on it and La Dama’s website made no mention of it. V. confusing.) In any case, it’s beautiful, chunky, and a whole lot less than the original (um, $38!! Score.)
(left) Shimmering Knuckle Ring and Hinged Armor Ring (no longer avail.; similar here; just pull the center stone off) from Forever 21.
(top left) Viviscal Extra Strength Hair Nutrient Tablets
: Secret of models for thick, luscious hair for years – and featured last year in Vogue magazine. That’s good enough for me! (check back in about 4-6 months re: the results of daily supplementation – if any:-)
(top middle) Goddess Hinge Bracelet from Forever 21.
(top right) Mr. Rush
: I’ve finally turned my son onto the magic that is the Mr. Men series of books
…and he loves them! Many of the ones I had as a child have been lost over the years, so I recently placed an order for a group of 6 from Amazon. Mr. Rush was always my favorite – I’m not sure if it was because he was purple (one of my favorite colors) or because he was a triangle (my favorite shape) or because he was rushing everywhere (a kindred spirit!!), but he was just awesome.
(center bottom) Target ombre socks (not available online): they also had hot pink ombre and tangerine ombre. And I just love ombre! They look awesome worn with a pair of summer sandals with wood heels.
A couple items I’ve also recently acquired (but forgot to include in the photograph) are:
Sally Hansen Insta-Dri nail polish in Blue-Away: the perfect robin’s egg blue for Spring/Summer.
gilligan by Gilligan & O’Malley Dot Tapset (but I stitched the front opening closed on my cami so I can wear it as a layering piece in an outfit and not feel so…exposed). It’s so silky and lovely.
Forever 21 Poncho Hoodie: not quite as warm as the average hoodie, and looks great paired with something skinny (or short) on the bottom. I may even cover the front pocket in black leather a la Alexander Wang.;-)
xoxox
Carly
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Apr 7, 2011 | Fashion
Proenza Schouler PS1 bag on top; Target’s Messenger Bag in Olive on the bottom. Img source
As you may or may not have heard, Proenza Schouler recently expressed disappointment that Target had begun selling a bag that was similar to their PS1 bag. From the New York Times blog: “[Proenza Schouler designer Jack] McCollough can understand that people love bargains and knockoffs, but variations, clever or not, rob companies, small companies like Proenza, of opportunities. Reading the post, he remarked, “Yeah, why save up and buy ours when you can buy theirs right away?”
Well, whom is knocking off whom? And is it correct of McCollough to assume that theirs is the original, and that the Target bag is directly derived from Proenza Schouler’s re-imagining of the standard messenger satchel?
Mulberry Oversized Alexa Bag
Fossil Vintage Re-Issue Flap, $108
Express Top Handle Satchel, $59.90
Aldo Kreisher Bag, $50
TopShop the Mimi Bag by Marc B**, $84
Oryany Flap Satchel, $398
Marc by Marc Jacobs Saddlery Sophie, $478
ASOS Clean Line Double Buckle Satchel, $44
Pathfinder Laptop Messenger Bag, $49.95
Vintage B-15 Pilot Messenger Bag, $31.99
And add all of those to Refinery 29‘s recent exhaustive list of PS1 doppelgangers…
And these are just the bags that are currently available for sale on the Internet…not including the messenger bags used by the U.S. army throughout the decades…schoolboys in Europe in the 1940’s and 50’s…oh, and all satchels ever existing in the history of Time.
What do you guys think? Does Proenza Scholer have the right to be issuing statements about design infringement towards Target? Do you think the designer for this bag for Target intentionally copied the PS1…or just designed a messenger bag with a few similarities? Which came first – the chicken or the egg…or, in this case: the PS1 or the iconic messenger-bag-style design?
Though the Mossimo bag ($34.99) is out of stock online, I spied it the other day at my local Target store. And if you’d like to worship and purchase the original PS1 in all its original glory, it’s available here for $1,995.
xoxox
Carly
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Sep 18, 2010 | Fashion
Clockwise from top: Stone Bib Necklace; Pyramid Studded Cuff (clearance section); Stretch Rhinestone, Silver Chain, and Oxidized Studded Rings Set of 3; Faux Python Cuff Bracelet with Gold Chain and Embellishments (clearance section)
Like really stay away. Like we’re talking a blockade and police barricade.
Just a few things I picked up the other day at my local Tar-JAY.
The designer for their jewelry must be new (since I can’t find anything online confirming this, I’m just assuming…) because this stuff rocks. It’s the only way how I can explain how their jewelry (not the designer-collab stuff, just the regular costume jewelry sold at Target) sometime during the last year went from um, “nice” to “omigawd I want every piece right. NOW!!”
I love these edgy cuffs stacked together. Or apart!
And these rings, which can also be worn separately. Not too crazy about the rhinestone one, which looks kinda cheap IMHO, but I was thrilled to find the studded one since I’ve been on the hunt ever since Forever 21 stopped making their version. I also love the chain ring.
The nail polish is, too, from Target – O.P.I’s “Here Today, Aragon Tomorrow.” A dark jade green that is black in some lights and evergreen in others. It looks so sinister, even more so than I think black does. But I digress.
Ahh, the piece de resistance. This Stone Bib Necklace just looks so opulent and it elevates any outfit to a major ensemble in a flash.
Plus Target just got Temple St. Clair jewelry in, and I’m loving the ladies-who-lunch feel to their bauble drop earrings and jumbled charm bracelets. Who’s with me on this one??! 😉
Might just have to make a trip back, if I can get around the self-imposed barricade…
xoxox
Carly
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