sandbox ILS-catchall rolling thread

Remember the big Skecher debate we had a while back? Well on Black Friday I bought these:

http://www.skechers.com/style/50984/ascoli-piceno/wgor

they are really really bad ass

are you wearing them with white socks

actually no, weirdly

guys how can we design a male dress-like-an-adult wardrobe that involves the smallest number of items of clothing possible and that a single load of laundry a week could maintain

like seriously there is an algorithm for this right?

i just got a scarf like this, except black where the midnight blue is, and royal blue where the purple is, and the other side is entirely green, and i LOVE it. it's 100% wool

http://www.gordonstoun.org.uk/uploads/Products/product_25/product_large_schoolscarf.jpg

apparently this is a really common sort of boarding school scarf so i'm not sure what signals i'm sending to the 1% but fuck it

gbx you need:

2 pairs of nice trousers. 100% wool. these will be expensive.

1 really nice cardigan/sweater.

the rest you can totally fake.

ty!

currently my "work" wardrobe is two pairs of dockers (olive and khaki) and about five button downs in rotation. Plus a couple sweaters I prob don't care for well enough. I've actually got a nice pair of wool trousers but no black shoes so I've never worn them

well good shoes are a given, come on man

(they don't have to be black)

I've actually got a nice pair of wool trousers but no black shoes so I've never worn them

this is just... not on

see but they're black

well you're in a spot of bother there

hey guys remember that dress i was like OOOOMMMGGG WANT on the dresses thread and then it proceeded into a weird conversation about what tall girls can/can't wear in terms of ruffles? well, here it is -- i wore it to holiday partee. i had to belt it because it looked a little shapeless without something at the waist, and i wore my grandma's pearls. i also had a g & t in honor of that same grandma on account of her annual holiday gin blitz.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6516014397_2e616b5bc0_m.jpg

That is so so cute. Could never pull it off myself but it's perfect on you.

thanks! i like the dress a lot, and i have worn the tutu part with a crappy old vneck sweater over it too. it's pretty versatile, at least by my standards.

Per Homo's dress like a grown up challenge in the ladies' thread, I am wearing my zebra print blazer today. But with a full-skirted black dress and mary janes so prob defeating the purpose.

it's partly carriage too. stand like a proud grown up, or have affected indie toes.

and i am sure you don't have affected indie toes.

I do not. Head up, shoulders back, spine straight. I walk around like I own the place.

I recognized that lace dress on FB! Mostly because I was the tall girl pining for that whimsy, teehee!

I need some damned pictures of my new damned dresses! I've received two Modcloth as well as my inaugaural eShakti dress in the last little while. I also ordered three more eShakti ones because my husband bought me a $100 gift card for $50 thanks to a Christmas sale they're having! Did you know you also get $20 off your first order? I used his account, ordered a $40 dress, paid $20 on my Visa. Then got two others with the $100 gc. I AM INSANE. But I look so terrible in pants!

I love eShakti.

Speaking of, I just got two emails from eShakti - one with a $20 off gift card AND 15% off AND free shipping (with the assurance that you can use them all at once) and then a 50% off coupon.

Bought this dress and this dress (bringing my blue dress count up into the Completely Absurd range (and I don't have a lot of clothes; just a lot of blue dresses)) for $47 with a customized length option on the striped wrap dress.

I'll say it again: I love eShakti.