Chic and Untroubled


Chic or Troubled: Anna Sui metallic belted dress
June 10, 2008, 7:45 am
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I loved prom.

The food was great and the location couldn’t have been more perfect.

My date was decent and my friends sinister slamming of our other fellow classmates attire and/or dates made up for any of his inadequacies, whatever they may have been (PS: He had a few).

In a word, it was “fantastical.”

Anyways, my dress was everything a person growing up in the southwest could have ever dreamed of wearing on the cusp of adulthood: pink, cheesy, poofy, but ultimately very lovable and quite cute. At least enough to garner compliments. Both real and in my mind.

Looking back on that night, I wouldn’t have changed anything.

But if I were like the many of seniors across America who went to prom last month, the chicer, wiser, and more clever me would have totally worn this metallic Anna Sui belted dress.

Equal parts Blake Lively and 80s enthusiast, there something very charming and understated about this dress. The Shopbop models smug smile says it all: I’m cool, I know it, and in ten years I’ll be running s***. (that means you boo, in the tank top and pink Vicky Secret sweat pants. Yes, you).

And in high school, didn’t we all think that we were cooler than everybody else in our European History class?

What do you think: Chic or troubled?



Chic or Troubled:Ksubi’s checkered high-waisted jeans
March 25, 2008, 8:40 am
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skinny-jeans.jpgWhen Mary-Kate Olsen gives you a shout-out and French Vogue editor-in-chief Carine Roitfeld skips London Fashion Week to buy skinny jeans — with her equally fabulous daughter, Julia — from your store, we fully understand why your head would be temporarily inflated.

This is the only explanation we could come up with for this pair of Jeremy Scott for Ksubi (formerly named Tsubi) checkered high-waisted jeans: Somebody just got a little too full of themselves.

Yes, we know Jeremy has a flare for the avant-garde and over-the-top, which means he’s probably going to deliver just as many misses as hits. But he is typically spot-on in our book, so we’re a little surprised by this unflattering and expensive (WTF! $325) number at right.

So, we ask: Chic or Troubled?



Chic or Troubled: The Expensive Man Bag
March 11, 2008, 10:00 am
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This should be a pretty easy one.

Under no circumstance is the man bag acceptable unless you’re Cameron Silver - whom Hermes named a man bag after. So, it better be LeSportsac for the rest of you!

No, not even if a male fashionista throws some festive charms on his well-crafted Mullbery tote will it ever be okay to carry a bag as obnoxious and huge as the one pictured here.

Discuss.