Ahh, December 31st. An eve where we vow to be better, more responsible people and seal the deal with all those toxins we’re soooo not consuming in abundance next year, and then proceed to crash without taking off our eye make-up and stumble out of bed the next morning toward a greasy brunch intended [...]

So, I’m in St. Barth’s, courtesy of my way-too-nice parents. Merry Christmas to ME. I’m going to attempt a few days off from the land o’ the blogosphere, but I’ll be back in full force on the 30th, so fret not, my little chickadees.
I’ll sign off with what I purchased in preparation for my vacay: [...]

When you’re the kind of jackass who dons ankle boots and legwarmers for the first storm of the season, you’ve got two choices: (1) Ignore your damp feet and suck it up or (2) Get some new footwear, STAT. I found myself in this very situation last Friday; gift shopping in a disgusting blizzard, dodging [...]

Now, while the PC term “Happy Holidays” technically includes Chanukah, most of my tribe understands that our version of Christmas is what Tofurkey is to Thanksgiving: A meatless substitute that pales in comparison to the real thing. We still do gifts, but they’re never from Santa. Sniffle.
This year, Mom, Dad and Little Bro Matt all [...]

En route from my tailor the other day, strutting down Flatbush Avenue Ext., I stumbled across the biggest Goodwill I have ever seen. As I assessed the interior, I was overwhelmed by a mixture of awe, trepidation and nausea not unlike what I experienced on my last trip to Century 21. If I couldn’t find [...]

Clutter-free walls are supposed to make one’s shoebox of an apt feel larger than it is. Whatever. The starkness of mine bored me to tears; henceforth, my walls became a canvas for my clothes and accessories, and a means to save closet space. The eye candy of my wares should be displayed, if only for [...]

I scored big with my Buffalo Exchange Store Credit. Huge. It’s ridiculous, really, that I arrived at their East Village location with unwanted clothes, and departed with Miss Sixty, Alice & Olivia, Nanette Lepore, and Theory. This is obvs due in part to my shopping skillz, but fret not, chickadees. Remember what I said before? [...]

Rae wrote:
Yeah… it really depends on the location, though. One location might have Diesel and Free People, another might have mostly Forever 21 and Gap… nothing against those brands, but I don’t really want to pay $6 for a used F21 top, right? In any case, if you sell and then don’t find anything you [...]

I recently inherited this Spanx Unitard from Mom’s lingerie drawer and discovered that it is, perhaps, the most impractical garment ever concocted. You can’t wear it as leggings because of the “double cotton gusset that opens to make life easier when Mother Nature calls,” aka the pee-hole (I’m not peeing with my pants on; I [...]

H&M Beanie = Good.
Sustainably Shopped H&M Beanie = GREAT.
Hat, Beacon’s Closet, $8.95.
Word.

For those not in the know, Buffalo Exchange is basically an amped up, national version of Beacon’s Closet. It’s taken me this long to jump on the Buff Bandwagon because, until recently, their only NYC Metro Area store was in the Other Brooklyn, aka Williamsburg. While I’ve built up a tolerance to oversized, clear-lense glasses [...]

Wait, a spin-off of The Hills reminiscent of Sex and The City?! What an ingenious marriage of youth, NYC and Fashion! So cutting edge, so fresh, so faaaahhbulous dahling. Gag me with a spoon.
I didn’t realize the full-retardation of Carrie Bradshaw’s cavalier attitude toward money – one that ultimately made me cringe even more than [...]

I try to ignore the idea of winterwear as much as possible, as I much prefer minidresses to thick wool sweaters.
This penchant for revealing clothing often results in uncomfortably cold commutes that necessitate speedwalking to warm myself up – NBD, until a few days ago, when the windchill rivaled Chi-town’s and brought back horrific [...]

Activism generally bugs the shit out of me: The innate response to anything forced upon you via email chains, street-stalkers and their clipboards, and/or Facebook tends not to be, “Wow! I suddenly care!” My bestie Isabel and I frequently bitch about the above, so when she tackled Sustainability in her latest Huff Po piece [...]

Heinous, Oversized, Teal Sweater: Zero Dollars.
Scissors: Zero Dollars.

Turning a heinous, oversized, teal sweater into a cute, cropped, batwing-sleeved number with ONLY a pair of scissors?
PRICELESSSSSSSSSS!!!

I recently had the pleasure of trying on some Target Limited Edition stuff. My first thought? This is SO MUCH BETTER than any of those designer X for GO International lines!
The risks of mixing alcohol and anything strapless include but are not limited to: Double-boobage; Multiple re-adjustment trips to the loo; Inability to raise [...]

If these drawings look like a first-grader did them, tough nuts. The buck of my artistic genius begins and ends with inflicting my scissoring skillz on old clothes. (I’m one of those people who goes to art museums not to reflect on the art itself, but to silently snicker at the pretentious assbags pretending to [...]

I like to get crafty when I’m watching TV, and re-fashioning clothing with scissors is my go-to activity as of late. So last Sunday, pre-watching the Eagles/Giants game with Dad, I went in search of some material to hack at. Mom’s lightweight pullovers were child’s play: I needed old clothes that required a transformational process [...]

gigwalsh says:
“I love the closet make over posts. I read you everyday, religiously. Meaning I wear a veil when I read your posts.”

From Pillowcase + Scissors = Dress!, 2008/12/08 at 4:53 PM

Clearly, I’m not the first person to make a dress out of a pillowcase. I might just be the first to do it without ANY SEWING WHATSOEVER. Yessss.
I found this pillowcase whilst rummaging through my little brother’s drawers in search of old t-shirts to scissor. Three snips later, I had a new dress.
Wanting new [...]