Cool Stuff: Nike Air Force Ones

image stolen from (these guys)

My lab partner last week in my Environmental Bio class was wearing these with argyle socks on underneath. Very cool.

I really like what Kanye's 80s B-boy/Prep style has done to fashion. Much appreciated.

Tights

this is from my friend Bailey's blog, a picture from her baby shower. I'm pretty sure I did this all the time when I was in elementary school and had to wear tights to everything. Most of them ended up having bloody holes where the knees should be and the feet were black as dirt.

Girl Scout Season!

I couldn't really figure out how to write about this, in order to capture its full beauty. It's hard to blog about articles, I wish they had a button that would just transfer the whole thing, linked, to a post. They probably do. People are so smart.

Wired Magazine has been pretty consistently interesting lately, whatever I've had to look up. They're pretty witty. Ok - here's the article, also mostly for Julie.

'How to: Kill Someone with a Girl Scout Sash'
A martial-arts expert is trying to hawk a "Cold Steel Sarong" as a martial-arts weapon: "Sarongs aren’t just isn’t ordinary items of clothing though, they’re blankets, sunshades, cloaks, backpacks, and a formidable self-defense tool as well." Watch the vid, it's worth it.




- in other news, I got the Vampire Weekend CD, I'm quite pleased.

Re-shirt

check this out: "Reinventing the idea of the worn-in t-shirt, re-shirt collects tees with special memories (a shirt worn while making out with a hottie), cleans them, and sells them with an identifying serial number." (re-shirt.net)
GOOD magazine, Mar/Apr 2008

I don't even know where to start on this. Is this the commodification of experience, or what? Meaning is put into these objects by someone else's experience and then you appreciate the experience by buying their tshirt. What? This is completely bizarre.

Here's a story from a shirt that was sold recently:
"Die Sterne" are one of my favourite German bands. I like the saying of this shirt which means "all is so sweet and sugary" . But I don´t like the cut. Hope it fits you better and gives you a sweet look."

It's kind of interesting that people are looking for a more personalized shopping experience. They're longing for community and a story everywhere. There's another social shopping site called This Next, where you can watch what other people are looking at around the world and kind of shop along side them.

What the...

I don't know why on earth I care about what Oprah's favorite things are, but this is one of them. I just wanted to point out that this is the ugliest outfit I've seen all year, and I thought I'd share it with you: