Boucle Checkered Scarf, $24 (was $48) According to your Instagrams, winter has finally begun. It looks horrible. Very cold, yet very uncool. If you plan to keep living way up there where ice falls from the sky and then sticks to the ground for months at a time causing much slippage and stir-craziness, might I suggest getting yourself a fashionable, wearable blanket to stave off impending death?
Forever 21 Lip & Cheek Stain, $5.40 (was $10.80) Reviews — all two of them — are split completely down the middle on this stuff. However, I have and love their matte lipstick, so… I don’t know. That probably has no bearing on whether you should get this. I’m sorry.
Sailor-Striped Union Suit, $29.99 with code “MUSTSHOP” (was $69.50) Clothes should be funny sometimes. Speaking of stripes:
Brave Soul Stripey Sweater, $26 (was $45) The hi-lo hemline here is a nice change of pace for striped sweater collectors. (We are a people, no?)
Crackleflame Firelogs, $19.46 (were $35.40) These things make those noises that sound like surely your carpet or dog is about to catch fire. Now all you need is a fireplace.
Ultra Faux Fur Throw in Various Colors, $69 (was $99) Yes, there are probably cheaper faux fur throws out there, but this is the one I can vouch for. It did get gross and kind of matted after about three years of daily use. Not bad?
Velvet Vaping Slippers, $59.95 with code “TAGTIME” (were $128) Just kidding; these are called smoking slippers. But I just started vaping. Yes, vaping everything. Yes, it’s great, but would be even better in these.
Babeland Silver Bullet, $11.25 (was $15) It’s like One Bride for No Brothers in these streets.This should get you by until spring.
THOSE SLIPPERS!!
Striped sweater people! We truly are the best. Although I am really a stripes person in general and the vast majority of my tops are striped. I own one sweater with big checks on it (that’s boxes, not like, paychecks) and the first time I wore it to work everyone went “That’s not a stripe!”
Also once I filled a laundry line with nothing but striped shirts. I have a problem.
I have a similar problem, which is a problem I love to have!
This exchange actually took place:
Me (in J. Crew, holding up white shirt with red stripes): Look at this cute shirt!
Daughter: Mom, you have that shirt.
Me: Nah, the stripes on mine at home are slightly narrower and it’s not a boatneck. (Buys shirt.)
THE END
I have had that exact conversation with my mom, except I am the stripey one.
I get attached to clothing patterns. Once had a shopping trip with my mother where she had to point out that yes, she knew I must like the shirt I had just picked up off the rail, because I already owned the exact one at home. (I had not realised this. This is a shirt I definitely wore at least once a week. I am not a smart woman.)
I once decided to wear a different striped shirt from my collection to work every day for two weeks, and I actually found myself disappointed that nobody appeared to notice.
MY PEOPLE I am accepting this thread as permission to go buy more striped shirts, because I only have five and they are all I want to wear all the time, world without end, amen.
I AM A STRIPEY PERSON TOO.
Proud that I have converted my Mother & most other friends, that despite my plus-sizeness, horizontal stripes look good on me. what now.
Next time just remind them that checks are a way to wear TWO sets of stripes at the same time. 😉
I am saved by the only available size for the union suit being xsmall. #XLladyoverhere
Ah, but the sweater comes in our size! I know this because of how I just bought it.
Those velvet slippers are really really tempting…
If I had them in black I could actually wear a pair of pants that I really like but have no shoes for. Unfortunately I spent all my money on the pants 🙁
That union suit is calling me but it costs over 60 bucks CAD. Sigh.
These shoes!
I knew someone who had dark blue velvet slippers, and they looked really beautiful. I want!
But is anyone else having a problem with the Antropologie homepage? Whenever I click on a link, the site tells me that the product isn’t available anymore.
They come in blue as well! I want them but my feet are too big. Goddammit.
Oh no, I can’t even see the other colours, because of said site error 🙁
That same thing happened when I tried to pursue a J. Crew friendship bracelet with gold charms right before Christmas. I saw it on the New York Times and so did everyone else.
This reminds me I want (need?) to head to the mall after work and see if there are any post-Christmas bargains left. I was going to go yesterday but instead I went home and fell asleep on the couch at 8 pm because that is the kind of exciting life I lead.
I forgot you weirdos down south call it a Union Suit and Long Johns.
Almost everyone I know in Canada calls them long johns as well.
Whoops that’s a typo: and should be not.
They’re different, though–long johns are pants but a union suit is an all in one dealie
seconding this. long johns are separates. However, is this a real Union suit – i.e., has it got the buttoned flap in back?
Long Johns are doughnuts AND underwear because us Canadians like to keep things interesting.
I’m born and raised Southern US, and we call them long johns. Never heard the term union suit until this post! Though maybe some people only call it long johns if they’re separates? And obviously some parts of the country do use the term union suit because there it is for sale. I don’t know, it doesn’t get cold enough for long enough hereabouts for me to have nailed that down.
I thought a union suit was like footie pyjamas? (I grew up in Northern Virginia but my dad’s from the south and my mom’s from the Midwest so my terminology is kinda all over the place)
Yeah, I though long johns were the separates and union suits were the one-piece *shrug*
You are correct! Union suits are the all in one dealies that usually have a flap in the seat.
Born and raised in the South and I have never heard anyone ever use the phrase “union suit”, but I think that might be because at least in my family we buy the separate pants and shirt situation and that really is long johns? Or something. Anyway, we are freakishly long waisted and also don’t like to get totally naked to go pee so we buy true long johns.
Maybe we used to call them confederacy suits in the South, but it was too much of a mouthful and didn’t stick. 😀
Yeah, if it’s cold enough to be wearing one, you don’t want to take it off to go to the bathroom.
I’m from the upper Midwest and we call them long johns. Union suit sounds like a British term!
Lookit you adorable North Americans with your union suits and your long johns. It’s called a onesie.
– sincerely, the UK
Dear UK:
Onesies are the little t-shirts you put on babies that snap under the crotch.
Smooches,
the U.S.
OMG I LITERALLY BOUGHT THOSE CRACKLE LOGS LIKE TWO DAYS AGO FOR THE FULL PRICE LIKE A CHUMP.
D:
When I click on the crackle logs they only show up for that $19 price if one is also willing to pay $16 in shipping…
Don’t feel bad. You got crackle logs when you NEEDED crackle logs. You are not a chump, but a person who gets what you want.
I feel like all of these things could be combined into a fantastic “spend all weekend alone and in or near your bed” gift basket.
Best gift basket idea ever.
So, just my usual weekend.
Let me know if you see those snakeskin boots in the hi-lo sweater go on sale. Wow.
Also, Jane, how do I keep lip gloss/stain on my lips? I slap it on, move my lips around, go about my biznez for 5 minutes, and it’s GONE. It’s like disappearing ink. I think I’m eating it? Maybe I move my lips around too much because it’s so slippery? Maybe I’m not a lip gloss person? Maybe I shouldn’t BE a lip glosser? What u think?
Hi Marissa! I think there’s a huge difference between gloss and stain. Personally, when I wear gloss, I pretend I’m a mannequin for as long as possible. I don’t even really smile. Stain, on the other hand, is meant to be like when you get a bit of food coloring on your hands making cookies, only it’s for your face. Try Benetint if you haven’t. Also, does anyone (old) remember the Bonnie Bell gel stains?
Ah thanks – yes the pic above of the applicator made me confuse the two (stain/gloss). I’ll check out Benetint!
That’s so funny – my mom and I had a big conversation last night about the old Bonne Bell gels and how much she loved them. Growing up there were always tubes of the dark red stain all over the bathroom. (I buy her Stainiac now and she loves it.)
They should totally bring them back. Do you remember the bronzing one? Man.
Yes!!! I remembered reading that the company was sold last year, so I just did some rooting around, and it looks some of the gels are still available under the “Heritage” tab at Aspire Brands: https://www.colorandflavorshop.com/home.php?cat=4…. The red gel is totally not the old original color in the photo, but I think I’m gonna get it anyway, just to see…
Those crackle logs are so pretty but they don’t warm you up! What’s the point of having a fire if you’re still cold?
I just bought these shoes last night on significant sale from Bluefly to wear when I get married this summer! I still don’t have a dress or anything, but details. (Literally the only wedding outfit vision I had was “I want to wear colorful, ridiculous heels.”)
I felt like this thread was an appropriate place to share this news.
Those are ADORABLE. You can totally find a rad dress that complements the killerest of kicks 🙂
LOVE these. You have done well. I could easily imagine planning an entire wedding around those shoes, tbqh.
“It’s like One Bride for No Brothers in these streets.” Jane Marie ::van morrison voice:: have I told you lately that I love you?
You guys Pier 1 is having a sale of like 20% off a lot of their stuff in store right now, and also there’s a coupon for $10 off a $50 purchase? That’s why I now own a giant silvery metal fork.
I couldn’t tell at first if this was a human-sized house or a mouse hidey hole. I approve of said fork in BOTH living situations, obvs.
Def best purchase so far this year, and likely to stay in the top spot for quite a while. Tip : they have spoons, too. Buy a whole set and hang them from a tree in your front yard as The World’s Most Fucking Irritating Wind Chimes. (They make spectacularly awful clanking noises when they touch pretty much anything, particularly each other.)
That fork really brings out the gleam of the skull.
Right? Let’s call it a post-modern commentary on Claes Oldenburg, because that sounds a lot smarter than “look at this ridiculous bullshit I bought at a mall chain store.”
this is awesome and I definitely need it because of the potential for shenanigans
like maybe I will buy the fork and the spoon and then try to make a Guinness World Record salad or something
That is an excellent idea. Or if you tone down your aspirations from “world record” to just “fuck with my friends during an outdoor party,” get one of those giant turtle molded plastic kiddie sandboxes and use it as a salad bowl. I feel it could also make a creditable appearance in an avant-garde turn of bobbing for apples, and/or used as a bbq fork.
I suggest putting it next to very drunk people while they’re sleeping, so they wake up and just have no idea what’s going on.
Good thing to store your extra yarn on, Y/N?
YES. Or, omg, now I need to get another one to lean against my dresser to store all my bangles and leather cuff bracelets on. (The first one is probably — after I get tired of photographing it in increasingly absurd locations — going to hang over the head of my bed, because that’s the most inappropriate location I can think of for it, outside of using it as a giant door knocker.)
This photo is the best thing I’ve seen all day. (In all fairness, before that it was only a split photo comparing a presidential candidate and a blobfish so.)
I feel like I should be turning left now.
Right, frog!
😀 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-mGXLgGqkY
Totally approve of the fork. A friend of mine has an extra-long fork for stealing food off of other people’s plates. 😀
So Modcloth is having a 70% off sale. I just bought . . . I bought a lot. Welp. Just in case anyone else needs to make poor financial choices. (In my defense, I just saw Carol, so I needed some new retro clothes stat.)
No one has said anything about the Silver Bullet. It looks very interesting to me. Am I strange? Adventurous?
They definitely do the job. And they can be inserted into other toys. You are not strange. And anything can be an adventure in the right circumstance.
They definitely do the job. And they can be inserted into other toys. You are not strange. And anything can be an adventure in the right circumstance.
I use a bit of baking soda mixed into a paste with water. Works great!