Dont Fall For It! :)

AS PER USUAL, i do not know how to edit the image to make it fit the screen but i think you get the gist of the picture.

this is from Net-a-porter site. more specifically, the issue is on the Fall 2011 Must Haves or trends.

i especially love the lists on 2. A Shirt Story, 12. Fancy Pants 13. Arm Candy 15. Modern Maxi 19. Lace Is More and 21. High Drama.

since we dont have four seasons in Malaysia, i would advise that you follow the trend...with due caution. :) 

(i.e. parka, cape, fuzz are not applicable to us)

here's the link for your ease of browsing later. 

http://www.net-a-porter.com/theedit?cm_sp=homepage-_-edit-_-edit

B.R.O.G.U.E.S.

Fashion Trend : BROGUES 

Brogues - Definition :

a durable, comfortable, low-heeled shoe, often having decorative perforations and a wing tip often with ornamental perforations

a coarse, usually untanned shoe once worn in Ireland and Scotland

I especially like the etymology of the word :

type of Celtic accent, 1705, perhaps from the meaning "rough,stout shoe" worn by rural Irish and Scottish highlanders (1580s),via Gaelic or Irish, from O.Ir. broce "shoe," thus originally meaningsomething like "speech of those who call a shoe a brogue." Orperhaps it is from O.Ir. barrog "a hold"

off white brogues are just fineeeee with these jeans. *

the perforation on these shoes maketh the brogues.

ASOS black patent brogues - as depicted in next pic.

lady.... you really know how to work those brogues of yours. *

okay, no brogues, but luverly Balenciage bag :) *

been obsessed about brogues of late.... but then i havent made up my mind on which brogues to get. 

i like mine with a bit of lift or height. i dont know why... the older i get, the safer i feel with heels. 

the heels are like my personal back straightener. (granted, they also hurt my back, but not when i'm using them).

so these are my current faves. i haven't seen them in the local high street shops yet. but then again, i haven't been actively looking.

(Amazon.com), heels are just right to NOT be called a witch's pairs.

mind you, the trend has also gone to the kids' fashion segment.

because last week, i found these at Ginger Snaps.

chic pair of baby brogues in metallic beige that i'd want one! :)

Photos credits in * are from a fashion blog called wheredidyougetthat, specifically, a post entitled http://www.wheredidugetthat.com/2011/08/high-voltage.html

Monday Marvel

Monday after a week long break is always the hardest.

i came into the office rather late today, not necessarily by choice, but because i had to settle some things at the bank which was due yesterday, which in turn made me inevitably slow in getting into the groove of doing something resembling constructive.

so i was surfing the net lah.

first off, i had to check my Yahoo email which i've abandoned for a week. and turned out i have 99 + unread emails - mostly from Facebook notifications. (note to self : must learn how to deactivate this feature in FB)

one of the emails which i've gotten was from Net-A-Porter, which is in essence, a site that sells a lot of designers' stuff at designers' prices. :P

i subscribed to its three-times-a-week updates in which it features What's New (from your chosen designers) on that particular day. i know it's excessive but the site only allows us to choose that thrice a week option. which i don't really mind as i like the updates. it's like window shopping from the comforts of your seat. or bed. or anything else that doesn't involve physically walking to the shops. (boy... i'm soooo literal, aren't i?)

although it's not that i've been purchasing anything of late. the last buy was way back in 2009 when the bag craze started. 

so one of the items being featured was this pair of shoes by Miu Miu. it's so horrendously ugly in my not-so-humble opinion. so hideously rare that i've to share it here. 

don't get me wrong. i adoreeeeeee Miu Miu. well, their bags are superbly perennial. but the latest featured shoes are indecisive that they are neither boots nor strappy heels. Miu Miu should just make them into two separate pairs of wearable shoes. it's like mishmashing a pair of pants with.... a maxi skirt. with one of the items sparkly in nature.

mind you,  i bet some of the fashionistas out there will disagree with me. 

here're the pictures which i've liberally taken from the site. tell me what you think. 

love or loathe? 

PS: on hindsight, these shoes would certainly go well with a pair of baju kurung/kebaya/kebarung for this festive Hari Raya. :D