Obsessed: Genesis P-Orridge
You must read this amazingly romantic, intense profile of Psychic TV’s Genesis P-Orridge and his relationship with Jacqueline Breyer at Radar. Now.
My Big Fat eBay Life
I shall rise with the sun, sip distilled water and chilled herbal tea while casually but carefully applying makeup (after yoga) sitting in my yellow tufted velvet and brass stool, cat upon my lap, male servants bustling about fixing things.
At dinnertime, John Malkovich’s only kinda gay nephew serves duck confit salad with almond slivers and fresh mandarin slices, even better than Standy’s, while I wonder what do about carrying Heath Ledger’s baby. I’m so thin, I didn’t notice because I barely gained a few ounces. Luxury problems. Grab the smelling salts before I pass out onto my golden Italian sheaf of wheat dining table.
This lamp isn’t great, but LOVING how the the photog is making dude hold it up to get the errands done. Seeing humanity through the prism of eBay errands. What would you think of the Icon bag that I’ve been intending to post for a year and the space-age Prada skirt I’m always going back and forth about? Are all gifts from exes poisoned, or no?
Sigh. Because I have no job since the class action lawsuit against the government for not categorizing rape as a hate crime went through, I’m going to stay up late under the gentle illumination of this palm-tree lamp, reading all about Anita Berber.
Hopefully, I’ll get up early enough for my tennis lesson to sort through this huge lot of vintage Miriam Haskell jewelry, deciding which pieces to keep for myself, which to give to friends as divorce presents.
Dresses at Modcloth.com
Floral Silhouette Dress $67.99
Have weddings to attend, and except for my perfect black wedding dress (note: do NOT wear to a New England wedding), I don’t like to double dip.
This one is cute, some people would wear it to a wedding, but I wouldn’t. More of a summer afternoon date-type situation.
Picnic in Plaid Dress $64.99
Vacay dress!
Moroccan Sun Dress $59.99
I’m not into this schoolgirl thing. For outside.
Charm School Jumper $42.99
Keep. Trying. To not by black.
Caballero Embroidered Dress $79.99
Michele Longo gets your thrift
Like, the brand, not the adjective.
PW Style’s resident thriftmonger Michele Longo heads out in search of inexpensive, well-made treasure at three Bargain Thrift locations.
5245 germantown ave
215.849.3225
Clothing, house wares, jewelry, vintage
5261 germantown ave
215.849.4440
furniture & appliance
4530 germantown ave
215.843.1300
bulk clothing warehouse
As you walk in the door of Bargain Thrift’s main location filled with earthy house wares & a spectacular vintage section, it’s like stepping out of a bad dream and into a heaven of cheap, beautiful things.
This store is truly a jewel in a location that’s a bit uninviting. I have shopped at many, many thrift stores and I have never seen such a well-merchandised warehouse of second-hand things with Salvation Army prices as here.
The walls are clean and painted in soft colors. The displays are organized and functioning. It’s an extremely enjoyable and comfortable experience. And the vintage section is probably the largest of any typical thrift store in the area.
I usually go to Salvation Army and Goodwill specifically to sift through and find the vintage goodies that are as inexpensively priced as the rest of the plain old clothes & accessories. Bargain Thrift has already done the sifting for you.
There is a whole section of clear cube shelves that neatly showcase beaded clutches & costume jewelry. These one-of-a-kind vintage handbags can sell in boutiques for much more than their $8 price tag.
The silk scarves included some old Vera and Liberty of London, both priced $6 and under.
The shoe selection wasn’t huge, but there were some really unique pairs. And although I can never find a neat pair of vintage shoes larger than size 5 ½, I actually found a pair that fit me.
I didn’t even get to venture around to the non-vintage sections of clothes, because I spent all my time indulging in the colors and patterns of past eras, but the warehouse is pretty enormous. The entire back room is filled with children’s clothes and toys plus more house wares and men’s items. Each section of racks is clearly marked with big signs above.
The displays of house wares are funky and organic. It isn’t just a bunch of junk taking over, as I was actually overwhelmed with how many great things there are.
The purses are a fun mix of granny handbags and beautiful hand-embroidered clutches, with glitzy 70s-80s bags.
There are also two organized corners filled with books and albums. They may include the similar stack of undesirable albums, but the display is inviting and the price can pull you in to look anyway.
Just as I couldn’t wait to try on my basket full of clothes, I asked if there was a fitting room. This is definitely the downfall of the whole place. There wasn’t one. I resorted to matching up the seams on a pair of pants to the ones I was wearing. I wouldn’t consider this such a terrible thing though, because everything I bought fit great. I also got two new great silk scarves and a costume necklace with large coral flowers for $3.
There are two other locations belonging to Bargain Thrift in the same neighborhood. Unfortunately, they were closed while I was in the area. But I drove by the huge warehouse of furniture just a few blocks from the main location, which I can only imagine what great things were in there. I also saw the Bargain Thrift bulk clothing warehouse.
The sign out front caught my eye as it said something about two clothing pieces for a dollar … I’ll be back.
ThunderAnt!
Carrie Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney and Fred Armisen from SNL make funny videos as ThunderAnt. Episode 2 is from a Feminist Bookstore:
“I am not comfortable with something that talks about my anus.”
Project Runway Week One: Girlicious is the new Fierce
Ya’ll remember Christian Siriano. He was last year’s maddeningly talented Project Runway champ known for his bi-level hair, his flamboyant designs and his overuse of the word “fierce.” No disrespect to youngest winner in Project Runway history but by the end of the season I’d grown so tired of hearing him describe anything and everything as “fierce,” that it became physically painful for me to say the word, even now months after the finale.
Jessica Kagan Cushman cuffs
Get it here.
It’s made of fossilized wooly mammoth ivory. Does that mean it’s OK? Not sure. The website says, “Mammoth ivory ranges from 10,000 to 40,000 years old and has been preserved in the permafrost in Alaska and Siberia. It has an outer layer commonly called bark ivory which is harder than the inner ivory or dentine. Frequently, the inner dentine will be completely rotted away while the bark is still usable. The quality of Mammoth ivory varies considerably from rotted to very solid tusks which can be sawed into dimensional materials. With rotted material referred to as D-grade and saw-able solid material as A-grade, Mammoth ivory is approximately 15% D-grade, 15% C-grade, 60% B-grade and 10% A-grade. The material we use to make Jessica Kagan Cushman bangles is all A-grade.” And some are just resin.
A round-up of cuff bracelets over at Nylon brought us back to the Big Bee bracelet: perfect, amazing.
Gift givers: Take notes! The name is Jessica Kagan Cushman.
Though some are too precious (”Are you a good witch or a bad witch?”) the scripted resin bangles are mostly awesome.
Check out the Chanel rip from a few months ago, how she screams back. Yeah!
A cheesy one:
This one is like a temporary Lohan tattoo. Are you that kind of person?
These would be cool, together:
Tons of slogans available to appease the aphorist in you:
I want to be the girl with the most cake. — For Hole fans (cough)
New shoes cure the blues. — Girls with SITC boundary issues
Ripped off by Chanel. — Bandwagoners, perpetual underdog lovers
If you have to ask, you can’t afford it. — Bitches
You are so off my buddy list. — 12 year olds, or “ironic tweens”
Fashion can be bought — Deep superficials
Are You In or Out?: A Project Runway Preview
So much Project Runway drama and this season hasn’t even started yet.
First there’s the fact that this is the last season the show will be on Bravo. (In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past three months, the show was sold to the Lifetime network. I know, gag me.) Then there’s Nina Garcia’s controversial switch from Elle to Marie Claire. (Did she resign? Was she fired? Does anyone besides the Gawker army even give a fuck?) And then there’s yesterday’s website updates.
Bravo.com released bios of this season’s contestants along with synopses of each episode (revealing each week’s guest judge). The bios, we’re down with. But the synopses? WTF, Bravo? Isn’t the whole thrill of reality show competitions rooted in the “they have to do WHAT?!” reflex reaction when a challenge is announced? We’re too infuriated to check ‘em out right now, but here’s our at-first-glance opinions about this season’s contestants.
Loving: Melamine Kitsch-ware
“Mosaic” plate by Jackie Shapiro.
I don’t have a retro kitchen, I have an OLD ASS kitchen. Brady bunch style oven in the wall, the whole nine. Why fight? Of course I do the kitsch-en thing.
“Mosaic” storage bins by Jackie Shapiro.
Loving the melamine dishes. What IS melamine? Does it give you cancer? I don’t eat off of mine.
Get ‘em at Loft Party.
“Rings” cake stand by Jackie Shapiro.
Thomas Paul “Folk” dinner plates.
Thomas Paul Folk tray.
The Dirty Naylor
Sounds like a theoretically pleasing but rarely executed sex position, but is in fact the name of a cocktail at the new Cajun place Les Bons Temps made with vodka + pickle juice.
As a childhood pickle-juice drinker and straight-up mustard eater who has cultivated a serious affection for vodka, I was extremely excited. Comes up, shaken and garnished with a pickle. Does this really go on in New Orleans?
Verdict: Excellent, but should be drank cold (don’t talk too much once it gets served–the cocktails are actually borderline bird baths, a welcome trend after so many frustrating triangular-thimble sized cocktails).
Googling turns up a disgusting sports drink based on pickle juice and some geocities freak that advocated this:
“Swish tomato in your mouth, grab tequila and pickle juice. First shoot the tequila then right away shoot the pickle juice. Tastes like a burger!”
Anyone with extensive cocktailing in New Orleans out there? Please explain the History of the Pickletini. I have yet to conduct research of any kind in Louisiana.
Also, a pickle image search turned up some kind of NSFW pickle porn.
