Put Your Party Dress On

With SEPTA back and running this morning, we feel like putting on our party dress! Fourtunately, Lucky Magazine has found some affordable dresses so we can dance the night away in style. We especially like this one from Forever 21. At 25 bucks you can more than afford to get this asymmetrical one shouldered number.

Courtesy of Lucky Magazine

Lucky also has a gift guide broken down into categories that we really like: Artsy, Moroccan, On The Go, Victorian, At Home, Country Chic, Bejeweled and Ten Dollars and Under. We especially love this tea cup with little claw feet from the Victorian section, it reminds us of those awesome tubs with claws. We also like the Moroccan section and all of it’s gorgeous embellishments, especially this gorgeous decorated platter. There’s also a website with more finds from the North African country called JustMorocco.com While some stuff on the site is pricey, other stuff is not. Check out these lanterns for under $100.

We also came across this post on Jezebel, which claims “If you wan’t to be popular, you can’t afford to be skinny.” It’s a vintage ad. It’s just interesting to see how beauty ideals have changed.

Rihanna’s interview with Diane Sawyer seems to be the media’s latest obsession — but we’re just admiring her as an artist and style icon. Check out these outfits that she’s worn, as well as pictures from the photo shoot for Glamour magazine’s cover. Gorgeous! Just so we’re clear, we’re glad Rihanna was comfortable enough to come forward and talk about such a painful moment in her life, but we also want to focus on the positive as well.

How’s The Weather Up There?

We’ve noticed something about women in top executive positions. A lot of them run, long distance. And a lot of them wear heels. It’s like a competition to see who can go higher. Let’s just say, we love our flats but let’s face it – heels are gorgeous. If you don’t happen to have a Jimmy Choo budget (read: H&M collection aside) these Forever 21 heels just might be just what you’re looking for.

Sometimes earbuds can get boring and predictable, which is why these ear accessories – shaped like bananas, sushi, a kitty paw print, and a bolt so you can listen to tunes and look like Frankenstein caught our eye.

NBC10 has a video up of a Victoria’s Secret Model Rosie Huntington discussing how she stays green and lives healthfully.

Random advance praise for …Forever21.com?

Before a little shopping trip last week, I felt like “forever twenty-one” should be a dirty, dirty term in my vocabulary, reserved only for whispering. Why? Well, I spent the ride home figuring that out.

My conclusion? Like many other ladies my own age, in the past two years, I’ve suddenly found myself paying my own bills in a post-grad lala-land. I started a career job and attending “networking” events and slowly began resenting my clothes I wore in college to my 6-hour design studios; I realized after my first interview that they were a far cry from the office-saavy outfit I imagined myself wearing in my daydreams.

So, somewhere in the last two years, I slipped into thinking that the places I bought clothes in college are suddenly off-limits “as an adult”.

Well, I have new feelings: I’ve learned that the physical places I bought clothing at really have little to do with the maturing process of dressing… what I understand now is that the style of clothing or place it comes from isn’t as important as understanding the quality of what I’m buying. AKA There are certain times and places for certain clothing. AKA, I can totally love my Forever21 sundress I’m wearing at this cafe, but I should maybe skip on wearing it to work.

I’ve found my new sundress from Forever21 isn’t really appropriate for business hours (see the neckline), but it’s totally awesome for a breezy afternoon in the park… AND IT WAS 22BUCKS. Everybody wins. 

Here are a few more I’ve got my eye on from the casual dresses section: