I’ve mentioned before on this blog about how girly I am when it comes to toting around my arsenal of hair and makeup products to the gym. Honestly, this was my list of things in my gym bag this morning:
- Jeans
- Shorts
- Skirt (I didn’t know which of the 3 I wanted to wear)
- Top
- 2 bras (didn’t know which would work better with the shirt)
- The usual suspects (shampoo, conditioner, razor, face wash, face lotion, eye cream, 2 different styling products, daily self-tanner lotion, makeup, fake eyelashes, perfume, um…probably like 10 more things but this is embarssing)
- Heels
- Own towel (gym towels are gross and too small. I can basically choose to cover my top half or bottom half with the towel. I prefer to do something awkward that’s right in the middle. It’s awkward for the other’s in the locker room, not really for me.)
- Hair Dryer
- Flat Iron
So when I roll up into the locker room with my enormous bag of stuff (which has to literally be shoved into a locker by kicking it with my feet), the other ladies look at me like, “oh boy. One of those girls.”
After my workout and shower, I was applying my makeup and putting on eyelashes. Yeah, it’s weird. But it’s something I like to do occasionally. At this point, all the women are exchanging glances with each other like “SEE?? She’s over done.” Keep in mind this is Seattle. They’re all slipping on their Birkinstocks and I’m im 3” heels.
So I’m putting on makeup and a woman comes up next to me and tries to use one of the gym’s hairdryers. It doesn’t work. She picks up another one. Also dead.
Me, being the nice person that I am, slide my hairdryer over to her and say, “Here, use mine. It works.”
I repeat this same experience 2 more times with 2 different ladies.
So tell me, my dear readers. Am I excessive with my packing for the gym? Or smart?
If you’re an excessive over packer smart and prepared like me, then check out Trendi.com and find more things to stuff in your gym bag.
-Jenny
May 15th, 2008
After 18 months of building Trendi.com, we’ve finally gone live. Check us out here!
We have some amazing members, thousands of fresh items from our retail partners and we want you to decide what is truly magic or tragic.
So come on in! Vote, create a wishlist, make fun of the weird stuff, and meet others.
Be sure to stop by my profile and Summer’s profile to say hi. 
-Jenny
May 13th, 2008
Hey all of you- I’ve been such a bad blogger recently. Sorry about that. We’ve been super busy at Trendi preparing the site for our beta launch. It’s happening SUPER SOON so if you want to be notified about it, head to Trendi.com and enter your email address.
-Jenny
May 2nd, 2008
I’ve been waiting months to find this:
in action.
With Balenciaga letting Spring ‘08 ride so heavily on shoulders such as these, I got all excited for a few retail interpretations. And voila!
By working the floral motif into the shape, instead of a pattern, Castle Starr molded the armor-clad look into a soft and potentially appealing frock. Much less futuristic - which kinda bums me out - but maybe that means the future is now?
I’m keeping my eyes open for more. If you see any, let me know!
(Summer)
April 16th, 2008
What I’m loving:
What doesn’t belong in the news:
What I might give a limb for, because it could make a peg leg look stunning:
What doesn’t belong on a runway:
What’s worth the attention:
What else doesn’t belong on a runway:
What Heidi should’ve done:
Because at least it would’ve been interesting…
Thank you, Peter Som. You did something almost completely wonderful for Bill Blass.
No, thank you, Heidi Montag. I don’t clap for jean mini skirts and jersey tees.
(Summer)
April 14th, 2008
I owe an apology to the City Repair Project people. It’s not that I think you’re less important than a swanky new dress, but yeah, you could use more open-backs and adjustable straps in your lecture.
This weekend at the Seattle Green Festival, I ditched them (and my boyfriend) to check out the organic frock shops. I told Charlie I wanted to ask about medicinal shrooms at the Fungi Perfecti booth, but really, I beelined to the most stylish eco-designers I could find.
Bobbing around sustainable MBA-types and off-the-gridders fresh from the permaculture patch, I finally hit upon Small Axe Clothing.
Collette and Natalie McGuire are two ladies as dedicated to looking hot as they are to cooling off the planet. They pretty much rocked my world. I tried on a dress to pinpoint my size, grabbed their biz info printed on forget-me-not seed packets, and dashed back to the lecture hall.
Finally, here at work, I can peruse their site at my leisure. And I still like what I see. You know, fashion with personality and purpose.
“Onesie” isn’t exactly a word we like around here - Jenny thinks it should be reserved for infants and maybe diaper fetishists (thank you, Law & Order) - but I can easily forgive the “Onsey Love” jumper. It’s super cute and not weird at all.
The L.A.-based label has pencil skirts, swing jackets, and cigarette pants, too. So visit the site whenever you can, even if it means cutting out on something equally genius but less, I don’t know, swishy.
(Summer)
April 14th, 2008
I’ve been reading about the menswear trend for months, watched Oxfords emerge on every fashion level (from Urban Outfitters and Nordstrom’s many incarnations to Luella Bartley’s much buzzed superhero tribute show), and now I’m thinking about how different personalities can pull off the look.
In my little world, none can top Diane Keaton’s kooky androgyny in Annie Hall - one of NY Mag’s New York Canon this month.
Half-open vests, long floppy ties, soft corduroy blazers, and men’s gambler caps - you could turn here for inspiration, as I invariably do, or you might favor a more subversive look.
On the March cover of Interview Magazine, Ellen Page played Marlene Dietrich, ravaged and provocative with lip-colored underpants instead of a cigarette.
It’s like she’s saying, “I’m a wise wicked woman” and, simultaneously, “I’m a little boy inside,” and it works. (Madonna makes a much less ambiguous statement on this month’s cover with Balenciaga-esque boots in a boxing ring and a crotch shot the size of Texas.)
For menswear that won’t toughen you up, try something soft and sexy like this look by Nicole Farhi (which I love).
Innocent or brooding, insouciant or dangerous - or defying the odds with wide cropped trousers and breezy femininity - it’s up to you.
But before I go, I want to ask if this:
or this:
would ever be part of your foray into menswear?
I found Bivate cravates on the JC Report and I honestly don’t know what to think. They might be on-trend, especially for the Ellen Page-obsessed, but…
are mini leather neckties for women a good thing?
more at twiigs.com…
(Summer)
April 7th, 2008
My sister bought me a pair of Rich & Skinny jeans for my birthday. My brother-in-law asked, “do they sell Broke & Fat jeans too?”
Yes, they do.
They’re called sweatpants.
-Jenny
March 4th, 2008
Rapunzel, Rapunzel…let down your uh, dress?
This dress was made with 165 feet of human hair and was modeled at a fashion show last May.
More recently, Chris March from Project Runway 
made a few designs using human hair.
Images from blogs.smarter.com.
We all know about human hair extensions and I think generally all girls are fine with those for use on our heads. But how do you feel about wearing hair on your clothing? IMO, it doesn’t look that bad, but the thought of it makes me feel a little weird.
Is it more or less strange than wearing fur? Would you wear a human-hair trimmed skirt?
-Jenny
February 29th, 2008
I saw these shoes and immediately thought about all the tortuous things women have done to their bodies for the sake of fashion.
The Daily Mail wrote about these shoes, which cost about $3600, and said fashionistas and celebs like Gwyneth Paltrow, Uma Thurman and Victoria Beckham have already bought a pair.
The designer Lincolnshire-born Berardi, 39, said “he was inspired by Latin American music and 1980s post-modernism, adding: When you walk, it is almost on tiptoe. You look really dainty.”
Dainty? Or stupid?
I am not opposed to some pain for fashion, but I am opposed to falling down in front of others. I honestly fell down the other day walking in a narrow and steep stairwell while wearing a pair of heels (I can’t believe I just admitted that) and if I wore non-heeled heels I would quite possibly fall down walking on even ground.
Would you even try these? Do you love them? Do you want a foot-rub just looking at them?
-Jenny
February 28th, 2008
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