http://images2.like.com/product-images--009a9aed2346fcc2b1c1aaf59e496120d5d9bc5d-395b7a454831278c--jpg_sqthumb_large--womenspantsandslacks-classic-denim-skinny-jeans.jpg
― Surmounter, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
hott
Yeah, exactly, Lauren. I like wide-legged pants in the '30s-40s movie way with a higher waist, very Coco/Garbo. (Almost a palazzo pant without looking like you used a whole drawing room curtain to for each leg.)
― Laurel, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.welikefashion.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/christina-carmen-greyskinnyjeans.jpg
― Surmounter, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
i love christina's look but wtf is streaming off her purse
― Surmounter, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
ugh, christina ag. always looks so greasy.
― lauren, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Sur I just think she's so tacky. I'm sorry. I also can't handle the make-up.
― ENBB, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
gwen stefani pulls it off much better (though i still think she wears too much too)
― tehresa, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
haha don't apologize! as i think we're all aware, i'm on the other side of the tacky fence :D
― Surmounter, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, as long as the gloves are off... gah, she is SO tacky! she's like the cheap stripper version of the 40s pin-up girl.
xp - and we love you for it, of course
― lauren, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I ALMOST like so many things about that -- the lipstick with the gloss of an auto-body wax, the red heels, the hair all in pieces -- but somehow she just looks like she tried and failed, to me. Would like her jeans better if they were shorter, ankle-bone length.
of the '40s pin-up girl Exactly.
― Laurel, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean I have Petty Girl checks, for pete's sake. Trashy blonde up there is not measuring up.
― Laurel, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
The ScarJo photo that everyone hated with the really high jeans and the black tank top was SO much better.
― Laurel, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
You love those jeans so much!!! :-)
― ENBB, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't remember this photo!
― Surmounter, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I could never never wear them cos I don't like having things around my waist. Also high-waisted jeans are so not the answer to sitting at a desk all day with the tummy bunched up. But I like that photo of her and I thought the disapproval when it came out was terribly unfair. :)
― Laurel, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
The ScarJo photo that everyone hated with the really high jeans and the black tank top was SO much better. oh yeah, from the imitation of christ show? that was not so good
― phil-two, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
surm:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/iheartjamesdean/scarlett-highwaistskinnyjeansred-1.jpg
that's fucking hot
― Surmounter, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post
I can't remember what it was for but I think she was modeling. Maybe Imitation of Christ or something like that? I just know that I've seen Laurel post about that pic/those jeans a bunch of times before. They're like her holy grail jeans.
― ENBB, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
hmmmm.
― tehresa, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I think that they look good on her and she looks awesome there but I could never wear anything like that. I'd look ridic.
― ENBB, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
thx for posting that!
― Surmounter, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
(the pic)
Yes! Phil beat me to it -- like I said, I couldn't wear them either, but that's about the only way I like jeans with heels.
― Laurel, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i think the cigarette is kind of what makes the pic even moar laurel-y!
― tehresa, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
so perfect!
― Surmounter, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait, AND she's smoking? Oh shit etc. Haha.
― Laurel, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I do actually have a pair of pointy red '50s stilettos and I have been known to wear them with very tapered ankle-length jeans. Mostly to like garage rock shows, though. Guilty as charged.
― Laurel, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
my friend's reaction to that look -- friend: that takes a certain kind of woman but it is gorgeous
― Surmounter, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha, weird, I totally accept the shoe-swallowing on those proper trousers, but there is still a tiny part of my brain that has guy standards and is confused by the lack of feet/shoes and wonders about ease of walking and generally associates shoe-swallowing with
As for the ScarJo 50s-style high-waist tapered-leg heels thing, I know not many people are going to have the body type and inclinations to really pull that off, but I hope that fact will encourage those who can to run with it.
― nabisco, Friday, 8 August 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
i am just checking in to say, Surmounter, i am on the same side of the tacky fence as you.
― horseshoe, Friday, 8 August 2008 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
whoah, what happened there? "generally associates shoe-swallowing with ... sloppy teenage boys and ravers," was most of what I was going to say, I think
― nabisco, Friday, 8 August 2008 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link
whew, horseshoe, i'm glad i'm not alone :D
― Surmounter, Friday, 8 August 2008 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
surmounter + horseshoe = horsemounter
― nabisco, Friday, 8 August 2008 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Will have to add that to the vocabulary thread. HORSEMOUNTER (adj.): things that look nice but a bit more "fabulous" than Laurel or Lauren would be likely to enjoy
― nabisco, Friday, 8 August 2008 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
:D
i'm sorry, i just love it so much: http://www.dlisted.com/node/27714/images/spl43975_003.jpg
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, god.
― lauren, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.turkishemporium.co.uk/images/HAREMPANTS/HAREMPANTSBLACKsmall.jpg
― Laurel, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
those jeans are busted seamed with selvage which is more often than not very $$$.
the finish is atrocious though, esp. the way the outseam is totally ribboned up. total no-no.
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
WHY IS SHE WEARING A SCARF IN AUGUST?
― tehresa, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
hmm... that outfit is kind of a mash-up of katie and v. beckham , actually. a few preppy chic items, nice but possibly a bit boring/too "old" for her, thrown together with ugly ultra-premium denim and vaguely takcy stilettos.
― lauren, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
er, tacky.
haha i love those shoes.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
those shoes are a little beckham, yeah
― tehresa, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
i kinda like it except not the color of the jeans. brings back memories of spending like an hour trying to cuff my jeans properly every time there was dress-down day (eg didn't have to wear uniforms) in middle school.
― daria-g, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
last night on the train i saw, in real life, a man wearing the jeans rolled up like katie holmes. i had to write this down so i didn't forget bc it was so o_O but he was also wearing dirty white keds (the old school lace up kind, not the slip ons like vans), a keffiyeh, and a vest. also carrying what seemed to be a womens leather tote/purse.
woah.
― tehresa, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Was he on his way to work at BAM?
― Laurel, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
haha laurel, we dress better than that!
― Surmounter, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
(that sounds horrifying btw)
― Surmounter, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link