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For some reason, the idiom has been stuck in my head since spring, and when I get words or phrases looping, my instinct from discipline is to keep my lines at the top. GEE, If I could only have my two front teeth, then I could really Wish and Whistle!
Now, I’m bored of collected listicles from influencers (advertisers), their dainty favorites veiled as needs I cannot believe are real for any/every type of person anymore, bullets of budget picks for every category of character in your life, curations poised as BEST in Show, and so on. No. Frankly, I’m not interested in consuming this type of content (not to yuck anyone’s yum) or add to the white noise. I want to BeReal in my natural curiosities and collection of 2022 Personal Wishlist Items. A show of what I could honestly buy with my own earned cold Hard Cash, if I had it.
From my childhood bedrooms and family desktop, I was doing this work by cutting/printing out images and text, adding my own notes, and pasting them into neatly organized and reasonable presentations, down to the specs; this is no different, and now I have more resources and better tools! There are so many ways we individually and collectively celebrate our holiday season, hell, even Jesus is the reason for the season, and/or A BIG BOW is something we can all get behind w a smile and excitement! I can’t express my joy to be able to link it all now.
My queen, Madonna says it best, “if they don’t give me proper credit, I just walk away.”
BLACK COWBOY BOOTS, I don't have a specific pair in mind to link. Honestly, I believe this is the kind of item that I’ll spiritually connect with and know are mine when I see/find them IRL. Next year, I will have been living in Austin, TEXAS for NINE (niiine) YEARS, which is xtremely too long living in Hell to not own the boots go w me! GANNI Instagram insists I want the Embroidered Western Boots. Locally, I’ve looked into the Allen Boots, and now glued onto at least romanticizing these Chisos No. 4
I don’t need to sell you on the fact I’d wear the hell out of any Cowboy boots I owned; I’m a talented dancer.
BROOKE BOOTS from Vagabond, The chunky platform is IN; the “Nice Docs” are OUT. Kept my eye on the Brooke all fall, once I mentally broke up with the idea of wanting their Marja boot. Both items I keep a search for in my Depop. Perhaps weird of me to note, but Annie Wu, John Fetterman’s Social Media Producer in the 2022 election cycle, (who rules all Social, if you don’t already know/follow her work!) styled a chunky platform boot so well throughout midterms I imagine they added the boost she needed for helping the 6’8” future Senator win the race!
The Fashion It-Girl, SAMBAS started popping up in streetstyle a little ahead of the latest World Cup Trend. Spotted on the Model of the Year (IMO), Bella Hadid, MK & A Olsen, and more says Vogue. Classic Core Black w Cloud White Stripes para mí, y localmente la edición especial de Austin FC! ¡Verde!
Girlfriend Collective TOMMY BRA, in Moss Green, to complete my set. Very into uniform dressing/removing small decisions from self expression as a inhibitor for my work. Reaching for the Tommy Bra and my studio Levi’s are a way I “get it done”.
FWIW, I wear the Gazelle shorts on constant repeat, too. XXtra Credit for finding your ideal size of the item you want from GF Collective and using your internet powers to find your size/color secondhand.
Want sheer tops, like this pearly long sleeve (on sale, too!) Honestly, give me any piece from my new BEST FIT brand, WRAY NYC. Found the Sabrina pants, and promptly wore them for the flight home, and wear at least once a week now. Frequently getting asked where from. I learned about this brand from binge-watching Younger in 2020, and subsequently developing a crush on Molly Kate Bernard, who is friends with Wray, and modeled their clothing, notably to me being 5’2”.
TRACK PANTS, All I want to wear for the last three months are men’s size L Adidas track pants??? Giving myself permission! and I think I’m honestly doing a fun job styling them from my iced coffee to Blank Hellscape hours. Felt GIDDY to grab the link to these Nike pants, from Hunter Harris’s newsletter Hung Up, which temporarily sold out as quickly as she linked if that tells you anything about the Internet Girls w real tangible influence, and now I see are avail and on sale again!
Levi's, Keywords: Oversized, Baggy/too long, midwash denim. Perhaps a wide leg option, because I keep screenshotting images of overly baggy, brushing the floor denim, a crisp oversized cotton button down shirt, I think with my Sandy Liang pointes and sunglasses..looking so relaxed and chic…wide leg tough to find for a woman who needs a short inseam. Searching for good secondhand denim—
Vogue Blazer, from Artizia, or a classic/current boxy, two-button silhouette similar. Someone I follow online included this $248 in their little sponsored holiday edit; it’s a slick piece. Found a starter blazer at my local Salvation Army for $9.99.
I’ve never shopped from Artizia before, but I’m increasingly curious about this brand's cost/item quality/personal fit. Toss in the Agency Pants w the shortie inseam pls. I can’t read this product title without thinking about Phoebe’s Apartment Pants.
Reformation Adelina Set, I’ve been online carting this on and off all year. I’m confident I’d wear this set together! and as separates! and all Austin sweaty summer long! (I lead the Spice Girls choreography as a hybrid Posh/Sporty Spice, if that helps my image.)
Craving a Leather blazer/jacket, specifically not a shirt jacket style, although I like this one from WRAY NYC, to add into my mix, maybe similar to the Veda Bowery Leather Blazer.
On Good Jackets: I shrieked with excitement when I saw this Nike Tech Pack Jacket (SKU: CU6036-010) styled on Great Lee in S2 of The Morning Show, and started searching the Internet mid-episode. I’ve had this jacket saved in my Depop and too many open tabs for over a year. She will be mine.
^The MIU MIU Micro^, inspired! And I don’t even like khaki, not even in a Kornacki kind of way. When I saw the Skirt of the 2022 fashion year, no one could sport it like Jenny Walton. She is without a doubt one of my favorite people online, and a go-to for ANY Fashion Week she covers! Impeccable personal style evolved from Classics she often upcycles and cares for, using her own refined skills, plus consistent coverage of the designers she is known for working with, highlighting new and archived Prada. Walton has been the perfect vintage pin in the industry for years, undeniably shiny, and this year was an especially incredible year to be following Jenny’s story, expanding her fresh life in Milan. Give me a good dupe on the mirco next year. I bet we all grab on.
Knowing me, I’d wear it w my newest band merch, pair w Heaven or Hotel Vegas, or rep my local Peach Fuzz Mag’s lip lingering love letter tee, to eat my way to your heart.
OR, O - MIGHTY I’M SO BLOGGING THIS TEE, because the Reading Is Sexy options would be too on the nose, right? If there is one thing I want to do, I want to blog about it.
Princess of Darkness (self titled) Landscape Dress from Staud. I’d look cute in this! To where for what!?? While I’m listing dresses I desperately want to own and wear, I present the Samantha Pleet Persephone Dress, featuring this beautiful rose vine appliqué!! I whimper, take me to ride the subway w this on!
article&, Indigo Ditsy Dress, to be worn year round w my new Cowboy Boots. Looks so free! Absolutely giving in the influence of my red dirt roots and Texas everyday life, and not to mention the way Southern style has influenced this year’s Industry Top Performers, serving beyond the South, as far as across the pond (YEEHAW!). Maybe you can’t take the prairie out of the girl, regardless of the hills overcome. “Oklahoma is not, like, a play you read.”
For la femme side, Miranda Bennett’s wrap top, white linen. My TOP LOCAL Austin, Texas SHOUT OUT for the girlies w smart sustainability ethics! I imagine wearing this w dirty cut-offs to the rooftop of El Alma for margs and chips (still haven’t been up there, y’all have said it’s nice though!).
Earlier in the year, I was sad to have missed my friend's TONES FEST, celebrating Austin’s Asian American makers, vendors and bands, including YEAR 901, and I saved the sweet pebble jade earrings in my Shop folder. I typically wear gold jewelry, and hoops, but think of green as a personal neutral these days. Maybe a new shape!
Camilla dress, black, obvi, WITH the Farfalle earrings, while we’re shopping at Lisa Says Gah! You bet your assless chaps to be styled with every shoe I own and listed above, obvi with the Cowboy Boots! So versatile, or am I missing Austin weather?
This is my best report explaining that I want to wear everything w a hyper-specific influence of it being in a Sandy Laing way…
****A Screenshot Photo Intermission from me by Sandy Liang****
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The Simon Dress is perfect. An assortment of bows and roses. I’d pick them all. Pre-order my Pointe Shoes PLS! Buy me/Bury me in the Babysitter dress, or take me to try it on once for fun! Childhood me cannot imagine my 31-year-old excitement over RECITAL HAIR BOWS. Want this Princess Chain around my neck.
SLAY a NYC Fashion Girlie, freezing to death in her balaclava, but making it Texas metal in my MUGGER MOSH MASK. Listen on BANDCAMP>>>>> And, Support my local punks! See U @ FREE WEEK!!!!!!!
Black Celine Sunglasses, no comment. Also, eyeing locals, VADA Tokio Galaxy; the Eternal Instagram Ads, Bonnie Clyde ANGEL; ultimately, the GOU GOODS PG02, will do. A good hunt will find my Celines someday.
Merit La Fête Édition set, sponcon by @steph_shep. Watching The Kardashians for the first time ever this year allowed me to understand and grow my online obsession with Steph Shepherd. I know next to nothing about her, and I like it this way, but I take iPhone photos of her outfits w the show on pause, like a parent holding up an ipad to the tv screen. Every episode. Her IG provides another layer to Kardashian lore. And she works her links! Like this v good KOSAS Lip Oil Gloss, in jellyfish.
I can’t yet fully write it in words why the NuFace mini seems to permeate every GRWM flashing before my screens for achieving Instagram face. Many citing it as the “one thing” to buy for at-home facials. Ruminating two years later on AOC’s Beauty Secrets about the nuances of wearing makeup for the purpose of it leading to more equal pay.
JINSOON nail polish, I own and love a couple nail colors already, and want to expand my mani/pedi skills at-home to help cut my GEL costs. + Enjoyed reading The Cut’s ‘How I Get It Done’ profile of Jin Soon Choi from last NYFW
The Carrie candle??? (A Diptyque, styled on set S4) But not for $70!! What I want are good smelling Candles! Most recently burned through two $5 Target Holiday Spruce's to liven the xmas mood in here…$10 too short lived, but this is what we get w Target money. This year I learned how to better set/reset energy in my studio with candles, which has led to an exploration to find my fav scents/designs/costs. Candle Comments are open!
"Baby Won't You Hold My Butt" Ashtray from Coming Soon. No notes.
Contax T2, Looking for a sustainable way to keep up my film for fun for the next 10+ years aside from an annual double pack of Fujifilm disposables.
Bananagrams, major Worm year. Still Wordling daily despite my distaste for NYT. Amped up my crossword and Spelling Bee games too, during idle time. Let’s play more words IRL.
TWO (2) Martini Glasses, to make and drink more Martinis at home in 2023! I think I’ve settled into Gin w twist, but I keep trying dirty or w olives, and soon I will hard launch my Martini’s in Austin grrrl gang. Reply to apply.
Considering wearing my chip on my shoulder in lieu of equal pay for all (and as humble my regrets for being unable to afford the nylon Prada bag bc of it): GIVE GIRLS MONEY.
I’d love it if we MATCHED, and you GIVE MONEY in support of Abortion access FOR ALL! Putting one of my many orthopedic pins in Praying’s most recent product design mistake, for me to rip into another day.
Always watching the internet secondhand spots for the iconically sold-out Telfar Global Small Shopping Bag. Still on my Wishlist, carrying over from 2021, in black or highlighter green. Still Hot, still the Perfect mini bag, w a top handle and crossbody option, for my daily carry (iphone, keys, wallet, airpods, sunglasses, lip balm, at minimum three writing utensil options)
CC: Prada, 2000 Re-Edition.
For peace of mind, I intentionally waited to gather this list until I was confident it would be too-late for any impulsive online orders. I considered loosely totaling this Blog Cart during drafts, and have decided to spare us both.
More Goods I Want? I cherish a thoughtful recommendation for everyday items that hold the full weight of your integrity, and joyful/happy things too. Comments are open for cliques and crits!
Kiss noises,
Pre-madonna, Colore
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