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Even TV Shows Get Fashion Lines: Necessary Objects for The O.C
The Fox TV show The O.C. recently joined forces with the line Necessary Objects and Amazon.com’s Apparel & Accessories Store to bring you the Necessary Objects for The O.C. The line looks like it was designed by a disgruntled former employee of the mall based store Bebe. Furthermore, Necessary Objects’ clothing aren’t very well made. I highly doubt you would see Mischa Barton wearing any of the items from the collection. However, the cap-sleeved sweater shown on the left (retail price: $48.00) would look great under this season’s tweed suits.
I’m really upset with Fox. Why didn’t they put together a Beverly Hills 90210 clothing line? No one could rock a biker short/mini skirt combo like Brenda, Kelly, and Donna (forget about Andrea).
To see the exclusive Necessary Objects for The O.C. Collection go to Amazon’s Apparel & Accessories Store.
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Win Free Lotion and a great Toronto Sample Sale
*THIS SWEEPSTAKES IS NOW OVER*
I love free stuff, so here’s an opportunity to win some free lotion and other great prizes in the Curel Natural Healing Sweepstakes. Head to the site and enter to win the Grand Prize, a trip to the renowned Red Mountain Spa, one of 50 first Place Prizes, personal Curel Greeting Cards designed by greeting card company Tiger & Jones, or one of thousands of samples of…read more
Top Fashion Blogs
It seems like everyone and their mommas (and grandmommas) have a blog. Blogging has become as popular as, well, writing in a diary. So my friend Dee and I selected a few of our favorite fashion- and shopping- budget related blogs. Now of course, our favorite blog is The Budget Fashionista, but there are other blogs we like as well. Here’s just a few . . .
Dee recommends: Stylediary.net, a…read more
Forth & Towne, Best of the Web, and Intern with TBF
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Thanks to all who already voted for The Budget Fashionista as your favorite shopping blog in Business Week’s best of the web competition. To cast your vote for The Budget Fashionista head to Business Week and enter The Budget Fashionista and our url.
I haven’t been able to make it up to the new GAP venture,…read more
THIS CONTEST IS NOW OVER
Bluefly.com and Lucky Magazine have teamed up for the “30 Bags in 30 Days Contest”. Head to Bluefly.com, enter your contact info (of course, nothing is completely free) and you’ll be brought to the contest page. Although the contest is a great idea and a great way to win a Hermes Kelly bag (retail price $4500), it isn’t very well organized. The contest system forced me to enter… read more
THIS CONTEST IS NOW OVER
The folks at Figleaves.com are giving away a $1000 lingerie shopping spree to a lucky shopper. If your panties are literally “in a bunch”, then you need to sign up for this contest. No purchase necessary.
From a reader: Another deal for Figleaves, go to www.figleaves.com/shopetc until 10/31/05 and get 20% off. You can shop more than once with this deal, but it doesn’t apply to sale items.
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Andre Leon Talley is my imaginary VBF (very best friend). In my Pucci printed daydreams, the Vogue editor-at-Large and I stroll, arm in arm, through the Garden State Mall in Paramus, NJ, Andre giving me advice on what shoes to buy during Nordstroms Half Yearly Sale and divulging that Anna Wintour secretly buys her underwear from Target and I showing him how to score a Friends and Family Coupon for Bloomingdales and the amazing restorative powers of a strawberry Orange Julius.
So you can imagine my excitement when I saw my Imaginary… read more
I recently received an email from a loyal reader, expressing anger over my sometime promotion of discount giant Wal-Mart. Although I don’t believe that Wal-Mart is a corporate saint, I also don’t think they are the devil hiding behind a yellow smiley face. Their Faded Glory jeans, retail $14.95, are some of the best jeans I’ve ever bought. It’s easy to bust on the store when you live in a major metropolitan area, but if you live in a small town like Elizabeth City, NC- Wal-Mart is the only shop in town. Regardless, the reader brings up a very interesting question. As… read more
There’s nothing I like more than a shopping spree at my local Salvation Army. I never really paid much attention to disinfecting the garments, until I learned that a fashion editor friend of mine received a nasty infection from not cleaning her thrift store purchases properly. This tool gives you tips on cleaning and disinfecting your thrift store purchases.
- Never, ever, wear a thrift store purchase without first cleaning the garment(s). In most cases it’s best to send the item to the dry cleaners for cleaning. The … read more
Break out the claws and the vaseline....
Stella McCartney’s much anticipated collection for H&M hits 400 stores on November 10th.
According to the store’s website, the collection will include “a mix of daywear, tailored classics, evening wear, lingerie and accessories” with “narrow denim jeans with sharp details and ankle zip, the oversized slouchy sweater, the feminine silk embellished cami tops, the quirky print cotton t-shirts, the razor sharp tailored suit, the gem colored evening dresses, the relaxed belted mac will all now be available… read more
