"If you give me $100, I'll show you my dorm room..." The Father's and his son's jaws dropped to the floor. Of course I'd show it to them for free. They smiled and we had a good laugh. One of the things I've been doing to earn extra bread, is to work out of the MSU Office of Admissions as a tour guide. Writing about my job gives me a chance to show off how a college junior usually dresses.
Here's one of my looks:
This photo is from last Fall. I'm not sure how I'd describe it, boho maybe? It's a bit of a mishmash: resort wear hat, Donna Karan neck scarf, cropped jacket, crop top, belt, striped skinny pants, and thigh high platform Casadei boots. I bought the boots from Aliexpress for, I think it was only $30, an outstanding deal given the price they go for usually. I love the jacket and top, and although the pants are great, I'm not sure what to wear them with. By the way, the building in the background is Beaumont tower, not an intrinsic part of the educational process, but it gives an old school feel to the tour.
For our next stop, I'm wearing something that makes up my usual school day attire:
A snuggly fleece lined, PU bomber jacket, t-shirt, platform clogs, and trumpet jeans, or extreme bell bottoms, or Kung Fu jeans, or Kung Fu restaurant jeans. The later two monikers I concocted because outside of Naomi's little world, the only people you'll see wearing them are actors in Kung Fu movies. So here's another peek at those clogs:
Yep, those are ginourmous heels, which you need with ginourmous bells on trumpet jeans. Once you get used to them they're just a teensy bit difficult to walk in, not too much. No problem for a pro tour guide like myself.
And speaking of professionalism, even some one like me can get lost on her own campus. Luckily, there's an app for that:
Sorry no casetify for me.
One of MSU's attractions that draws the most interest is here, this place:
Spartan Stadium. It's one of the biggest sports stadiums in the world. Other than that, there's little for most academic candidates to have interest in; sure, I've toured some prospective athletes, yet for most students, Spartan Stadium is realm unto its own. It's not even located on campus. Yet everyone wants to give it a look see. Because of all of the War on Terror paranoia, I have some trouble getting my tourists inside. Though I have my ways: a killer demand from a woman who isn’t afraid to go against the grain can't be ignored. A quick annotation: in an earlier post I think I made a teensy booboo when I declared that Spartan Stadium is bigger than even Ford Stadium or Field where the Tigers play. Not sure if the Tigers play at Cormica Field - if that's what it's called (not sure about that either) - or Ford Field, or the Lions play at one of them or the other, sorry, after all this ain't no sports blog.
The look I'm sporting here, is something I call slob style: it's a little grungy, sort of boho, 100% casual. Again, like the previous photo, a fleece lined, PU bomber jacket - this one's slightly different , t-shirt, trumpet jeans - almost the same as the one's in the previous snapshot except for different detailing around the waist, and humungous platform sandals, check these babies out:
Oh, and the t-shirt I'm wearing? I did not pay $300 for it. It's my new boyfriend Steve's. He didn't buy it at a concert either mind you, that tour was a little before our time. He got it at a thrift shop for $2! I tell him, "Steve, go on Ebay and try to sell it, you could get $300." Naah, he'd rather wear it himself or see me wearing it, how sweet.
Well, that concludes Naomi's tour of MSU, hope you learned something, but now it's time for everyone to get off the bus. Feel free to check out some of my other posts too, on your way out.
Catchya later.
Ciao.
Woops! Sorry I missed the last two days of Chanukah, usually they are the best. I had finals to study for and family to be with. Yep, Chanukah ended Monday, but since I have a back log of stuff to tell you about, it looks like on Naomi's Fashionable World that Chanukah will go on a longer than expected. I'm sure the rabbinical council won't mind.
What happened this last Saturday was, I went to temple with my little brother and my mom, and when I got home I helped mom with some of our festivities, lighting the menorah and such. Here's what I wore:
I already had the platform sandals, the skirt and blouse were Chanukah gifts, the skirt from my mom, the blouse from my little brother. He must have spent all of his gelt from last year on me this Chanukah:
Naah, he's too old for gelt, though both of us are still getting the chocolate gelt from mom. Later, I went outside to hang out with some of my friends in the neighborhood. You see the driedel in the photo? We didn't play spin the driedel too much...just kidding!
So, I hope your Chanukah was one of the best ever. If it wasn't, well, there's always next year.
I've got one more final then the Fall semester has finally ended.
Haven't been on Polyvore lately though you're always welcome to like my sets, thank you!
Catchya later.
Ciao.
You're probably here because you followed the link from the Google+ post I put up today. If you're here for some other reason, to get you up to speed, this post is about how so many shoes look so much alike.
I was pinning some stuff to my Pinterest boards, "shoe" and "platform shoe", the other day and couldn't help noticing how similar so many shoes look to each other. Some of them are practically identical and it's not because they are what are being called knockoffs, which is a term that seems to be reserved for the highest end of the fashion spectrum.
Here's an example:
OK, so on the top we've got a Steve Madden platform, very nice. Next we've got a thick heel platform sandal from a company I'm going to talk about in a little bit. And last but not least another platform sandal, hard to say if it's taller, looks taller to me, must be the sole, from the same place as the one in the middle.
Golly! They are SO similar! The rise on the one at the top and the one at the bottom is the same; it's the thicker sole that makes the one at the bottom look bigger, and I think it is anyway. And these aren't the only shoes that are so close in appearance to each other. I couldn't include every example because there wouldn't be nearly enough room plus it would take far too long a time to compile such a list.
Anyway, I wound up buying numbers 2 and 3; I already have number 1 in beige, so I thought a little change would be in order. Here's where I bought them:
That's number 3, having some trouble getting these web pages to stick, maybe I can get number 2 up some other time. Anyway, the company's, Chateau of Couture, website is a teensy bit hard to understand so I had to send them an email, and low and behold they answered back! Which is very uncommon in this day and age, and not only that they were very helpful. I'm not going to say what currency 250 is, just let me say it was still expensive for me. Yet, for 250 of anything, these babies were a super bargain for the style and the "quality of workmanship" as they call it.
I also bought a pair of terrific boots from the same place, check these beauties out:
For 450 - 450 something - these boots were quite the bargain. They are totally gorgeous and feel incredibly luxurious. I wore these boots to the MSU v. Michigan game. Sorry no pics...yet. Stay tuned, I have a special surprise about that game that I know you will not want to miss. Very happy with my purchase and I think I'll buy some of the other styles when I have enough bread.
Addendum Oh, yeah, one last thing. they're probably moderately cheap because maybe they're having trouble selling them. That's the only thing I can think of.
I hope you appreciate this look into my shopping world, it took me 2 hours to get this stuff up on the web. And, I hope your shopping experiences are as satisfying too.
Incidentally, doesn't the Chateau of Couture website look a lot like some other websites? I'm reminded of matches fashion or maybe shoebizz, weird.
Don't forget to like my contest sets on Polyvore if you get the chance, please! I need your help!
Catchya later.
Ciao.
