I want to start sewing. I’m looking at pants right now and I’m blown away at how much a pair of pants are that I want. I just want a low-rise, black, slim fit, cotton dress pant. That’s it. Can’t find them. Well, I can’t find a pair I like. There are plenty of pants that match that description.
Next is my whole shoe debacle. I need a pair of brown dress(ish) shoes. Something I can wear with Jeans and dress pants. I want a medium brown high top that doesn’t have too much of a “boot” feel. The closest I’ve found lays below.
Now, there isn’t anything particularly wrong with these except a few little nitpicky things..
- The leather looks old and worn giving them a more casual look. Admittedly I will probably wear these with jeans more than anything, but still.
- The heel is higher than I’d like, it gives it a more boot feel.
- The toe comes up more than I would like. I don’t know if this is an ergonomics thing, but it kind of bugs me.
Things I love about them
- The zipper is on the inside
- The color
- The pull tab
- The sleek style, very simple
I’ve been trying to figure out what to say to you. Actually, a better way to put it would be that I’ve been trying to figure out whether to say anything to you at all. I did my best to stay away from you since day one. I knew you were amazing the day I met you. Later, I even got swept up in the moment and started thinking about if there was any feasible way to not screw everything up.
The night of Jillian’s birthday opened my eyes to something I had wondered about, but had never acted on. Even that night I let it go and tried to push the thought of you to the back of my head. “I’ll get over it.” I told myself. I opted to not act on my instincts.
Despite my best efforts, you continued to crop up in my thoughts. Marrying the notions of something old and classic with something subtly modern, you knocked me on my ass in a way I wasn’t quite expecting. It seems to be my running theme. Falling in lust with things that remind me of a prior decade yet are firmly planted in ours.
Sometimes we think so much about whether or not we can do something, yet we don’t stop to think about if we should do something. As Wednesday turned into Thursday I still couldn’t help but think about you and I decided to give in. Thursday night I went to Nordsroms and got you despite my best efforts telling me not to. That night I realized that I was right. Whoever made you had an attention to detail that is truly uncommon in this world, and I knew I was still hooked.
I can’t take back the decisions that I made. I can’t say yet whether I should have spent the money, but I can tell you that I will always try to appreciate our times together. You have already become a great friend and a confidence booster in my world and I can’t wait for more good times to come.
Somewhere my hair falls in there. Somewhere, I can feel it…
A design meant to compliment the styling’s of the up and coming 50’s, utilizing the new plastic manufacturing techniques of the decade. Designed to go hand and hand with Cadillac tail fins and Eames lounge chairs, the Wayfarer is arguably one of the most iconic sunglass styles of all-time.
The Wayfarer was made popular during the alternating decades of the 60’s and 80’s. James Dean, Bob Dylan, John F. Kennedy were all known to wear the iconic design in the 60’s. While in the 80’s the Wayfarer resurgence was due to they celebrity diversity of Elvis Costello, Morrissey, Tom Cruise, Madonna and Debbie Harry. Even the song “the boys of summer” makes a reference to the classic Ray-Ban.
It wasn’t until the late 2000’s where it was thought of to be safe to sport the, now decade old, design again. Continuing the trend of alternating peak popularity decades, Ray Ban re-introduced the Original Wayfarer in 2007. The New Wayfarer, and Wayfarer folding series were now to be complimented by the original that inspired them.
I tell this story because it speaks to the timeless design of these glasses. I have spent over a year looking for a new pair of sunglasses. Oddly enough, marking that anniversary was a camping trip to Idaho. It wasn’t until a trip to a local convenience store last week that I spotted a pair of knock-off Wayfarers. Immediately taking to the design, I researched the glasses legacy. Clamoring to find out if the original design fit my face-type, I set out to find a replacement for my fallen Gucci 2455’s. After a tweet in attempts to find a locally owned shop that carried them, I settled on getting them from Sunglass Icon at the Gateway.
Finally, after a year of looking for a pair of glasses that fit my face, were rugged, felt good, blocked a good amount of sun, and we’re not over-the-top expensive; the design I was looking for had been around for over fifty years.
*A large portion of the information contained in this post came from the Wayfarer Wikipedia Entry.
**Picture taken by Emily Toone
These are the jeans I just bought. They’re Levi 511s, a fairly straight forward skinny stretch for the masses. I got the Eco style that have 15% recycled cotton in them. My rule has always been to buy jeans that serve a specific purpose and always make me feel good. I will buy a “light wash casual” or a “business casual dark” or whatever I need at the moment. Sometimes the jeans are expensive… like $200 expensive, and sometimes (and in the case of these) super cheap. $36.99 at Smith’s Marketplace. Love them.
