The Fashionable Commute

Life is not all about fashion, but I guarantee you'll see a lot of ugly outfits if you take public transit to work in the morning...

Thursday, June 29, 2006

My MINI Cooper chimes in

My MINI was bringing me into the parking garage today, and there was a great spot on the 3rd floor - after lunchtime (score!!). As we swung into the spot in the 'compact' row - MINI says "ummm.. why yes your ass DOES look fat". Appaled - I said to her, "excuse me"? She then said, actually Catwalker - your ass looks fanTAStic. I was referring to that Chevy Tundra Xtreme SUV next to us in that compact spot.... DUH.

huh. who knew that cars were in on that one too...


my further analysis led to a thought that an SUV in a compact spot is like drinking Diet Coke with your Double Double and large fries at the in&out and being proud about it....

Effin' SUV drivers.... Small is the new Large. Get a CLUE. Your gas bill is your repentance, but it hardly covers the sin.

Thursday, June 22, 2006

I back and ready to slay...

I was on Blogger Summer Vacation(tm) ... now I'm back and ready to sigh my sighs on the blog here over the hideous things that people are showing up to work in. Today we had a shining (literally) example....

Black and Gold attack:

Young Asian woman, suglasses so large that they covered her dimples, blackhair with (admittedly masterfully & expensively done but massively fake looking) gold highlights, Black cotton tunic top (good) embellished with gold metallic embroidery and sequins (bad), Black easy fitting knee length "Slim Gauchos"/"Clamdiggers"/"Capris" (good for weekend/possibly eve.), and gold flip-flops (bad - for work?!), large large black quilted leather Chanel bag (quilting is a winter detail folks...) with a thick gold chain draped around it (ick).

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I mean I know that this woman was likely not heading to work at a moderately conservative office job like mine.... but I like to forget all these possibilities when making my evaluations, it makes it a lot more fun to snark...

I figure in reality she was either
a) an in-room 'masseuse' at one of the hotels
b) a receptionist for a hairdresser
c) the maitre' d at a restaurant
d) retail employee at a shop in the embarcadero

regardless - she was a walking fashion victim, with a Karl Lagerfelt twist and looked like she should have had her own personal driver not 'Sparing the Air' with the rest of us on BART.

Thanks for your warm welcome back, good to be back, and have a truly fashionable day.