Last night I joined Darling and a close family friend for a VIP only Fashion Show here in the StL. I know it sounds odd to use StL and Fashion in the same sentence but I promise, we have some! You just have to know where to look.
My dad scored us the tickets to this event where our ears were delighted by “DJ Andrew,” Tommy Bahama rum mixed deliciously in some sort of Rum-Runner concoction and the people watching was at it’s best. A few of my favorite people-watching moments from the night:
* A guy who wore a faux tuxedo shirt, you know, the kind where the tuxedo print is on the shirt but it’s really just a cotton t-shirt? He jazzed it up with a black jacket but it still made me laugh out loud.
* Another guy who had a great outfit on but wore HUGE Drew Carey style glasses that were clearly a novelty.
* A bright, neon green dress. It was rather blinding. Perhaps if the cut/design had been different it would have been great. (I’m not a fashionista by any means but it was just… wrong.)
* The girls who attended and weren’t models in the show but stood as if they were modeling. Hands on hips, heads held high, no smiles on their faces.
The fashion show itself only lasted about 20 minutes out of the entire three hour event, but it was enough time for me to covet the stick-thin legs (and also make two trips to the bar), about $3,000 worth of clothes and a permanent hair-stylist. (You can view photos of the event here.) All of the clothes were from Nordstrom so I’m pretty sure that my next bonus check will be quickly spent on one or two key pieces I can use over and over again from there. Or maybe I’ll imitate the clothes from a bunch of other stores; I haven’t decided yet.
As a thank you for attending we received complimentary valet parking, open bar, light dinner fare such as sushi and losbster bisque as well as a goodie bag including a fashion magazine, a free six-ounce glass of wine, hand made hair ties, gift certificate to a local spa and note cards.
Besides the fashion show and the fact that one of the male models literally had a Zoolander face on the whole time my favorite part of the night was driving home with Darling and LC doing the post-event wrap-up including a discussion on the super model diet which we decided is not something we could survive on.
So tell me are you a Vogue Reader & Fashion Worshipper? Or do you make your own fashion? What is the ONE piece of clothing that you would buy if you could, assuming money and distance you’d need to travel to purchase the item isn’t an issue? Although I’m a casual dresser by nature, I love dresses. And skirts. And heels.
One of my favorites:
Walking with Nora 