The Ugly Dress Edition

There are days when I just feel the need to add some oomph to my daily attire. I throw in a bracelet that I wouldn't normally wear or mix it up with different shoes, purse or color combinations.  I know it sounds pretty wild.  Maybe it is the onset of Blogher this week (Packing, schmacking...) but I have been browsing dresses. I've had way to much fun and coffee spewed this morning looking at this site.  The Biker Wedding section alone is worth it. Personally, the idea of a knitted wedding ball gown just never crossed my mind.  Not that there's anything wrong with that... Just one question- Are those pants I see on that multi-tiered orange mess? Is Flavor of Love still on?  Rock of Love?  No. Somehow though I think this dress would find a nice home on some VH-1 based reality … [Read more...]

Trash the Dress Baby! Just trash it!

Tomorrow I will be participating in Trash the Dress. I cannot tell you how excited I am. What is it? Quite simply it is a photographer project where they take photos of women destroying their wedding dresses or other fancy attire. See I seem to have an extensive collection of bridesmaid dresses and military ball gowns that quite frankly need to be done away with. I could just donate them like I have in the past to such charities as The Glass Slipper Foundation or to Ugly Dress. Except none of these dresses are ugly. Not even the kiwi colored one if you can believe it. So when I was asked by a local photographer to take some time to get down and dirty, traipse through the various terrains of local graveyards, dried out riverbeds and lay down in some leafy trails I jumped at it. For … [Read more...]