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fun friday fashion flashbacks

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TGIF! :)

a fun post for your friday afternoon reading pleasure:

i had a great breakfast with my co-workers the other day, and being that most of us are children of the 80s, conversation took a turn towards screams of laughter across the table, as we talked about all of the fashion trends we remembered as kids growing up in the 80s:

  • layered slouch socks – some of us had small enough feet to wear 3 different colors at once. that takes real talent & bigger shoes…

photo courtesy of costumecraze.com

  • side ponytails – which some of us either cannot shake to this day or are on the brink of bringing it back! (you know who you are…) i had a classmate who was smaller than me – yes, shocking isn’t it, who wore her hair in a side ponytail almost everyday. she was held back a year… probably due to poor blood circulation in the brain. :P

photo courtesy of hairfashionworld.info

  • teased bangs – i remember my cousins who were in high school in the 80s totally rockin’ this style. me & my younger cousins totally wanted to be like them – super cool… you can imagine what our family parties were like back then when we were about 7-8 years old. glad this was just a trend…

photo courtesy of danoftheday.com

  • stirup pants – some people think that these are still fashionable. apparently, lululemon thought stirup pants could make a come back and made them part of the line plan back in fall 2009. failure. what were you thinking?!

photo courtesy of luluaddict.blogspot.com

  • mcdonald’s playplace - although the coolest thing in school as kids, in the 21st-century, no child in their right mind would ever be caught dead or even think about having their birthday party at a mcdonald’s playplace.

photo courtesy of neogaf.net

  • shirt rings - need i say more?

photo courtesy of ointme2theskyabove.blogspot.com

  • slap bracelets - o m g, these were the s*$%! i don’t really understand what was so freakin’ awesome about these bracelets, besides the fact that they would wrap around your wrist on impact. i think back in grade school they were actually banned due to injury: kids were slapping themselves too hard with them… you can still find slap bracelets today, morphed into watches.

photo courtesy of estore365.com

  • jelly shoes - i love jelly shoes! i will admit i owned 2 pairs of these in high school AND they had a heel. super comfy. :) i think they’re still relatively trendy…

photo courtesy of pointme2theskyabove.blogspot.com

oh to be a child of the 80s!

what’s your favorite 80s fashion flashback?

have a great weekend, people

:)


laa (lululemon addicts anonymous)

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hello, my name is kristin and i am a lululemon addict. :)

photo courtesy of kb!

more specifically, i am addicted to cool racerbacks.

i think i have almost every color under the sun… correction: i have every color that looks good on my skin tone, which translates to about 30 different colors – including run: swiftly racerbacks! :P keep in mind, this is what has accumulated over the past 2+ years from working for this great company, but regardless of that fact, my boyfriend thinks i’m insane.

i’m sure i’m not the only lululemon fan out there who has that many colors of one style – at least i hope i’m not!

before lululemon, i was a big fan of the wifebeater. yes, i realize the term is a little tongue-in-cheek, but you know exactly what kind of tank/top/sleeveless shirt i speak of when i refer to it as such. anyway, the fruit of the loom ones i pick up at target are the bomb.com (yes, in the boy’s department), so you can only imagine the excitement that came over me when i discovered the crb’s... it was OVER! i can’t believe i didn’t know! …guess the stores i first shopped at didn’t have the greatest educators on deck. :P

cool racerbacks are like a little black dress, that also happens to come in as many colors and creative names as crayola crayons. where else can you find colors like: citron, toothpaste, pig pink or unicorn tears? …the last 2 of which did not make it in my collection because i was just not a fan.

since the summer started, i wear my racerbacks so often, that i have a prominent outline of a crb on my back (and front)… and with 2 more months of yummy weather left in the year (mother nature willing) probably won’t go away until the rain starts coming down again!

finally lululemon.com pays homage to the crb:

photo courtesy of lululemon.com

why i wear this:

cool racerback

      • it fits my sense of stye: simple, clean, classic – with a twist!
      • i love to layer them! solids under wee stripes, solids under statics, wee stripes over solids – the combinations are endless!
      • i wear them EVERYWHERE – to yoga, to work, running errands, to dinner, to a night out – i figure out how to incorporate it somehow!
      • it’s stretchy, breathable & flattering on my body type.
      • it goes with EVERYTHING: my fave yoga pants (wunder unders – which i also have a ridiculous amount of), shorts, jeans (rarely happens)

photo courtesy of lululemon.com

what’s your (lululemon) addiction?

sseko: beautiful sandals for an inspiring purpose

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ms. christina's killer shoe collection (photo courtesy of km2shoeblog.blogspot.com)

like most women, i am obsessed with SHOES! an obsession that grew exponentially thanks to carrie bradshaw and her fashion-forward friends of sex and the city. (if you don’t know, woman or man, you seriously need to get with the program!) peep-toe, chunky platforms, sassy flip flops, 4″ stilettos that give that extra ooomf when i want to be able to look most of my friends straight in the eye, sexy strappy numbers, boots with buckles, wooden wedges, summery espadrilles… OMG i could go on forever! when i go to the mall, which isn’t a destination i frequent nowadays, i will admit to you right now that i intentionally park my car in the nordstrom lot (my favorite department store, and according to my godmother, has been since i was 6-years old) so that walking through the shoe department is the first and the LAST thing i do at the mall. ;) can you really blame a girl?

photo courtesy of shadders.net

so with this obsession with shoes, you can understand why seeing my sisters huddling around a computer screen filled with colorful strappy sandals peaks my curiosity. what ARE you guys lookin at?! what are you buying? oOooO, i like THAT one! my sister, the high school teacher, turns to me wide-eyed and excited and gives me the rundown about sseko sandals:

  • sseko designs provides an opportunity for recent cornerstone leadership academy graduates to earn money for their university tuition, living & working together in kampala, uganda for about 9 months before they begin college
  • sseco designs was created by a young college graduate with a vision to provide young women such as herself with the opportunity to reach their dreams!
  • sseko designs has a new class each year of talented, passionate, determined & strong women – each with a different story
  • sseko sandals all come with the same sole (different sizes, of course!) with 5 anchor points and a strap that tied in so many ways – swap it out with different colors & get creative!

photo courtesy of martinswant.wordpress.com

i, of course, jump on my laptop to do my own perusing around the site, clicking on every link available, and what i discover is amazing to say the least. there is a quote from the sseko designs website that i am absolutely in love with that truly speaks to the value of empowering women all around the world:

‘Women hold up half the sky,’ in the words of a Chinese saying, yet that’s mostly an aspiration: in a large slice of the world, girls are uneducated and women marginalized, and it’s not an accident that those same countries are disproportionately mired in poverty and riven by fundamentalism and chaos…focusing on women and girls is the most effective way to fight global poverty and extremism. The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren’t the problem; they’re the solution. -NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

beautiful, creative sandals that stand for an uplifting purpose. shoes with meaning… can it get any better than that? such an inspiring story and TRUTH. there is something to be said about how i feel when i am inspired. i feel… GOOD. i have HOPE. it feels good KNOWING that there is some RIGHT going on in the world today, despite all of the hatred, devastation, loss, war, and injustice.

inspiring people give me HOPE.

my question to you is: what gives you HOPE?

i got my eye on these green babies! (photo courtesy of http://www.ssekodesigns.com)

**did you know? that GREEN is the color of hope? …i knew there was a reason why i loved that color! ;) hehe…

namaste.