the ugly earring

“Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?”

~Virginia Woolf

several years ago, three rings were carved from fallen palo verde, pistachio and eucalyptus trees found in downtown phoenix

the trend surfaces.

(wooden rings from kosch)

“What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind–the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.”

George Eliot

(sophia loren and jayne mansfield in beverly hills, 1958)

make the one in black my burial outfit, please.

(from the sart)

( Anna May Wong and Marlene Dietrich in “Shanghai Express”, 1932)

“They want you to bring out your intestines.”
-Marlene Dietrich

just a hint of blue is all you need to launch a revolution.

(great post at the pipeline)

Trudging slowly over wet sand
Back to the bench where your clothes were stolen
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon – come armageddon!
Come, armageddon! come!

Everyday is like sunday
Everyday is silent and grey

Hide on the promenade
Etch a postcard :
How I dearly wish I was not here
In the seaside town
…that they forgot to bomb
Come, come, come – nuclear bomb

(everyday is like sunday, morrissey)

“Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.”

~Hubert de Givenchy, Vogue, July 1985

i came across some fall thoughts:

and some lace tights

a blue hat

and some red boots

(quote from Shakespeare; photos from the vintage society, the sart, altamira nyc and the fashionist)