pinterest pairs : one

hello all!

you may have gathered by the fact that i numbered this post, that today i'm introducing a new... "column"? on this here blog. it is called pinterest pairs, which as the obvious name might suggest, is pairs of images gathered from the good old pinterest.

i want to address up front an issue that might be found with this column however, and that is the omnipresent internet issue of proper crediting. i so so strongly believe in proper crediting of images, however through pinterest and tumblrs etc, that is becoming increasingly more difficult (even with reverse-image searches and all). so, i want you all to know that i am trying my best to give proper credit to all of these images and avoid directing you to any tumblrs or pins, but i can't completely avoid that, so bear with me. and of course, lend me your knowledge if you know the origins of anything!

with that, here's #1, a little bit of coral in the form of pretty draping and pretty collars.

left: unknown, pinned here

right: set design by tim gutt

XO Rosie

PROM: the shopping, part I

Hello hello!
Its the post you've all been waiting for...! The post where we answer "where do I find this stuff!?"
There's no time to waste, let's begin!

The first step in shopping for your prom dress, is to think outside the box. If you really don't want your prom dress to look like 'a prom dress' then don't shop at a store that sells prom dresses! It's as simple as that! Instead, shop at a store that sells formal dresses! ie bridesmaid dresses, things of that manner... Very often, you'll find pretty options at your favorite stores!

LOOK NO.1

I'm sure you've all heard of BHLDN by now, so lets cut to the chase. My mother and I both agreed that this Twirled Sweetheart Dress ($240) would be awesome for prom. A) It's super cute B) It's a reasonable price and C) It's super cute. Of course the floral is my favorite, but it comes in lots of solids too like 'grapefruit', 'dried lavender', and 'grass'.

It is strapless however but we'll talk about how to remedy that later.

I would pair it with... Oxfords! Yes, yes  I would! A pair of fancier oxfords with lacy little socks would definitely do the trick for me! It would probably be my excuse to finally get these Betsey Johnson 'Drrew' Oxfords ($90) that I've been wanting for too long!

Our second option, The Bowknot Pocket Shift ($260) is another dress that I really love. It's a little sleeker and chicer for the less fluffy kind of girl, but it's still super pretty and cute. Plus it does have pretty little sleeves that would look wonderful with a piece we carry at Dear Lizzie (but I'll have to show that to you later in a different post when I can get pictures. Stay tuned!!)

As for this, leopard print is the only way to go! BP.'s 'Frankie' Flat in Leopard ($60) is my favorite option, plus a simple flat is comfy and charming for a night out!

That's all I have for now darlings, because I just realized a math test is tomorrow that I am really... absolutely not prepared for. I'm a horrible scholar and mathematician.

XO Rosie


One last thing... I've heard it several times this year that girls are getting hung up on where they buy their dresses from because they don't want to have the same dress as someone else. To this I say... Let it go! Is it really so horrible that someone has your same dress? No. Why? Because if you really really love a dress and it's the best thing you've seen to date, are you going to let the fact that someone else already has it persuade you into getting a dress that you don't like so much? Hopefully not. And really, you'll make it uniquely yours! They won't have the same shoes, hair-do, purse, and sweater as you! I promise, you wont remember that someone had the same dress as you in a sea of 2,000 prom-goers, you'll remember that you loved your prom dress and that you can't wait to share it with your posterity!

THE NEW YORK DIARIES: the day we arrived

drum roll please....!

now commencing part one of the first tales 

of my new york trip ever to hit the world wide web!!

are you ready? set?

let us begin!

but first a word of warning.... a lot of these are like 'Rosie, go pose by that!' kind of vacation pictures, so if you really don't like pictures of me, you might want to find something else to read. If not, you're in luck! Because you can see plenty of shots of my face with various interesting New York things here!

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After a red-eye flight taking us from 11 pm in Utah to 6 am in NYC, we got in the cab with weary (red) eyes and took off from JFK Airport to the big city. The cab driver was one of the lesser-good ones we experienced on our trip, and I arrived at the hotel feeling nauseous from his methods of dealing with traffic. Go really really fast. Slam on brakes. Really fast. Brake.

our first ever view of the city!

We got to our darling little hotel, The Plaza Athenee, and despite our being hours early for check-in, they got us a room to our delight! We headed promptly up stairs where we immediately fell asleep for six hours. Never again will we go red-eye.

the view outside our hotel window.
good thing we like looking in people's windows! :)

Feeling slightly more rejuvenated and less cab-sick, we made ourselves presentable and headed outside for our first walk in New York City, New York! All our dreams were coming true!

note: 'we' means my mother and I, neither of whom have been to New York.

We took our first steps onto the most lovely little street you could imagine for your first introduction to a place. The beautiful houses with their pretty doors and huge old windows were almost too much for us to handle! We came to the corner of East 64th Street and Madison Avenue and what do you know, there was Chanel, hooray!

Pics in the hallway, Mama joins in

I really do love Chanel. I really just do.

We continued down where we encountered a pretty little museum, Wildenstein, (which we visited later on in the trip). And then onto 5th Avenue, right at the entrance to the Central Park Zoo! Our walk down 5th Avenue included admiring the Bergdoorf Goodman windows, The Plaza, and seeing the incredible Louis Vuitton collection (from very a-far) in the window, but in real life! Those amazing clothes really are real! 

The Plaza
and that little girl in the corner was one of the most stylish children I've ever seen.
Seriously, the children in New York are very well dressed indeed!

we heart bergdoorf's windows.
{Louis Vuitton in reflection}

As our adventure continued we realized that we hadn't really eaten for pretty much a day, and that we were starving. So we took a quick detour to the first suitable restaurant we could find.

I ate mini-burgers and fries while Mama ate a yummy salad.
This is also the first time I've ever taken a picture of my food in a restaurant, and felt really weird about it, and that ended my career of food-in-restaurant-photos. Maybe because it was really crowded and also a very classy establishment :)

After being fed, we made our way back and this time snuck inside Bergdoorf's, an extent of our window shopping and to escape from the cold for a moment. It ended up being freezing the first few days! There, we encountered the most incredible things you could think of... Lanvin earmuffs, glorious jewelry, and then the shoes... oh my! Louboutins! Chanel! Lanvin! Manolo Blahnik! and my first encounter with Prada and Miu Miu pieces in real life! It was an event to be sure!

We exited feeling satisfied with designer objects for the day. And made our way back to our pretty little hotel for our special event that evening.... to be continued!

standing on a bench along the fence outside Central Park

we snapped these on our way back.
to the ZOO and CAFETERIA
I'm in love with this place.

XO ROSIE