THE COVETED » pets http://the-coveted.com/blog be stylish • be lovely • be coveted Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:35:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en Getting Dressed for Xmas http://the-coveted.com/blog/2007/12/09/getting-dressed-for-xmas/ http://the-coveted.com/blog/2007/12/09/getting-dressed-for-xmas/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:03:00 +0000 jennine http://the-coveted.com/blog/?p=710
Today, I made an attempt to take some holiday pictures of my cats… The little one, Moxy, wasn’t so keen on cooperating.

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One cannot think of a worse piece of art for a cat lover than the Donald Judd stacks. We created plexiglass ’slipcovers’. I’m sure a purist would find this insulting, but it does the job.
~Todd Black, interior designer (via NYT style magazine… 12/02)

]]> http://the-coveted.com/blog/2007/12/04/reality-art/feed/ Chompin’ at the bit… http://the-coveted.com/blog/2007/08/18/chompin-at-the-bit/ http://the-coveted.com/blog/2007/08/18/chompin-at-the-bit/#comments Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:42:00 +0000 jennine http://the-coveted.com/blog/?p=532 Yesterday, I finally got the pair of black lamé leggings I’ve been wanting since, um F&Art first posted about her latex stockings. On my way home, I stopped off at LF (those ladies are soo nice!) on Union Street and took a look at their sale, ended up walking out with a pair of jeans, blouse, and shoes. Uh oh. this got me thinking about as I’m preparing for autumn, people are coming back from their summer vacations, Labor Day is just around the corner… What does my autumn wardrobe going to look like? Do I have cravings? Sure, we all do… but for now, I’m pretty happy with my looks for the season. This is my Summer/Autumn 2007 Transition Wardrobe. My color palette will be grey and blue/purple.

First off… tights/leggings. They are a neccesity in San Francisco… The breeze lasts all year around, so the collection of tights can get quite extensive.

Then below, are dresses. I have millions of dresses, but now I’m feeling that I want to layer them with tights, slips, tees, and the like, so right now, I’m just liking plain dresses I experiment with layers. (Oh my cats love to play with clothes, so don’t mind them)
My blouses, loose fitting, so they can be layered. I like patterns, a trick learned from Nan Kempner, have a short skirt, long skirt, trousers, and lots of tops. Also, one thing I love is ruffles, ties, and gathering.
I don’t wear jeans an awful lot, but yesterday I purchased a pair of corset-top skinny jeans, worn with a long vest, it creates some interesting lines, so as much as I hear high-waisted jeans are for mom’s… thank god, I’ve worked through my mom issues, because personally, I’m getting a lot of use out of my high-waisted jeans. (oh, that’s Stella)
Long sleeve tees and stripey tanks.
Skirts, I have a million of these… but for this autumn, I’m planning wearing my classics… a tweed mini, my grey pencil skirt (it’s almost 10 years old! yikes!) and a fun white floaty skirt.
And here are my shoes. I am always in the mood for more shoes… and these are but a fraction of my collection. But these are the shoes I predict are going to be the main staple of what I plan on wearing this season. I got these Italian riding boots on eBay, haven’t worn them yet, but I have a feeling they’ll come in handy.
And of course, this isn’t everything, but I’m just trying to get a feel for what I’d like to wear this year, so these are just the basic frame work for how I want to dress. Is this some kind of sick thinking? I don’t know… do any of you plan out this early for autumn? What are some pieces you are coveting?

]]> http://the-coveted.com/blog/2007/08/18/chompin-at-the-bit/feed/ Lampshades, Critical Mass http://the-coveted.com/blog/2007/08/08/lampshades-critical-mass/ http://the-coveted.com/blog/2007/08/08/lampshades-critical-mass/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:49:00 +0000 jennine http://the-coveted.com/blog/?p=506 Or Elizabethan Collar as veterinarians like to call it. I must say I never knew that’s what they called it until I tried to write this post. All though I would like to post pics of puppies and kittens with lampshades on their heads, this isn’t CuteOverload. (To my dismay) So, back to the human world, I’ve been noticing lots of ruffs or Elizabethan-like collars around, or the modern counterpart I like the more primitive term neck ruffle but I made that up, for my own lapse in vocabulary.

Do you ever get the feeling that some kind of critical mass of images is occurring and you just don’t know how to put it together? I found this illustrator, Sandra Suy on MySpace, who does these eloquent pencil on newsprint drawings, this one of a woman with a large ruff struck me. Then the other day Face Hunter posted yet another woman wearing a black minidress with a neck ruffle. I was smitten. All the sudden that crazy ruffle didn’t seem so cosutme-ish, and became very chic to me. I love the idea of covering my neck. It’s such a vulnerable part of the body, with the jugular, and nerves, and my throat and all… it just feels so cozy and safe to have it adorned in such a beautiful way. Recent posts about Rodarte and Chailie Ho both have delightful versions of the of the modern neck ruffle, and more examples include Chanel Couture, Lanvin, and Galliano.

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Oh dear, now it’s going to be impossible to dodge ‘cat lady’ comments.
: )

]]> http://the-coveted.com/blog/2007/07/15/moxy/feed/ Chavez http://the-coveted.com/blog/2007/04/15/chavez/ http://the-coveted.com/blog/2007/04/15/chavez/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:03:00 +0000 jennine http://the-coveted.com/blog/?p=201 Hee hee… humans aren’t the only stylish creatures… my friend and I spotted this one in the park… Lately I’ve been partial to small friendly dogs dressed in clothes. Mostly because Stella prefers to be naked (she doesn’t even like a collar.) Chavez is wearing some kind of indie-rock argyle sweater, which gives him an unpretentious look. Splendid.

]]> http://the-coveted.com/blog/2007/04/15/chavez/feed/ Stella http://the-coveted.com/blog/2007/03/25/stella/ http://the-coveted.com/blog/2007/03/25/stella/#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:01:00 +0000 jennine http://the-coveted.com/blog/?p=135 The biggest part of having great style is a sense of well being. I would not be as happy as I am without Stella, my cat. She’s the pillar of stability in the household, and she’s cute too.

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