Archive for March, 2010

I’ll be your model! »

So today the first round of entries went up on the Original Penguin website for their Be Our Model contest. The gist of it is: you send in two headshots and two body shots in your best outfit and they put their favorites up on the site for people to vote on. The winner get [...]

Genesis of ‘Not the Shoes’ »

Thanks for the comment Frank. To answer your question, the title of the blog came about last summer. I spent way too much money on a pair of tan suede shoes from Cole Haan (pictured in the header banner of this site.) I loved them. They were super lightweight and cool on hot days, and [...]

To be a kid again… »

I’ve been having this thought lately….that I feel like I have no influence on the physical world anymore. I get up, stumble around in my apartment getting ready for the day, walk downstairs and out into the street. I wait for the bus, or I wait for the train, or I walk somewhere. Enter a [...]

Maybe Next Year »

Well, the warm weather has begun teasing we New Yorkers about the coming Spring, and with these warm mornings and bright sunny afternoons comes the shedding of winter mentality and layers. I refuse to wear another warm coat. If I freeze so be it, I am willing it to be warm out. Winter is almost [...]

Dress Sneakers and suits. (Oxy)moronic? »

Note: I apologize for my absense lately. Starting a new job and a computer hard drive crash have been pretty all encompassing recently, but I will try to keep up the frequency from now on.
Last night was the Academy Awards. The night were all of Hollywood asks their stylists to dress them up in [...]