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So Many Shansbys

The Great Shansby

So not only did I get a long-awaited picture of everyone's favorite journalism substitute, I got practically a whole shoot. It turns out he is very particular about how he should be shot. Sucks for him, cause I'm posting pretty much all of the pictures. To retain his anonymity, "Mr. Shansby" is sporting Gucci sunglasses.
"The Shansby"-- it's all the rage for swinging male professionals in the 22-29 set! The cardigan, the shirt and tie, the slacks, and don't forget the unbleached chucks--the kids are really digging it!
Fresh!

DEAR MR SHANSBY'S FUTURE EMPLOYERS: If you are reading this, I would like you to know that I, as well as my peers, can testify to Mr. Shansby's utmost professionalism as a teacher and as a cartoonist. He is an extremely talented young man and you would be lucky to have him working for you.
Upon examining this picture, a young female colleague of mine asked, "Can I bang Shansby?" Indeed.

For extra Shansby points, try clipping two pens to the left hand side of your cardigan-- one green, one red. Mr. Shansby says they do not have to be in a particular order. I also learned from a source that "The Shanz" never wears white shirts because they get dirty; he much prefers blue shirts. For advanced Shansby-emulators, getting Ms. Cullen's ID might be trickier, but nothing's impossible. I heard there will be lots of Little Shansbys running around tomorrow, so study up!

ADDITIONAL NOTE TO MR SHANSBY'S FUTURE EMPLOYERS: By my previous statement I was implying that we will be dressing up as Mr. Shansby tomorrow to celebrate his last day, not that he has fathered any illegitimate children.

That's all folks, dress your best tomorrow (as always), LP and I will be ready with cameras!

P.S. Goodbye forever, Mr. Shansby! Have fun in San Francisco without us. *sniff* But for real, good luck!

Damn!

These two swear they didn't do it on purpose. But their outfits match exactly! And now that I think about it, so do their skin and hair color. Congratulations, you are long lost Nordic twins!

P.S. The tall one is coming out with a new fragrance for men, dropping early this fall. The working title is "Mattieu."

Monsieur H

This man has an amazing collection of ties. I once asked him if he ever wore the same tie twice, and he replied in french, "Yes. I am ashamed."

A true sartorialist.

The Collage

That Skirt

By The Lockers

Rejection.

Today I got my first rejection.

So I go scouting today and no one has interesting styles on (that I notice) and it's kind of disappointing. I'd given up all hope just before I stepped onto the bus.

Let me just preface this with some background: My bus driver is CRAZY. He is also very intimidating. You Eastern/SSI bus riders know what I'm talking about. Anyway, he wears the most striking outfits, especially in context of his occupation. I have seen him wear: A full suit (while his hair is in corn rolls). The next day he wears his hair in crazy fro and a full tracksuit embroidered with basketballs and some timberlands. It's almost surreal enough to be a running joke on some sitcom. I've gotten used to it.

But even in my jaded state, today he stood out: He looked so fresh. Excuse me with my white girl slang, but that is the only appropriate way to describe him. He was wearing:
A bright yellow (more like a poppy yellow) button down shirt.
Suspenders.
Crazy fro.
Pants.
And his famous Gucci shoes. (which may be real, depending on how much money he makes in his side job as a pimp.)

It was one of those things that I would have killed myself if I didn't at least to try to get a picture of him. And his style was just...so HIM. It was the epitome of eccentric scary giant pimp bus driver. You would have to see it to believe it. So gathering up all of my courage, I asked him I could take a picture of his outfit.

Bus Driver: "Oh...no. Sorry, I don't have my picture taken. Thank you though."

He was very polite about it. I mean, it's okay, I don't want the picture picked up and traced by the authorities, either. You're a pretty good bus driver.

Still, it was disappointing. His outfit was by FAR the best thing I'd seen all week.

If you'll excuse me, I need to go eat an entire pint of Ben & Jerry's and watch ER.

Style Times

Okay, so I love pretty much every picture the Sartorialist takes, but I absolutely adore the look this gal has going here. She's also probably not that much older than us-- got a lot of attitude. Really youthful and fun, something every gal should consider ripping off.


PS. More in UGG NEWS-- I was reading Seventeen in the orthodontist's office yesterday and guess what? They had this section on "things your ex never told you" and this girl's boyfriend confessed that he HATED her uggs! Could this have been an underlying reason for their break up? Well, I don't know about you guys, but I think Seventeen is a fine publication and we should take the information and advice they provide very seriously. Like my mammy used to tell me: If you can't trust the ladies at Seventeen, who can you trust?

Next Week: A Trend Discussion on an issue perhaps even more controversial than Gladiator Sandals: Scarves.

Righteous Addiction

Going to the thrift store every weekend has obvious advantages.

Kid Kocur

Dressed Like The Weather

The weather today was rainy and blue, but this kid made it refreshing instead of depressing.

Trend Discussion: Spring/Summer

So let's cut the crap and get to the one issue really occupying the hearts and minds of Americans: Gladiator Sandals.

The heavily strapped leather sandal reemerged a few years ago and has managed to come back around this time of year ever since. So let's weigh the pros and cons.

Against: A little heavy. Shouldn't spring/summer wear be breezy and light, and thus paired with a simpler shoe? As Mr. Gunn would say, "that's a whole lotta look." I mean, I love shoes, shoes are fabulous, but classically they shouldn't really be the focus of the outfit. It seems that most of the time, in order to pull them off, people tend to wear less interesting outfits. And if they wear anything this side of plain vanilla it just looks way too busy. *ahem* SJP:

And they have a LOT of potential for tickety-tackery (thank you, christian):


Okay, so it was unfair of me to choose two of the worst dressed "fashion icons" alive to illustrate my point, but those are the pictures Project rungay had and I'm lazy. I have admit, SJP's shoes are pretty hot and could actually be beautiful with a completely different outfit.

Pros: Something different. Styrofoam slabs topped with a plastic v, I mean flip flops, do get boring after a while, and are a little sloppy even if they are versatile (guilty). Some of the less heavy gladiators are actually quite elegant and if paired correctly are very striking. They're certainly a statement. (See: Alexia, she of the knee high gladiators, at our school. Promise to get a picture of her in the shoes soon!)

Problem: The majority of the time they're misused. Gladiator sandals dictate an extremely limited range of pairing options, most of which are dresses. In my opinion they don't work with anything longer than mid-thigh because they're so bottom heavy.

But what do you all think?

Special Report: Fashion Battle 2008

Words by Lauren T
Pictures by Lauren P

Dry your tears, ladies, I know our consistent losing streak in football is disappointing, but who cares when we have the Hottest fashion club in MoCo?

Yeah bitches, that's right, the, ahem, home team dominated last night in the MoCo Fashion Battle 2008 DJ'dbyDJFlavaandDJTay at Blair. (Love you, Flava, but I was still disappointed by the conspicious absence of my favorite WKYS morning show host, Russ Parr. )

But don't get me wrong, the competition was fierce. Watkins Mill and Magruder, you were worthy competitors.

Actually, I'm not gonna lie, Watkins Mill was pretty hot with their Chicago remix show. I was impressed. They used everyone's favorite songs-- Cell Block Tango, All That Jazz, When You're Good to Mama, etc and mixed em up with thumping techno beats. I know that the actual clothes are supposed to be sort of secondary to the putting on a show/modeling aspect, but love the updated 20's glamour--fishnets, t-straps heels, and bobs. Hot!

Start the car, I know a whopee spot..
Where the gin is cold and the piana's hot! And all...thaaaaat...jaaaaaaaaaazzz!
That jazz.
The standout model from Watkins Mill, whom I nicknamed Leggy.
And then he ran into
my knife...he ran into my knife TEN TIMES!
Day-um.

Summary of Watkins Mill show: Let's all drive to hell in a fast car and keep it....HOT! Nice going, ladies.

Next up: Magruder.

The premise of this one was a little less clear. But it had something to do with these mad scientists (the idea of which was conveyed by their choice of Swedish synth pop music, due to our culturally ingrained notion that all Scandanavians are scientist/robots and/or synth pop artists) who created these robots who would carry out their nefarious plan, which I interpreted to be something along the lines of this: "WE WILL....
"BRING BACK....
.....THE EARLY 90'S!!! MUAHAHA!!"
Style Police: "Oh helllll no."
"I'm hot."
"No homo."

"Foiled! And I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for that no-good, rotten, meddling style police..."*the early 90's die once again*

But for real, Magruder was good, and those gals walked something fierce.

Now let's proceed to the stars of the show....Monnnntgomery Blaaair High School!
Their theme was 101 dalmatians, which I thought was creative. In it
Courtney, the captain, was Cruella and she wanted to round up all the puppies-- the blacks, the whites, and the spotted, so, naturally, she could challenge them to a walk-off.

So basically, Blair won through a combination of hard work,
attitude,

more attitude,

creativity,
and gratuitous nudity.

Givin Leggy a run for her money.

But seriously, give it up for the male models. Blair had like 10x more, literally, than the other schools, and ours could walk just as good as the gals.



So in the end it turned out
3rd: Magruder
2nd: Watkins Mill
WINNER: Blair

But you all probably figured that out by now.
God damn, I'm glad Northwood didn't show up, I would have been up even later.
Night, kids, and don't stress too much about APs.
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Work that trophy, Terrance!