Shopping in Seattle? Yes, they have stores there too!

Sneakers & Seattle?  Perfect together. Although Seattle is not particularly known for its fashion outside of long underwear under cut off army shorts and flannels, I dug The Sneakery, what with all their sneakers and socks!  I really liked the grey flannel Converse One-Stars.  And then I saw that grey flannel is all the rage in NYC high fashion this fall.  See?  Seattle is cutting edge!
In Ballard on 612 NW 65th St.

Zappos.com Touting Converse Sale (?)

While I am all for marketing the iconic Converse brand, Zappos.com isn't really offering a massively low price point. I remember buying a pair like the one pictured here for $22 max in the '90s. The cheapest ones I found on this "sale site" are $45. Yes, cheaper than many sneakers, but the materials and technology that goes into Chucks are simply less expensive. See for yourself: http://www.zappos.com/search/brand/36/filter/gender/"Mens"

Target Bullseye Bodegas: 4 Days Only, Sept. 12-15

Since Target proper refuses to open a store in Manhattan (although a store in the Bronx is in the works), they threw us citypeople a bone for the next four days with four limited-time Bullseye Bodegas staged throughout Manhattan where you can shop for chic deals in home, fashion, accessories and beauty from their roster of design partners.

My escort for the night and I frolicked about the bodega, oooing and ahhing at the affordable "wears" from Converse, Sigerson Morrison, Thomas O'Brien, and THE GNOMES!!! BEHOLD THE MIGHTY MIGHTY GNOMES. For just $19.99 you too can live among the gnomes.

Locations:

Midtown: 101 W. 57th Street at 6th Ave.
Union Square: 813 Broadway between 11th and 12th Sts.
SoHo: 489 Broome Street between Wooster and West Broadway
West Broadway East Village: 325 Bowery at 2nd St.

Subway Fashion: Sunday

Whilst trekking back uptown on the subway on Sunday, after visiting my real apt., which is about 85% rebuilt, I noticed a high level of interesting fashion going on around me. I wondered why....and then realizing that it was the Sunday after Thanksgiving, decided that it was probably full of actual New Yorkers. I.e. the tourists had all gone home and the NYers were all just returning from whence they came. Sorry to all of those out-of-towners who are offended by my NYC fashion snobbery, but 99 out of 100 times, it's the truth. I use the Sex and the City "scrunchy episode" as an example.


Anyway, the best spotting was a trio of young, very thin Asian girls who were each wearing tight stretchy jeans, Converse low tops or leather Airwalk high tops, and many layers of tops, jackets, and/or hoodies. The most interesting thing about their get-ups was that they were each wearing (real) fur "scarves" around their necks. To me, they were the epitome of modern urban street fashion. And no I don't have a photo, which is why I do this for free.