Report: Fashion Week

This post has nothing to do with "Fashion Week," whatever that is, we just wanted to pretend we were cool enough to give a crap. Enjoy the suckage spotted around the web.

We admit; we just love Southwestern-themed clothing here. (That, and horses.) VIYMvalerie said of this Ralph Lauren sweater dress, "This makes me think some sad American Indian lost his smallpox-infested blanket, and then a rich white lady found it and turned into this ugly thing."




Let's leave the American Southwest and visit that country where old women wear fedoras and chew the leaves of the cocaine plant all day (from Ideeli):



Forget cocaine, you'd have to be on crack to wear this gold lamé garbage bag (also from Ideeli)



Modcloth, home of many hits and misses, gives us this hideosity, the "Approaching Autumn" boot. Autumn saw it approaching, turned, and ran away, which could explain why it was 113 degrees in Los Angeles this week:



Finally VIYMkatie spotted this Zac Posen clear vinyl belt, exclusively at Saks, which says a lot about the Saks buyers:

Ugly Shoe Monday

This week's ugly shoes are all courtesy of Modcloth. Apologies in advance.

Tapestry clog-style wedges, Jeffrey Campbell, $118 here. These combine the iconic Beau Brummel paisley of the 1970s with a silhouette that evokes platform nurse's shoes.


Open-toed bootie, Irregular Choice, $154, here. I can't do better than their own description: "We have to wonder which came first - the bootie, the platform, or the heel?" The rest of us are wondering why they decided to stock it at all.

Striped sweater boots, $50, here (no designer will claim them). And now it's time for...shoe math!

Patriotism Gone Wrong

For your upcoming Memorial Day or Forth of July picnic, perhaps you were considering a new item of clothing to make your wardrobe a bit more patriotic. Well consider this VIYM special!

It would be ugly if it were just a printed tank, but no! It is not just a printed tank. It is SEQUINED. What screams "I have good taste!" more than taking an eagle head that you would expect to find painted on the side of an 80s van and turning it into a sequined work of art that you can wear around?

Pair with dirty frayed cutoff shorts (short enough for the pockets to show out the bottom) and some worn out generic keds that you wear with the backs all squished down because you only want to put your feet in the front half. High Class Patriotism.


Available at Modcloth for $37.99

Floral Leggings

Have you ever had a nightmare where you are sitting in your grandmother's house and suddenly the room grows dark, a cackling laugh starts emanating from the closet, sparks shoot forth from the fireplace and the curtains fly off their rods, enveloping your poor frail body, suffocating the life out of you and, as darkness closes in, you weep for death by ugly floral prints? Not only can you relive that memory but you can force it on everyone you pass in the street when you wear these leggings.

Available from Modcloth, $17.99