A tiny bit weird, a tiny bit wonderful. (oh ok, ALL wonderful!)

I am kooky in a lot of ways. If you know me personally, well, you know I'm not fibbing about this! I am incredibly happy that I have friends who indulge my kookiness with fashion.  I have Kate who thrifts with me every Wednesday for half-off day at the Salvation Army while I deliberate over strangely embellished sweat shirts, and I have Erin (my eye angel!) who indulges my weird/strange/wonderful whims in eye wear. (Thank Heaven!!!) I contacted Erin a few months ago when I was looking for the Givenchy cat frames from their Fall '11 show and sadly had no luck tracing them in the states.  Brilliant ideas are born from loss so I soldiered on intrepidly until I had that "aha!" moment! That moment arrived as I was perusing the sunglasses section at Nordstrom and spied the Prada Baroque sunglasses from Spring '11. They were big! They were woooooonnnderful! They would make ideal prescription glasses with transition lenses so they could delicately straddle those two worlds between practical (I need glasses to see) and fun (I get to have super large amazing sunglasses TOO! Bonus! BTW, transition lenses have come a LONG way...) My dear friend Dr. Erin hooked me up.  The vision became a reality (pun intended) and now I am one step closer to resembling my idol Iris Arpel or maybe in another 60 years. ;) 

Glasses/Sunglasses: Prada courtesy of Dr. Erin Eye Doctors of Lawrence Ks. If you live in the Lawrence area and need a creative, kind, caring, fashion adoring eye doctor then I couldn't more highly recommend anyone else.

Dress: Crazy patchwork vintage dress Salvation Army Columbus OH, purchased on half off day (Of course!)

Coat: Literally a patchwork quilt jacket! Purchased from River Market Antique Mall in Kansas City Mo.

Vest: Hounds tooth fitted vintage vest Salvation Army Columbus OH.

Necklace: Vintage tube and cord from Ohio Thrift, Columbus OH.

Tights: Nordstrom

Suede booties: Marc Jacobs collection from Neiman Marcus

Lipstick: YSL Rouge Volupte #12