**WARNING** Inklings of Mad Men S3 spoilers ahead...this is for UK peeps really... and I've seen other blogs do this sort of thing too and thought I should join this etiquette bandwagon...
>> In the whole weekend spirit of being tardy, slow and generally uninformed, I'm trying to make amends, albeit still in a sluggish fashion. It doesn't help that being whipped around in the head by snow and winds has now brought on a cold. Thanks a lot. Now I'll go about infecting anyone who passes my way in Paris, Florence and Sao Paolo over the next two weeks.
Some of you might have seen from my manic Tweeting that I've JUST caught up on season 3 of Mad Men. Evidently, I'm too slow for US-ers where the season finished before Christmas and too fast for UK-ers where the season is only starting now. Caught in this TV no man's land, my current excitement over Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is both too little too late AND premature. In one particular scene where G'pa Gene is dressing down for bed, I caught my eye on some sock garters. Sure, peeps were banging on about these somewhat antiquated men's accessories as an emerging trend last year, but for me it takes a fictional senile Grandpa who is on his deathbed with a penchant for the history of the Roman Empire to convince me that sock garters are the way forward.
Then coincidentally, a trio of Swan Diamond Rose comments on the blog slotted the perfect piece into this sock garters jigsaw puzzle. She has been selling her unique sock garters on her Etsy store since Oct/Nov last year to much, MUCH blog acclaim with "OMG, AMAZING-NESS, EFFING COOL" being the general sentiment. Problem solved and so Swan Diamond Rose comes to the rescue with her sock garters adorned with a wee ickle silver swan and available in black, white and lace... I believe some pink ones are on their way over to me so I'll have my Grandpa Gene moment too where someone will tell me to "Drop your socks and grab something" and I will laugh in a depressing ominous manner...
Another SDR treat comes by way of her Flickr photostream which she calls "A Life of Fashion Crimes" but clearly means "Cool images of my very spontaneously stylish modelling past". It's another piece into the 90s puzzle that of course won't ever actually be solved/completed. That Swan Diamond Rose's 90s memories include a mighty cool polaroid like this, where her friend fashioned her an outfit consisting of a fringed silver jacket and some silver cage leggings actually renders most of my style obsessions of the latter half (fringe, metallic and cage) of this decade an odd 90s redux and I didn't even know it... until I saw this image. Clearly SDR's friend who made this ensemble was something of a fashion Mystic Meg...
