Coming Soon: Rivet & Sway Review

Here are the three pair I elected to try from Rivet and Sway.

All great examples of why anti-glare coating is a marvelous thing.  (Turning my head to the side minimizes it a little, but not enough.)

Video review will be coming tomorrow.  Then I have to mail these puppies back.  I kind of like the middle one.  The top one is supposed to be red but doesn't appear all that red on camera.  The bottom is a pink gradient.  I did get a 10% off coupon for signing up, but that's not going to put a very fantastic dent in $200.

They are pretty substantial frames and the price does include nice lenses with All The Coatings.  I guess if I were the sort of person who donates $10,000 to the Bobological Society of America or buys small islands, I'd feel a little better about spending that, but right now I really need a car and my parents are putting me in a position where no, I can't just have MY car.  I have to buy another one.  Of course, by the time I save up enough to buy another car it'll stop being 5 degrees out.  And god, how I wish I were exaggerating.  (Effin' weather, how does it work??)
 

Rivet & Sway

Expect a review in a week or so.  I don't anticipate that I'll be making a purchase from them anytime soon, but they have a pretty good concept going and I wanted to try it out.

I miss my red glasses.

I didn't think I would miss them this much.  It's not so much the shape as it is the color.  I miss having RED glasses.  I've been wearing the dark brown/tortoise-y ones on a regular basis, and while I like the shape ... I wish they were red.

These are pretty.  (They're also $200.)  I can't seem to find a pair that's a pretty shade of red, the right size, AND a good price.  I'm very limited because of the size--it's harder to find glasses that are narrower, and with bigger (taller) lenses, they need to be narrower or else they'll do a lot of that "tiny head" thing.  My purple cat-eye glasses are 51.  The ones I'm wearing now are 48.

These are also 48.

The cool thing about this website is that they send you frames to try before you commit to buying anything, and they'll send you up to three pair.  I just don't see any sense in paying $200 for something I can get much cheaper elsewhere.  I guess if they were the perfect, bestest frames ever?  Yeah, maybe ... no.  Still no.

Adventures in Underwear

What the heck?

I bought ten pairs of underwear from Gap and they were all individually wrapped in bags within the mailer bag.  Which was kind of annoying, having to go through and unwrap and de-tag ten pairs of underwear.  I think some of them still have their tags on because I just didn't care enough.

Then I buy a bra on top of a purchase of a couple of other things and not only do they mail the bra separately from everything else, they put it in a bigger mailer than the two dresses were in and just kind of toss it in there.  So I opened the mailer and there was a bra wadded up at the bottom.

I don't mind tossing stuff in there, but let's be consistent, right?  Either the underwear is sacred or it isn't.  Either you meticulously iron it out and ship it in individual plastic baggies or you just throw it in the sack and hope it gets where it's going.

The War on Christmas

Full disclosure--I'm not a religious person.  I'm not spiritual either.  That sort of thing is not a part of my life because I don't care to make it a part of my life.  Or ... I just don't care.  That's the long and short of it.  When it comes to religion or spirituality, I don't care.  Be a good person.  Do good deeds.  The invisible man you pray to really shouldn't enter into anything you do outside of church because you should always be a good person regardless, be kind to others, and help out those who can't help themselves.

I don't need the threat of Santa Claus filling my stocking with coal in order to be a nice person.  (In other words.)

Not Exactly Glamour Shots

My new glasses came today.  I ordered them about two weeks ago, so not exactly fast stuff.  Coastal pretty much had my glasses to me within a day.  In Hawaii.  Zenni takes a while.

Now with more srs face.

Another Friendly PSA on the Subject of Pant-like Garments

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls of all ages:

With the temperature jumping up and down like an over-sugared child in a bouncy castle it can be easy to become confused on the subject of clothing.  Some mornings you wake up and it's warm, but you know it may become colder during the day.  Or you wake up to freezing weather that eventually warms up to the 40s or 50s.  In these cases it can be difficult to plan your wardrobe effectively, and one must take both temperatures into consideration and dress accordingly.  Or one must prepare for the possibility of a temperature change.

This sometimes means layering.  That is, wearing clothing over clothing so that you can remove pieces of clothing throughout the day as needed, or add them on top if the weather gets too chilly.

It is understandable that in colder weather people will gravitate toward tights and leggings instead of bare legs, but do remember that tights and leggings are not pants.  Tights and leggings are things you wear under other clothing, except in rare circumstances.  (Such circumstances do not include going to Starbucks or heading to class.)  Tights and leggings are great for layering under a dress or even shorts if you want to add a layer of warmth, and if you're heading out in especially cold weather they can be worn under your regular pants.  But once again, they are not pants.  They may appear pant-like, but they are not proper "bottoms" any more than a bra is a proper "top."

So remember this winter, as you're rooting through your closet to find things to wear out in this crazy weather, to follow one simple rule when dressing your lower half:

If whatever you're wearing on your top half couldn't be worn with bare legs, you need to put on some damn clothes.  Otherwise you just look like someone who thought it would be a cold day, but then forgot to put some pants on.


And this has been a PSA from your friendly neighborhood fashion police.  Have a nice day.

A day which shall live ...

Today I had to retire my red glasses with the little rhinestones on the side.  Yup.

I was at work and I couldn't get whatever was on the lenses to come off.  It was difficult to see properly.  So I kept rubbing them and rubbing them, and then I noticed that some layer of plastic was coming off the frames.  I don't doubt that the weather played some part in this, since anything pleather I own is doing the same thing.  Separating from the surface and peeling off.  But ... they were $20 glasses and they served me well over the last four or so years.

RIP, little red glasses.  RIP.

New Glasses Happening Up in Chez Moi

I'm sure at least one person is excited.  (Me.)