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I've been waiting for this for a while now. Tory Burch has come out with her "reva" flat with a silver (instead of last season's gold) medallion. I have wanted these shoes for so long since I am an avid flat wearer. I have found that despite being short, I walk too much to wear anything other than flats and these are just my style. Little ballerina slippers never hurt my feet despite their lack of support or whatever non-fashion reason you have for wearing ugly shoes to work. I also have my eye on the "exclusive" silver with silver ones, but they are all sold out except in a 10.5. Boo. I already have pairs of black and silver flats, but that medallion just screams classy fashion, and I love this designer!

But alas, at $195 a pair, this is beyond the realm of imagination...a girl can dream...right? I have to think about the future of a certain pug puppy...

Since I am taking the time to blog about fashion, I might as well get some other fashion desires out of my system. I have been searching for the perfect, work-appropriate bag. Now, you may remember that beautiful Marc Jacobs bag from the summer. In the end, I got a pretty good fake from the street, one of the perks of working in midtown I guess. This bag could be work-appropriate due to its size. I like to be able to fit my lunch, at least 2 paperbacks (one I'm reading and one sudoku), my nano, my planner, my fairly big wallet, and everything else that I usually carry in my purse. However, the straps are not quite long enough to fit under my arm, as tiny as it may be and the worst thing about this knock-off is that the black lining rubs black onto the contents of everything in the bag! So, that's out of commission.

I asked for a black leather work bag for Christmas from my mother, who frequents the Sak exclusive warehouse sale twice a year where you fight with Chinese women over the turquoise Elliott Lucca, the higher end division of the company. Also, a family friend works with them so in addition to the exclusive warehouse sale, I think she gets a discount. Anyway, my mom got me an almost-right-but-not-quite black leather purse. This one only has one strap, not two, so although it fits under my arm, it is tough to get in and out of on the subway.

There was another street vendor attempt made recently. I chose one that was really cute, imitating something that I could not identify, in light brown leather (or faux, who knows!). This one had one strap, long and big. A slouchy style with extra-large gold zippers as a statement. However, those sassy XL zippers (there are only 2, I don't want anyone thinking I would have a bag with numerous big gold zippers popping out all over the place...one for the main compartment and one for the outside) MAKE NOISE! It drove me nuts! Everywhere I walked, "clank! clank! clank!"

So, yes I have been carrying a pretty nice nylon work bag now. It is one of these that I got in the Amsterdam airport duty-free with my mother. I see this bag all over Manhattan in different colors and sizes, but mine seems to be a little to small, so I'd like the next size up.
I like this bag because the two straps are long enough and thin enough to stay put on my very narrow shoulder. Also, since it is nylon it is very light weight. However, I decided to pick out what color, but BRIGHT PURPLE. Like, you can spot me across the street purple. Like, if there were a neon purple (some may argue that there is, but my color theory courses didn't go into neon colors in college so who knows) that is how bright this purple is. So, it still isn't quite right. I like to go unnoticed in this city. I like to be fashionable, but I don't like drawing attention to myself.