What Alex Wears... when it's gross and rainy but he needs to get out of the house to keep from going nuts from econ finals.

ooooo... he's so brooding!  he must be deep.

So if you couldn't tell from the title, today sucked.  I was going a bit stir crazy so I decided to get dressed and run some errands with Ashley.  Now, while I don't support the widely held belief by many in the men's style blogosphere that the world is going to hell because people don't dress well enough, I do kind of hate it when people wear pajamas out of the house.  The world is not your bedroom people!  Ashley agrees with me on this.  Anyway, I intended this outfit to be something of a more sensible companion to the general over-the-topness of the holiday party outfit.  Breakdown after the jump.

Alex And Ashley's Adventures in Alternate... uh... coloring of the blog... and fonts... and stuff

We changed the layout!  Exciting eh?  You should express your support by clicking on "follow with Google Friend Connect" and commenting on how much you like the new layout.  Because we have fragile egos.  Now, here's a picture of us being very serious while wearing all green and a gold toga/dress (respectively).

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What Alex Wears... for the holidays

Just because I'm having fun doesn't mean
I should look like I'm having fun.

Oh man, it's getting late in the year.  And you know what that means? Finals!  Oh wait, not everyone is in grad school... what's that other thing that happens around this time of year?  Oh right, non-denominational winter present giving festivities!  And drinking various spiced wine drinks!  And of course that means that you get to wear ludicrous crap you wouldn't normally wear!  Like white shoes! (I seem to really like exclamation marks!)  And the rest after the jump...

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These aren't my feet.  But They could be!

Valet linked to this collection (ostensibly) of shoes. But I was way more concerned with the fact that in every photo he was wearing argyle socks. Good man.

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Alex becomes an internet celebrity! (really!)

Alex Yakovleff's Closet from forefront fashion on Vimeo.

OH BOY!  My closet just got toured by the awesome people over at Fore Front Fashion!  Finally I have a chance to be an internet celebrity.  Enjoy me saying "Meticulous" over and over again, and "HOLY SHIT I HAVE A LOT OF SOCKS!" just once.

Thanks a million guys!  Now I have something to look forward to over finals... or backward to... I'm not really sure.


Also, Like I said before.  Visit their site!  They're creative, nice, fashionable people.  Portland could use more people like them.

What's your wardrobe worth? Certainly not what you pay for it.

One of these things is worth more than the other

After that post I linked to earlier today (and about 6 hours of listening to land use valuation lectures this weekend) I had a thought (yeah yeah yeah, cheap shots... ok, we done?).  Anyway.  What are clothes worth?  The first thing you learn when you shop at goodwill/salvo/second hand shops, as I have pretty much my entire life, is that the most expensive thing you can buy is something you never wear.  Sure those pleather-purple-snakeskin pants are crazy and kind of sweet and only $5!  But... honestly?  (full disclosure: in high school I purchased a pair of purple pleather snakeskin pants.  I still own them.  And I did wear them a few times my freshman year of college, and in some shows, but in any event I know what I'm talking about) If I saw them now I'd get wistful, nostalgic and then pass.  There's just no reason for me to own snakeskin pants, no matter how cheap.

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A really good assessment of style v. $$$. Worth reading.

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Ashley Inspires a Nation... or Some Bead Ladies

So I have been super excited about my tutorial success at The Beadin' Path.  It's been so great to create new things and see everyone order the pieces for my designs, but what is even better is when I inspire new designs from veteran jewelers.  Today I totally got a shout out from Naomi Fujimoto an editor at BEAD STYLE MAGAZINE one of the biggest, most popular beading magazines in the country.

My new Rivet Earrings inspired her to create a lovely silver flower necklace.  I love this, it's so flattering.  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!