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beard or no beard?

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Beards are great. They turn into icicles in winter; they accommodate a slightly lazier shaving schedule; they don’t cut your lady’s face when you’re having a make out session.

downy soft beard

BUT. Clean shaven is kind of great too. Pilots are clean shaven; we haven’t had a president with a beard since Benjamin Harrison (and who remembers that guy???)*, and Justin Bieber is clean shaven.**

OMG, is that justin bieber?

Such a hard decision. I will leave it to democracy to choose.***

contemplative and smooth

beard shock

in between and SERIOUS for realz

What do you say? Beard or no beard?

* – Mustaches excluded and if I’m wrong, blame Wikipedia, the people’s encyclopedia. So basically, it’s your fault.

** – clean waxed? clean plucked? just clean?

*** – “democracy” may have been more accurate. think florida circa 2000.

Tags: beards
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Outfit of the Day: Grandma and Cowboys.

Friday, January 8th, 2010

What a doozy!! This week absolutely used me up and spit me out. I have such a problem with getting back in the groove after a break. I’m wondering if everyone experiences this or if it has something to do with being self-employed. Without the insane holiday volume, I’ve caught myself with a hanging jaw, staring at the wall with a massive holiday hangover, thinking about…nothing? OR playing online Scrabble, when I should be organizing my life and coming up with my coolest designs yet.

But with a killer feature, exhilarating rehearsals, my first international boutique order (lookout Dutch beauties, b & i is coming to the Netherlands), and amazing growth, I have absolutely nothing to complain about and I need to get my butt in gear!

What better to increase the pep in my step than Grandma and Cowboys??

betsy & iya earrings, click link to purchase

Sweater: new favorite vintage spot in Portland…Margaret & Oliver’s

Cowboy Boots: yes I wore these with my wedding dress…Portland Outdoor Store

Wrap Skirt: just down the street from my studio…Folly

Tights: footless navy blue…Nordstrom (I think)

Earrings: yours truly…betsy & iya

Do something wild this weekend, will ya?

xo~betsy

***Song of the Moment: A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger, by Of Montreal***

Tags: frolicking fashion fun, job loving, portland oregon, shopping local
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Outfit of the Day: Everyone Else.

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Business has temporarily taken me away to the eastern side of the country and I have not been keeping you up-to-date with my sweet sweet outfit choices; so today, I’ll share a few of my outsider favorite OOTD discoveries.

The theme will be: things that I would wear (maybe. if I were just slightly cooler).

From Copenhagen Street Style blog. Man, I love those Scandinavians.

I love everything about this photo, also from Copenhagen. Helga, Lisa, and all my other Scandinavian beauties—I miss you. Bring your style back over here and visit me!

YES!!!! This one hurts a little—it’s so good. From Style Clicker.

Dirty Vintage. love it. From Face Hunter.

…will never be cool enough for those boots. But Portland might dig it. From Toronto Street Fashion by way of Shark Vs. Bear .

Cigar Chic. From 2 Threads.

And this is what I would be doing in my cool outfit. My travels have proven incredibly valuable…but I’m not finished yet. I have 2 more days in NC to sell to my oldies but goodies and find new indie boutiques wishing to sell b & i.

In the boots/stripes pic, the only thing I would do differently is sport some rad betsy & iya earrings to balance out the elephantiasis-esque condition of the boots.

Inspired back into bold style, I must prepare myself for another day’s selling adventure. Raleigh, here I come.

***Song of the Moment: Don’t Hide Away, by Bishop Allen***

Tags: earrings, frolicking fashion fun, independents, job loving
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To Bang or Not To Bang?? (please vote).

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

I’ve come to a crossroads. (if you want to vote immediately, please skip to the bottom of this post)

A few years ago, a good friend cut bangs for me (had not had them since I was in 4th grade). It took a little time for me to get used to them, but eventually I cut half my head into bangs because I liked them so much. I rocked them for about 3 years, in varying lengths and thicknesses. It was sort of a reinvention of me. In that time, I finished graduate school, moved, started betsy & iya, fell in love harder, got engaged, married, etc. big things. big bangs.

BANGS???

bang

bang

Just the other day I realized that I had accidentally lazily let my bangs grow out. So much that I’ve seen myself in a different light: a no-bang light, one that I have not considered in a long time… Like, big grown-up no-bang betsy.