sweating it out

The weird thing about hot and humid weather is being stubborn. I want to wear fall damn it. So, I wear the sweaters, the boots, the scarves and I sweat. A lot. My only escape is the freezing cold subway.

Now, I think that time has past and fall is here! With a lot of weird rain. Then sun. Then rain. What is up with that? It is like that scene in Back to the Future II when Doc gets out of the time machine and Marty remarks that it's pouring and Doc looks at his watch, it beeps and the rain stops and the sun comes out. Far out! "Too bad the Post Office isn't as efficient as the weather service."

Back to fall. And sweat:

Just a little bit of what I'm feeling these days. Some remind me a little of this:

Oh Holly. Which lead me to finding this:

Then to this:

This:

And amazingly this:

What any of that has to do with fall and sweating? Nothing. What of it?

snooding

Last week, while walking the sweet baby, I felt it. The promise of fall. Which really pisses me off. Cause I know there are going to be some unbearable days before it's really here. There is always a week of teasers. Where you are unprepared. So, you dig out sweaters. And scarves. And those weird snoods. Excited for the possibilities. Then...it gets fucking hot and humid again.

I'm not a fan of summer. I was happy to be unemployed during it so that I didn't have to think about what to wear. Fall, I get and it gets me. So, I am dreaming of the things that I would buy-if I made a real salary. Today it is about the loop scarves. Or 'snoods.' Or whatever.

Who came up with this term, snood? I always thought it had something to do with a hood and a scarf but where does the fucking 'n' come from? Shouldn't it be a scood? For reals. How did this:

Turn to this:

Maybe it's a British thing. Asos is one of my favorite shopping sites. Although, I do not actually shop from it. I don't actually shop from anywhere. A girl can dream. Damn it.

I'm not a huge fan of supporting such big corporations. I really do get torn about it though, in the global sense of it all. I prefer to support local but we all live on planet earth. If boycotts are made of these places like Asos, H & M, Topshop and the like...what happens to the cultures that they support through the production of their goods? Then again, there are enough of us on the planet that do support these cheapie places so, I don't really need to be another one. Right?

It is so much more interesting to shop from an actual person. From the producer. The maker. Here are some pretty cool makers:

The one on the bottom is mine. What? I'm cool. I swear.