Hi Y’all … you may have noticed that there have been no updates for sometime - Looking Fly is going through a renovation, and should be back up sometime this summer - thinking of broadening content topics outside the realm of fashion. Thanks for your support and I’ll be sure to let you know when I am back in action. Peace.

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to talk for a minute about how lovely the free wireess here at the Westfield mall is. I think it is faster than my office. And I’m at the mall.

No one was at work today so here I am, observing fashions in their natural habitat. Signing off so I can order my Orange Julius….

Look at this

http://pistolwhipvintage.bigcartel.com/product/1940s-style-purple-cut-glass-necklace

I Love This!!! I want it.

If anyone has a sister living in Glasgow, please tell her to buy it for me and I will pay her back for it!!!

My grandmother, no longer with me on this earth, wore her cap to bed every night. She also could read your cards and tell your fortune, and wrote songs where creating the rhyme took precedent over making sense of the verse. I have often worn wool hats inside the house which makes my mother sigh that I remind her of her mother and thus, I infer, she isn’t sure of what to think of my hat. She wouldn’t wear it in the house, I also get out of this. This weekend I went skiing (and did not fall once thank you), and so last Friday, tramping through the rain, I stopped at Crossroads and found myself a new hat.

Crossroads, as you may know, is one of the greatest stores in San Francisco. I haven’t written about it yet, so perhaps I will do so tomorrow - I am trying to keep focused from post to post. Basically, it is a mix of used and new clothing, always in style and always reasonably priced.

At Crossroads (The one in the Filmore District) I got this hat by WeSC. WeSC stands for “We Are The Superlative Conspiracy” and they are one of these new types of clothing brands/art/activist groups. They feature on their website a pretty cool image of a bunch of cool looking people hanging out in the park, combined with collage-ish cutouts. Their top level links get you to their Spring Summer Collection (Its January!) and a list of activists - actually a portfolio of skaters, artist, musicians, and other folks who I guess endorse WeSC.

You might be trying to figure out if I am on the side or against WeSC - well, that is kind of what their name makes you ask as well so I will leave you guessing. I will say that the hat wasn’t expensive, and besides Crossroads there are plenty of places to get a good deal on their stuff. But here are the pictures of my new favorite piece of clothing: my wool WeSC cap. Love you Grandma Katie.

At Mark’s annual Post-Holiday Blues party last Saturday, I got to play dress up a little - Harkening back to the “Which Overpass is this Party Supposed to Be Under?” days, I found some pants that fit at the waist but then just….kept….getting…wider…and…wider until the cuffs were about 50 inches per leg:

Also note the glowstick.

San Francisco weather almost requires hoodies for guys and girls. You can get away with wearing them over shirts, over dresses, from the most casual to the casually elegant outfit. But the thing about hoodies on girls - I guess I should qualify that by saying: Girls who have bigger bust measurement - is that they don’t quite look right.

Check out Jay-Z in his visit to Africa. I got this photo from http://holamun2.com/. Jay-Z looks great. Shades of yellow, brown, white, screen of a map of the world across the chest - hood falls nicely. But imagine a woman with boobs wearing this hoodie. No good. Just looks like she’s trying to hide herself away.

The issue is, I love hoodies. Embrodiered, printed, plain, knit, insulated - I love the look. Not that they don’t make hoodies for women, but it isn’t the same.

I suppose I’ll just have to admire from afar.

Today will be my first entry in an ongoing series which I will call, “If I was a boy.” My boyfriend is against the idea of me wishing I had a boy body sometimes, but I’m not so sure.

Boys don’t know how good they have it, when it comes to street style at least. Better t-shirts. Better sneakers. Better jeans. Baggy. The style is not about showing off your body but comfortably covering your body so you can get to work. And it looks good. This is the case, really, with not only street style, but professional style.

Anyway, my first item in this series is the layered, cutup skull tee shirt featured on hintmag. Actually, on reading their description more closely, they say ladies have worn the top layer only and looked majorly fly (paraphrased) so maybe this is a bad choice.

So to punctuate the point, let me add another item: hanes tee shirts. The entire brand. I don’t look that good in a t-shirt, the most basic of clothing items in this modern world. I am including a classic michael jordan hanes commercial to show you what I mean.

And that is a plain white tee shirt!

This past weeked I was helping my step daughter look for winter coats. She is looking for one with a faux fur hood - originally thinking white, but upon further consideration, probably a darker color.

I was showing her some Abercrombie jackets that I thought fit the bill - the Lexie and the Casey jackets, particularly.

Well, she was quite interested, but the more we talked, the more she got to talking about her personal style. She was saying - really politely because I could tell she was trying not to offend me (which, as an aside, I find hysterical and adorable) - that she likes to do the non-standard brand sometimes, and that her style is a little more funky and creative than her friends.

So awesome. I mean, as an adult on a budget, trying to look somewhat professional, with limited time to spare in my life, I can totally see the advantages of searching within mainstream brands - quick, consistent, easy.

But for a teenager working out her personal style, I am thrilled to see her going against the “brand loyalty” crowd. I think it is the sign of a independent-thinker, which I am looking forward to seeing develop.

Stylastic.com, a social media site about seeing street style and looking at trends, has been reviewed on KillerStartups.com. Check out Stylastic here and then vote for them here. As of this post, they are in 4th place and need about 40 votes to get to the top!

Are you at this point asking yourself, is “Looking Fly” affiliated in any way with Stylastic? The answer is Yes. I am one of the owners of Stylastic. But even if I am a little biased doesn’t mean Stylastic isn’t awesome. Check it out for yourself and the vote!

Here is me wearing the free shirt from the grand opening of Bloomingdales Soho. It is one of those shirts that looks amazing despite it being all clingy.