summer layers: waisted

photos Kelly Kollar // t-shirt What Goes Around Comes Around (seen here) // hat thrifted (seen here) // flannel shirt vintage Polo (seen here) // shorts Assembly New York // shoes House of Holland x Superga

I am and always have been a goody two shoes. I'm the guy at the party like, "Is that a marijuana cigarette? Oh, no thank you." Not to say that I don't know how to have a good time! You can totally find me on the weekends at Le Bain...in the bathroom eating a sandwich on the toilet. (I kid!) But my first real taste of rock music came from my babysitter, who introduced me to No Doubt and Garbage when I was seventeen. (Joke! I was a tween.) I also vividly recall my mother busting in on me listening to Alanis Morrisette's You Oughta Know (in which Morrisette drops the "f-bomb") back when Jagged Little Pill first came out and I bought it on cassette tape so we could listen to it in the car which did not have a compact disc player. 

This is all to say that by no means can I claim the grungy vibe of this look and last week's to be inspired by live Nirvana recordings (b-sides), skateboard culture or whatever. It's mostly reminiscent of Larisa Oleynik circa The Secret World of Alex Mack. I like that the shirt-around-the-waist look is sort of akin to a skirt/kilt (or maybe it's a makeshift skort?) for those of us who haven't converted. And, of course, my new shoes are cuter than anyyyythingggg.

gaga for superga

I posted this photo on Instagram/Twitter last week, where it was very much appreciated by my followers. Since then I've been working these babies like a boss and garnering mondo compliments along the way, so I feel the need to blog about them. A House of Holland for Superga collabo, these are probably the most impulsive purchase I've ever made. (Sorry, mom and dad!) I saw them on Crooked Conscious and literally the next day walked into Opening Ceremony, noticed them right at the front of the store, threw myself onto the nearest associate and was like, "Give me these shoes or I am literally going to set myself on fire right now." Haha, joke! It wasn't nearly that dramatic, but I do think she was a bit surprised. "These are women's shoes?" she said. "I'm a women's 10," I said.

Technically for "ladies," with their platform "wedge" heel, says the box, they're pretty much the best alternative to meels ever and are definitely cuter than most anything Rick Owens has done.

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