Needs Versus Wants, Needs Versus Wants

I'm mere days away from another birthday, yet it seems no matter how old I get, I'll always find it impossible to separate needs from wants. Oh well. Fuck it.

First thing I want today: this ADORABLE sun bag:

(Kate Spade, $99 Buy It Now, eBay)

Normally I find Kate Spade to be a total preppy snoozefest. But this Alexander Girard bag has Miami Beach Bubbie plastered all over it, and I totally have an inner Bubbie who'll someday be wearing garish pant suits with humungo faux rhinestones, topped by a safari-style button-down with the sleeves rolled up, cinched with one these:

($1.99, Funwirks.com, you can actually STILL buy these!)

Oh yes. I certainly did. Anyway, I'll carry this bag. (Tons of 'em on ebay!) Until then, I give it T-minus 2 sec. until some chick with stringy hair and smeared eyeliner rolls down Bedford Avenue wearing one of those t-shirt slides.

Okay, more wants:

Outrageously $$$ Chloe boots. Here's the real-deal, Black AmEx version:

($1,155, Chloe, Satineboutique.com)

Here's the Visa versions:

($425, Tracey Ross, Bellegray.com)

($311.99, David Ackerman, Bluefly)

And finally, the Discover card versions:

(Apprx $88, Kurtgeiger.com)

It's the money shot, y'all!

($55, Report, Zappos.com)

Lastly, here's something I snapped a camfone shot of yesterday that I definitely did not want nor need to see:

(This woman's personal closet of horrors)

Dudes. Why? Why, why, why, WHY? Animal prints are super great when they're reserved for the special ocassion fun leopard-print trench or car coat:

($99, The Find, shopnbc.com, but don't buy it because it's real)

But A GIRAFFE PRINT ON YOUR ASS? Unless you're doing some sort of promotion for Toys R Us (and I don't know why on earth you would be) that's just downright indecent.

Stop the Presses, Tara Subkoff On Sale!

Holy shit, some of those Tara Subkoff for Easy Spirit shoes, which are so lovely but so frustratingly over my budget, and the budgets of all Easy Spirit shoppers, are on sale at shopbop! Get thee there! Check these deals:



"Toe ring" flats for $45, nice 'n' simple.



High-heel sandal with bow (in somewhat pukey color) for $72 (down from $240). Sorta dig 'em.



Ankle-tie sandal, also with bow (in less pukey green color, and also in tan) for $84 (down from $280). These are the most tempting, for me, of the sale selections.


Not on sale, infuriatingly:



The tall covered boot, which i will always heart, as long as they keep selling it. I guess it'll be $495 till I'm old and unabashedly gray (worst).

And of course none of these are not quite as cool as the Holice shoe, either, which has a more pleasing shape, droopier ties, and a hefty $280 price tag:



Isn't it pretty? More pretty shoes TK, as we say in the biz.