This past weekend, Lady Gaga got into the holiday spirit with a reindeer hat, her trademark fishnets and a see-through rubber coat-dress to have drinks at London’s Mayfair Hotel.
Strange? Yes. Shocking? No.
Much stranger are the necklaces at Miller Park Zoo’s ZOOtique gift shop. They’re made with reindeer dung!
Each “Gem,” as the Bloomington, Illinois zoo refers to the droppings, is dehydrated, sanitized and painted—and it’s developed with a tale from retired zoo superintendent John Tobias. It’s a pretty cute story:
John’s grandmother use to gather her grandchildren and take them outside on Christmas Eve to scatter homemade chocolate chips. She would tell the children that the chips would attract Santa and his reindeer to their home, because the reindeer would know that other reindeer had already visited and left droppings…
I just don’t know how I feel about wearing feces around my neck.
I much prefer wearing a beaded reindeer on my chest. The J. Crew reindeer tee is sold out online, but I saw a bunch when I was at the San Diego store last weekend. Now I regret not buying one.
This month’s Twisted Insider piece is the Tapestry necklace ($100) and bracelet ($50). I immediately wore the choker necklace as a bracelet wrapped around a cardigan the first day I received the jewelry. It added a cool vintage feel to my outfit.
My friend Tina at Twisted Silver says she hasn’t taken her bracelet for a week now, and likes it layered with the Classic XO bracelet. So I tried stacking with the piece with different jewelry from my closet. First, I wore the bracelet and necklace together (I think this is my favorite look). Then I showed just the necklace worn as a bracelet, then the necklace with a $5 cuff I bought at Aldo and finally, the bracelet with two lia sophia stretchy jeweled bracelets.
How would you wear these Tapestry pieces? Think about it because they launch tomorrow on Twisted Silver’s website and later this week I’ll be giving a Tapestry bracelet away!
Keep reading to see how the Twisted Silver models wear the pieces for inspiration.
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Patience is something I always have to work on. Standing in lines absolutely kills me. So spending 3½ hours on Sunset Boulevard waiting to get into H&M isn’t exactly my ideal Saturday morning. I don’t know what came over me yesterday when I decided I had to shop the Jimmy Choo for H&M collection. But the longer I waited, the harder it was to give up and leave. Little did I know that the wait at the registers was just as long as the line had been outside.
If you were following me on Twitter, you would have heard that the first girls in line had arrived at the store at 4:30 pm—the day before! Another group towards the front of the line had driven in from Arizona and walked out with bags and bags of shoes that I’m pretty sure are currently on eBay. One girl even got kicked out after telling customers inside the store she’d pay 150% for the star clutch. She burst into hysterics like a 5 year-old being taken away from Disneyland without getting to go on any of the rides.
Once my friend and I made it in, the gray booties I wanted were gone, as was the diamond bracelet set. But after wasting my entire Saturday morning, I was not going to leave empty-handed. I found these patent sandals in my size. They’re not the most comfortable things in the world but at $129 I’ll deal. I also picked up the chain crystal necklace, which I didn’t even like at first but ended planning my outfit around that night. I also bought the sequin top and leather one-shoulder dress, which you’ll see styled different ways in an upcoming ThinkThruFashion post.
All in all, was it worth it? Definitely not. As much as I love the necklace, I don’t need any of the things I bought and I could return them all and use that money to buy a real pair of Jimmy Choos. But I’m just going to chalk this one up to experience and keep the items to remind me that next time H&M does a designer collab, I need to stay at home.
