https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 19 May 2026 15:33:07 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter#post-799049 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:31:47 +0000 rachylou 799049@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>@Mandipa - Oh, it would be so much fun to meet over latte! Hopefully bigger than I got at the farmer's market. And yes, I say $7 was overpriced. I could have gotten way way more at Starbucks for less money. It was a Dixie cup of latte and shrunken kouign aman. I could have buttered and sugared a piece of whitebread and rolled it up and it would have been practically the same thing and free. Lol. </p> <p>@Claire - Now if it had been a bottomless cup, many problems would be solved. No more fussing with the coffeepot weekday mornings!</p> <p>@Anna - My tribe my tribe! And they call themselves that too, but via à la post post modernist ruminations... It's painful really, the post post modernist ruminating.</p> <p>@Angie - Steampunk meets Ralph Lauren! Ohmigosh, someone gets it!!! I have been understood! Lol, but sadly true ;&gt;</p> <p>@bj1111 - *really quirky post punk post boho post post* Are you a secret anthropologist studying my tribe in the field? 'Cuz that's them... post post, ahaha! ETA: Ohmigosh, did I not just finish saying that to Anna?</p> <p>@vildy - We can only wish we were the Pacific Northwest... who we think is copying us anyways... but really it's just that a lot of us have invaded up there to the dismay of the Pacific Northwesterners... which, I think, makes us the Anti-Tribe. But, like, if only we could have a Cowichan sweater like The Dude...</p> <p>@caro - You have introduced me to a new term: lagenlook! Never knew there was a term for it, but that's it. I'm surrounded by lagenlook. I need to study the history of this style more!</p> <p>@Raisin - Thank you! Funkiness is important to EBA style. Key even. Btw, that's a great handle, Raisin! </p> <p>@Shannon - Thank you for the props! Re. attitude... It's a funny thing leaving the EBA for the first time when you're young... You just have no clue as to how EBA folk let it ALL hang out there and how the rest of the world keeps it to themself, like decent people. Lol.</p> <p>@kellygirl - Everyone needs a hat! If not Edwardian, there's always the Rasta cap... ;&gt;</p> <p>@Denise - I *am* a professional writer, but I do technical and scientific documentation. The stuff that makes people's eyes glaze over... Ohmigosh, the right-leaning non-ironic Christmas sweater! EBA folk are not allowed near anything non-ironic. They explode...</p> <p>@Rae - That's right! Represent! (with fist pump ;&gt;)</p> <p>@Suz - You know, Suz, you really do have a serious avant garde streak to see possibility here... hehe.</p> <p>@ceit - I'm glad you're not simply horrified at the native wear. It's pretty kooky.</p> <p>Ok. That's right. Represent! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter#post-798695 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 06:45:18 +0000 ManidipaM 798695@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I... actually really adore the bustle skirt outfit. And you in it, hat and all! </p> <p>I'd love to meet you over latte sometime---I am too much of a wallflower to go that dramatic myself, so I could bask in the reflected attention off you. :-)</p> <p>Uh, question for cultural translation: Is $7 supposed to be hideously expensive for a latte and a pastry, or is it ridiculously cheap where you are? (It's about what I'd pay in the equivalent currency here for, okay, a large latte and a croissant here at the average chain cafe --- Costa or Gloria Jean's or similar) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter#post-798631 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 04:01:48 +0000 Anonymous 798631@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You have me in stitches Rachylou! I hope that latte was a bottomless cup (not likely, I know). Anyway, these outfits are a blast. Since you mixed your Victoriana with high-end designers, people will just call you *eccentric*. Nice, </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter#post-798537 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:34:26 +0000 annagybe 798537@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Totally works for your tribe. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter#post-798535 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:32:40 +0000 Angie 798535@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Queen Quirky, you crack me up. </p> <p>Steampunk meets Ralph Lauren. I really like the bustle! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter#post-798424 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:37:13 +0000 bj1111 798424@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>well hello there mrs 'iggins. i LOVE that outfit sans hat. really quirky post punk post boho post post. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter#post-798341 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:08:09 +0000 Vildy 798341@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love, love, love the pix with the bustle skirt. I hadda look up where East Bay is.<br /> Was hoping it was the kind of Pacific Northwest where you might have a Cowichan sweater like The Dude. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter#post-798338 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:03:32 +0000 Caro in Oz 798338@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love #1&amp; #2 very Berlin, lagenlook vibe imo.<br /> Love the pants in #3 too - would love to see them with booties &amp; a leather jacket. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter#post-798316 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:39:13 +0000 Raisin 798316@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>These are really fun. And there's just something about #3, I love the funkiness of the plaid pants. Love! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter#post-798312 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:37:35 +0000 Transcona Shannon 798312@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love your posts Rachy - not only full of great style, but I love your writing and comments. Always interesting!</p> <p>I actually like the bustle skirt with the hat - and I suspect you have just the right attitude and confidence to pull it off beautifully!</p> <p>#3 is perfect for your ridiculously priced latte outing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter#post-798307 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:34:41 +0000 kellygirl 798307@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love #1---so fun. The hat is pretty cool too. Not sure that I could pull that one off. Great layering in 3. You look totally cozy and cool! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter#post-798296 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:26:27 +0000 CocoLion 798296@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love #1!!! With a statement piece like that skirt, if you keep the rest simple the result is tres chic.</p> <p>Love your copy, are you a professional writer? East Bay Native wear lol.</p> <p>My native territory (foothills of Sierras) used to dress in Wranglers and dirty cowboy boots but ever since they built a gated community up here, the right-leaning seniors who populate are heavily into novelty Christmas sweaters and holiday costume jewelry. Worn without irony. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter#post-798216 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:55:51 +0000 rachylou 798216@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ok. I think I fixed the pics.</p> <p>But you guys are too kind. Really, it's ok to laugh at the native wear. LOL! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter#post-798209 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:53:13 +0000 rae 798209@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Represent! *fist pump* </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter#post-798193 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:39:21 +0000 Suz 798193@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Okay, call my peculiar, but I LOVE the blue bustle skirt with the turtleneck and ...well...yeah. I just love it. Also love the plaid pants in #3. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter#post-798187 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:36:51 +0000 Anonymous 798187@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am missing the hat picture -- 1 and 2 seem to be the same?</p> <p>I love seeing your outfits. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---east-bay-native-wear-for-winter#post-798174 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:25:29 +0000 rachylou 798174@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>And now for a little break from stylish holiday outfits... I present for your amusement *A What's Wrong With This Picture* puzzle. Otherwise known as some of my East Bay Native Getups for Winter.</p> <p>#1 - New geekery as the result of a day at Dicken's Fair (blue bustle skirt)<br /> #2 - With Edwardian hat, from Completely The Wrong Era (yes, that's my own and I wore it all day, before the blue bustle skirt came along!)<br /> #3 - Going out for 7 dollars worth of latte (a teensy 5 oz) and kouign aman pastry (just one) at farmer's market (yes, that was not a typo! $7!!)</p> <p>You would never know it, but there are a couple of high-end garments in these pictures. If the designers were deceased, they'd turn in their graves. But I was going out with my people! </p>