This is on long side. I wrote it first in Word so I didn't lose it.

So Thursday night I went to a fall event at my local consignment store. Some of you that went to September Ingefest, I took you there. So the owner held an event with champagne cocktails, nibblies etc. There was a stylist on hand to help you if you needed.

I perused the racks, but most of the stuff I liked was too small for me. Though sometimes I caught myself looking at stuff that I had consigned. I did try on a really cool pair of burgundy laceless oxfords, unfortunately ½ a size too small. Another woman was trying on some brown lace up boots, her friend said they were very seventies in a slightly derisive tone. I said the seventies were in now.

So as I was drinking my champagne I decided to do some people watching. Judging by the handbags, most of the women were wealthy. The prevailing look were very skinny jeans or pants, with high heels, probably at least 3-4 inches. Hair was mostly long with loose carefully styled curls. The crowd is a far cry from my cohort.

One woman had black skinny jeans, tight cut out black top and burgundy suede high heeled thigh high Stuart Weitzman boots. It’s a hot boot right now, but seemed to be brought down by the rest of her outfit.

One woman who was later tagged on facebook. I looked her up and she was a professional stylist/personal shopper. Her hair was also that long styled loose curls. Overall I felt her look was standard pretty woman of means.

Two things I did see were women wearing the folded bandana tied at the top of the head, angling towards the front. One woman, her hair and makeup were in the rockabilly vein. But her outfit was tight black skinnies with stiletto pumps. Funny thing is I happened to be at bar the same time as her before the event. The conversation I overheard with her friend…was..not quite polite for here. Those of you friends with me on facebook saw me transcribe some of her words. I was a bit surprised to see her at the event. Her friend was the burgundy suede thigh highs. I was pretty annoyed by both of them at the bar because they kept bumping into me without saying excuse me even once. I would have made room for them if they even asked. So I was already negatively predisposed.

Later another woman who used to work at Nordies and Barneys and I think now is independent. She was wearing her bandana in the same way, with baggy boyfriend jeans, white tee and chunky heeled sandals.

I remember the bandana look way back in the nineties by rockabilly woman. It was also worn by deceased rapper Tupac, and Cholos. I was trying to figure out if this was culture appropriation, but doing some research it goes back to the 40’s and has been adopted by many different groups.

It was more of cultural anthropology experience for me.

I said my good byes to the shop owner, who by the way is super sweet. She was a bit bummed I couldn’t find anything, but said as long as I kept bringing good stuff she was always happy to see me.

ETA I was wearing my cropped flared dark stiff denim Apiece Apart jeans, boxy cropped white woven JCrew top, black sateen Pendleton short coat and navy studded oxfords. So yeah I probably stood out more.