Father Daughter Shoes

You may remember a post I did back in September, about buying my first pair of Van's shoes.  You can find the photo here:  https://greatvisualtruths.blogspot.com/search?q=vans  I bought a pair of classic black and white checkerboard Vans, and they are comfortable!   Well, on this trip, I decided I wanted another pair of slightly different Vans.  So I bought these low-top sneakers, in bright red.  I told Liz I was going down to the store, and she thought about joining me, and then had to do something else at the time.  But when I stopped back at the house much later in the day, she had a grin on her face, and said "Look What I bought!"  A red set of Authentic Vans, just like mind!  So we had to pose for the obligatory photograph to record this bit of family history!  Cool, huh?

Going L.A. Style

I have decided to change my look entirely, so I have gone L.A. Style!  So I began by buying a pair of classic Vans "Checkerboard Slip-Ons."  Found a tiny Vans store on Washington Blvd near Venice so I drove over there.  It was a tiny place, with really friendly people and all the different styles hanging on the wall.  I tried this pair, and they were perfect.  Brand new shoes, and they felt like bedroom slippers!  Oh, and I told no one where I was going!  So you can't imagine how excited everyone was when they came back to the house and saw me sitting there with my new Vans!  Oh, and so that I would look as if I deserved these shoes, I wore my gray and black and white Hawaiian shirt when I went to the store.  I could tell that the young guy who helped me, thought I was cool!  Oh, and I wrote my friend Skipper who knows of these things and told him, and he said I now need a "Thrasher" T-Shirt!  Thrasher is a magazine for skateboarders!

They Took Our Spot!

Tuesday is Dunkin' at the beach day, but when we got to the beach, the parking lot was full of trailer trucks!  What?  Don't they understand that we need to get to our spot!  I talked to the woman guarding the entrance to the lot and she said they are making a movie in Sea Cliff and these trucks carried all the equipment, cameras, lights, props and wardrobe and dressing rooms and food to Sea Cliff.  Vans would bring the actors and crew up into the center of town where the set was. 

This is unreal - the set for this scene was inside a garage at the back of the building that was newly refurbished in the center of town!  This is a view from the street behind where everyone was hanging out while the scene was being filmed inside the garage.  Wow, moviemaking in Sea Cliff!

 

"ICONS OF STYLE: A Century of Fashion Photography"

There is an amazing exhibition at The Getty about fashion photography over the last one hundred years.  It is called "ICONS OF STYLE:  A Century of Fashion Photography."  It is a huge exhibition which has more than 150 photographic prints, but there were a handful of mannequins with some of the fashions of the times, and the photographs were displayed in ten-year segments.  This classic dress is by Christian Dior from 1948.

Ok, so this is funny, and only readers of my blog will understand the humor.  Why was I particularly attracted to this dress?  You know the answer - this dress matches my new Vans shoes!  I wonder if they have any menswear in this pattern?  This dress is by Alexander McQueen, a British designer.

  

This has to be the strangest fashion photograph I have ever seen.  There is a note at the entrance to this gallery warning of a photograph that is a "simulated suicide."  The title of this photograph is "Half Prada" and it was produced in 2003.  It was based on crime scene photographs found in police archives.  I am probably unsophisticated in that I have trouble making sense of this particular photograph.