Double Take

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I bought an issue of Vogue today, just to drool over the ridiculously expensive clothes I can't have, and to Post-it things I like so I can recreate them for less moolah. Flipping through, I caught sight of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in a delightfully mod photograph. I love the look, and the dresses, by Isaac Mizrahi, are to die for (not literally, but almost). I love this look much better than the bag lady look in which they are perennially drowning. They are wonderfully petite, and they need the clothes to match. This photograph sums up what I'm looking forward to most about fall fashion: mod shift dresses, platform heels, and black tights. It's very simple, but you make a bolder statement than if you were wearing three tons of accessories. I can't stop staring at the gorgeous dresses, the bobbed hair, the raised eyebrows, kissy lips of Ashley (I told you it was chic.), the slouchy poses. It's fierce, or, to use the words of a movie reviewer writing about The Devil Wears Prada* ... delicious!

Surprisingly, Vogue also featured a Wal-Mart advertisement (*gasp*) and a Payless ad featuring my shoes! They're also in the latest Payless commercial for (*gulp*) Back to School, or as I like to call it ... Back to the Prison. I never would have thought I would own something in Vogue. Is that a sign of a true fashionista? Probably not, considering it was a Payless ad, but it's a start.

*"Meryl Streep is delicious."