Denim is so classic, so easy-breezy, so hard to screw up. Or so we thought. Then we found these denim monstrosities and began to reconsider. After the jump, some of the most horrific crimes against denim.
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Tim Gunn And Conan O’Brien On The Nature Of Jeggings
“Project Runway” host Tim Gunn is pretty much our gay spirit dad — and what he says goes. Especially when it comes to the debatable denim-vention, The Jegging. In this clip from “Conan,” Conan O’Brien comes out on Team Jeggings while Tim is (rightfully) on the jeggings fence. And don’t even get them started on skinny jeans. Where do you stand on the jeggings phenomenon? Fab or fail? [TBS] Keep reading »
Real Housewife Jill Zarin Launches Shapewear
Watch out Spanx, Jill Zarin’s coming for you. “The Real Housewives of New York City” star is launching her own line of unfortunately named shapewear called Skweeze Couture. Zarin created the pinching and sucking garments because she’s “obsessed with looking my best.” Skweeze Couture should launch sometime next year and will join several other “Housewives”-related products, including Ramona Singer’s Tru Renewel beauty creams and Bethenny Frankel’s “Skinny Girl” diet products. Grrreeeeat. [NY Daily News] Keep reading »
Old-School Wednesdays: Ugly Kid Joe “Hates Everything About You”
It’s rainy, cold and I got stuck in an elevator this morning. So this hate-y song from Ugly Kid Joe is more than appropriate. [YouTube] Keep reading »
What’s The Craziest Thing A Boss Ever Made You Do?
Maybe your boss has asked you to fetch coffee or pick up her dry cleaning, but chances are you’ve never had to do some of the crazy things that Leon Reynop has had to do. Reynop is a personal assistant for a very demanding film and television director who one morning asked him to find 200 tennis balls so that he could teach his girlfriend how to play tennis. The problem? The director wanted Reynop to spend less than $10 on them–and he wanted them before noon on the same day. Says Reynop:
“I hopped the fence at a country club with a basket I picked up at the grocery store and picked up like 30 orphan balls, I got chased by the tennis coach. Then I called a buddy who was a member at a country club, who knew a crooked groundskeeper, who sells balls he steals from the country club. I drove like 30 minutes and did this sketchy tennis ball transaction in his alley like I was buying a pound of cocaine and I had to haggle him down.”
Just another day in the life of a personal assistant. Keep reading »
We Are Insanely Jealous Of These People
Meet British couple Mark and Denise Duffield-Thomas. They were the winners of Runaway Bride and Groom’s “Honeymoon Testers” competition, and we’re super jealous of them. As honeymoon testers, they traveled and tested out dozens and dozens of honeymoon and wedding spots–all for free. The couple went to 12 countries and were married in more than 80 weddings. And! Runaway Bride and Groom is looking for a new couple to test out wedding destinations in 2011. Could it be you? [Urlesque] Keep reading »
The Tiniest Turkey Vultures Enjoy A T-Day Treat
Flat-faced cats merrily attacking a turkey leg. What’s not to love? [BuzzFeed]
