Be Smart, Wear Rubbers!
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
She found her red Boden rubber boots from Secondi, the consignment boutique in Dupont Circle for $20.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
She found her red Boden rubber boots from Secondi, the consignment boutique in Dupont Circle for $20.
If you would like to make a comment, please fill out the form below.
The photo was taken on 18th Street in Adams Morgan, but Secondi is at the corner of Connecticut and R NW, just above Dupont Circle.
Rachel–
Bahh, whoops…changed. I should’ve had coffee this am!
cute gal nice figure but rubbers gotta go………
Dear Ms. Gorlin,
I’ve been following your blog for a while, as well as your posts on DCist.com. You can put me down as a fan. You’ve been beat up on unfairly on DCist.com. That’s a shame because what you’re doing is actually quite interesting. Your column on DCist.com is one of the funniest, wittiest and most clever things they have going. I encourage you to stick with it.
As a photographer, I think you’re pushing the concept of street photography in an interesting direction. Your straight forward snapshot aesthetic, combined with your cusory comments on the people and clothing items featured in your photographs, plays with the rich history of street photography and accompanying explanatory text (either published or as gallery wall text.)
I actually think your documentary-type D.C. fashion project rises to the level being an online art project in and of itself. I’ve added you to the D.C. area art blog section on my blog roll. Keep rocking with this project. I’m hardly a fashion expert, but I know original art when I see it. Project Beltway is a unqiue work of online art.
Sincerely,
The Right Reverend James W. Bailey
Dear James,
You really need to get out more or less depending on what you are doing when you go out…either way your outrageous admiration and passion for this blog signals the need for some serious self-evaluation. Perhaps you are the author’s dad or bf cleverly posing as a fan?
Dear GT,
I’m from New Orleans. We only do the passionate and outrageous where I come from, whether we go out or not.
As far as self-evaluation goes: I gave up hope for that after Katrina. Too much post-Katrina self-evaluation leads to suicide. I’m not interested in going there until I resolve all my outstanding F.E.M.A. claims. I don’t plan on leaving this planet until I have every dime in the bank from the federal government that it owes me for destroying my home.
I stand by my comments. Ms. Gorlin’s site is more interesting than 80 per cent of the art blogs that I’m aware of. I would say so on DCist.com, but don’t have the energy to argue with the anonymous haters who no doubt probably think Sanjaya is the greatest singer since Jesus ordained Elvis as God’s choir director for North America.
I’m not Ms. Gorlin’s father (I have no children that I’m aware of), nor am I her best friend – I no longer have any best friends because all my best friends from New Orleans were forced to relocate to Houston or Atlanta after the levees broke. [Traditionally, people from Houston and Atlanta have been mortal enemies of the people of New Orleans, so I was sorta bound by historic tradition to reevaluate my best friends based upon their evolving storm-damaged geography. Hopefully, now that my former best friends are living outside of New Orleans, they are taking advantage of a cultural environment that encourages in some serious self-evaluation. Of course, all of their F.E.M.A. claims have been settled, so that certainly facilitates the desire to engage in private introspection.]
Anyway, I like what Ms. Gorlin is doing with this blog and think that it is quite artful. Maybe I should have simply said that. But we don’t simply say simple things so simply down in New Orleans, but that’s another story.
Sincerely,
The Right Reverend James W. Bailey
Just a note–
My last name is actually Cothran, not Gorlin (Rachel Gorlin is a commenter…same first name though…spelled the correct way I might add)! Thanks for your support James, *tips hat.*
Dear Rachel,
I apologize for the mistake about your last name.
I’m actually hoping that you expand the concept to other cities. For example, I’d love to see your take on the fashion sensibilities of the people of my hometown of New Orleans. Unlike the stereotypes, not every guy in the Big Easy dresses like Ignatius J. Reilly! Although, to be honest, most men don’t dress like Harry Connick, Jr., either!
But fashionable or not, all of us from New Orleans wear white boots when we go shrimping: http://www.whitebootbrigade.org/ We need all kinds of help (including fashion advice) in New Orleans these days. For example, it is ok to wear white shrimp boots after Labor Day?!
Seriously, I very much enjoy reading your blog and viewing the images you post. I hope more come to appreciate the art of what you’re doing. I wish you all the best with your project.
James
I am smart, I wear rubbers over my shoes/workboots and pull on rubber boots too.
Gardenman