Rima Suqi

I have been in love with this Vivianna watch (in silver, stainless, black, whatever version) ever since I first saw it (I won’t say how many years ago) on my friend Deborah’s wrist. While perusing the Georg Jensen website today for a completely different reason, I saw it in their sale section in black. Black is a huge “color” this fall in fashion, which makes me really happy. And this watch is now $720. It was $2,400. Not that $720 is super cheap but all things considered, a bargain.

While a pedicure is a must-do regular summer activity, the expensive, scrub-your-feet-like crazy version is a once a season treat for me. I go to Rescue Beauty Lounge, which for my money still gives the best, most thorough pedi in this zip code. And while I was there over the weekend I discovered the new perfect color, called “Bruised.” (My political activist friend was horrified by the name but frankly when I find the right color I really don’t care what it’s called). I know everyone is wearing that grey color made popular by Chanel but light-ish grey on dark olive skin doesn’t work. It looks fungus-y.  And I’m not going to wear blue. But I will wear this sort of ’70s reminiscent raisiny color — its darker than it looks in the bottle:

If you’ve followed this blog (and to my surprise a LOT of you do), you might notice that I travel. A lot. And while I usually have the airplane routine down, I never quite nailed the “what to wear on the plane” outfit. NYC – LA, no problem. NYC – Kilimanjaro or Cape Town or Delhi or any other 12+ hour flight – problem. As much as I love my Lulu Lemon groove pants, they get “knees.” Not cute.

My friend Pauline convinced me to buy these pants from J. Crew:

Silky Linen Slouchy Pant

At first I thought that an arab girl in a harem pant was a bit much. Then someone pointed out that technically this is not a harem pant. Phew.

BUT this is a fabulous pant to wear on the plane, even for 16+ hours because its just slouchy enough where even if it does stretch a bit around the knees it keeps the overall slim line. You arrive at destination, throw on a pair of heels, and look fabulous.

And, conveniently, they’re now on sale. I got the dark pewter. Check them out here.

Chimayo, New Mexico: