Sea has been very busy with “work”, but here we find her taking a well-earned rest, covered fetchingly with nothing but a curated fur coat. Note the cascade of streaky hair. Would a mother take such a photo of her teenage daughter? Surely not. So….did Sea pose for herself? Or for the gay boyfriend?
In other news, Sea confided that she didn’t really have a pair of casual flats, so she obtained/acquired a pair of studded Givenchy ballet shoes that are currently available at Barneys for $450. A girl needs flats, right? $450 is really pretty reasonable, when you think about it. It’s a steal, in fact.
Sea also confides that she’s sick and tired of the bad weather. Maybe it’s hard to shop in the rain. Where is a Margiela raincoat when you need one, for fuck sake? If only Mom would buy a TV!
If you need to leave a comment for Jane, this is your chance, since her ban on comments is still in effect. I’ll go first:
Dear Sea, the pose in the fur coat is an unfortunate development. Don’t ruin your brand by playing the slut card! Find a good colorist who can fix the hair, I’m sure they have one in Texas, or call Chanel to see if they’ll send one from Paris. Love, xo SW
Dear Wolfe Sister,
You never fail to amuse, this little post made me laugh out loud! I love my tv (Exult the New God) and it’s 54 channels so much that it hurts my heart to think of Jane (or anyone) without one. Maybe Consuela the Mexican Housekeeper and faithful family retainer took the photo? I still say you and Jane look spookily alike as teens. I’m praying that someone gives you your own reality tv show very soon. love FF x
For a moment, I actually wondered where the coat ended and Sea began- it and her hair are almost the same colour. I’d like to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume there’s a dress or something under the fuzz…and that this was a self-timer pic (all cameras come with them, I bet Jane’s is no exception).
Of course mom took the photo.
I see Jane that you are not wearing any shoes…hmmm………
Forgot to mention how seeing you shoeless gives me a frisson feeling.
Dear Jane,
I think your hair looks awesome.
In spite of your tender years, it is clear that you are much smarter and more thoughtful than your mother, who is obviously thick as a plank.
Just be careful who you hang out with and “admire.” This is an impressionable period of your life.
I would just like to back it up a bit and comment on that stupid duct tape jacket.
Dear Jane,
you can get duct tape in the hardware store for only a few dollars a roll. With said tape you can wrap your Old Navy Jacket, and then you can say it was “crafted”.
When you pay a bazillion dollars for those stupid hideous “pieces”, it’s like you hang a sign round your neck that says “I am a stupid c*nt”. Thank you for letting me know is all I can say.
Dear Jane, check the back lighting in future the flash is evident on the wall. Also worried about your ankles, do you think too many high shoes are causing bone development. Hope your sister took this photo if truth be told.
Dear Jane,
The photo looks like some creature attacked you, tasted your flesh, and then started to decompose on top of your body.
It should be used by PITA for an ad . . . What happens when you buy fur!
PETA, I guess I was thinking of bread, and what I should have for breakfast.
Well, this is off topic, but I’m a little confused Sister Wolf. Why is style bubble not worthy of the same vitriol targeted at Plain Jane, et al? (Now don’t get me wrong! I wholeheartedly support the disdain for Sea) However, would anyone seriously ever step outside their closet, let alone outside in anything susie bubble wears? I’ve been scratching my head over her whole look since her mystylediary days, and then it was mostly vintage and the photos taken standing on a dingy bathroom tub. Now she merrily accepts free shit from designers and fashion show invites, blows loads of cash on expensive designer clothes that she can’t get for free, and still dresses like a clown. (I think I could easily match her look by simply running into several of my friends’ granny’s closets, flinging on whatever I hit, and coming out the other side ready for my pigeon-toed pose photo shoot.) Everything she posts is from a manipulated POV now and its frankly just a big marketing shill. I feel she’s the embodiment of everything gag worthy in the fashion blogging world. So please do tell why she gets a pass?
^I can’t answer for Sister Wolf, but I actually like the way Susie dresses. In addition, part of the reason why Jane comes in for so much criticism here is, I believe, because of the amounts of money apparently being spent by a teenager who can’t possibly have done anything to earn it (not my business, I say).
Susie, however, is a grown woman who earns her own salary- if she’s spending money on stuff, it’s hers to spend. As for the fashion show invites etc, she works for Dazed Digital- surely show invites etc come with the territory? And as for the manipulated POV, I can’t really say I sense any major change in the tone of her posts from what they were circa 2006. She does have a nicer camera now, but I suppose that’s one of the nice things about having a salary.
Dear Jane:
Your ankles are ugly. You should use those $400+ flats more often.
I gotta come to Susie’s defense here too. What I love about her is that her approach to fashion is very personal — it’s about her fearlessly exploring the ideas and looks that excite her, rather than slavishly following the madates of “trendiness”, or even “sexiness”. There’s a freedom and a joie de vivre to her looks, because (unlike *some* pretentious, Antwerp Six-name dropping Texas debutantes) she is too smart and self-deprecating not to get that fashion is, after all, just a frivolous laugh and should be treated accordingly. Even when she misses the mark a bit, I’d rather look at one of Susie’s outfits vs. a million of those black-leather corseted, towering-heeled, frowning fashion fucknuts you see glowering from sites like Jak and Jil, lookbook, etc.
Dear Jane,
you DO NOT wear dead animals, you instead CURATE fake furs. And you also get a better hairstylist!
I think her problem is that bedspread. It is very boring. She should buy this one, and it will change her pathetic life.
http://www.littlemissmatched.com/Catalog/bed-in-a-bag/kooky_argyle_bed_set
I was going to come to Susie’s defense, but then read Scout’s comment and that said it all for me.
But since I have a problem shutting my mouth, I will add:
Susie does not take pictures of herself running across meadows in Givenchy boots. She does not crouch, mouth agape, like she just lost her last johnnie but if you want to fuck her hey that’s still ok, a la Fashion Toast. She wears stuff that rocks her world and expresses nothing but gleeful joy while doing so. Would I wear it? Hell yeah! (Is that as bad as Fuck Yeah!? sorry.) But only if I didn’t have to leave the house. And that’s the charm I think. There’s something almost childlike (in the nicest possible way) about her playing dress-up. I couldn’t hate her if I tried.
^I’ll chip in a little further and say Susie’s clothes- and the outfits she puts them in- really don’t seem that crazy to me at all. There’s the occasional ‘out there’ piece (like the glass-shouldered blazer she wore one Fashion Week), but for the most part, her clothes look like, well, clothes. The difference is in the way she wears them- like scout says, she’s not bound by other people’s ideas of what’s attractive and what isn’t, and that’s refreshing.
Re: fashiontoast, it’s kind of comparing apples to oranges if you’re comparing her with Susie. I read her blog in its early days, and she seems like a nice, articulate young woman who just has a lot of moronic commenters. She does what she can with whatever she’s got (and again, unlike a lot of people, I don’t find it impossible to believe that a young woman who’s probably been earning her own money for a few years can get herself designer whatnots now and then). I do admire her thick skin though. And frankly, I’d find it hard if not impossible to detest a fellow Roald Dahl fan.
Dear Jane, normally I don’t have much of a problem with your spending habits. I know some people have money, and don’t always spend it well or wisely, and I can deal with that. But right now, when I’m having to crack down on an already tight budget, the thought of you spending $450 on a pair of shoes makes me kind of sick.
I really hope you know how easy you have it. And I hope you’re grateful. If you don’t, I pity you.
well… after perusing some of the past photos on sea’s indulgent site, i have to wonder why the cost of some of the over priced ugly clothing couldn’t have been used to get braces for her younger sister…sad, really, sad.
Hey scout, dru, and annemarie,
Thanks for the responses. I’ve just always been puzzled by the susie bubble worshiping. I suppose her raging popularity doesn’t help. I tend to stop reading blogs when they develop massive followings-they’re no longer people to me then. I should say though that I never followed style bubble in the first place. (Note: she got the Dazed job because of the popularity of her blog). Some of her outfits I don’t find offensive, but overall they’re just completely ugly to me and I find them just as ugly as all the repetitive shit you see on sartorialist, jak&jil, sea of puke, fashion toast(holy shit how did she ever get popular?!)etc. so on and so forth. I suppose I just like blogs that fly under the radar and do their own thing and style bubble isn’t one of those. Unfortunately, those kind of blogs are becoming a rare breed. Everyone wants their silly fifteen minutes and free shit and fashion show invites and they don’t care how much whoring they have to do to get that. I’m just a bit curious as to what everyone’s motivation, including SW’s, is for drinking the hateraid on so many popular blogs/bloggers. I know my reason really has to do with when bloggers hit celebrity status-I lose complete interest. We have enough celebrity worship as is, I want to read about real people!
I have nothing for Jane, but this:
“black-leather corseted, towering-heeled, frowning fashion fucknuts”
This lit up my life. Thank you, scout.
^borellana: see, I guess that’s where we differ- I’ve never seen Susie as anything but a real person, and not one of those (priceless phrase) fashion fucknuts. She might be massively popular, work for a cool magazine and have streetstyle photogs chasing her up and down town, but it’s telling that she still replies- personally- to comments on her blog, whenever she can.
It’s stuff like that which makes it hard for me to see her as some ‘celebrity’ blogger- yes she got her job because the folks at Dazed liked her blog, but frankly this is one fashion blogger crossover that I’d fully support because she really loves fashion and she knows her stuff- she wasn’t hired for being cute, or as a gimmick.
I’m not into hating blogs, but if you want the urls to a couple of (relatively) unknown fashion blogs where people just do what they like, here goes:
http://www.tokyobopper.com
http://www.erithemermaid.blogspot.com (Parsons grad, does lovely illustrations)
http://www.hihosilvero.blogspot.com
I really wanted to hate Susie Bubble. She is too small and too cute and i despise that. But i can’t hate her. I would like to go out and drink with her. She wears outfits i would never wear, because i am neither small nor cute, but she makes up her outfits with the kind of dress up glee that i do. I go more for the drag queen Disney princess giant pouffy pink gown type of horror, and i don’t care what any one think. As far as dingy bathtubs, a photo on a dingy bath tub is awesome, however, one frolicking in a dried out meadow looking like stupid every high school girl trying to look fuckable is not.
Susie thinks for her self. She is not trying to look like a high price hooker, or lyndsay lohan or any one else. Her outfits make me think of putting things together differently, and her attitude makes me happy about being obsessed with clothes.
Actually, Tokyo Bopper isn’t that under the radar (its staff are FRUiTS magazine regulars) but they really are dedicated to doing their own thing- well worth looking at even if it’s a shop blog.
and Sister Wolf makes me proud to be a hater.
Borellana – excuse me while I correct my first comment – I missed the word ‘deformity’ after ‘bone development’. Right now back to the Sea of Shoes issue and Susie getting a ‘pass’.
I don’t wish to add anything ref Sea of Shoes – she hasn’t finished school. Yes she may have opted for ‘home schooling’ but she’s a school girl. Susie is woman. i don’t want to speak for her but she didn’t get her job at Dazed Digital because she was a blogger she already worked in digital media. Of course her blogging credentials helped but then wouldn’t you be glad to be in the spotlight to help you get an interview. Susie has had to go to Brick Lane to sell old clothes to get some money. True some people give her samples and she lucks out by sample sale invitation etc but hard work and endeavour is at the foundation of her success. Susie has a degree and reads the Guardian – this is a daily left wing paper in the UK, when I say left wing it is essentially a liberal paper not a socialist one. I’m blahing now but Susie and Sea are oceans apart, figuratively and geographically.
how old is this jane? i wonder if she wants a straight guy to play dress up with and use as an accessory….i’m not unattractive. atleast i’ve been told this? i don’t know. either way, i think she’s cute…if i could get used to my last girlfriend and try to make it work for almost three years, i can handle anybody!
especially if the sex is decent, and i get blowjobs. ha!
dear shoes,
while your curatorial collections grow, your hair gets ever stringier and streakier. Somehow I pity you because I’d sooner have a beautiful head of hair than a pair ann ds. but opinions are like assholes.
Dear jane,
I’m sure it’s really hard to come up with cool outfits when you have no spending limits and are spoiled rotten. Two of your jackets could pay for my entire undergraduate education. I hate you and your priviliaged kind. Stop acting like your creative and just admit that you’ve been handed everything you’re whole life. Cuz guess what, everyone could dress cool if we all had a billion dollars.
Hey Dru,
Thanks for the links. I don’t even know fully why I have such a visceral revulsion for particular blogs-haven’t really taken much time to parse that, but I get what you and others are saying about what makes SB different and why you respect that. I guess I’ve never gotten her or her look so i can’t connect, although I will say that there are people out there who have a completely different style than I do that somehow pull it off in such a way that I love it. I do wish there was much more criticism of popular blogs and whatever the hottest steaming pile of shit is making the fashion blogging rounds. And if a blogger really wants to be taken seriously, they need to knock it off with accepting invitations to chanel’s this or that and being featured in this magazine or that or accepting this free item or exclusive preview. I’ll start respecting and paying more attention when that becomes more of a normal occurrence. Thanks for the interesting discussion! Now back to the snarkery, because I know I DO love that!
Can’t believe anyone would equate Ms. Bubble with Lil Miss Seabubble! Susie’s a fascinating, passionate fashionista dressed in fantastical creations whose knowledge flows like the cosmos while Sea is a mere anemone clinging to brands and a shameless idiotica Americana. Sea’s alternate blog, Leland, is far better and gives some hint to a sense of play, irony, and artistry…but Sea of Shoes is a tragic, tone-deaf splooge on par with Vomitoriums, Nicole Richie’s published works, or any combination thereof.
Dear Sea,
I really hate it when the weather is bad. Or like when the weather is so bad that Haiti is destroyed. If the weather would just improve, then maybe “the government could just get to the kitchen, rearrange some things, and we could certainly party with the Haiti’ans.”
Dru, you made me feel bad for the mean thing I said about Fashion Toast. I actually do admire her thick skin too. And I had a look at her early posts. I guess she’s not that bad. I still don’t like her clothes though.
I’ll admit up front I’m no fashoin guru but even a Bill Clintlandish nove would proclaim, “Girl? You’d attract more fellers if you’d trim that bush.”
On the other hand – should you ever need rescuing from Pyoung-yang… Al will provide me a jet. Carbon credits be damned.
Patni – Susie is not small and cute! She is tall and extremely personable.
It is just I have to correct misinformation. How an earth did you think she is small and where the heck did cute come from.
And on another matter what the heck is wrong with bloggers getting freebies and invites – they are a form of publicity/publishing. When I worked on a fashion mag we raided the wardrobe, rifled the beauty cupboard and generally enjoyed invites to all and sundry. So tell me what is the difference?
Long time stalker… etc
but i was inspired to post a comment upon finding this piece of genius whilst googling for the ‘sea’.
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2009/10/arent_sea_of_shoes_and_her_fas.html
1) tee hee – jane = the preeminent personal-style blogger of our times. (Sorry Sister Wolf et al)
2) per Amit her gentlement friend – “i … thought about turning the blog into my own personal “what are you wearing” log. then i realized constantly taking pictures of oneself everyday is vain and narcissistic and caring that much about what you wear probably relates to some pathological condition defined by pent up attention-seeking emotional issues.”
Fucknuts has just been added to my language, thank you Scout. It is up there with cunt chops.
I do not hate Sea Of Shoes, nor do I like her. I would have to meet her to form an opinion. As we all know, the character we push into the internet ether is not the whole sum of our parts.
The main vibe I get when I visit her blog is a lonely void, an emotional hole being filled up by material wealth.
Maybe when she is a little older and has equipped herself with some valueble life skills, empathy and self awareness, she will look back on her blog aghast. Or maybe not.
Shizer, I just found a diary of mine written when I was 16/17 (am now 30) my first reaction was to burn it so nobody could ever find out what a turd I was.
I have daughters, if any of them decided to keep a blog talking about all the crap they aquired ( I had given them) I would mock them Ming the Merciless style and take it as a cue that they were spoilt and hold back on the giving.
gotta say i’m all for miss susie. have been reading her wonderful blog quite from the start.
Thanks madedostyle… she looks small in the pictures, and she is certainly slim…. and cute… she looks cute to me. she looks smiley and sweet and those kind of things. But her personality comes across as awesome.
Good God that NY article is hilarious, such a sly prod at jane courtesy of gay boyfriend. But this post does solve a mystery for me, namely how does jane sleep at night with the knowledge that she’s an insufferably materialistic brat? Why under a fur! Of course! But that’s probably just naptime, at night she curls up in a nest of curated furs, the pockets filled with hundreds just in case she has a bad dream about being poor and having to work for a living.
Oh and scout thanks for the fucknut description, if you don’t have a fashion blog start one
Hey Make Do,
No difference to me. I find both equally gaggy-sorry! Magazines are just as biased and bought as the fashion blogs. But magazines are a corporate business entity not an individual. I find individuals being bought a bit more disturbing. 🙁
Um, I do find ‘individual being bought a bit more disturbing’. Since I do quite used to favor susie bubble’s site, I do find that she often quote and ‘adore’ the same brand that have heavy advertising in ‘dazed’. Is it coincidence? Maybe. The fact that susie could be a bit too defensive when people comment the way she dressed as a recent episode, it shows a bit childish.
As for Jane, she is intensively annoying, so is her mom. How did they get all that money, and precisely how can her other sisters don’t get the attentions like she does is beyond me!
Dear Sea,
Ugh. You are still in high school.
Also, I just stumbled across this article about the TRENCH. It has a horrifying picture of Mom and Sea sporting the coat: http://www.style.com/stylefile/2010/01/gryphons-aldridge-trench-celebrates-post-apocalypse-now/
I feel bad about being saying horrible things about FT too. The thick skin is very admirable- and she’s written a few things in the past 2 months that make me believe that she actually says some worthwhile things with that agape mouth of hers.
and I do like her style even if its a little boring.
How do you know she is naked? you can’t see her minge…. unless that coat is her minge?
xx
sisimae – PLEASE don’t start a sentence with “Um.”
theresa – I still hate her though. Thick skin is a good trait, but Mrs. Palin has thick skin. It doesn’t absolve anyone of anything.
Nice link, Beth. “Initially, we didn’t sell as many as I think the demand is there for.” Really, all the teenyboppers who don’t know any better than to worship the girl with the most toys aren’t willing to shell out $800 for a wrinkled kimono-sleeved trench?
I take back what I said about liking the sleeves!
^sismae: to be honest, I suppose that isn’t unexpected- I believe part of Susie’s role as commissioning editor at Dazed is to pick new talent to feature, and if she likes it for the site I guess liking them on the blog is not such a far step..
Ha! Sorry about the ‘Um’. Only realized that your hatred of that misused of language until I wrote it..
Dru, I still love susie, don’t get me wrong. But I guess I am a bit old fashion, and I still missed the old susie when she wasn’t the queen bee of blog land. She was just a girl got a burning desire for fashion, still quite missed the fact that her old wardrobe used to be more second hand then ‘couture vintage’. It was refreshing then to look at her poorly photographs of herself and simply having a good time.
I guessed she needed to improve on her knowledge of fashion, polish up her pictures.
By the way, what I mean about the brand she quote in her blog in relation to the advertising is the brand like burberry, lanvin. Of course, I love it when she features small designer, but when same day burberry massive ad came up on dazed, and she write a big feature about it, that’s a bit lame.
^I still love looking at those old camera-over-face pictures in the mirror- seems like such a long time ago, really. They’re still some of the most inspirational pics in my pictures folder, she had a great wardrobe even then (secondhand or not) but she made the most of what she had. Still does, in fact- in that recent post with the gingham coat, she embroidered the top she was wearing herself.
And there are bloggers out there who don’t go drooling over every bit of free swag they get. Lulu and Your Mom, in fact, spoke out against it last year- she got tired of people sending her (presumably unsolicited) things and then demanding to see them on her blog.