I finally watched an episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County and hit a reality-brick-wall when an 'average-stay-at-home mom and housewife’ walked into her flawlessly clean and quiet home at the end of the day, miracled a cocktail into her perfectly manicured hand and sat down ... I call BS! Unless you live with a few full-time maids, a nanny, a cook and a housekeeper what I saw on TV is NOT reality.
When I come home it takes two hours from the minute I walk through the door till I have a chance to look at the mail. There are messes to clean, fights to break up, emergency laundry loads, dishes to do and lots & lots of Clorox needs to be used. And, unlike the women on TV, I clean up pet-messes in comfortable sweats, not 4” pumps, skintight jeans and cashmere tank tops with full makeup.
But there are your old fraying sweats from 10 years ago, and then there are trendy sweats you pay $150 for and try to never actually sweat in…
Luckily I discovered Victoria's Secret offers a PERFECT middle-ground, with these comfy, trendy sweats in a ton of fun or basic colors, that you can mix and match for only $11.99 each! The great thing about these, aside form the price tag, is that the inseam is actually 30.5" with a banded bottom, so you can push them up to capri length, or wear them long and the banding keeps them from dragging on the floor -- a definite plus in my Really-Real Housewife home.

I’m a shoe-aholic. I’ve had the disease most of my life, but never realized the depth of it till I found myself lecturing designer Estaban Cortezar on the importance of the YSL Louis XVI tea-cup split-platform heel on a plane ride from NYC to Miami.
Then last week something changed. I was holding a 'last-pair' of black platform D&G's miraculously marked down to 60$ and … I handed them to a woman circling me, looking at them with true-shoe-love. I realized that, unlike me & my closet full of loves-of-the-moment, she would actually do the right thing & WEAR THE HELL OUT OF THEM! And that's what fierce, fabulous shoes are for ... not guarding my closet from dust bunnies!
So when I found this perfect pair of Michael Kors patent pumps on sale for $87.50 at Kitson, the new and improved me had to share.
I know a lot of you are thinking "sure, these are super cheap for Kors, but I don’t need closed toes for summer."
AU CONTRAIRE ...
Think back to the times you slipped on a pair of sexy open toe sandals and noticed your pedi had chipped or your heels where looking a little rough ... this shoe is a MUCH more stylish and less painful solution than the ‘I have 5 minutes’ quick-chip cover up, or attempted home heel scrub with one of those torture devices marketed as a ‘callus remover’. And the trendy snub-toe will carry you through fall, and with the addition of some cute textured tights, up to the first snowstorm of ‘09.