OVER CLAD & SCANTILY PAID

Trompe l'oeil

With handbags being all the craze for Fall this year, I have already started peaking around for the perfect bag to tote around with great shoes and who cares what else. (Rule # 1..A great bag with awesome shoes can make even a potato sac look incrediable) So when I spotted this rad "Rockabilly Barbie" clutching a kick-ass, pefectly sized faux croc bag I had to find out the make and model. Expecting to hear some elaborate designers name and an even more elaborate price, she instead directed me to my local Duane Reade ( for all non-New Yorkers, Duane Reade is a drug store ). For $25.99 you too can have this deluxe multi-compartment tote that is ideally suitable to organize that hellhole that you call a purse a.k.a. office, drugstore, snackmachine, etc. Designed by Caboodles, this is not the cheesy tool box that we all remember from the 80's (I had a customized engraved name plate to go on mine..i believe the year was '88) instead this is a sleek faux croc makeup bag that makes for an even better handbag. The Caboodles logo is a bit gaudy but the metal plate comes off easily. Now hurry and grab yours before Marc Jacobs teams up with them and starts selling the graffiti version for $2500.00.

On the Street March 2007

So while we were away I still managed to snag a few shots of visually appealing dolls and scenes that inspired me along the way.

The hiatus is over...Spring 2007 Collection

Sooo we have been away for a while. Thrifting, sewing, seeking inspiration, all to deliver our explosive new Spring 2007 Collection available at select Urban Oufitters. Thanks to everyone who supported us doing our Holiday 2006 drop we are back for spring. There are 500 of these sassy dresses in circulation so get out and SHOP!
Visit www.myspace.com/cheapdolls for list of locations.

To Lens or Not Lens....that is the question

Everytime I think that the 80's are dead a new trend (or old trend) resurfaces that secures the reign of this era in the fashion world. Channeling a time when rappers and street kids wore bright colored polyester track jackets, oversized hightops, and popped the lens out of their Gazelles... the lensless frame has returned. I first noticed this trend many months ago when i met "Face Hunter", a french reporter to slides around town (many towns) snapping photos of the fashion whores and sassy boys as they parade about. I quickly hopped on board as I popped the dark lens out of my $5.99 black plastic frames. Soon enough I began to notice European tourists dressed in girly vintage or skin tight trousers and pointy boots sporting the glasses sans the lens. Then I saw this trend growing rapidly amoungst young street kids in New York, dressed in bright colored Bathing Ape sneakers, matching hoodies with metallic detail and loose fitting demin worn with an exaggerated sag. Wow its amazing to see a trend hit and fashionistas from all extremes pick it up all at the same time. The question is... how long will it last?

Hey fellas! Get your hard...oops... heart ....on.

Stanley Kubrick's iconic saucey little vixen Lolita has made it big once again. With her classic style and brasien behavior, young girls everywhere longed to be her. Her girly sex appeal has always been a hit with the fellas but now straight men in heart shaped lunettes????? Tres Sassy!!!!!

Sweet Heart Sunglasses available at Urban Outfitters.

Fancy Feet

As you know i am obsessed with footwear. On my everyday excursions through the city I have managed to snap a few styles that tickle my fancy.

Soooo...I found my shoes

If you got a chance to roll through our blog pages you may remember reading about my obsession with a pair of animal printed Pierre Hardy shoes that I just absolutley have to be insane to spend 500 bucks on but could not live without. So I set out on a quest to find a pair of similar mens shoes and alas I scored. In a tiny thift store in Atlanta GA there at half off after Christmas sale, i layed eyes on a pair of brown nubuck Rockports. They were a whopping $3.00 and YES....half off. Soooo.... $1.50 later i had my blank canvas for my Pierre Hardy inspired shoes. Once back in NY I picked up black paint at an art store and the compliments are all down the hill from there.

Sassy Styles #1

Sassy Bitches out and about!

Inspiration

Soooo these Pierre Hardy mens shoes are my new obsession! BUT...as any cheapdoll I can not afford them, so...I am gonna do the next best thing. I am on the hunt for a pair of vintage mens dress shoes. Spray paint them gold and use black paint to randomly mark spots all over them. You should do the same. Send us your photos..I will post mine when I'm done.

A Cheapdoll turns 16 + (none of ure business) a Fashionable Soiree..none the less

Last Saturday night we threw and incredible fete for a Cheapdoll. With "dress to thrill" as the event dresscode...only the most fashionable cameout to play.