
So I was scrolling through my twitter feed (if you have an account, you can follow us @luckymagazine for constant sale updates, or me at @eloehnen), and saw that
Rumi Neely, the blogger I featured in my September Web Pages section (p. 98)—she writes
FashionToast, which is an awesome daily read—is fielding lots of queries about the shoes she's wearing in the photo (@rumineely). This is funny, because I was wondering the same thing. They're the
Alamin sandal, they're by Aldo, and they're $100! Meanwhile, Rumi, who first got her start selling vintage pieces on eBay, has a sale site that's a companion to FashionToast,
right here, where she sells off the pieces that she wears on her blog.

So I've been thinking about Emily's question
from yesterday all morning (How old is too old to work a mini?), and I don't really think it's a question of age—it's more of a question of comfort. Pencil mini skirts are a huge trend this fall, and while test-driving it definitely isn't a requirement, there are lots of ways to style it so that the skirt doesn't feel so precipitously revealing. In fact, we put together an entire video about this exact subject, which you can view
here. Meanwhile, for pieces that are similar to the ones we styled around, try this
denim-ish version, or this
straightforward black cut.