Neon in Ann Arbor, MI

There were four steel-blue-eyed girls on the bus yesterday chatting away in a Germanic tongue (probably Dutch or German) and two of them had interesting things on their feet.

Exhibit A had neon pink socks pulled up high over her skinny jeans. In fact I could not even so the hem where her skinny jeans ended so that means either her jeans were really tight or the socks were really thick, or both. She was rocking K-Swiss kicks with black laces. Nice.

Exhibit B had a pair of Nike kicks in Scotti tartan with a neon green swoosh. I am not an expert in Nike sneakers but I am quite familiar with the collections sold in stores here. I am confident the pair on the European girl has not been distributed here (yet). They always give the nice things to the Europeans first. Why?

Tattersall in Ann Arbor, MI

Man wearing grey and black wide tattersall printed, white fleece jacket. Cozy!

Cross-stitch in Ann Arbor, MI

Cross-stitch detailing on the back pockets of some dude's zero distress, single stonewash black jeans.

My sister used to be an avid cross-stitcher. I know some of my cousins tried it out for a while too. I should check with them on their cross-stitching skills because look where it has come to now -- it's in fashion!