To cell phone belt holster wearers:

Your belt holster is an eye sore.  It's like pants genocide – now go write a bill to halt this troubling epidemic that has infiltrated beyond the beltway.  You deserve better. Washington deserves better.  I have Hope. Change?

Unrespectfully,
It's called a purse. Or a pocket. Or your adopted Korean child.

P/s: Droid > Crack?? Well I can dream.

Can Trends be Classy?

So I read the DC Interns blog (even though this summer it's certainly deviated from its high bar of ridiculotisty).  It's a guilty pleasure, I like to think of it as a more local, intellectual substitute for the Real Housewives of NJ.  Sort of like picking the farmer's market over a Wal-Mart Center, well that's certainly the attitude of most of the intensely tense folks that post on that laughable blog.

So I recently read this comment:

"FUCK trendiness. I know you all think you're such cool sheep, but you look like SHITE in those leggings no matter how "stylish" some waify runway or coked-out american apparel model says they are. The waify model may look good in the ads. YOU do not. NONE of you. You offend my eyes when I walk out the door."

Now I have my problems with leggings, but I like to think I wear them in a non-trendy, non-disgusting manner (usually no coke is involved, well depending on how my morning went....)  Obviously, I'm not quite ready to trade in my college clothes and classier college clothes for black and grey suits.  As interns and younger people that have to adhere to certain professional standards (well some interns doooooooooo), is there an appropriate way to incorporate trends into classy, professionalISH outfits? I think so.  Not sure if leggings can enter the picture here, but not all trends are inherently NSFW.  Instead, they can easily make you stand out (not in a DC Interns blog way!) in a snowcalypse of power blue, black pumps and pearls.

Keeping it classy on Capitol Hill

From FamousDC's "A Public Service for Press Secretaries:"

While this relationship was inappropriate and has done terrible damage to my family, it was also brief. Don’t get me wrong, though. The relations weren’t brief. I’m a stallion. Like, seriously. I’m the LeBron James of cheating. *This part is optional.
In any case, I take full responsibility, and only hope my wife and family will forgive me.
In the weeks and months ahead, I will consult with my spiritual advisor, [circle one: Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rabbi Schmuley Boteach, Pastor Ted Haggard], and work to the repair the damage I have done to my family.

Once a cheater politician, always a politician.

Let's Open a Store on Capitol Hill

Check out Capitol Hill Barbie and Capitol Hill Style.

These women obviously have disposable money to spend on clothes and a desire to dress well.  They want to invest in quality, stylish work clothes.  Capitol Hill needs a store that staffers, lobbyists, and interns (the ones that are there on daddy's dime:) can stop into before their lunch at Tortilla Coast or the Rayburn cafeteria to check out some work-appropriate yet chic clothing.  We could sell suits, separates, and accessories that would elicit the second glance from the Chanel-toting Congresswoman Matsui...but still appropriate for the marble-floored Congressional offices.