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August 2013

SEERSUCKER SOCIAL

this year marked the 4th Annual Seersucker Social and my second year in a row in attendance for the fancy ride through Atlanta’s hilly streets! dressed in our finest Southern duds, bike baskets loaded with blankets, food and drinks we peddled, waved to cars and jammed to swing jazz for about 7 miles before setting up a picnic area in the Historic Oakland Cemetery!
take a look into one of my favorite events- 
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packed and ready to RIDE!
check out Cole’s super nifty ‘picnic table’ on-the-go that you simply pressed into the ground, came in handy for all of our fancy glasses!
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Kensie dress, Banana Republic (mens) fedora, Clothing Warehouse sunnies, Superga tennies
ps: i wore bike shorts don’t you worry!
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Tannis was the youngest of riders and a really rad 6th grader!
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Kyle helped host the event while keeping us laughing during the ride and taking action shots! caught him assisting Cole with getting his sprinkle print bowtie straightened out for my photo :P
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meet Kwanza Hall a city councilman representing District 2, we met while I was working at Fastsigns and helped him print up some campaign signs many years ago. he came along for the Social riding his brightly colored fixed gear and rode the whole time wearing a blazer in 90 degree Southern heat! I asked “how in the world are you still riding with that on?!?!” he said “I’m just keeping it cool” per usual might I say, he’s changed the way I think of politicians!
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(right side photos are father and son!)
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meet Cameron Adams, a fellow blogger and photographer. we’ve been buds for a while now and have collaborated on photos and blog posts. check out his street style on http://atlantastreetfashion.blogspot.com/ 
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a serving accessory that goes with that snazzy picnic table!
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this couple met at the first seersucker social four years ago and this year Erica was surprised with a proposal! it was so awesome to witness!
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more Southern gentlemen
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Steve & John
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Tim Ho pre-ride // Kwanza Hall post-ride
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Junks & Kemeza
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hanging with the couple awarded with “best dressed couple” superlative
Joanna’s mom MADE her romper and Cole’s matching sprinkles bowtie-too cute and crafty!
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after we packed up our picnics we headed to Grant Park to hang at Junks and Kemeza’s cute lil duplex where they had these TALL beautiful wild flowers. great porch sitting and sipping times!
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beautiful light captured by my man!
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this guy makes my heart happy

join us next year!
special thanks to the folks that keep this event going and getting us safely around the busy streets of ATL!!!!!
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Waybu Eyewear

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“Waybu sunglasses are classic styles infused with sustainable bamboo materials. We’ve taken over year to design and craft a full collection of quality hybrid bamboo styles. Every pair purchased supports the Waybu crew’s journey through Haiti to give solar Aquapaks to people in need of clean water independence. We believe in making quality eyewear and doing some quality good in the world.”

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I frequently receive emails about guest blog spots, advertising, etc. but usually don’t think they “fit” with the aesthetic of this blog so I pass. But when I read into the story behind Waybu eyewear I knew it was something right up my alley-sunglasses: LOVE/NEED/BUY OFTEN, good cause: EVEN BETTER! So, I wanted to share their story, line and current campaign that is raising money to fund the collection production which is available through IndieGoGo. They have tons of great frames, here are my favorites:

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Each pair comes with a bamboo case (shown above) and all sunglasses actually FLOAT! If you follow the link to the campaign/fundraiser page, you can watch a short video about the line and cause and even see what this “aquapak” looks like (it’s pretty neat!) along with the special pricing for preorder.

So, if you’re into shades (or cool t-shirts!) and helping others out, head to their campaign from now until September 9th!

SELFIE CHALLENGE

The ladies over at A Beautiful Mess challenged themselves to a 30-day Instagram Selfie Challenge and invited the rest of the web to join in for a chance to win their new photography idea book! For a while now I’ve been wanting to do some sort of photography challenge and this one seemed fun +easy so I joined in from the start and 30 (ish) days later I compiled many different styles of “selfies” Though the contest is closed and I [sadly] didn’t win the book, I did enjoy documenting my versions of selfies, here’s a recap from my Instagram feed all of which were taken on a phone (mine or Dustin’s if mine was dead):

*DISCLAIMER*
you are about to read the word SELFIE more than any human should have to, sorry (I’m not sorry)

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Living Walls party selfie + Braids selfie
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Braves game with my man selfie + 311/Cypress Hill concert with my man selfie
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pre-ombre hair selfie + seeing my contributor pic in Jezebel for the first time in print selfie
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visiting my folks in FL and consuming high gravity beers selfie+ laying in Piedmont Park selfie
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kisses at the Jimmy Eat World concert selfie + being in love selfie
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feet in the sand at Cocoa Beach selfie + feet in the air at Cape Canaveral selfie
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airport bun selfie + dress detail selfie
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new sneakers selfie + new bracelets selfie
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hanging with my other boo selfies
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typical bathroom selfie + hot as hell after Braves game selfie
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jumping my man’s car off selfie + surviving a crazy ocean storm while fishing selfie
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messing ombre bun selfie + i’m sad it rains every day selfie
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Friday night spent at home doing nails selfie + watermelon togo selfie
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fake bob selfie + my room selfie
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from where I sleep selfies

and there you have it! 30(ish) days of documenting my daily happenings with SELFIES
(if I never have to type that word again it’d be too soon!) I say 30ish because I’ll admit there were about 2-3 days where I got wrapped up in my busy schedule (or vacation!) and just FORGOT but then quickly posted early the next day. regardless I’m happy with how my final collection turned out! all are pretty different and not just me in my bathroom mirror sporting “duck lips”

until the next photo challenge adventure, follow my regular day-to-day pics on Instagram: @LADYFLASHBACK!

OPERATION PROM

This past Saturday I had the pleasure of giving back to my community via the Operation PROM X Borrowed by Design dress drive in Buckhead. I brought along an embellished black Jessica McClintock dress from my senior year prom from back in 2004! The drive raised 73 dresses that will be donated to less fortunate girls around Georgia who, without the help of Operation PROM, wouldn’t be able to attend their formal dances. Here’s a short recap of the event in the Atlanta Tech Village-
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I’m wearing a Banana Republic dress, purse by Zatchels, UO necklace, BCBG bracelet, and suede booties via Rag O Rama
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Made with love by the Borrowed by Designs ladies
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Each dress worn by the pageant winning models were later donated to the dress drive. Too cool that a high school girl will be able to wear a dress that was worn and WON in a pageant to her formal dance!!
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Karen is the Atlanta Operation PROM director, she is wearing a vintage dress from her friends vintage shop. We chatted about our love for all things thrifted and Instagram, nice meeting you Karen!
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Meet LaTisha of Blushing Black, my newest blogger gal pal, isn’t her peplum skirt fabulous?!
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Knowing that I helped a high school girl attend one of her formal dances wearing something I wore and enjoyed when I was in high school means a lot! Thanks to Operation PROM and Borrowed by Design for allowing us to reach out to our community!
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ATL Streets

in this month’s issue of Jezebel I have photos featured in both the Street Style section and Best-Dressed ATL!!!! here’s a snap shot from the digital copy that you can view here.
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loving the very-on-trend crop tops, the zig zag pants and turban and the dude rocking some white denim-go you!
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here’s my little contributor’s blurb, the question for this month was “what is your idea of a ‘perfect date’ around Atlanta?” I described mine and Dustin’s second date. after tossing around the frisbee we wanted to get more competitive and so we set up a frisbee golf course (placed 3 different objects in different areas that you had to throw and get closest to, while tallying up tosses) lucky for our competitive personalities we tied each time! sweet memory that I think is perfect :D