Before: Boring old shirt worn 7 days a week (ok, thats an exaggeration, but you get the idea): a blah shirt
After: Brilliant Black Shirt, layered with a deep neck V in contrasting color (white here) and accented with two GORGEOUS "US" or "SU" = US and SU... or.. SUSU pins! Voila, you are the next MK&Ashley trendsetters.
You are now ready to hit the clubs, club heads! **Sidenote, this is also helpful for the communications that will result from these pins as hot guys and girls alike will swarm around you and compliment you on your pins and you can calmly and modestly (remember those are two central tenants of DMMO) respond, "Thank you! I wanted to show my support for our troops in Iraq. Also, they sort of spell SUSU if you think about it, so I thought it was funny." If they still want to talk about how great you look and the story behind the pins, then how great it will be to offer to them "they actually belonged to my father who served in the ________ war (insert the war that applies to your father: Civil, WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Korean, Iraq, War - the card game, the war between Lauren and Heidi, the war of the dinosaurs... whatever was most around the time your father was in his younger days, or just whatever floats your boat.
THEN, since we're going there, what you need to do next is: assess who is presenting themself to you and either (1) continue conversation if you see yourself willing to let yourself get started by this person or of course if they are already getting you started... or to let him/her/it get one of your FRIENDS started OR (2) hand them your DMMO card (see a previous entry) and walk away. No explanation needed. They were lucky enough to have gotten that much time out of you as it is.
Moving on. Now... you had a fun night, you party hardied, you don't know where 3+ hours of your life went, when you find yourself walking somewhere by yourself on the Lower Eastside of Manhattan and its morning now, you took a picture of Kelly falling down at the club, you were turning the lights on and off at the Korean restaurant only to leave them a nice surprise under the table later (all true stories)... all in all agreat, fun night! Ok.. but... BUT... the celebration is not over yet, what about a nice brunch with all the friends to remedy those hangovers and talk about all the sexy attention the person who wore the shirt with the pins pictured above, got and find out about who(s) he took home with him that night. Anyway, yes, brunch would be a great idea - on a separate delicious dish tag post, I'll go into a discussion on brunches and more... there are many places to recommend, but lets keep our eyes on the prize here, and that is fashion, gorgeouses (most of you...).
OK, so to continue the theme as from the night, but to a more casual interpretation which would be more appropriate for a brunch. Go with the different pin so that your friends don't get on your case about wearing the same outfit and talk about how they are embarrassed to be seen with you.
This is a simple little detail to turn that white polo into a fabulous white polsies.Right?! Now... I realize these may not be so revolutionary. Women have been wearing brooches for years and men do wear pins every now and then. BUT the key difference is 1) these pins I chose are asthetically pleasing, graphic-looking, and overall cool. 2) The other pins are probably stupid dorky pins that try to state a cheesy message or a joke which is just NOT cute (unless its the DMMO or DGMS pins... coming in 2009) and 3) I am writing about this idea right now and endorsing it, so now that you know that I like this look... YOU can go out and like this look! The idea becomes cooler with my endorsement, get it? Anyway, these pins were added to my shirts because 1) I have been down in SD for a while, longer than I anticipated to be, and I didn't bring enough of my clothes down from LA to wear so I was getting BORED and didn't want to embarass not only myself by wearing boring clothes that I've been seen in too many times to count, but also the friends who would be seen with me! I'm too good of a friend to do that to them - shoot they already have to be seen with my face and have to angle photo shots off a 51 story building in order for it render an acceptable photo, but anyway thats another story... and 2) I want to wait to go shopping until I get into better shape, so lets just say... I've been waiting for a while. Don't even get me started!! But what you CAN allow to get started... is this trend of cool pins on shirts. They're a make yourself over.... instant.... classic.
