Lindsay Lou Blog

so why is it that everyone thinks i am lindsay lou the concierge?  at least 3 times a day, someone above the age of 60 comes in and asks me why the ham place next door went out of business.  well let’s see…i don’t own it, i don’t work there and umm unfortunately, before they decided to board up their windows and sneak out overnight, they did not get a chance to stop by lindsay lou and fill me in on the downfall of their business.  not only do i get to explain all of the possibilities as to why this could’ve happened but i then get to stand in front of their ex-customers while they look at me in dismay as if i had a helping hand in locking up their doors.  attention: I DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!

then our other daily "customer" pays us a visit, not to shop of course, but instead to use the phone and demand money from some lady i’m assuming to be her mother.  this little charade has been going on for about a month now and i was beginning to think there was really no one on the other end until today, i redialed the # and in fact, some lady did answer.  but next time, i’m going to have to think up of some broken phone excuse because it’s a little alarming to customers when someone is screaming into the phone demanding bus fair.  hmm…

it didn’t end there…we get another typical passerby who wants to know what happened to "uh-oh boutique".  how do you respond to a question about a store that has been out of business for over a decade??  judging from her getup, i understand why her uh-oh ensemble went searching for this boutique.  when i explained that the boutique was long gone, i again got stared down as if i played a role in their closure as well. 

oh and let’s not forget the lady who stormed in demanding to know where bank of america was.  what do i look like??  mapquest?  after telling her she was going to have to get back in her car to get there, she scoffed and mumbled something about chase bank on the way out the door.

i’m thinking of either turning around the open sign or snagging the bird from outside, putting him on my shoulder, flipping on my bucket cap, taping on my moustache and playing mister disguise in the corner.   

Sunday I turn 27 years OLD.  I know I shouldn’t be complaining but I am totally one of those people who hates getting older.  Even though I still get asked when I’ll be graduating from high school and if I’d like to see the kid’s menu, I still hate the idea that I’m almost in my thirties!!  I don’t want to start having to think about "grownup" stuff…all I want to think about is clothes!!

One of the many ways I’ll be celebrating this year is by giving away presents!  So my whole store will be 30% off up until my birthday…so enjoy!!

p.s this picture reminds me of what my sister looks like when she rolls out of bed in the morning, throws on the same jeans she’s been wearing for a week, puts on her weird little booties that she manages to pair with everything and strolls in for work…hmmm

so while we’re talking about me stalking showrooms…let me just tell you a little story about current elliott…

i don’t know if my obsession with current elliott began when i realized how fabulous their denim was or when i realized i couldn’t carry their line because of the boutique across the street that got their hands on them first.  in the boutique world, their is a little rule called "proximity" that states you cannot carry the same brand as another store within a 3 mile radius.

obviously, this was a big problem for me.  regardless, i kept calling the showroom everyday asking if i could place an order.  i think they were perplexed that i kept calling as if i had never called before, asking for different people, pretending to be different people, and seeing if i could just carry the jeans online and not in the store (wink, wink) but nothing would break them.  i was almost ready to give up when i was on my daily trip across the street to get my "in person" current elliott fix (the feel of their denim is addicting!) when i saw a note on the door that said "going out of business sale".  was it wrong of me to be so excited??  (ok in my defense, the boutique was going out of business not because of anything to do with finances but instead, the pursuit of a graduate degree).

well, i did what you would expect, ran back across the street, got on the phone and told current elliott the news.  2 days later, the jeans were in my store…and now they’re online…so buy them before i take them all home!!

denim leggings and more styles to come next week!! 

yes, i’m pretty sure i own one of everything that pencey makes.  and i’m also pretty sure that the showroom thinks i’m crazy because i have to order one of everything for myself!!  i call them at least once a day to see when my orders are going to ship…and track the ups truck to determine touch down time for my pencey box.  as if i wasn’t already obsessed with this company, they had to come out with their sister line, SAUCE!!  not as dressy as pencey but a more funky casual and definitely just as cute!!  let the obsession continue…everyday, i get to the store and ask my sister, "is my sauce here yet?!"  when she tells me "no", i practically have a melt down and almost consider not finishing out the day at work.  i wasn’t quite sure why after branding such a cute name for "pencey" they decided to call their other line "sauce" but now i’m almost positive it’s because they wanted to make me sound like an idiot when i have to call and demand more "sauce".  now i am forced to say things like, "where’s my sauce?", "i need more sauce!", "i love this sauce!", "we’re all out of sauce!"  Very clever Christina Minasian.

Stay tuned for new arrivals from SAUCE.  For now, enjoy, and keep enjoying…PENCEY!

Yes, after a long wait, Myne and Tucker are finally here!  With Myne, I didn’t even have to see it in person to know it was amazing, drew circles all over the line sheets, crossed my fingers and jumped for joy when it finally arrived.  The reality lived up to Myne’s fashion photography and I decided Myne was a keeper.  And with Tucker, it was love at first sight.  I arrived at the showroom (same showroom as Geren Ford – love love love!!), my sights honed in on the rack full of Tucker and I started pulling styles!  It probably would’ve been easier to just pull out the ones I didn’t want but my sister was with me and she’s like my parole officer when I’m on a shopping spree…she watches my every move, adds up my orders faster than I can write them up and doesn’t let me go over my limit by one cent!  What a meanie!!  (Little does she know, I just add back my favorites once I get back to the store and when orders come in, she always gets this puzzled look on her face and I know she’s thinking…(insert thought cloud)…"didn’t i put that one back??".  I just fake like I "special ordered" it for her…she’s enamored, forgets the whole thing, and the market cycle starts all over again…anyway, Myne and Tucker!!  yay!!

Joie, my love, my go to.  This is the only brand that I have carried since the day I opened my doors to Lindsay Lou.  They are so consistently good and appropriately move forward with the fashion times.  As much as I love so many of my other brands, I feel like Joie really captures the "essence" of the design of my store. 

Just a side note: I overuse/misuse quotation marks and have really horrible analogies that only really make sense to me.  If anyone can compile a list of my analogies that run through my blog and make some sense of them…you can have a reward in the form of a gift certificate to my store!  Oh and I also way overdo the ellipsis (…)

With that being said, I’ll go ahead and say that Joie is like the best friend you’ve had forever that you never fight with…you get them and they get you…they don’t change too much over time but grow with you and mature.  hmm..how poetic.  Anyway, Joie is the best!

I don’t think everyone is as in love with Corey Lynn Calter as they should be.  Is it just me or do they just have such a cute, fun-loving style that you can’t resist?  Is it too young for my store?  Is it like my Hello Kitty obsession that I’ve had since I was 3 that I need to let go of and leave in my past??  NO WAY!!  I love this stuff!!  And you should too!!  Especially their Fall collection…how Polo Ralph Lauren of them, right??  But affordable and not so serious!  It also strikes a nerve with my strange connection I developed with horses and the wild wild west.  I’ve never even ridden a horse but I think because I’ve lived in Arizona for so long, I started to think that it was a mode of survival to love horses, pair cowboy boots with EVERYTHING and frequent the Rusty Spur Saloon.  If you look carefully, my store is laden with antique saddles, an antique horse feed that has turned into the "sale troph", a steer head above the dressing room, a beautiful cow hide chair (lulu’s bed), oh and watch out for the cactus! No, i swear my store isn’t a barn…but somehow it all works…so shop Corey Lynn Calter!