Rock Racing done?

[smurfalicious]

Umm... Eeuw?

What? Miss Sixty is Italian and according to my very Italian boss there are cities in Italy where you can't tell the prostitutes from the casually dressed women and I should be thankful they cover my butt.

I feel like there are a lot of people who don't like Rock because of the sponsor and because they're friggin flamboyant but here's the deal. Lance is the one who turned bike racing into NASCAR.

Rock Racing is all sorts of entertaining. I LOVE that last year at InterBike they ended up across from like, World Bicycle Relief or something like that. It makes me chuckle. Perhaps I'm a gadfly but I love going against the grain and if they wanna roll in sweet Caddy's then so be it. I just think it's so easy for everyone in the bike world to stand back and hate on Michael Ball because he woke up one morning and thought, "Hey, why don't I sponsor one blinged out bad boy bike team?" Perhaps if I had the money I would have rebelled bigger than showing my arab with a nice rounded frame in western pleasure instead of the popular peanut roll.

As far as the clothing goes. Yeah, it's pretty absurd to me. I have a few jeans from Miss Sixty, Seven for all Mankind, Joe's, etc. It started with the Miss Sixty's when I was shopping for a cocktail dress at Hot Box Betty. They were on sale, and they made my rear end look ridiculously good and I had to have them. They come out when my friends insist on going to Centro and other occasions but most days it's Cruel Girl boot cut for me.

Here's what I've learned though. To each his own. Spending a ton of money on clothing for me really isn't my thing. If I had it in excess I might dabble into the frilly clothing department but most days I don't. I have a few friends though that do. Clothing is their "thing" like bikes are to us. And at first it might be easy to call them shallow, or vain, but they're not. My brother's ex who until recently was my hairstylist is a total clothes horse. She's an amazing girl. She looks like she should be a totally stuck up, conceited beyotch but she's not. She spends the bulk of discretionary income on high fashion clothing. Every time I see her what she has put on is a masterpiece. It makes her happy in the same way pink cable housing for Candy does for me.

So is $300 too much to spend on jeans? I don't know because I've come close at $200. It was a treat and the fabrics, style, and cut are brilliant. There's a reason when the designer denim trend launched that everyone else was trying to lay their pockets lower but not achieving what designer denim did.

As a seamstress I've bought Italian silk dupioni for $18 a yard wholesale and double scalloped, embroidered matte satin for $75 a yard. The good stuff isn't cheap. I say if it brings you joy, makes you happy, makes you feel good about yourself, then it's worth what it's worth to you.