For me, this outfit is tres Americaine. I mean, where else can you reference the Old West wearing little more than a pair of hot pink short shorts, a bolo tie, fake turquoise jewelry, and ankle cowboy booties? I was feeling a bit Spaghetti Western meets Trailer Park. And a boat-load of attitude can pull off wearing a pair of shorts this bright and short on a pair of stout forty-plus year old stems. I'm telling you, only in America, folks, only in America. The thing I love about the mythos of Americana is its crooning love song to rugged individuality and iconoclasm that rides us off into the sunset. Which by the way often contains the color of these pants. 
Now Wearing: - checkered kerchief, thrifted
- cheap sunglasses
- vintage bolo tie, thrifted
- black tee
- leather cuff, Fringe
- costume turquoise ring, Anika Burke
- Guess short shorts, the Goodwill boutique
- vintage '80's western booties
- manifest destiny
Characters abound in America, and I saw the best of them in full force at aBows + Arrows party last week. Here are a few of my faves:
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