soy loca por ti

 

top & shoes: vintage 
shorts & belt: topshop 
cat totebag: paul and joe 
lentes: target 

I can't afford to travel across the world at the moment. So what's the next best thing? Discovering new parts of your own town. Chicago always has these little bits of Mexico that take me back there. Though on the other hand it does feel like MX on these unrelenting summer days. I recently just discovered this gem of a building across the street from Taqueria Traspasada. When I'm chowing down on tacos and sipping on Topo Chico (sparkling water) I like to stare out the window and imagine a world where this place was a popular spot for all the big hair and cat eye wearing Prima Donnas in the late 60s early 70s. I fantasize about everyone being serenaded by Elizabeth as she sings "Soy Loca Por Ti" while young couples dance cheek to cheek. I wonder what happened to this place, it's so big a grand....Its sad to see such a beautiful building go to waste, but I also find myself attracted to the hollowness of this dead building. It really is beautiful. As for me, you can see that I'm still channeling the 90s, and though I'm not cray about midriffs (I'm also not cray for the word "cray") I think they can still be playful, when it's just a taste and not a three course meal ;(

pasteles

(what I'm wearing, mint button down: lush, pink jaqueta: vintage, shorts & belt: topshop, granny shoes: thrift)

Despite being a vegeterian I would like to go on the record and say I LOVE FOOD, I really do. Sometimes I find the best food from the smallest "hole in the wall" resturants. One of my faves right now is this little joint by my house called Taco Jr. This place is only three tables and a counter, BUT THEY ARE THE BEST TACOS THIS SIDE OF THE BORDER. Or at least in Chicago. I try not to be fooled by fancy fanfare at hip establishments, I want food made by the heart for the soul. There is this really hip hip hip place in wicker park (chicago's minute version of brklyn) called Big Star, there's a line outside the restaurant for like 6 hrs A DAY since it opened a few years ago. But they have gotten sloppy and prideful, and too expensive for tacos!

Taco jr caters to me, especially since I basically go there every other day. They even invented a vegetarian taco just for me! I was thinking about going over there today (or sushi...hmmm) and it reminded me of this look I never got to post from this summer. I'm so miami vice! I was on my way to comic con too..haha! I love pastels, I can't wait to rock them this winter. Who else is thinking of doing all pastels this winter?

happy hump day...do the humpty dance