Pink Rock Candy – Top fashion trends, news and shopping of 2010

I randomly still get the Alloy catalog that I subscribed to back in my pre-millennial heyday of Airwalks and Hanson. For time to time I get really bored and go through it. Yesterday was one such time, and oddly enough Alloy has sort of lost the skater/surfer vibe I remember it having back in “the day,” not that I’m complaining.

The vibe is fairly boho— I think I hate that term— with a splash of hipster and, is almost like a less expensive version of Free People.

Oddly enough, I found myself marking multiple pages in the catalog with intent of looking them up on Alloy.com, strange, considering the catalog itself is meant to be a medium for shopping at home.

One of the items I marked was this overly charmed, tribal style ‘Belize’ necklace ($24.50).

I’m drawn to it simply because it has a lot of stuff on it, and it sort of looks like a necklace made of crap someone randomly collected over the years. It’s really fun, and is one of those pieces you’d see on the neck of some music festivalgoer under the influence of one or more unknown opiates— an obvious inspiration of style, no?