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H&M (mini-)debuts in Dallas!

So I spent most of the morning at Northpark Center, shopping at the new H&M popup shop. Thankfully, there wasn’t much of a throng waiting to get in — certainly wasn’t crazy. I found almost all the sizes I needed, and the wait to check out wasn’t ridiculous. My biggest gripes are that the garment colors were limited to white, black, gray and red. Boo! I also need to lose about 40 pounds to get the most out of shopping there, but that’s a whole other episode of Oprah.

Anyway, I made off with two flutter-sleeve tees, two scarves, a pouf-shouldered sweater and a pack of colorful socks. That’ll tide me over until my next trip to an H&M city. The full, maxi store opens in Dallas next October. Check out my fashion snapshots!

Striped flutter-sleeve top. I'm going to pair that with jeans!

Items from the men's side of the store

What a romantic pairing -- great for a date!

I love the cut of this sweater. Too bad the store ran out of my size!!

ETA: Word has it this popup store’ll be open till Christmas, so if you didn’t check it out today, you still have time, chickadees!!

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Austin stories

So my friend, Natural Curl Girl, and I went to Austin the weekend before Halloween. Needless to say, we had a blast (but then again, I think we could have a blast in Antarctica). Anyway, just wanted to share a roundup of pics from the excursion, including eats, street style and neat places to dance on 6th Street. The latter was kind of a first for me, as I’m used to just coolly bobbing my head to the bands rockin’ out on 6th during South by Southwest. But now I have fabulous new places to kick up my heels next time I’m there … which will be during South By Southwest 2011! I got a hotel room and errything, y’all — woot WOOT! OK, enjoy the photo gallery …

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Street style

Presenting Hamilton Sneed, dashing and debonair gent, with a touch of sports swagga. Spotted at the launch party for Shirin Askari’s fall line, at elements. Loves it!