So no one NEEDS a gift guide this holiday season, and in fact, I am more on the side of Simon Doonan when it comes to this whole thing, and not just because I live above a Jonathan Adler store: “People HATE gift guides, universally. I was, in point of fact, unable to find one single person who liked them, is prompted to shop by them, looked at them or even lined the cat’s litter box with them.” I almost never find anything I want in them that I didn’t hunt down myself; it kills the pleasure of the discovery phase of shopping, which is the second most enjoyable of the three shopping phases, close behind the first wear phase and well ahead of the payment phase. BUT I do believe in the healing and lasting power of accessorizing and have been bookmarking as such for months, and I figured one can’t line a cat box with a Tumblr post. So, in an effort to purge my hard drive, please enjoy my unprompted fashionish suggestions for a few bits of flair that might make good presents this year. Namely for yourself.

1) The Necklush. No jokes, this is the best scarf in the whole world. It looks and feels like cotton spaghetti, a sheep’s warmth sacrificed into tie-dyed pasta simply so you can wear it and people on the street can stop you and ask you how odd it is, and you can say “It is a very weird scarf! Thank you!” and keep heading on your hangry way towards a banh mi shop. I promise this will happen to you if you own one. Within days.

2) A mink hat: This one will do. But pretty much any consignment store where the garments of elderly Jews with no vulturous relatives are dropped off (read: Upper ____ Side) will have a hat made out of a woodland creature, and it will be both the warmest and most geriatric thing you own. Both of which I find to be essential qualities in clothing.

3) Ruffle Neck Piece: I mean. This is the sort of thing that you feel like you can’t pull off, and then you start to add it to every dress and t-shirt you own, and soon you are loving up on your neckpiece like Queen Elizabeth in heat. A MF neckpiece! But really, this is $98 and while that seems ‘spensive, it reinvents everything you own.

4) Horsehair necklace: Let’s not front like we all haven’t pretended that we were some sort of ’70s witchy woman NOT in love with Lindsay Buckingham riding off into the sunset on a dappled palomino. This just makes it official. And actually, the collaboration between Black Sheep and Prodigal Sons that brings us this equiniana is altogether fantastic.

5) Eyelash Necklace: Finally, I’m a little obsessed with all of Stephanie Simek’s “Wearables,” but none so much and so affordable($25!) as her eyelashes on a chain. I’d also recommend Dior Show but that shit costs $30 per tube and this lasts a lot longer.

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