The Hot Italian
First things first: I am very observant, especially when it comes to my surroundings. I’ve driven down 16th Street in Sacramento for essentially my entire life and while the landscape has changed drastically in the past 30 years, certain landmarks have always stood out to me.
My first memories of this street are with my parents when I was a young child. We would eat dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory almost weekly and the drive from our house in Land Park was basically a straight shot. On the way I’d look for The Fuller Poles, a series of brightly colored rainbow poles outside what is now Bloodsource but was a paint store back then.
My next landmark was this giant cowboy sculpture with a man trying to lasso a bull. What mostly stood out to me was how creepy the bull looked with these bright red eyes that would illuminate at night. The sculpture is long gone from 16th and K but you can now find it on display at The Crocker Art Museum!
Anyway my point with these two references is that I’ve been down 16th Street a gazillion times so I’m pretty familiar with it by now! Long story short a few months back I noticed that the white wall outside of Hot Italian on 16th and Q Streets got a facelift. The existing facade has always been trapezoids but suddenly they were now painted black and white to emphasize the shapes! Exciting stuff, right?
So a few months pass and I have this wall in the back of my mind. While browsing online at some jewelry I discovered the brand Area Stars. They just so happened to have a pair of earrings that instantly reminded me of the trapezoid wall. Obviously now I HAD to do a match with it, even though it’s just wall and not a mural.
I chose this dress from Anthropologie (seen below) because I didn’t want a patterned dress to compete with the simplicity of the wall. The dress itself is a perfect LBD mixed with a LWD!
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