For Your Basketball Obsessed Boyfriend

Vintage Style Wake Forest Basketball Placque

For Your Quirky Friend Who Likes Mustaches

This "quirky friend" may also wear flannel, skinny jeans and plan on moving to Brooklyn post-grad.

Mustache Tote Bag

Mustache Drinking Glasses

Stainless Steel Mustache Flask

For Your Girlfriend

We have some male readers. They won't admit it, but they are out there. This post is for those guys who need help finding a little something to impress their special lady friend this Christmas.

Bauble Bar's Monogram Pendant

Print of the Winston-Salem Skyline

Antique Perfume Bottle Necklace (because you love the way she smells)

Some other tips: 

Wrapping goes a long way, plus you can pay someone to do that for you. Stuffing the item in a plastic bag from your last trip to Lowe's does not count as wrapping.

When in doubt about clothing size, pick the smaller size.

Sometimes a great date is the perfect Christmas present. Maybe think about doing a nice dinner downtown followed by one of the following:

Camel City Carriage Rides

Tanglewood Lights

A/perture Cinema

Chic Gift Guide: The Golfer in Your Life

Golf is a big part of Wake Forest culture - helloooo Arnold Palmer, Webb Simpson, Bill Haas, etc.  What should you get the Wake Forest golfer in your life? How about a nice polo from the bookstore with the logo embroidered. Try to get a dry fit shirt - this is preferable for a hot day on the golf course. 

Or maybe they need a visor to keep the sun out of their eyes?

Lastly, they might be interested in a Wake Forest golf bag. It's a pricier purchase than the others, but it could be worth it if they are in need!

Chic Gift Guide 2011

It's that time of year again! Every day during December, we will be posting a new gift idea for the Wake Forester in your life. Moms, Dads, girlfriends, boyfriends, brothers, sisters, grandparents, graduates and more ... so stay tuned if you are looking for ideas!

What does Chic Deac want for Christmas? Some more basketball wins like last night over Nebraska. So proud of the team! We're growing and getting stronger every day. Keep it up!

Zara Holiday

We love the sleeves on this dress. Immensely. 

Zara Online

YT Clothing Contest Results

We had so many incredible entries this fall for the YT Clothing Contest ... our readers are incredibly chic and stylish in their black and gold. Choosing a winner each week was no easy task, but we finally arrived at finding 5 stylish Wake Forest fans to enter into the random drawing. We assigned each of them a number in the order that they won.

Then we used an online random generator to determine an outcome.

Which was ...

Congrats to Jordan Fashimpaur, a freshman, who has been a regular reader of Chic Deac this fall. Here is her winning picture, from the very first game of the season.

Jordan, expect to hear from Chic Deac about getting your free YT Clothing Contest dress. Thanks to everyone who participated and remember to check out YT Clothing online if you are looking to buy yourself a consolation prize!

We Likey

In honor of H&M opening at Hanes Mall and the craziness surrounding their opening, we'd like to show some of our favorite pieces from their current collection. WE ARE SO HAPPY. This is a long awaited Chic Deac dream - there is finally a reason to go to Hanes Mall.

Short Satin Dress ($34.95)

Sequin Knit Cardigan ($34.95)

Imitation Suede Platforms ($49.95)

Zara is Online

Thanks to a super informed reader, we became aware that Zara now does online shopping. This is simultaneously awesome for our closet and terrible for our wallet. We are particularly hooked on this leopard shift:

and how fabulous are these black booties from their shoe collection?

Happy shopping chic ones!

YT Clothing Contest!

Here's an update from the Notre Dame game contest. We only received one submission (too much time in ZSR to focus on fashion perhaps?) but it's okay, because this would have been the winner anyways. This email was sent out by Desiree Sanchis to several listservs, and we actually got it forwarded to us THREE times. This group of girls studying abroad took a photo of themselves ready for battle in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. 

THIS is what we call being true to your school, chic ones!

Congrats to Desiree for being entered into the YT Clothing contest. There is only one more submission opportunity this weekend with the Maryland game, so start planning your look now!

Retail Therapy

It's hard to remember a more painful Wake Forest football game than this past weekend's matchup against Clemson. I mean that was just really, really painful. Part of me is proud that we were ahead of the No. 9 team in the country at one point, and another is just wishing that we had never been teased into thinking we could win. Disappointment and frustration categorize our post-game feelings that we are continuing to wallow in. 

The only cure is retail therapy and looking ahead to next weekend's game against Maryland. So, we obviously turned to Anthropologie for the healing powers their cute clothes contain. We were excited to stumble upon the most perfect Wake Forest dress that EVER existed:

The velvet piping, the fluted shape. We are in love. Find it here.

J.Crew Jacquard

Holiday parties are just around the corner. Christmas Cocktail or New Year's Eve anyone? Try this J.Crew Jacquard dress on for size. It's a classic shape with a sparkly twist. We love the skinny belt around the waist. Check it out here on the J.Crew website.

Game of the Century

According to this morning's edition of the Wall Street Journal, we are about to witness the premier showdown of the college football season. (LSU and Bama who?)

Read the article here and enjoy our latest Keep Calm poster!

Cozy Sweaters

As the weather has gotten a little bit chillier out, we've been thinking about getting some great cozy winter sweaters. We love the black Campana sweater on the left for the sheer comfort factor it exudes. In fact, we think it should only be worn when one has their favorite warm winter beverage in hand (coffee, tea or cocoa). We are dying to have the sweater on the right. The cut keeps the figure trim, but the felt and wool will surely keep you toasty.

YT Clothing Contest!

The contest is still going on for an amazing YT Clothing dress. Here are our latest submissions and we will have two winners today because we are catching up from FSU and VA Tech. 

Laura Jurotich and friends at the FSU game

 Our winner: Katie Imhoff. We love all of the shades of black and gold in this picture, plus the amazing prints. Congrats, Katie! You will be entered as one of six readers to win a YT Clothing dress at the end of the season. 

Blackout for the Va Tech Homecoming Game submitted by Kaley Pellingra

Alums in Black and Gold submitted by Meghan Haenn gets bonus points for having a boy in it   - this may be a first. 

Laura Jurotich and friends at Va Tech - so cute!

Our Homecoming winner: Pamela Bunten. How could we not pick this picture?? The sun is shining, the girl has on old gold which is a hard color to find and they've perfected the skinny arm.

Remember to take your pictures this week at Notre Dame. You can stay stylish and warm at the same time! Submit them via Facebook message, as a Twit pic (@chicdeacstyle) or by email (chicdeacstyle@gmail.com).

Staying Chic and Warm

How can you stay chic and warm this Saturday? Here's one look we've been thinking about trying: a chic wool cape. Lots of celebs have been spotted and we think it could be great paired with some skinny jeans, boots and a fab bright scarf. 

Image Courtesy of People Style Watch

So we had to try and find our own cape. We turned to Polyvore, one of our favorite online fashion tools. Essentially, it's the e-version of paper dolls with clothes that you can actually buy online. 

Check out our set to see where you can buy each of these pieces. Go Deacs, Beat ND!

Moving on from a Sad Loss

Being beat by Carolina is never good, but being beat by such a large margin has made moving on extra painful. We're looking forward to this weekend's match up against Notre Dame and are obviously brainstorming some cold weather outfits for our chic readers. Stay tuned throughout the week, chic ones! 

Something warm:


Something warmer:

J.Crew Wonderland Puffer

Reversible Chevron and Gold Clutch

Combining our love of chevron and gold. Too perfect for words. 

Chevron Reversible Clutch from Hammocks & High Tea

as seen on The Daily Spark from Matchbook Magazine

Keep Calm, Deacs

For your enjoyment, courtesy of the Keep Calm-o-matic generator.

LC

We've always been a fan of Lauren Conrad's, just by nature of the fact that we were never a fan of Kristin Cavallari's. We even decided to share with you a YouTube video someone dedicated to Kristin and Stephen's love to remind you of why you should like Lauren Conrad. And so that you can listen to Hilary Duff's "Come Clean." You know you want to. 

Sidenote: Who has the time to make video tributes to long lost MTV teen reality shows? Oh, right. Probably the same type of people who blog about fashionable school color finds.

All of this to say, LC has a line at Kohl's. And some of it is actually kind of cute. 

Check it out if you have some time. 

xoxo,

TEAM LC 4 LYFE.

Hey!

This (above) reminds us of some girls we know (below).