A beignet (pronounced "beign-yay") is a pastry made from deep-fried dough and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Beignets are often found in, and typically associated with, the city of New Orleans, in places like Café Du Monde in the French Quarter.

If you ever go to Café Du Monde, you should get an order of beignets with extra powdered sugar, pretend to have to sneeze and then blow the powdered sugar all over your little brother or sister. They'll hate it, but you'll thoroughly enjoy yourself. And when they grow up, they'll pass the tradition along to their kids.

"Beign-Yay" is a Storyville Original, designed by LSU alumna Elizabeth Harvey and William & Mary student Bailey Thomson and Texas State student Sara Ruffin.

The t-shirt is modeled by LSU students Philip Piediscalzo, Monique Harris, Charlotte Cox, Casey Gioia and Max Zoghbi. The photos of Charlotte were taken by Jeff Roedel and the photos of Max and Casey were taken by Josh Harvey. There's also a couple photos of Jonathan Pretus of Cowboy Mouth wearing the "Beign-Yay" tee while performing at the 2009 Storyville Fashion Show in Baton Rouge. These photos were taken by Kim Foster of LSU's The Daily Reveille. The photo of Monique modeling the "Beign-Yay"dress during the 2009 Fashion in the Park Fashion Show in New Orleans was taken by Lawles Bourque.

"Beign-Yay" is printed on a forest green-colored, 100% cotton American Apparel tee with white and gold inks. Click here to see "Beign-Yay" on an infant one piece.

A beignet (pronounced "beign-yay") is a pastry made from deep-fried dough and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Beignets are often found in, and typically associated with, the city of New Orleans, in places like Café Du Monde in the French Quarter.

If you ever go to Café Du Monde, you should get an order of beignets with extra powdered sugar, pretend to have to sneeze and then blow the powdered sugar all over your little brother or sister. They'll hate it, but you'll thoroughly enjoy yourself. And when they grow up, they'll pass the tradition along to their kids.

"Beign-Yay" is a Storyville Original, featuring artwork by LSU alumna Elizabeth Harvey. The "Beign-Yay" concept was the product of Texas State student Sara Ruffin and William & Mary student Bailey Thomson.

"Beign-Yay" is printed on a grass green-colored, 100% cotton American Apparel Infant One Piece with white and gold inks. Click here to see "Beign-Yay" on a t-shirt.]]> Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:49:04 +0000 http://www.wearyourstory.com/fleur-de-lis-blackout.html

Back in the Spring of 2007, LSU student Jesse Wong hand drew this fleur-de-lis for Storyville. At the time, Storyville was one of several local businesses that were used as "clients" of Professor Rod Parker's senior graphic design course. Storyville lucked out and was assigned to the student team of Jesse Wong, Brandon Jantz and Mary-Margaret Shread (collectively known as Mixed Nuts).

Nearly two years later, Jesse is in Brooklyn, Mary-Margaret is in College Station and Brandon is in Dallas. But many of the graphics that were created in that LSU classroom have already been incorporated into the Storyville shops and website. And here's another one -- "Fleur-de-lis Blackout", a Storyville Original.

Fleur de lis Blackout is printed on an ultra lightweight poly-cotton blend American Apparel track shirt with gold ink. This tri-blend tee shirt is available exclusively in Storyville and is modeled by LSU student James Knobloch as well as University of Texas at Austin students Joel Rajan, Ashley Berwick and Christina Tran. There's also a photo of Red Stick Roller Derby Girl Sigourney Morrison wearing the t-shirt during the 2009 Storyville Fashion Show in Baton Rouge (photo by Kim Foster). Finally, there are a couple photos of Alicia Schulz modeling the Fleur-de-lis Blackout dress during the 2009 Fashion in the Park fashion show in New Orleans. These photos were taken by Timothy Pham of Studio Pham and Lawles Bourque.

Go here to see the infant one piece version of Fleur-de-lis Blackout. Click here to see more Storyville Originals.

Storyville's hit tee Fleur-de-lis Blackout gets small, making for an adorable new, tiny one piece.

Fleur de lis Blackout Infant One Piece is a Storyville Original, featuring a fleur-de-lis hand drawn by LSU graduate Jesse Wong. This Storyville Exclusive is printed on a black, 100% cotton American Apparel infant one piece with metallic gold ink, and is available in four sizes. Go here to see more Storyville Originals.

Click here to see the grown up version of Fleur-de-lis Blackout.

Storyville's signature fleur-de-lis makes its way onto a lemon-colored one piece with purple ink. This item is screen printed by hand in the Storyville Print Shop.

Fleur de lis Tiger Lemon One Piece is modeled by eight-month-old Caden Fontana. Caden is not included with the purchase of this one piece.

This item is a Storyville Original, featuring a fleur-de-lis hand drawn by LSU graduate Jesse Wong. This Storyville Exclusive infant one piece is printed on a gender neutral lemon-colored, 100% cotton American Apparel baby one piece with purple ink, and is available in four sizes. Go here to see more Storyville Originals.

Back in the Spring of 2007, LSU student Jesse Wong hand drew this fleur-de-lis for Storyville. At the time, Storyville was one of several local businesses that were used as "clients" of Professor Rod Parker's senior graphic design course. Storyville lucked out and was assigned to the student team of Jesse Wong, Brandon Jantz and Mary-Margaret Shread (collectively known as Mixed Nuts).

Nearly two years later, Jesse is in Brooklyn, Mary-Margaret is in College Station and Brandon is in Dallas. But many of the graphics that were created in that LSU classroom have already been incorporated into the Storyville shops and website. And here's another one -- "Fleur-de-lis Indigo Eclipse", a Storyville Original.

"Fleur de lis Indigo Ecplise" is printed on an indigo-colored, ultra lightweight 50% cotton, 25% polyester, 25% rayon American Apparel track shirt with metallic silver ink. This tee shirt is available exclusively in Storyville, and is modeled by University of Texas at Austin student and Longhorn Model finalist Danielle Burgess. There's also a photo of Loyola University student Ashleigh Barice modeling the dress version of this design during the 2009 Fashion in the Park fashion show. This photo was taken by Lawles Bourque.

Go here to see this item's sister tee -- Fleur-de-lis Blackout. And click here to see more Storyville Originals.