(By Babe Scanlon) When the heat hits San Francisco -- as it did yesterday, and how --two of our favorite street styles appear. One, the woman wearing a sun dress. She looks uncomfortable, and sort of stunned, about her unusual level of public nakedness. It makes sense. We too own sun dresses that sit in our closet, waiting for the one hot day in San Francisco to come out. Yet when that day comes?......

Photo by Jeremy Brooks So, dear readers, where do we stand on Bluetooth ear pieces? Sure, the Summer's Eve set is prone to wearing them now--which at least prevents them from doing that constant ear-to-mouth cell phone shifting thing while they talk--but we think they have a future of being seen as chic. And at the risk of sounding too gay, we would wear one made by Hermes or Paul Frank. What say you?......

Kaffiyehs: yes or no? Highly obsessed with dark prints these days, we say yes--more so to the black-and-white ones. ...

Orange is the new black, apparently. During the off-season, the San Jose Sharks unveiled an updated logo, team colors, and new uniforms. The biggest change is the addition of orange to teal, black, and white, replacing silver as the highlight color. ...

Okay, so when we first saw this store open on our beloved 4th Street in Berkeley, we were horrified. Judging a book entirely by its cover, we wouldn't even go near the place. Napa Style. Seriously? Like, can't we just drive to Napa and buy stuff? We need it packaged, sorted, and Disneyfied for us? This had to be a tourist trap. We, even when we travel, never ever consider ourselves a tourist. Sniff.......

The "!" is because we've been out of town and we're so, so excited to be back. So, it looks like folks are settling nicely into the new comments system. While we appreciate those of you making "guest" comments as well, we especially appreciate those of you that are taking the time to register. The Top 5 for last week were:...

Got your ruching done? Better hope so, because Tim Gunn's coming to town! Everybody's favorite Project Runway mentor is in the area on Friday and Saturday to promote his new book Tim Gunn: A Guide To Quality, Taste, And Style, which covers topics like: how to shop (broken down into designer, chain, and vintage), creating your own personal style, and even how to improve your posture. ("I don't know. I just don't love it," we......

Our most sincere thank-yous to Socialite Rank for posting this photo of Victoria Traina. The first word that comes to mind is something our good friend passed along to us, from the New York Times Style magazine: ...

--> Kimberly Guilfoyle and Eric Villency on the runway at the Dressed to Kilt fashion show in New York. Wow, this is really tragic. But these two are so unnaturally perfect, and scarily equal in their quest for fame and self-promotion, that we'll give them a pass. Plus, we just saw some chick on the street wearing a pair of pants in a similar tartan, and she looked pretty fierce. PS: Is it just......

Socialite Rank awarded Victoria Traina "Chic of the Week" for the Christian Lacroix Haute Couture dress she wore to the opening of the Vivienne Westwood exhibition at the de Young Museum. She also made Vogue's 10 Best Dressed this week on Style.com. Congrats, bitch! ...

We don't think she's pregs, but here's a picture of Vanessa Getty at Armani Privé in LA wearing the most glamorous maternity dress EVAH!...

Last month's winner, San Francisco Magazine: Cover: Spring '07 Style Forecast. Is it just us, or does the model on the cover look a whole lot like Carmen Electra? Sadly, it's not, but we love the orange Prada dress she's sporting. Short Stories: spring's super-short dresses are fabulous, and inspire us to do more squats. (But we think we'll stick to knee-length, because the world has seen enough hoo ha lately to last a lifetime.) href="http://sanfranmag.com/home/view_story/1534">Deconstructing Eco-chic: Tips on how to dress green, and still look good. Style Counsel: An interview with Mellisa Ceria, the founder of ShareYourLook.com, a personal style website for anybody too shy to ask a stranger, "Cute bag. Where did you get it?" Not that anybody ever asks us that every day. ...

One of our spies spotted model Gemma Ward hopping into a downtown Walgreens yesterday. Gemma was in SF for Fashion Week Live last night at Fort Mason. Their description of Gemma was priceless: "She looked like a homeless person. She's really skinny, and she was wearing a stocking cap in 70 degree weather." ...

Oh, so Jennifer Siebel is that kind of girl: the kind that doesn't like other girls. People are abuzz about the comments that Gavin Newsom's current companion made in what was otherwise a kind of fluffy throwaway interview in the Sunday Style section of the Chronicle -- where she lashed out at people criticizing her man's behavior with the wife of his campaign aide by saying, "the woman is the culprit.." Oh, nice. Here's the......

Kimberly Guilfoyle and her mocialite husband, Eric Villency, at the Michael Kors Fall 2007 fashion show. Who do you think is wearing more makeup?...

Gavin's BFF, Vanessa Getty, looked fabulous at artist Damien Hirst's show in LA last Thursday. This is a signature look for Vanessa -- vintage-looking dress, simple jewelry, and metallic clutch -- but it works. Too bad she didn't look this good in that Judith Leiber ad! ...

We know we've been talking about the Traina sisters quite a bit lately, but we can't help but comment on the mostly fierce but somewhat questionable fashion sense of the closest thing we'll ever have to the Hilton sisters. (Even though the Traina girls, like, hate being compared to the Hiltons.) This is another photo from New York Fashion Week, and, frankly, we're at a loss for words. ...

The other Vanessa socialite, Vanessa Traina, showed up to New York Fashion Week looking very chic but a kinda rexy. Maybe she should stop hanging out with the Olsen twins? By SFist Elaine Photo from Style.com......

Victoria Traina and Danielle Steel at New York Fashion Week. Team Traina! Picture from Style.com By SFist Elaine......

Okay, so what do we have for today's giveaway? Hmmm.....let's see here (SFist reaches into a hat to pull out slips of paper), it's a skirt by Pronk Style, the Wake up Happy skirt. And we would say that this gift would only be of interest to the ladies in the house but this is San Francisco. ...

Who Wrote the Book of Tea - free public lecture by Norwood Pratt (we don't know if he has a charming British accent, but with a name like that, he so should) hosted by the Book Club of California. Pratt talks tea history, literature and lore. He is currently compiling an Encyclopedia of Tea. Pratt's lecture is preceded by teatime from 5 to 7pm at 312 Sutter St., Suite 510 (at Bush). CSS In Practice:......

The -ists this week had politics on the brain. And what goes better with politics? Partying-- that's two great tastes in one. Oh, and Kevin Federline...can't forget about Kevin Federline. That's three great tastes in one. -Bostonist discussed two big state issues-- what sort of math constitutes a marriage and what kind of alcohol can be sold in most grocery stores. And the politically minded Curt Schilling went on "Jeopardy!". ...

The only two things Gavin Newsom is required to do as the mayor of San Francisco are 1) propose a budget and 2) give an annual speech about the State Of The City. Gay marriage, gelling and ungelling his hair, and gadding about town are all entirely optional! Newsom fulfilled item number 2 today at Philip and Sala Burton High, in an hour-long speech (full text), where he announced, among other things: his new......

Last week, somebody gave us a copy of the new 7x7 magazine and once we saw it, couldn't resist opening it up to take a look. How could you not resist any sort of "Hot 20 Under 40" articles. We love those kinds of stories! Is there anything more interesting and important than reading about what is hot? Especially about what is hot here in the city? Because as 7x7 says, "While celebrity culture generally favors the very rich or the very gorgeous it's different here. Style itself counts for only half in SF: You've got to have substance too." So who are these hot people? Do we know any of them? How does one become hot? Are we hot? ...

You know how much we love it when we get email from people who don't seem to to give SFist that close a read. In fact, we spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to figure out what might have inspired a particular email. Then again, the more time we spend trying to unravel the mysteries of odd email, like the one below, the less time we spend trashing Muni. From: REDACTED To: editor@sfist.com Date:......

God, we're so sick of Snakes on a Plane that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this weeks' Gothamist network post. Austinist makes it easy for us, with Candidate on......

What's a hottie with a body, a good personality and an ivy league education have to do to find a husband these days? Well, if you're an Iranian-American Jew (or really any Americanized member of an immigrant group), the answer is plenty. Love Iranian-American Style (Ed note: we'd link to the film itself, but the SFJFF site won't let us. We hate that!) played at the 26th Annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival on Saturday......

When we first moved to San Francisco, we lived in a teensy-weensy little basement apartment that was so small we could only have two people over at a time. Plus, it had a carpet that bore a distinct resemblance to a putting green. This was very embarrassing the time our college roommate was in town, invited her ex-boyfriend to hang out, and in the course of the extremely awkward conversation as he looked around our place with thinly-veiled horror, he revealed that he had made millions off some (now-defunct) dot-com and had bought an "estate" (his words, not ours) in the South Bay. Needless to say, in light of that story, you will not be surprised to see that the remainder of this entry is not directed at us. If you have low rent and a cute place (lucky you!), that HGTV show Small Space Big Style wants to drop by! Small Space Big Style is scouting for San Francisco locations for next season, and if you're interested in applying, click here for more information. Spaces must be under 1000 sq. feet but can be apartments, houses, houseboats, yurts, or any other type of living space, as long as it's under 1000 square feet. Ideally, you'll have something kinda funky about your place too, like everything is made of hemp, or it used to be a bordello. They will not redo your place for you; it needs to already be "big style" to be featured. If you also have a weird putting green carpet in your place, you should definitely apply. We never figured out what to do with that aspect of our old place. ...

Remember when Gavin the Good went off to Chicago and instead of raving about what most people rave about in Chicago-- Old Style and brats-- he raved about how green it was and how there were trees everywhere and how wood nymphs wearing Bears jerseys merrily danced along the shores of the lake? And remember how he came back and went all Johnny Appleseed on us and talked about how he wanted to plant more trees here? Well, the deadline for the first round of tree planting (5,000 trees by March) is fast approaching. In fact, trees have already been planted in SOMA and the Tenderloin, something that should make all the crack whores happy because it'll give them some shelter when it rains. ...

Welcome, children, to a very special Halloween episode of the Trimethyldioxypurist. We have an update, an experiment, and a couple reviews of some coffee beans....