Dash & Albert Rug Company

Dash is taking a particularly long nap today, so what better timing for my first guest post? I keep waiting for Oprah to offer me a regular column in O Magazine. But my phone never rings. I don’t have an opposable thumb anyway, so even if she did call, I couldn’t seal the deal, which is an additional bummer. So I'll take my fame and fortune where I can get it.

I'm Daisy, Dash's pal and fellow D&A spokesdog. And I have some very strong feelings when it comes to aesthetics, friends.

Here at the office, our simple-minded humans are always leafing through style magazines on their lunch breaks. I’ve got three major problems with this:

1) the magazines discriminate against the Furred & Fabulous

2) as cute as our humans may be, any creature that craves high heels has to be functioning pretty low on the evolutionary scale

3) the fact that our humans take “lunch breaks.” Any being with decent brain capacity knows that the greatest joy of living is in eating all day, every day (a garbage can full of fabulous, edible treasures is a terrible thing to waste).

Poor humans!

They’ve already got so much going against them, it seems criminal for anyone to take advantage of them by making magazines that reel them in like that. Sometimes Dash and I catch them actually drooling over the pictures. It’s all terribly, terribly sad.

But the Furred & Fabulous community could do with the occasional decent canine couture and doghouse décor report (a sensational collar and a terrific snuggly rug are just the beginning!).

So from time to time I look forward to reporting here on the smartest, savviest style for the Furred & Fabulous (and for the unfurred humans who love us).

Here are some basics to get you started on your quest for Furred Fabulousness:

Daisy's Dog Fashion Do’s, Don’ts, Ins and Outs: The Basics

DO:

Lounge on home furnishings that coordinate well with your fur. Great rugs can help with this.

DO:

Accept your body type. Accentuate the positives, play down the negatives. (Dachshunds, celebrate those long, lean torsos! Great Danes, stand up nice and tall! Your countersurfing skills make you the envy of all sorts of shorter canines. Embrace your essential furry selves.)

DON'T:

Belts. Bad news. Don't even think about it. Stick with collars.

IN THE DOGGIE DOOR:

Jewel-studded collars.

Burberry-inspired raincoats.

Woolly squeaky toys.

SO OUT THE DOGGIE DOOR:

Webbed collars and leashes.

Dog cologne. Ew.

Grease-inspired "Pink Lady" jackets. Hide in the closet if you must, but do not leave the house in one of these.