When we see you on the street and think you put some thought into your style, we may take your picture and ask you things. See previous installations in the Street Style archive.

It was a great night for people watching and spotting some eclectic looks at the latest House Of Plates project: Hari Mari & the Factory Show. Check out the ensembles that caught our eye.

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You're only looking at her flip flops.

I just had a party flashback.

Remember the sweaty bash House of Plates threw last summer at the F.O.E.? Of course you do. All of Dallas was there doing Jell-o shots, playing beach volleyball against a team of Cold War Rocky-style ringers, and watching as models paraded around in adorable vintage outfits. Then, we all made out. That was a great day.

Man, remember that party House of Plates threw at the Motorcycle Clubhouse with Warby Parker last winter? Of course you do. I took a picture with you in the photo booth immediately after you arm wrestled a hard-scrabbled Harley enthusiast, chugged jungle punch and drunk shopped your way through a tricked-out school bus. Then, we all made out. That was a great night.

So, are you going to that House of Plates party this Saturday? The one co-sponsored by Hari Mari, your favorite flip flop company? Of course you are: You're a reasonable, thinking human. The Factory Show features a runway filled with looks by Ten Over Six and Original Octane, music by Catamaran and DJ Chriis, an open bar and a strong likelihood of us all making out, again. Plates and Hari Mari take over 2625 Main Street from 8 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, a perfect excuse to dodge the way-too-fratty Cinco de melee happening everywhere else. RSVP here or be sad.

It's free.

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The Dallas Opera has been keeping the identity of its new Music Director under top-secret lockdown. While waiting for the big reveal, we started daydreaming about this newest addition to Dallas' classical music scene and compiling a wish list.

The big reveal came yesterday at TDO's Winspear offices. After sitting down with TDO's new conductor, we're excited and hopeful. Here's our wish list, Monsieur:

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All photos by Catherine Downes

Perched atop Bolsa in Oak Cliff is a magical workspace called House of MacGregor, a five-year-old specialty hat store run by local milliner Cassie MacGregor. On a recent afternoon, women shuffle in and out, many with small children clinging to their legs, and then leave clutching massive boxes that seem to defy gravity. Some swing them by their strings and some cradle them in their arms, but no matter how they choose to support these delicate paper crates, their faces glow.

Inside sits MacGregor. She's young and charming, radiating a glittery energy that manifests in every hat she sews. Her little shop has a treehouse vibe, and when inside you feel a natural willingness to celebrate life's little excesses.

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Photos by Amanda Potter

When we see you on the street and think you put some thought into your style, we may take your picture and ask you things. See previous installations in the Street Style archive.

It was hard to miss this denim-clad woman brunching at Garden Cafe this weekend. With the gorgeous weather, Meghan was all about the winter/spring fashion transition. (See the whole ensemble below.)

Name: Meghan Sadler
Age: 24
Occupation: Graphic Designer
Spotted At: Garden Cafe
Style Influences: "Kinfolk Magazine and The Satorialist are my go-to sites for inspiration."
Style Breakdown: Denim shirt by Anthropologie, sandals by Steve Madden (thrifted), sunglasses by Ruche, scarf found at Macy's, watch from Urban Outfitters.

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Stephen Masker

If you knowing in you're going to make an ass out of yourself, you might as well accentuate that ass: That's the apparent conclusion the folks above came to Saturday on Greenville Avenue, where Dallas drunkenly did its thing.

You can see slideshows from the parade and our Snoop Dogg concert, and some dispatches from that concert. For now, though, settle in for some of the day's more interesting fashion choices.

Spot something weirder? Send it our way and we'll include it.

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Oh yeah. Being shaped like a giant-beer-gutted man totally makes you feel like wearing white pants.

I bought something from A Pea In The Pod recently, because I'm making a person and I need making-a-person clothes. When you check out at the register at this place, before they let you pay for their super expensive clothing, they ask you a shit ton of questions that may or may not include: the birth date of your soon-to-be-child, your email address, your favorite color, your Social Security Number and whether or not you like cheese pizza and Ryan Gosling.

And then you get home and you start getting all these A Pea In The Pod emails. Most of them suggest outfits for your new, temporarily weird-shaped body.

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Catherine Downes

A sign of recovery in the retail market or a misallocation of funds? It's a bit unclear, but the after-hours shopping phenomenon Fashion's Night Out has been canceled for 2013, nationwide.

Vogue brought it to fruition in 2009 as a way to encourage shoppers to spend, despite the economic collapse -- and to give a bit of blue chip protection to the fashion industry, as a whole. The event was embraced by retailers, designers and style-conscious media sites across the country and raised more than 1.5 million dollars for the New York City AIDS Fund. Here in Dallas, it had become a favorite holiday/full-contact sport filled with runway shows, giveaways and after parties. Still, there were consenting whispers that 2012's affair showed lower attendance than in years' past.

Over its half-decade run, Fashion's Night Out became a recognized fete in more than 500 US cities and 30 global markets. In yesterday's public announcement, FNO confirmed that America will not play a roll in the 2013 installment, and all reference made towards Fashion's Night Out was done in the past tense. Vogue will, however, continue marketing the annual event in 19 international cities, and encourages U.S. retailers to redirect funds spent promoting FNO into bankrolling their own points of immediate need.

As Dallas' artists explore the city's more transitional areas, we see the lovely visual byproducts created by their friction. Just in the last year, patchy spots on each side of the bridge were commandeered for quick exhibitions -- In Cooperation With Muscle Nation and Art Con repurposed a Dragon Street warehouse, while Dead White Zombies challenged the address quo in Trinity Groves.

But until Saturday's Pin Show, an annual runway project, nobody had teetered quite so far on the edge of the cultural surface tension by also luring in Dallas' fashion elite. I wasn't sure how it would go. Baiting that crowd usually requires a floating catwalk and a luxury hotel. But not last weekend. Julie McCullough and her team beckoned them across the bridge (albeit, the nice bridge) and into an abandoned warehouse with the simple promise of a professional caliber runway offering. And you know what? They delivered.

Know what else? I like watching floor-length furs drag through West Dallas parking lots.

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See this? Now imagine the opposite.

"I'm not going to fight with the room," says Pin Show Executive Producer Julie McCullough. She's explaining her newly targeted plan for this year's massive fashion fête, happening on Saturday, February 23, and its exciting departure from the ordinary. "I don't want to pageant it up."

In 2012, we found ourselves absorbing Pin at the Fairmont Hotel, immersed in easy luxury -- chandeliers dripped lavishly from above as a formal runway jettisoned out. It was a highly-structured display. This year, models will hoof down the concrete floor of a West Dallas warehouse, heels clacking over the hum of generators.

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