A Cat From Outer Space?

Nine lives and three cheers for Leo Capezio!

Everybody needs a home on this planet.  Leo Capezio may or may not have come from the Feline World of the Striped, Domestripedcattus, here to Danny's Warehouse's backyard, where the alley is.  Since he came to us at the gate asking for a home, we were sure he was on Earth to stay.  Here, he is considered an American Shorthair, aka. a Tabby. 

Finely striped.

 

We weren’t sure about him at first: friend or foe?  An alien cat should always be observed first! 

It turns out he is a leader of his clowder, but became separated because he chose to hang out at Danny’s Warehouse and be called Leo (short for Leotard) Capezio instead of his original name we will never know because it is not to be spoken.  None of his mates wanted to loiter among leotards, dance clothes, and costumes like he does, so they left him here.

He's a rebel.

We saw his glowing, generally happy disposition, atypical for Earthlings of his species and we enthusiastically received his company.  

Good looking and happy; the whole package!

He is welcomed by all the humans and a can of food whenever he decides to show up, which is about 2-3 times per week. 

Wet food is his favorite.

Leo(tard) Capezio manages to get food from our alley neighbors down the way, he must eat a lot!

At the time of his visits, he has a “stupidizing” effect on people.  The closer a human gets to him, the lower the IQ of the human becomes, so that when one is close enough, the speech of the affected human is high-pitched and nonsensical.  Here is a chart that shows this from http://xkcd.com/231/ :  

The rest of the time he is doing who-knows-what wherever, but as long as he continues to visit, we will love him.  If you know where his Earth family is, send us a signal and let us know : )

A Post, Post Earth Day

Yesterday, the 22 of April, was International Earth Day.  Here at Danny’s Warehouse, we try to make efforts everyday in celebration of Earth.  All our actions pertaining to the business are carefully thought out, the goal being to minimize our impact to the environment.

We all know by just living on Earth and going about our daily lives, there is a certain amount of wear and tear on Earth that is to be expected.  One of the best things we can do is to be aware of how much you are impacting the environment and to try to minimize the damage we all make as individuals.

When you BYOBags to Danny's Warehouse, somewhere a plastic tree smiles.

I am not referring to the consumerist “green” movement, which is basically “buy this product to save the planet”.  That is a marketing tool to sell things.  Here at Danny’s, we are genuinely concerned about minimizing our impact, which is why we encourage our customers to bring reusable bags (we gave up plastic bags years ago!). 

Our lonely recycling bin said farewell to friend, Trash bin, two years ago.

Where broken hangers and plastic go to await revitalization.

 We also run on 100% recycling, helping locals in our community collect cardboard and plastic.  Sometimes our backyard gets stacked up pretty high with boxes, but then again, that’s when we know it’s time to call Jesus. 

Time to call Jesus!

We had all of our warehouse lighting replaced recently, and now we run on energy-efficient LED bulbs, they look great, too. 

Lights over the TuTu Tree.

All of our office supplies are sustainable products when possible, and we reuse shoeboxes to ship our customers your fabulous dance apparel!  Last, but not least, most of the staff here are vegan (our favorite local restaurants are Native Foods and The Grain Café) or vegetarians (whilst here, anyway!) and 2/5ths drive Prii (plural of a Prius, lol) and another 2/5ths carpool. We even carpool our shipments here to Los Angeles, hitchhiking leotards and all our other dance apparel on trucks that are already headed over here, piggyback- style. Because we give a hoot!  Green is a lifestyle, NOT a fad!

Danny's Warehouse clothes the stars!

Here at Danny's Warehouse, we like to brag.  We like to brag about our customers, our prices, our merchandise, and our excellent customer service.  It's quite difficult to be humble when the store is abuzz with excitement everyday; exclamations about how amazing the prices, the quality, the selection, etc...  A sort of pride builds, especially when people the world over are coveting our affordable dance apparel!  Based here in lovely Los Angeles, the glitzy center of all things filmed, we work with many television and movie industry costume departments.  So boast we will, and so we will begin by displaying a blurb about Sasha Torres, Fanny's character on ABC's show, Bunheads:

  "This skirt I really love. When you see that dance, it's really beautiful. I got it at Danny's Warehouse, which is where the manufacturers dump their overages. We get a lot of the warm-up clothes from there. It's fitting Sasha has that on because it sort of goes from dark to light, which is what she wanted to relate. It's one of Fanny's darkest days, but eventually she is going to have a lot of light and happiness in her life again."


What a great shout out! Thank you, Brenda Maben, it was our pleasure, truly.  Now to try and fit our head out that door...

Moments in Recent Times Past Convey Hope for an Entertaining Future

When the mood, the costumes, the lighting, the makeup, the attitude, and did I say the costumes, are all a perfect melding of an entertaining unique moment in time- this is what that looks like:

Edgy cabaret style.

Pictured: Orange Two-tier Skort on left, Lime green costume unitard on right

Exciting ensemble <3

 Wish we could have been there, but so glad we got a feel through these great pictures.  Thanks, Isla!

Send over your pictures of yourself in Danny's Warehouse outfits: alexandra@dannyswarehouse.com

I'm waiiiiting......

The Sweet Chaos of New Deliveries

We are going (figuratively) mad here at Danny's Warehouse.  Why?  Because today, boring hump day transformed into Delivery Day!  We received the SPECTACULAR shipment of costumes we had been anticipating for a couple weeks now.

We're like, "ERMAHGERD!!!Look at this one! OMGERD!!!This one's SOOO CUTE!"

 Unpacking them is the ultimate work entertainment, opening boxes and then more boxes to see the surprise disguises within.
There are ballet tutu's, skate dresses, peacock costumes, rainbow clown ensembles, and so much more!

Energy is uber high whilst organizing this great merch!

Also, tons of hats!

 When we are finished inventory, photo shoots, displaying, describing, and listing them, the hats will be available for shipment ASAP! That is like now!! Check 'em out at: Danny's Warehouse Hats
The excitement and anticipation continues here as we await 4, that's FOUR more shipments this week and next.  Tights galore, more costumes, ballet shoes, and other miscellany are on their way as I type.  *sigh*  New shipments are the BEST!

Meet Lauren, ace dancer and star Danny's Warehouse customer

Lauren has style, obviously, and she works it at Danny's Warehouse!  Our dance pants and tops look stellar on her.  Thanks, Lauren!

WOW! Rad moves in pinstripes and hoodie crop costume top.

Mixing and matching, and doing it well.

Pants that flow, paired with polka dots and a head accessory done right!

Show us what you can do with your Danny's Warehouse finds!  Send your pictures to: alexandra@dannyswarehouse.com